Book Description

Revised and expanded, this comprehensive guide to the process and procedures of merger review at the federal agencies makes the federal review process more comprehensible and accessible to executives, parties, and their counsel. The Merger Review Process, Fourth Edition focuses on the strategic decisions that executives, parties, and their counsel must make at key junctures in the merger process. The Fourth Edition updates the procedures detailed in the third edition and also expands the scope of the volume to include: 0́Ø An overview of non-U.S. merger regress; 0́Ø the role of the states and regulatory agencies in merger review; 0́Ø discovery of electronic materials 0́Ø use of economists; and 0́Ø agency, administrative, and injunction challenges. Easy to use, this book follows a transaction chronologically through the review process. You'll learn about: 0́Ø the review process from the pre-filing stage through possible non-litigation resolutions to an agency challenge; 0́Ø coordination of multijurisdictional review; 0́Ø investigations of transactions not subject to Hart-Scott-Rodino notification requirements, and 0́Ø the steps the reviewing agency, parties, and counsel may take.