Bridging the Purchase Price Gap in Business Acquisitions

The AGs characterize these efforts as a series of agreements among competitors that may reduce economic output and competition, increase prices, and mislead the public, potentially in violation of federal and state antitrust and consumer protection laws.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is hungry for power. By 2030, data centers could consume nearly 9% of all U.S. electricity[1]. This demand…

In invalidating the Biden-era changes, the court held that the FTC failed to show that the changes’ benefits outweighed their significant costs to merging parties, in particular, to the vast majority (historically, 92%) of parties whose transactions require no antitrust investigation whatsoever.