Companies that want to merge and the agencies that want to block them seem to be growing more willing to settle their differences in court, according to the latest analysis of merger transactions from litigation consulting firm Cornerstone Research.

Cornerstone, based in San Francisco, released its third annual edition of Trends in Merger Investigations and Enforcement at the U.S. Antitrust Agencies: FY 2007–2016. The study analyzes data from the most recent competition report released jointly by the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice back in October.