Mergers & Acquisitions,
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Sep. 23, 2021
Small deals let big tech evade antitrust scrutiny, FTC says
“When we singly review serial acquisitions, we may miss the bigger picture patterns of anticompetitive roll-up strategy,” Commissioner Rebecca K. Slaughter said.
Loopholes in merger laws may have allowed hundreds of deals by tech giants to evade scrutiny by federal antitrust enforcers, inciting the mass consolidation of the digital economy by a handful of businesses.
A Federal Trade Commission study issued this month on transactions by Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft revealed that lax oversight of small deals obscured large-scale acquisition plans by dominant tech firms to create and...
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