Antitrust Legislation Targeting Merger Filing Fees Passes Senate

U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights, and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) who along with Senator Durbin (D-IL) as cosponsors have announced Senate passage of the Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act. 

The bill which can be found here, proposes to “Promote antitrust enforcement and protect competition through adjusting premerger filing fees, and increasing antitrust enforcement resources.”  

With a more aggressive FTC and a renewed emphasis on antitrust policy, commerce stakeholders should definitely pay attention to recent proposals on how to modify antitrust laws for the 21st century. 

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