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Pre-complaint settlements surge under new administration, DAMITT 2025 review says

By Wesley Brown ( January 29, 2026, 21:36 GMT | Insight) -- The first year of the second Trump administration saw a surge in pre-complaint settlements amid a near-record low of significant merger investigations, according to the Dechert Antitrust Merger Investigation Timing Tracker 2025 review. The drop in concluded significant-merger investigations began under then-President Joe Biden in 2023, but the number of pre-complaint consents in the past year was double those under the previous administration in 2023 and 2024 combined.The first year of the second Trump administration saw a surge in pre-complaint settlements amid a near-record low of significant merger investigations, according to the Dechert Antitrust Merger Investigation Timing Tracker (DAMITT) 2025 review. ...

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