Antitrust Chronicle® – Rethinking Vertical Mergers

Dear Readers,

The August 2018 CPI Antitrust Chronicle® features articles on a topic that has been all over the news recently: vertical mergers. The recent District Court decision in the AT&T/Time Warner merger has opened a Pandora’s Box of antitrust discussions. This seems understandable seeing that the case is the first government action to block a vertical merger in the U.S. in over forty years.

Indeed, as one of this month’s authors notes, the AT&T/Time Warner decision was one