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▶ 35:35 Brad Briner In the end, you're kind of making a bet on the FTC and what it does. 3 times in the scene

▶ 42:51 Michael Mauboussin Whether or not the Justice Department or FTC wins these cases, it creates friction and makes managers and executives, it creates uncertainty as to whether they want to do these things.

▶ 19:28 unnamed speaker Particularly at the FTC, we have a very, very passionate opponent of these transactions.
▶ 20:08 Isaac Corre But I will say every time the FTC announces a closed meeting, we choke up because we're just worried. 2 times in the scene
▶ 39:38 Isaac Corre The chair of the FTC, Lina Khan, is very, very transparent in terms of her view of these transactions.

▶ 44:05 Chris Heller You really need a specialized skill set to participate in an FTC auction.

▶ 30:52 Jonathan Tepper The recent settlement that was reached between Facebook and the FTC, 2 times in the scene
▶ 38:37 Jonathan Tepper And in industry after industry, what's happened is that the DOJ and the FTC over the years, the level at which they will scrutinize mergers has sort of gone up and up.
▶ 44:04 Jonathan Tepper So right now, a lot of the people who work in antitrust and the DOJ and FTC, many of them are fine people, but they do tend to come from the K street law firms or from the two consulting groups that do almost all the research arguing that… 2 times in the scene
▶ 49:25 Jonathan Tepper So you want to make sure that when people are working at the DOJ FTC, they can immediately go back to the private sector to then represent clients who want to get their mergers through.

▶ 29:35 Matt Levine Academics like it, and it has some, it's gotten some attention from regulators, like the FTC has held hearings about it.

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