Abstract
European free-market countries recently have begun to enact more laws regulating mergers and joint-ventures, with Germany at the forefront. In this article, Messrs. Belke and Braun intensively analyze the German merger control law, including the criteria that necessitate a report to the German Cartel Office, its application of the substantive merger control rules, and possible exceptions to an anti-merger ruling. They also explore the impact of the German law on international mergers and joint-ventures. Finally, they discuss in detail the first two German Supreme Court decisions that construed the substantive rules and contrast them with similar American cases.
Recommended Citation
Rolf Belke and W. David Braun,
German Merger Control: A European Approach to Anticompetitive Takeovers,
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Nw. J. Int'l L. & Bus.
371
(1979).
https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/njilb/vol1/iss2/27
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