The Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday released proposed revisions to their horizontal merger guidelines, drawing a mixed reaction from the antitrust bar.

The guidelines were last modified in 1997, and the agencies said the new version, which practitioners describe as a top to bottom rewrite, is intended to “more accurately reflect the way the FTC and DOJ currently conduct merger reviews.”

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