A 40-percent share would raise a red flag. [The department] would have to determine whether the deal would adversely affect competition at that point. |
I would expect the government would take a host of divestitures as a remedy. |
The chances, in essence, are less than one in a thousand. Almost 6,000 mergers a year get filed before the antitrust division in the Federal Trade Commission. Of those in the last couple years, less than a handful have been stopped in their entirety. |