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US FTC won’t be roadblock to M&A transactions, Ferguson says

By Flavia Fortes ( May 15, 2025, 16:15 GMT | Insight) -- The chairman of the US Federal Trade Commission said the agency won’t stand in the way of mergers and acquisitions and will focus on assessing a deal’s risk to competition as quickly as possible. Andrew Ferguson said the agency is particularly concerned about mergers that may cause widespread consumer harm and highlighted labor and healthcare as priorities in a congressional committee testimony today. The US Federal Trade Commission under Chairman Andrew Ferguson won’t stand in the way of mergers and acquisitions and will focus on assessing a deal’s risk to competition as quickly as possible, he said today....

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