Prepare for More Unpredictability in the World of Antitrust

Business relies on predictable rules. And no rules are more important for major mergers – and countless other areas of business strategy – than the antitrust laws, which dictate what transactions and conduct are legal or illegal. With antitrust legislation pending in Congress and state legislatures, the FTC and DOJ conducting more wide-ranging merger reviews and investigations, and the federal merger guidelines under review, the antitrust field is more unpredictable than at any time in the past 40 years.

At our ESG Watch webcast on March 2nd, David McAtee, Senior Executive Vice President and General Counsel at AT&T, and Bruce Hoffman, former Director of Competition at the FTC and now a partner at Cleary Gottlieb, provided insights on the current state