consultants) anticipate the critical questions and potential paths that should be addressed regarding antitrust merger risk. This … affected merger review, investments, decision making, and counsel. The surveys also offer antitrust agencies an opportunity to … think about the optimal design of the merger control system and various consequences of certain policy choices and …

Merger remedies are an area of increasing complexity around the world. They are also an area of increased focus by … view of how high tech markets work in their merger remedies and, by implication, dominance cases — especially considering …

attributable to the markets of concern. (i.e., by the “overlap”). If an antitrust agency challenges a merger having only a small … risks and time-delays) on the agency and firms. Given over 20 years of experience with modern merger analysis, it is …

The 'two-thirds rule' stands as a caveat to the quantitative jurisdictional thresholds stipulated in the Merger …

assess merger control's effectiveness. By using data gathered from several sources and employing different evaluation … techniques, we analyze the economic effects of the European Commission's (EC) merger control decisions and distinguish between … merging and rival firms' stocks to quantify the profitability effects of mergers and merger control decisions. We back up our …

There are legal grounds to hear competitors in merger control proceedings, and competitor involvement has gained … in EU merger cases and give an overview of the legal discussion in the EU and US. …

the period 1990-2002 to assess the effectiveness of European merger control. The basic idea is to relate announcement and … decision abnormal returns. Under a set of four maintained assumptions, merger control might be interpreted to be effective if … rents accruing due to the increased market power observed around the merger announcement are reversed by the antitrust …

There are legal grounds to hear competitors in merger control proceedings, and competitor involvement has gained … of competitor involvement in EU merger cases and give an overview of the legal discussion in the EU and US …

the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) in connection with their Request for Information on Merger Enforcement (“Merger RFI …”). This comment addresses the questions contained in Section 5 of the RFI related to the use of presumptions in merger … enforcement. Our view is that an important objective of the agency’s horizontal merger enforcement guidelines is to ensure that …

the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) in connection with their Request for Information on Merger Enforcement (“Merger RFI …”). The GAI welcomes the opportunity to provide input on the proposed changes to the Horizontal Merger Guidelines (“HMGs … Section 14 of the Merger RFI, in which the Agencies pose two questions that go to the heart of the treatment of efficiencies …