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Mega-Mergers: Squaring the circle

BY | May 15, 2016

Mergers have gained momentum in recent years. In FY 2015, 67 proposed mergers were valued at more than $10 billion. That is more than double the annual volume in 2014.…

Mergers have gained momentum in recent years. In FY 2015, 67 proposed mergers were valued at more than $10 billion. That is more than double the annual volume in 2014. We have witnessed an increased trend not only in the number of big mergers, but in the value thereof. As Bill Baer, former Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, put it in March 2016: “The merger wave is back. Big time.”

This month, the Antitrust Chronicle (AC) brings you a spe

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