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Table of Contents
Overview of the applicable U.S. antitrust laws
U.S. enforcement policy and procedure
Market definition and measurement
Horizontal mergers: proving likely anticompetitive effects
Rebutting the structural inference
Efficiencies
Possible defenses
Joint ventures
Potential competition doctrine
Vertical mergers
Conglomerate mergers
Application of merger laws to multinational transactions
Judicial relief and remedies
Appendix A: Sherman Act
Appendix B: Clayton Act
Appendix C: Federal Trade Commission Act
Appendix D: National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993
Appendix E: Newspaper Preservation Act
Appendix F: Export Trade Company Act
Appendix G: Webb-Pomerene Act
Appendix H: 1984 Department of Justice Merger Guidelines
Appendix J: 1995 Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission Antitrust Enforcement Guidelines for International Operations
Appendix K: 1995 Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property
Appendix L: 1996 Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission Statements of Antitrust Enforcement Policy in Healthcare
Appendix M: 1993 Horizontal Merger Guidelines of the National Association of Attorneys General
Appendix N: Antitrust Guidelines for Collaborations among Competitors
Appendix O: Selected Hart-Scott-Rondino statistics fy 1998-2002.
U.S. enforcement policy and procedure
Market definition and measurement
Horizontal mergers: proving likely anticompetitive effects
Rebutting the structural inference
Efficiencies
Possible defenses
Joint ventures
Potential competition doctrine
Vertical mergers
Conglomerate mergers
Application of merger laws to multinational transactions
Judicial relief and remedies
Appendix A: Sherman Act
Appendix B: Clayton Act
Appendix C: Federal Trade Commission Act
Appendix D: National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993
Appendix E: Newspaper Preservation Act
Appendix F: Export Trade Company Act
Appendix G: Webb-Pomerene Act
Appendix H: 1984 Department of Justice Merger Guidelines
Appendix J: 1995 Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission Antitrust Enforcement Guidelines for International Operations
Appendix K: 1995 Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property
Appendix L: 1996 Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission Statements of Antitrust Enforcement Policy in Healthcare
Appendix M: 1993 Horizontal Merger Guidelines of the National Association of Attorneys General
Appendix N: Antitrust Guidelines for Collaborations among Competitors
Appendix O: Selected Hart-Scott-Rondino statistics fy 1998-2002.