The Department of Justice provided the following update on the Antitrust Division’s collaboration with state Attorneys General regarding investigations of mergers with predominantly intrastate effects. “Principles of federalism guide that the Justice Department use its resources to investigate mergers with regional or national implications. However, the Department will sometimes exercise its discretion to investigate local transactions, including when there is an antitrust issue of national significance,” said Associate Attorney General Stanley E. Woodward, Jr. “When it comes to mergers of national importance, the Department will generally form its own views of the appropriate resolution of an investigation, although it
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