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Antitrust M&A Snapshot | Q2 2022
Parties continue to be cautious in litigating challenged transactions. Since January 2021, the US Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice filed lawsuits (or threatened to sue) to block 16 transactions. Of those transactions, 12 were abandoned and six are in various stages of litigation. The data suggest that the FTC’s and DOJ’s aggressive merger enforcement policy is raising the stakes for parties to potential mergers and acquisitions, including an increased willingness by the agencies to litigate potentially problematic transactions.