The EC Merger Regulation: Substantive Issues (3rd edition)

Mergers & Acquisitions

The EC Merger Regulation Substantive Issues (3rd edition)

Edited by Alistair Lindsay · Alison Berridge
Sweet & Maxwell U.K. October 2009

Specifications

ISBN-13
9781847038692
Publisher
Sweet & Maxwell U.K.
Publication
October 2009
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
European Union, U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

The new 3rd edition of The EC Merger Regulation: Substantive Issues provides a comprehensive working guide to the practical issues of EC merger regulation. It: 

 

  • Provides a comprehensive working guide to the practical issues of EC merger regulation
  • Covers in detail the new EC Merger Regulation and associated law and case-law
  • Looks at the underlying objectives of the regulation and the legal systems that implement it
  • Presents information and techniques needed to complete merger deals successfully
  • Looks at all the important issues from all angles
  • Considers the new non-horizontal guidelines
  • Analyses the latest developments in case law including the Ryanair/Aer Lingus and Sony/BMG decisions
  • Discusses how the Commission reaches its decisions
  • Provides extensive comparative references to advance the analysis

Table of Contents

Preface
Tables of Legislation
Tables of Cases
  • The economic justification for merger control
  • The SIEC test and other legal and methodological issues
  • Market definition
  • Market shares and concentration levels
  • The counterfactual
  • Market operation
  • Horizontal mergers: non-coordinated effects
  • Coordinated effects
  • Loss of potential competition and mergers in neighbouring markets
  • The merged group's buyer power
  • Vertical issues
  • Conglomerate issues
  • Coordination in joint ventures
  • Competition from actual rivals
  • Countervailing buyer power
  • New entry
  • The failing firm defence
  • Efficiency gains
  • Other evidence of the likely effects of the merger on consumers
  • Remedies
Index
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