The Antitrust Merger Hot Documents Collection

PRICING POWER OR FLEXIBILITY

The combined company would have “increased pricing power.”

The acquisition will allow the buyer to “manipulate the market more effectively” and obtain “[m]ore flexibility in price setting.”

The “[c]ombination… allows… more leeway to set market pricing.”

Buyer’s Financial Model In re Integrated Device Tech., Inc., Complaint, at 2 (Dec. 18, 2012)

Buyer’s Executive U.S. v. Baker Hughes Inc., 713 F. Supp. 3, 12 n. 8 (D.D.C. 1990)

Buyer’s Internal Planning Document U.S. v. First Data Corp., Complaint, at 14 (Oct. 23, 2003)

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