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| February 12, 2010

New Merger Review and FERC’s Market Power Analyses

In September 2009, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission announced that they intend to revise their Horizontal Merger Guidelines, which were last updated in 1992. The agencies’ reasons for updating them were that the guidelines no longer reflected true agency practice, and were not an accurate guide to the business community of how the agencies actually conducted a merger review.

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Catherine P. McCarthy

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J. Porter Wiseman

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Lawrence G. Acker

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Joshua L. Belcher

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James F. Bowe, Jr.

+1 202 346 7999

Ashley C. Brown

+1 617 748 6800

Daniel S. Brown

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John D. Draghi

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Bud Ellis

+1 212 259 6150

S. Shamai Elstein

+1 202 346 8079

Julia Dryden English

+1 202 346 7911

Elias G. Farrah

+1 202 346 8013

Brian T. FitzGerald

+1 518 626 9311

Michael F. Fitzpatrick

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Paul L. Gioia

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Hugh E. Hilliard

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Jonathan H. Hines

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Nina Henrietta Jenkins-Johnston

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Michael D. Klein

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Charles A. Moore

+1 713 287 2086

Scott J. Mueller

+1 617 748 6843

Gregory G. Nickson

+1 518 626 9356

Peter K. O'Brien

+1 212 259 6186

Brian D. O'Neill

+1 202 346 8012

Gregory M. Owens

+1 212 259 6823

Delia D. Patterson

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David R. Poe

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Meabh Purcell

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William E. Rice

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Veronica Rodriguez

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Raya C. Salter

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Dev R. Sen

+1 212 259 8230

J. Anthony Terrell

+1 212 259 7070

Ahren S. Tryon

+1 202 346 8059

D. Gideon Wiginton

+ 1 202 346 7976

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