Corporate & Securities Law

Antitrust News & Notes

By David Fischer

• David Bois tells the New York Times that he does not expect stricter scrutiny of mergers under an Obama administration because “[p]reserving jobs and economic stability will be perceived as more important than preserving competition.?
• James ?Hart? Holden tells the WSJ Deal Journal the same thing but he reasons this is so because many mergers are reviewed by the FTC and ”they?re much less susceptible to political changes than the DOJ is.”
• Thomas Barnett, the head of DOJ’s Antitrust Division, is resigning effective November 19, 2008.

Full post as published by Antitrust Review on November 11, 2008 (boomark / email).