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FTC Orders Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft to Bring Data About Past Acquisitions

FTC Orders Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft to Bring Data About Past Acquisitions

Enterprise & IT Feb 11,2020 0

The US Federal Trade Commission (FCC) issued orders to five large technology firms, requiring them to provide information about prior acquisitions not reported to the antitrust agencies.

The orders require Alphabet Inc. (including Google), Amazon.com, Inc., Apple Inc., Facebook, Inc., and Microsoft Corp. to provide information and documents on the terms, scope, structure, and purpose of transactions that each company consummated between Jan. 1, 2010 and Dec. 31, 2019.

The Commission is authorized to conduct wide-ranging studies that do not have a specific law enforcement purpose. The agency sats that the orders will help it deepen its understanding of large technology firms’ acquisition activity, including how these firms report their transactions to the federal antitrust agencies, and whether large tech companies are making potentially anticompetitive acquisitions of nascent or potential competitors that fall below HSR filing thresholds and therefore do not need to be reported to the antitrust agencies.

The so-called Special Orders require each recipient to identify acquisitions that were not reported to the FTC and the U.S. Department of Justice under the HSR Act, and to provide information similar to that requested on the HSR notification and report form. The orders also require companies to provide information and documents on their corporate acquisition strategies, voting and board appointment agreements, agreements to hire key personnel from other companies, and post-employment covenants not to compete. Last, the orders ask for information related to post-acquisition product development and pricing, including whether and how acquired assets were integrated and how acquired data has been treated.

The Commission plans to use the information obtained in this study to examine trends in acquisitions and the structure of deals, including whether acquisitions not subject to HSR notification might have raised competitive concerns, and the nature and extent of other agreements that may restrict competition. The Commission also seeks to learn more about how small firms perform after they are acquired by large technology firms.

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