Antitrust Chronicle^® – Breaking Up Is Hard To Do?

Dear Readers,

Can you unscramble an egg? This is the analogy that many commentators apply to the question of breaking up a company with market power. The question of whether antitrust regulators should enforce a remedy amounting to the breakup of a company raises multifaceted issues.

Calls for breaking up monopolies largely focus on proving that past acquisitions are anticompetitive. Another major concern relates to the occasional request to break up a single large company. After establishing th