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# Looking For Plausibility In FTC’s Amgen Merger Challenge

  May 26, 2023

Law360

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Federal Trade Commission may have filed the first merger complaint in a generation that could be dismissed for failing to state a claim. In this article in *Law360*, [Bill MacLeod](/Our-People/William-C-MacLeod) and [David Evans](/Our-People/David-H-Evans) outline that while losing a fully litigated merger case is never good for the government; losing on a motion to dismiss would be devastating.  
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