International Investigations And Merger Reviews

Cooperation among competition enforcers is a fact of life for counsel advising international businesses. A merger may need clearance in multiple jurisdictions, or a cartel may be under investigation globally. Lead counsel will be called upon to make decisions about strategy and coordination crucial to successfully managing the demands of multiple agencies. This handbook provides counsel with a practical guide for making such decisions.

This comprehensive guide to the process and procedures of merger review at the federal agencies makes the federal review process more comprehensible and accessible to parties and their counsel.

Revised and expanded, this comprehensive guide to the process and procedures of merger review at the federal agencies makes the federal review process more comprehensible and accessible to parties and their counsel.

Despite the introduction of the U.S. - EC merger review co-operation initiative in the early nineties, transatlantic mergers remain a minefield for all those involved. For the parties there is the lack of legal certainty and its attendant costs and reputation; for the regulators there is the political toll of reconciling conflicting competition policies. Charles Smitherman reviews merger regulation frameworks on both sides of the Atlantic. The author identifies areas of substantive and procedural differences as they exist today and explores the viability of convergence to aid the efficiency of the merger process through bilateral and domestic enhancements. Throughout the work the emphasis is placed on pragmatic solutions rather than those of academic and oft-unobtainable nature. The backbone of the work is made up of the analysis of eight of the biggest U.S. - EC merger cases between 2000 and 2004.

International Merger Policy offers a compelling comparative assessment of domestic and regional merger laws and procedures. Identifying important areas of convergence and emerging best practice, it considers existing levels of international cooperation

In the past few years, Latin American countries have taken giant steps to reposition their competition authorities in the global antitrust arena, granting them much greater autonomy both domestically and internationally. This is an updated edition of the first book that offered an in-depth analysis of this complex scenario. The first part of the book includes more general chapters written by leading experts on a variety of relevant topics analyzed at a regional level such as the issues emerging with the digital economy and on the special field of the information and communications technology industry, as well as chapters on broad regional trends, on the working of competition law in countries with regulated markets and in the cluster of Central American countries, among others. At the heart of the presentation are nine chapters detailing the competition regimes of the most active national jurisdictions in the region—Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay. Written by practicing experts with considerable hands-on experience in their respective countries, each of these chapters provides a comprehensive description and explanation of the evolution, current state, and prospects for antitrust in the country. Topics addressed in the country analysis encompass the following and more: relevant institutions and legislation; cartel investigations; unilateral conduct policies; merger review; international coordination; enforcement; and remedies. Each chapter includes an analysis of relevant case law, allowing the reader to gauge the positions, views, and tendencies of each competition law regime. The contributors also pay attention to the specificities and idiosyncrasies that are so important for a correct understanding of the practical realities of competition policy and enforcement. With its wide-ranging and in-depth approach, this book provides an incomparable analysis of a challenging region poised to become increasingly important in the international recognition and enforcement of antitrust law. It is in this sense an essential guide for lawyers, economists, corporations, academics, and government officials interested in understanding where competition law is, and where it is going to, in Latin America.

The Mergers & Acquisitions Review, edited by Mark Zerdin of Slaughter and May, seeks to provide a richer understanding of the shape of M&A in the global markets, together with the challenges and opportunities facing market participants. This comes at a time when the international market has seen a boom in dealmaking, with many markets reaching post-crisis peaks and some recording all-time highs. Mega-deals have been at the heart of the expanding market, with companies tapping into cash piles and cheap debt to fund transformational deals. Looking behind the headline figures, however, a number of factors suggest dealmaking may not continue to grow as rapidly as it has done recently. This book examines this topic and more across over 55 jurisdictions, as well as providing more general interest chapters covering the European Union, European Private Equity, M&A Litigation, and Offshore Private Equity. Contributors include: Didier Marti, Bredin Prat; Heinrich Knepper, Hengeler Mueller; Javier Ruiz-Camara Bayo, Uria Menendez.

Table of contents I. A Retrospective and Prospective Analysis of Monopsony Power Under the Merger Guidelines Logan Billman and Kristen Limarzi II. Mergers That Increase Buyer Power and the Function of Presumptions: Two Key Issues in the Revision of the Merger Guidelines Peter C. Carstensen III. What's new in the 2023 Merger Guidelines Joseph Farrell IV. Common Ownership and the Merger Guidelines Merritt B. Fox and Menesh S. Patel V. Awakening Merger Control: The New U.S. Merger Guidelines Eleanor M. Fox VI. Antitrust Ideology and the 2023 U.S. Merger Guidelines Diana L. Moss VII. The Missing Merger Guideline: On Efficiencies Maureen K. Ohlhausen and Taylor M. Owings VIII. Economics in the 2023 Merger Guidelines: Three Areas of Concern Jeremy Sandford, Loren Smith and Nathan Wilson IX. The Evolution (and Devolution) of Market Structure Reasoning Sean P. Sullivan X. Market Delineation under the New Merger Guidelines: Gerrymandering Redux Gregory J. Werden