Overview
Joel Chefitz said the FTC’s new anticompetitive enforcement guidance could signal its intent to proactively stop conduct that might violate antitrust law – “things like the fraudulent manipulation of markets that interferes with the competitive process but falls short of a conspiracy or monopolization under the Sherman Act.” Overall Mr. Chefitz said the new policy “tightens up prospective enforcement … rather than expanding it. For the most part, no new practices are likely to be investigated.”