The Federal Trade Commission on Friday released a report detailing the agency’s merger enforcement activity from 1996 until 2011, breaking down the competition issues in 464 investigations.
The report focuses on horizontal mergers, when direct competitors seek to combine. Such proposed mergers made up 264 deals where the agency issued a second request for documents. Vertical mergers typically between a supplier and a customer were subject to second requests just 28 times during the 16-year period covered by the report.
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