Over the past 30 years, merger control has become well-established around the world with broad consensus around its ambit and objectives. That consensus has fractured in recent years. Enforcement today is at a critical juncture, facing an array of challenges and calls for reform unprecedented in their scope and intensity. Authored by leading legal practitioners, economists, enforcers and jurists, this timely Research Handbook on Global Merger Control discusses those challenges and predicts how merger control is likely to evolve.

With an increasing number of cross-border strategic corporate reorganisations in today's fast-changing global environment, understanding of and compliance with the latest regulations and requirements is of vital importance. To help you navigate through the various specific merger control regulations, this major new work, Global Merger Control Handbook, offers a thorough and very detailed overview of relevant local rules, methodology, process and timing requirements across over 50 jurisdictions, on a country by country basis. This comprehensive two-volume handbook, available in hardcopy as well as in electronic format, is an extremely helpful reference guide for in-house counsel and those contemplating or often involved in M&A activities.

In the latest edition of The Global Merger Control Manual, the Editors acknowledge that parties to cross-border transactions can no longer treat merger control as a box-ticking exercise but must instead build a full merger control analysis (including a substantive assessment, coordinated filing strategies, review process timetables, etc.) into the transaction strategy as a whole. This and the prior editions of the Manual were written by, and written for, practicing lawyers to assist in carrying out the daunting tasks associated with competition review of multinational mergers and acquisitions. Most of the contributors to this Edition are competition law experts at Baker & McKenzie, a law firm with offi ces in 38 countries, which is particularly well suited to such an interinational survey and publication. We have also drawn on the experience of practicing lawyers in many other countries. The editors of this Edition are extremely grateful to these knowledgeable lawyers for their work in keeping our readers current on the many developments in merger control laws this past year has seen.