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The Justice Dept. — specifically its Antitrust Division — is the person at any corporate marriage, that everyone side-eyes when it gets to the “speak now or forever hold your peace” part. Because it very well could start jump up and down waving firecrackers, stopping the happy couple from saying, “I do” by filing a complaint to block the acquisition.
In legal terms, a complaint looking to stop a merger seeks “to permanently enjoin a proposed joint venture and related transactions.” The legal teams making the complaint then have to outline what likely bad outcomes they are trying to prevent by blocking the business deal.
