This week the American Bar Association organised the Antitrust Law Spring Meeting 2023.
Today, Holly Vedova (the head of the FTC Bureau of Competition) was there and according to MLex she said that for the FTC litigating big cases is a top priority:
”We want to bring cases that have a big impact. A court decision can still help us as enforcers notwithstanding the results (in relation to the Meta-Within case)”.
She mentioned the MS-ABK as one of the pending merger cases that have been challenged by the FTC and that “It’s important to revitalise our litigation program”.
We’ll see what happens in April-May, but right now it doesn’t sound like the FTC is willing to settle anything :P
Yeah, FTC isn't settling, Lmao.