merger-antitrust-issue-spotterlisted

# Merger Antitrust Issue Spotter ## Purpose Issue-spot the antitrust dimensions of a contemplated or signed transaction and organize the facts counsel needs: horizontal-overlap and vertical-relationship matrices built from user-supplied market facts, potential/nascent-competition and adjacent-overlap flags (data, IP, labor markets, innovation pipelines), a per-regime filing-question list, a diligence request list, and pre-closing integration guardrails. All of it is **draft legal work product for attorney review** — market definition, reportability, and competitive effects remain attorney determinations, and the skill never defines a market or predicts clearance. ## Use When - A deal team has an LOI or term sheet with a competitor, supplier, customer, or adjacent player, and counsel needs the antitrust issues mapped before signing. - Diligence has begun and the overlaps — horizontal, vertical, potential-competition, data/IP/labor — need to be organized from the deal documents into matrices. - The board or deal lead asks in which jurisdictions the transaction might need to be filed, and counsel needs the questions framed per regime (HSR, EU EUMR, UK CMA, China SAMR, Brazil CADE, others). - Counsel needs a diligence request list targeted at the antitrust workstream — customer lists, win/loss data, internal share estimates, deal-rationale documents. - The parties are starting pre-closing integration planning, and the issue-spotter needs to feed the gun-jumping and informatio