For this month’s Antitrust column, Skadden partners Kenneth Schwartz and Karen Lent interviewed Shaoul Sussman, the FTC’s Associate Director for Litigation in the Bureau of Competition, to discuss the FTC’s thinking behind the recently released draft merger guidelines. Read the transcript, edited for style and length, below.

Kenneth Schwartz: Thanks so much for being here. Could you talk about your role and your background at the FTC?