Trump changes the antitrust formula

• Both at DOJ, which handled the Keysight/Spirent deal, and also at FTC, which last week applied structural remedies to approving the $35 billion merger of Synopsys and Ansys.
• "If competitive concerns are discrete and a robust carve-out is feasible, settlement is once again a realistic path to closing," antitrust attorney John Ceccio wrote on LinkedIn.

Zoom in: Viavi Solutions, which had tried and failed to buy Spirent, will acquire Spirent's high-speed Ethernet testing, network security testing, and RF channel emulation units.