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European takeover law : the case for a neutral approach
Enriques, Luca - 2010
This paper argues that in revising the Takeover Bid Directive, EU policymakers should adopt a neutral approach toward … kind. Unfortunately, takeover rules cannot be crafted so as to hinder all the bad takeovers while at the same time … current EC legal framework for takeovers overall hinders takeover activity in the EU, the paper identifies three rationales …
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Die Übernahme von Denner durch Migros verstösst gegen das Kartellgesetz
Ungern-Sternberg, Thomas von; Jametti, Mario - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003596044
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Passive partial ownership, sneaky takeover, and merger control
Jovanovic, Dragan; Wey, Christian - 2013
We analyze horizontal mergers when the acquirer holds a passive partial ownership stake (PPO) in the target firm prior to the merger. We show that a PPO reduces the minimal synergy level necessary to make a merger beneficial for consumers. It follows that an antitrust authority ignoring existing...
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NYSE changing hands : antitrust and attempted acquisitions of an erstwhile monopoly
Jeitschko, Thomas D. - 2013
The Intercontinental Exchange's current attempted acquisition of NYSE-Euronext is the third takeover proposal in as …
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Ownership, takeovers and EU law : how contestable should EU corporations be?
Coates, John C. - 2003
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How to Fix Unreasonable Merger Regulation
Kimmel, Sheldon - 2015
The 1914 Clayton Act prohibited any acquisition whose effect may be to “substantially” lessen competition. International Shoe defined § 7's word “substantially” by saying that an acquisition's effect is “substantial” only if it “will injuriously affect the public.” This paper...
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Are All Mergers Equally Delay-Averse? An Empirical Analysis of Procedural Delay in European Commission Merger Cases (1999-2008)
Ormosi, Peter L. - 2009
This article looks at the distribution of two EC merger procedural events and examines the effect of the indefinite-length suspension of merger investigations. Although the ECMR refers to the suspension of investigations as an exceptional instrument, it is used in a high proportion of cases. As...
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Rethinking European Takeover Law after Brexit : A German Perspective
Möslein, Florian - 2016
The rethinking of European Takeover Law is a current challenge as well as an ongoing task. The economic and political … takeover law with its obvious socio-economic implications. Above all, the imminence of Brexit is currently set to trigger such … fundamental changes. The UK vote to leave the EU will not only lead to the detachment of Europe's most important takeover market …
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Data-Driven Mergers Under EU Competition Law
Chirita, Anca D. - 2020
This chapter aims to review data-driven mergers including, but not limited to, major conglomerates involving large scale of individual user data, known as ‘big data', by Facebook (WhatsApp), Microsoft (Yahoo!, Skype and LinkedIn), Google (Double Click), TomTom (Tele Atlas), Publicis/Omnicon,...
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Mergers after Cartels : How Markets React to Cartel Breakdown
Davies, S. W. - 2015
This paper examines whether cartel breakdown provokes a period of intensive merger activity amongst the former cartelists, designed to re-establish tacit collusion. Using a novel application of recurrent event survival analysis for a pooled sample of 84 European cartels, it finds that mergers...
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