We won’t stop a deal because we don’t like you — tempting though it might be.
— Deborah L. Feinstein, Director of the Bureau of Competition at the Federal Trade Commission, explaining that the FTC makes decisions based on facts, not the personalities (or résumés) of the lawyers appearing before it. Feinstein participated in an interesting panel about M&A deals at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), now underway in San Francisco.
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