How the FTC’s Hertz Antitrust Fix Went Flat – Professor Maurice Stucke; WSJ.com

How the FTC’s Hertz Antitrust Fix Went Flat
Wall Street Journal
December 8, 2013

Maurice Stucke, a University of Tennessee professor and lawyer with GeyerGorey LLP, said the latest Advantage bankruptcy ought to prompt some soul-searching by the FTC and the Justice Department.

If merger settlements “are going to be business as usual, the agencies need to spend more time examining how their remedies work out over the long haul,” he said. “You would think there could be more safeguards to prevent this from happening.”

Hertz Fix in Dollar Thrifty Deal Fails as Insider Warned

Hertz Fix in Dollar Thrifty Deal Fails as Insider Warned
Bloomberg News

“‘What a screw-up,’ said Allen Grunes, an antitrust lawyer at GeyerGorey LLP in Washington who wasn’t involved in the matter. “It’s a huge embarrassment that it happened this quickly.”

The bankruptcy of Advantage shows how hard it is to recreate competition after mergers in concentrated markets, said Grunes, a former attorney with the Justice Department’s antitrust division.”

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