This short article argues why the Competition Commission of India should elect to review the Facebook-WhatsApp merger … merger control jurisprudence of India and discusses the concept of a catch-all ‘regulatory jurisdiction,’ which should be … adopted by the Commission to review mergers having overwhelming public consequences for Indian consumers …

Since 2004, EU merger control guidelines state the Commission will consider efficiencies as a part of its evaluation … investigate empirically all EU merger control decisions from 1991 to 2014, with an emphasis on Article 8 decisions since 2004 … discuss the reasons for this scarcity. To successfully raise an efficiency defence, parties would need to show the merger …

UK Merger control is an example of regulation which has shifted from a public interest regime to an economics based … system of competition assessment. This paper asks whether the merger of Lloyds TSB and HBOS in 2008, on public interest … grounds, marked the failure of an enduring economics based system of merger regulation. It argues that far from marking a …

This Essay provides an overview of U.S. antitrust merger practice in addressing efficiencies both in terms of actual … “agencies”) analysis of efficiencies during investigations and the broader process of negotiations involving mergers. For … practitioners play during the merger process in shaping whether or not the agencies will litigate a case, or the types of issues …

In the wake of recent convergence initiatives, many countries now adopt a competition-based approach to merger control … interest’ criteria has become increasingly marginalised. Yet despite this marginalisation, many merger regimes continue to … internationally. This paper conducts an empirical study of 75 domestic merger regimes to draw two sets of insights. Firstly, the paper …

other advisory and advocacy roles. However, in the area merger review and control, the law only provides for a consultative … in future there will be a regional review of mergers and acquisitions. As part of the unique experience of … in merger control …

-competitive patent settlements and hold-ups in relation to standard setting processes, in addition to the modern focus on mergers that …

Merger control has been part of the Hong Kong’s legal landscape for the past ten years, although it only concerns … mergers in the telecom sector. The new Competition Ordinance, which will fully enter into force in 2015, does not contain … provisions for a cross-sector merger control mechanism. It only provides that the new Hong Kong Competition Commission will …

The supposed ubiquity of potential efficiencies is understood to justify permitting most horizontal mergers despite … their tendency to raise prices. Yet efficiencies are said to be rarely decisive in actual merger decision-making. Moreover …, the economic analysis of merger efficiencies lags far behind that of anticompetitive effects. This article addresses this …

This study examines how institutional investors' cost bases impact takeover offer prices and the likelihood of deal …