ICN Best Practice: Soft Law, Concrete Results

Cross-border mergers and acquisitions need approval from an increasing number of competition agencies. Today more than 90 jurisdictions actively engage in merger review, an increase from approximately 60 jurisdictions in 2000, and fewer than a dozen jurisdictions in 1990. As the volume of cross-border transactions increases and with merger filings again on the rise, reducing the unnecessary costs and burdens of merger review is as important today, if not more so, tha