Merger Controls First Edition - J Sagar Associates

PREFACE
We are pleased to present the first edition of Global Legal Insights – Merger
Control. The book contains 33 country chapters, and is designed to provide
general counsel, government agencies and private practice lawyers with a
comprehensive insight into the realities of merger control, as well as practical, policy and
strategic issues. It will complement The International Comparative Guide to: Merger
Control, a well established title now in its 7th edition, which has a place on the shelves of
every lawyer advising on transactions with a cross-border dimension. The ICLG to:
Merger Control, however, concentrates on black letter law and offers only limited scope for
the various authors to express their own professional judgment on policy and strategy or to
offer insight into the more subtle workings of their home regime. This new work is
therefore intended as a sister volume to the ICLG "ready reckoner", adding colour and
texture to the basics of merger control law.
In producing Global Legal Insights, the publishers have collected the views and opinions
of a group of leading competition law practitioners from around the world in a unique
volume. The authors were asked to offer personal views on the most important recent
developments in their own jurisdictions, with a free rein to decide the focus of their own
chapter. One of the great attractions of comparative analyses is, of course, the possibility
that what is happening in one jurisdiction may inform understanding or influence
innovation in another jurisdiction: we hope that this book will prove insightful and
potentially inspirational reading.
Nigel Parr and Catherine Hammon,
Ashurst LLP