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Postgraduate Laws programme:
Master of Laws (LLM), Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate

Course outline


International merger control
Section A: Introduction to merger control
· Concepts and ideas
· Economic analysis and market definition
· The regulation of merger operations
· Multinational enterprises and their concerns
Section B: Merger control regimes 1
· European Community merger control
· European Economic Area merger control
· United States merger control
Section C: Merger control regimes 2
· United Kingdom merger control
· Merger control in Germany
· Merger control in Canada
· Australian merger control
Section D: Unilateral, bilateral and multilateral merger control strategies
· Unilateral strategy: the doctrine of extraterritoriality
· Bilateral strategy
· Multilateral strategy
· International organisations and bodies.
Sequence:
Section A first.
Textbook:
For Section D of the course only: Maher M. Dabbah, The Internationalisation of Antitrust Policy
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), ISBN: 9780521820790