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The length of significant U.S. merger investigations climbed to an average of 10.8 months in 2017, a new DAMITT record, despite the number of investigations dropping by more than 20%.

There are signs of a possible trend reversal under the Trump administration as significant U.S. merger investigations of deals announced after the 2016 Presidential election, but resolved in 2017, were about 1.3 months faster than in the prior year.

New DAMITT EU data show that investigations of deals cleared with remedies in Phase I and all Phase II proceedings in 2017 lasted an average of 7.0 months and 15.1 months, respectively, counting from announcement, both up from 2016, despite the lowest number of significant EU merger investigations on record since 2014....