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A new critical path for utility mergers: FERC declines to adopt DOJFTC framework for merger and market-based rates analysis

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 17 2012

Yesterday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) took a decidedly different approach to its regulatory approval for mergers and acquisitions of electric utilities by declining to adopt the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) (collectively “Antitrust Agencies”) 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines that raise the thresholds that trigger market-power concerns