26 September, 2018
Our chapter, published in The Merger Control Review, gives an overview of Australia's merger control regime. It looks at the options available to parties who wish to seek clearance for their proposed merger: the informal clearance process and the authorisation process and the role of the ACCC.
The chapter provides a detailed commentary on developments in the ACCC's approach to mergers in the past 12 months, including theories of harm as well as matters of practice and procedure.
It also explores other aspects of the Australian merger control regime which can take on particular significance in the context of global or multi-jurisdictional transactions, such as the interaction of the ACCC's information-gathering powers with its desire to exchange information and documents with overseas regulators, as well as the absence of any minimum threshold for identifying share acquisitions that may be of concern.
This chapter is reproduced with permission from Law Business Research Ltd. The chapter was first published in The Merger Control Review in August 2018.
For the full article, please click here.
For further information, please contact:
Peter Armitage, Partner, Ashurst
peter.armitage@ashurst.com
