Aaron Edlin Predicts Increase in Government’s Merger Reviews

San Francisco Daily Journal, March 4, 2009 by Amelia Hansen
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Aaron Edlin … explained that once a plan for a proposed merger has been filed with the authorities—technically the “first request” for information—the government can make a second request for more details on the deal…. “There will definitely be more situations when you didn’t see a second request before,” Edlin said. “And there will be more mergers that don’t go through.”