Efficiencies Defense

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Efficiencies Defense

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A defense to a Clayton Act § 7 charge based on the theory that a corporate merger or acquisition transaction will result in such economies of scale, cost reductions, or other improvements that consumers will benefit more from the transaction than they will suffer from the transaction’s possible anticompetitive effects.

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