LAW 642 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Corestates Financial Corporation, Baker Hughes, Procter & Gamble
30 May 2020
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Mergers: historical perspective, introduction: clayton act ( reasonable probability merger substantially lessen competition), standing in private merger suit, evolution of the law: brown shoe (practical indicia), philadelphia. National bank, proctor & gamble (germ of potential competition theory), Citizens publication (failing firm defense: contemporary law and enforcement, intro/overview: unilateral v. coordinated effects, guppi, the guidelines: market definition (necessity, ssnip), market. Concentration (hhi: the case law, market definition: staples, whole foods (core consumers), h&r. Block: horizontal mergers, mergers likely to produce coordinated effects: hospital. Corp. of america, baker hughes (drilling rigs), heinz (beechnut: mergers likely to product unilateral effects: monopoly and dominance: sirius-xm, google/admob, boeing, mergers likely to produce unilateral effects in. Oligopolistic markets: oracle, h&r block: mergers eliminating important potential competitors: Marine bancorporation: non-horizontal mergers, vertical mergers: avant!, ticketmaster/livenation, conglomerate mergers: ge/honeywell. Collaborations between competitors other than cartels: introduction, contemporary cases, touchstones for analysis: indiana federation of dentists,
