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DOJ business review letter program

Antitrust Division procedure codified at 28 C.F.R. § 50.6 under which parties may ask for a written statement of the Division's present enforcement intentions toward described conduct; such letters are fact-specific and bind only the requester.

Known aliases

28 C.F.R. § 50.6
business review letter

Relationships

No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.

Current clusters

leadership1 publisher

DOJ retires the 1987 letter that underwrote ISS's antitrust comfort

The Antitrust Division says the withdrawal is neither an enforcement action nor a finding of violation, and under its own rules the letter only ever covered ISS, which is why the brief DOJ filed in May 2025 carries more weight.

Publishers:corpgov.law.harvard.edu

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption60
Hype gap+12
Incentives58