Updated in 2020. The notes are a summary of the key points of the lecture with some landmark cases. Direct and easy to understand for exam purposes.

1. Introduction to competition law and policy, and to the impact of merger control on corporate transactions

2. Jurisdictional rules: turnover, assets, local nexus, control, levels of shareholding, treatment of joint ventures.

3. Procedural rules: mandatory versus voluntary notification, administrative versus judicial review, duration of the review.

4. The EU’s substantive review of mergers -- Part I: Standard classification of mergers (horizontal, vertical, conglomerate). Market definition and measures of market power.

5. The EU’s substantive review of mergers -- Part II: Coordinated effects. Treatment of vertical and conglomerate mergers.

6. US merger control: Institutions, jurisdiction, process, and substantive assessment.

7. Chinese merger control: Institutions, jurisdiction, process, and substantive assessment.

8. Additional Note - Brexit Implications for UK Merger Control: Summary of the background and major potential implications to UK merger control resulting from Brexit