Horizontal mergers are just one type of merger. Another is the vertical merger, which takes place when firms from different parts of the supply chain consolidate to make the production process ...

Buying another business, or acquiring another firm, can be accomplished in two different ways: vertical and horizontal mergers. Horizontal mergers bring together two competing businesses. Vertical ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) jointly issued new draft Merger Guidelines on July 19. The draft Merger Guidelines were created with the goal "to better ...

Recently there has been a notable increase in interest in antitrust law in much of the world. This chapter discusses antitrust policy toward horizontal mergers, the area of antitrust that has seen ...

The FTC’s primary argument was that the vertical merger would allow Tempur Sealy to foreclose rival mattress manufacturers from accessing Mattress Firm’s retail space, thereby harming ...