A Clash Over Private Equity Roll-Ups

Also, a new chief economist at ICI

Lina Khan hasn’t hidden her antipathy toward private equity. And though her often hostile rhetoric hasn’t yet translated into a broad crackdown on buyout firms, the FTC chair is still sharpening her lines of attack.

Khan’s longtime bugaboo is a strategy dubbed “serial acquisitions and roll-ups,” where PE funds buy numerous small companies in the same ind…