Yes We Can, But Should We? Merger Remedies During the First Obama Administration

Keith Klovers, Christine Wilson, Dec 16, 2014

During the 2008 Presidential election, Barack Obama promised to “reinvigorate” antitrust enforcement in the United States. Candidate Obama focused in part on merger enforcement, an area in which he promised to “step up review of merger activity and take effective action to stop or restructure those mergers that are likely to harm consumer welfare.” Candidate Obama also