We like to highlight particularly impressive competition/antitrust law websites, books and academic projects from time-to-time. In this regard, one of the most impressive ongoing collective scholarship projects is the Essentials of Merger Review project being worked on by members of the American Bar Association’s International Antitrust Law Committee (see: Essentials of Merger Review).
This staggering and ambitious project is currently assembling and updating the essential merger review rules for most countries with merger review systems, including Canada, under the supervision of a team of regional editors.
Currently, the Merger Review Project includes summaries for more than 40 jurisdictions.
I understand from this ABA committee that one of the goals of this project is to provide not only a current summary of the various international merger control systems, but also to focus on practical issues. I also understand that this project will at some point be transformed also into a global merger review text.
Other current examples of similar global summaries of merger control systems include the Global Competition Review’s Getting the Deal Through series (see: GCR – Getting the Deal Through) and the International Competition Network’s Merger Review Templates (see: International Competition Network – Merger Review Templates).
Lawyers practicing in the larger international firms will also be familiar with such summaries, which are typically available on the larger firms’ intranet systems.
In any event, this Committee’s current merger review project is an impressive achievement of collective scholarship.
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