Published on Apr 02, 2025
FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson and DOJ antitrust chief Gail Slater today indicated they would take a less aggressive approach to merger enforcement than their Biden administration predecessors and be more willing to entertain remedies.
“Healthy pro-competitive M&A that allows American communities to thrive passes through [the FTC] quickly with certainty, and it’s the anticompetitive stuff we move with equal alacrity to stop,” Ferguson said at a Washington, D.C., event co-sponsored by The Capitol Forum and public affairs firm FGS Global.
He contrasted this approach to that of his predecessor, former FTC Chair Lina Khan…
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