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• Changes to Canadian Competition Law ( June 2005 )
  Robert E Kwinter of Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

  In addition to a high level of sustained enforcement activity, Canada's competition regime continues to undergo a great deal of change and re-examination.

• Mergers & Acquisitions Primer ( January 1999 )
  Robert W Doyle of Federal Trade Comm. Competition Bureau

  Most large mergers and acquisitions are reviewed by the United States government prior to consummation. The two agencies reviewing these transactions are the Department of Justice ("DOJ") and the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC"). In order to provide a degree of predictability in those reviews, the agencies have promulgated a set of rules with regard to how the parties report their transactions to the government and how those transactions are evaluated. This note provides some background on both the premerger notification requirements and the guidelines for evaluating mergers.

• Antitrust Analysis of Bank Mergers: A Survey of Recent Developments ( December 1996 )
  Terry  Calvani of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

  In Antitrust Analysis of Bank Mergers: Recent Developments, Terry Calvani and W. Todd Miller reviewed dramatic ch.