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Antitrust Chronicle® – Acqui-hiring

Antitrust Chronicle® – Acqui-hiring

Antitrust Chronicle® December 2025 Volume 1

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...

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Antitrust Chronicle® – Acqui-hiring
CPI
Dec 11, 2025
Anticompetitive Effects of Acquihires: Labor and Product Markets
Heski Bar-Isaac, Justin Johnson, Volker Nocke
Dec 11, 2025
Acquihires In the Technology Sector: Antitrust Scrutiny Through the Lens of Economics
Juliette Caminade, Rebecca Kirk Fair, Zsolt Udvari, Jeanne Vellard Smith
Dec 11, 2025
M&A in the AI Era: Considerations for Acquihiring
Ingrid Vandenborre, Kenneth Schwartz, Christopher Barlow, Page Griffin, Michael Cardella, Stuart Levi, Taylor Votek, Benjamin Salzer, Lisa G. Liu, Liz Kraus
Dec 11, 2025
Lock Them Up, or Take No Prisoners? Merger Policy and Acquiring AI Talent: Human Rights and Other Inconvenient Facts
Simon R. Pritchard
Dec 11, 2025
Acquihires: What Economics Tells Regulators
Jean-Michel Benkert, Igor Letina, Shuo Liu
Dec 11, 2025
Assessment of Acqui-Hires – Overview of Recent Case Law and Challenges Particularly from a German Merger Control Perspective
Arne Gayk, Luise Cornelli
Dec 11, 2025
Hire Power – Employee Recruitment and German Merger Control
Florian von Schreitter
Dec 11, 2025

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