FTC Has Bipartisan Support for Merger Cases, Outgoing Chief Says

The US Federal Trade Commission is likely to have bipartisan support to keep filing cases to block anticompetitive mergers under the Trump administration, said Henry Liu, the outgoing director of the agency’s Bureau of Competition.

Liu, who led the agency’s antitrust unit for the last 18 months under former FTC Chair Lina Khan, stepped down on Jan. 20. During his tenure, the FTC won every merger case it filed, with one still pending in Texas federal court.

All of those suits were brought with bipartisan support from the agency’s five commissioners, he said. Of the seven cases, the ...