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Antitrust Chronicle® – Mergers as Monopolization

Winter 2023, February, Volume 2

Dear Readers, It has long bubbled under the surface, but there is an inherent tension between the archetypal monopolization/abuse of dominance provisions of global antitrust rules, and the subsequent introduction of merger control legislation. This is perhaps no more evident than in the parallel sets of rules that hold sway in the two formative antitrust […]

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