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The only up-to-date source on navigating mergers and joint ventures through the Competition Bureau process, Competition and Antitrust Laws in Canada: Mergers, Joint Ventures and Competitor Collaborations, 3rd Edition is an essential tool for anyone involved in Canadian M&A. Facey and Brown offer superior analysis and pragmatic guidance to in-house counsel, private practitioners, academics, economists, students and government agencies based on critical developments over the past three years since the previous edition.
The wide-ranging content of this text includes:
New tips for determining whether a transaction is subject to pre-merger notification
Helpful insights into the merger planning and review process, based on recent experience
Recent developments affecting cross-border and international M&A
Features of This Book
New content on digital mergers, vertical issues, international cooperation and coordination, and joint ventures
Reviews key implications of Canadian merger legislation and Competition Bureau practice for cross-border and international M&A
Explains new developments involving the importance of the efficiencies defence in the interpretation of the Competition Act's merger provisions
Analyzes the limitations on information sharing in the context of both pre-agreement due diligence and pre-closing integration, and outlines strategies for maintaining legal privilege over transaction planning documents, and allocating competition risk in transaction documents
Explains in plain English how the Competition Bureau uses economic analysis to determine the likely impacts of a merger
Examines how market definition will impact conclusions regarding substantive competition law concerns with a transaction
Describes popular theories of anticompetitive harm deployed by the Competition Bureau, and how economic evidence can be used to rebut these theories and gain approval for a merger
Who Should Read This Book
Corporate/commercial and competition lawyers who must advise their clients on mergers, pricing, advertising and marketing practices
Any lawyer or expert who advises the Competition Bureau, the Commissioner of Competition and the Competition Tribunal, all of which who must interpret and enforce merger law
Law students who are looking for authoritative reference materials for competition law courses
International corporate/commercial and competition lawyers who are engaged to work on mergers with international (especially U.S.) aspects