Substantial Legal Grounds Supported HPE-Juniper Challenge

By Richard Wolfram ( February 25, 2026, 5:25 PM EST) -- Section 7 of the Clayton Act prohibits mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures where "the effect of such acquisition may be substantially to lessen competition, or to tend to create a monopoly." The law thus sets an incipiency standard of illegality and modern antitrust enforcement utilizes a multidimensional approach to assess competitive harm under the act....

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