#Impact integration guide 7.1 pdf#

These Guidelines describe the principal analytical techniques and the main types of evidence on which the Agencies usually rely to predict whether a horizontal merger may substantially lessen competition. Given this inherent need for prediction, these Guidelines reflect the congressional intent that merger enforcement should interdict competitive problems in their incipiency and that certainty about anticompetitive effect is seldom possible and not required for a merger to be illegal. Most merger analysis is necessarily predictive, requiring an assessment of what will likely happen if a merger proceeds as compared to what will likely happen if it does not. The Agencies seek to identify and challenge competitively harmful mergers while avoiding unnecessary interference with mergers that are either competitively beneficial or neutral. Most particularly, Section 7 of the Clayton Act prohibits mergers if вЂњin any line of commerce or in any activity affecting commerce in any section of the country, the effect of such acquisition may be substantially to lessen competition, or to tend to create a monopoly.вЂќ В§ 1, 2, and Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act, 15 U.S.C. В§ 18, Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. 1 The relevant statutory provisions include Section 7 of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. These Guidelines outline the principal analytical techniques, practices, and the enforcement policy of the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (the вЂњAgenciesвЂќ) with respect to mergers and acquisitions involving actual or potential competitors (вЂњhorizontal mergersвЂќ) under the federal antitrust laws.

Market Participants, Market Shares, and Market ConcentrationД¦.3Дњapacity and Output for Homogeneous ProductsД§.1 Impact of Merger on Coordinated InteractionД§.2Дћvidence a Market is Vulnerable to Coordinated Conduct

Targeted Customers and Price DiscriminationД¤.1.3 Implementing the Hypothetical Monopolist TestД¤.1.4 Product Market Definition with Targeted CustomersД¤.2.1 Geographic Markets Based on the Locations of SuppliersД¤.2.2 Geographic Markets Based on the Locations of CustomersДҐ.

#Impact integration guide 7.1 pdf#

To view the PDF you will need Acrobat Reader, which may be downloaded from the Adobe site.Дў.Дћvidence of Adverse Competitive EffectsДў.1.1Дљctual Effects Observed in Consummated MergersДў.1.2Дќirect Comparisons Based on ExperienceДў.1.3 Market Shares and Concentration in a Relevant MarketДў.1.4 Substantial Head-to-Head CompetitionДў.2.3 Other Industry Participants and ObserversДЈ. This document is available in two formats: this web page (for browsing content) and PDF (comparable to original document formatting).