FTC, DOJ Plan Tuesday Workshop on Draft Merger Guidelines

The FTC and DOJ plan a Tuesday workshop on the update of their draft merger guidelines, detailing what transactions violate antitrust law (see 2307190048) and which face industry pushback. "The workshop is aimed at promoting a dynamic discussion about the draft guidelines to complement the comments currently being submitted to the agencies by the public," the FTC said: "The goal of the merger guidelines update is to better reflect how the agencies determine a merger’s effect on competition in the modern economy and evaluate proposed mergers under the law." Speakers will include FTC Economics Bureau Director Aviv Nevo; Laura Alexander, Washington Center for Equitable Growth director-markets and competition; and Public Knowledge Competition Policy Director Charlotte Slaiman. The webcast workshop will begin at 1 p.m. EDT.