Timeline for How can huge company mergers that kill all competition be legal?
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| Feb 27 at 21:27 | comment | added | benJephunneh | This is too deep a subject for the SE format, in my opinion. 1. The law doesn't stop crime. The US is presently mired with myriad anti-trust violators. 2. Grand juries could indict the business owners, but grand juries are generally controlled (illegally) by prosecutors. 3. Prosecutors are often controlled. 4. Legislators aren't sent on all-expenses-paid vacations for no reason. Loopholes become law, thanks to them. The short of it is, if nobody is indicted, nobody's getting nailed for the crime, even if the crime is obvious and seemingly undeniable. | |
| Jun 13, 2018 at 6:41 | comment | added | Lundin | @guest271314 In the case of NXP and Freescale, it was indeed a single private equity purchasing both companies, although they were kept separate and competing until the merger and sale of the merged company. | |
| Jun 12, 2018 at 23:15 | comment | added | guest271314 | Do you have the same legal and regulatory question for the case of a single private equity concern acquiring controlling stake in each of the respective competing companies? | |
| Jun 12, 2018 at 16:21 | comment | added | ohwilleke | At the conceptual and theoretical level, the main issue is how you define a "market" which turns out to be something that is open to wide manipulation, some of which is legitimate and some of which is sophistry. | |
| Jun 12, 2018 at 15:24 | answer | added | user6726 | timeline score: 4 | |
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| Jun 12, 2018 at 15:01 | history | asked | Lundin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |