Asset Swap Transactions In The Antitrust Crosshairs

By Meytal McCoy, Mayer Brown LLP (January 18, 2017, 6:05 PM EST) -- In the last two weeks of 2016, both the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission settled investigations into two separate asset swap deals. While companies may think that they are in the antitrust clear with asset swap transactions, the consent decrees make clear that both the DOJ and FTC will examine carefully these types of deals and will apply the same rigorous antitrust analysis as they would in a traditional merger or acquisition....

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