Preface

The aim of Merger Control Worldwide is to provide a detailed, comprehensive overview of the substantive and procedural merger control laws around the world. The original aim was to have a wider jurisdictional coverage. However, following careful consideration, we considered it unnecessary to provide a dedicated chapter in the case of some jurisdictions, either because they have nascent merger regimes or because the application of their competition law provisions to merger transactions appears to be somewhat theoretical.

Preparing this edition has been a great experience for both of us. We have very much enjoyed working with our contributors, to whom we are extremely grateful for agreeing to become involved and for producing extremely interesting and top-quality chapters. As with the first edition, we are planning to produce regular annual supplements in order to capture all changes occurring in the different merger control regimes covered in this work and also to add separate chapters of new regimes as they emerge or of current nascent ones should these develop in the near future.