Antitrust Chronicle® – Acqui-hiring

Dear Readers,

This Chronicle arrives at a moment when the lines between labor mobility, merger control, and AI-driven innovation have begun to blur in ways that challenge every familiar analytical frame. As talent becomes both the decisive input and the locus of competitive concern, agencies worldwide wrestle with whether hiring events should ever be treated as structural transactions—and, if so, when. As such, this Chronicle assembles a set of contributions that approach the so-called acqui-h