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Compelling narratives can be more convincing to US judges than market shares in merger cases, FTC's Nevo says

By Serafina Smith
  • 31 Jan 2024 18:22
  • 31 Jan 2024 18:22
A compelling narrative can help the US antitrust agencies convince judges to find mergers anticompetitive, especially in vertical cases, said Aviv Nevo, director of the US Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Economics.
Nevo said at an event* today that the 2023 merger guidelines are an attempt to “modernize” the FTC’s

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Serafina Smith

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Serafina Smith covers mergers and acquisitions for MLex from New York. Before becoming a journalist, Serafina was a paralegal supporting the United States Department of Justice, where she worked on foreign bribery and money laundering cases. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from New York University and a bachelor’s degree in linguistics from Georgetown University.

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