Subscribe to the Finance Headline RSS feed | Subscribe to the Finance Headline feed via EmailBNA INSIGHTS: Dodd-Frank Act May Complicate Antitrust Review of Acquisitions
August 25, 2010 in Banking Report · Leave a Comment
With the exception of systemic risk considerations, the recently enacted financial reform legislation leaves intact the current antitrust review process for bank mergers. But the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act does create new antitrust review procedures for acquisitions of nonbank financial companies and nonbank subsidiaries of larger financial institutions. Those changes may complicate or lengthen the federal merger review process for financial institution acquisitions.
