Three Key Principles for Revising the Horizontal Merger Guidelines
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Timothy J. Muris is a former Chairman, Federal Trade Commission, and presently a Foundation Professor of Law, George Mason University, and of Counsel, O’Melveny & Myers, LLP. Bilal Sayyed is a Counsel at O’Melveny & Myers, LLP. This article revises the comment of Timothy J. Muris and Bilal Sayyed, Three Key Principles for Revising the Horizontal Merger Guidelines, Submitted to the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice Horizontal Merger Guidelines Review Project No. PO92900 (Dec. 7, 2009).
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