The head of the Justice Department’s antitrust division is sticking to his position about how to protect competition from mergers that may harm consumers despite suffering a bruising defeat this week, according to a person familiar with his thinking.
Makan Delrahim is maintaining his view that the Justice Department should require companies to sell assets to fix anticompetitive harm from deals like AT&T Inc.’s takeover of Time Warner Inc., said the person. In his view, that approach ensures markets determine the prices that consumers pay, the person said.
