Did the FTC have a good reason to block the Sanofi-Maze deal?

Walls of redac­tions in the Fed­er­al Trade Com­mis­sion com­plaint tar­get­ing Sanofi’s deal with Maze Ther­a­peu­tics hold a vi­tal ques­tion for the bio­phar­ma in­dus­try: Was there a smok­ing gun show­ing Sanofi en­gaged in an­ti­com­pet­i­tive be­hav­ior?

The FTC com­plaint im­plies — but doesn’t pub­licly show — the an­swer. An­titrust ex­perts in­ter­viewed by End­points News said that what seems like a sur­pris­ing ac­tion was pack­aged in a more con­ven­tion­al le­gal the­o­ry than an ear­li­er FTC at­tempt to block a phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal deal.

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