{"id":136857,"date":"2025-11-12T17:36:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T01:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/11\/12\/courts-more-open-to-company-proposed-merger-fixes-undermining-agency-challenges-experts-say\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T17:36:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T01:36:01","slug":"courts-more-open-to-company-proposed-merger-fixes-undermining-agency-challenges-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/11\/12\/courts-more-open-to-company-proposed-merger-fixes-undermining-agency-challenges-experts-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Courts More Open to Company-Proposed Merger Fixes, Undermining Agency Challenges, Experts Say"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday, the Trump-era Federal Trade Commission lost its first antitrust lawsuit challenging private firm GTCR’s $627 million acquisition of hydrophilic coatings producer Surmodics in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.<\/p>\n

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On Monday, the Trump-era Federal Trade Commission lost its first antitrust lawsuit challenging private firm GTCR’s $627 million acquisition of hydrophilic coatings producer Surmodics in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.<\/p>\n

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On Monday, the Trump-era Federal Trade Commission lost its first antitrust lawsuit challenging private firm GTCR’s $627 million acquisition of hydrophilic coatings producer Surmodics in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On Monday, the Trump-era Federal Trade Commission lost its first antitrust lawsuit challenging private firm GTCR’s $627 million acquisition […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":136858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/legal-news-1jzXAX.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}