WASHINGTON – After nearly a year of work, the Department of Justice’s antitrust division and the Federal Trade Commission have released new horizontal merger guidelines. But along with the agencies’ self-congratulatory press releases came a biting public critique from FTC Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch.

The former Latham & Watkins partner, a Republican, concurred in the issuance of the guidelines but called them “flawed.”

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