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The Legal Framework for Mergers and Acquisitions in the European Union and the United States

In: Mergers and Acquisitions as the Pillar of Foreign Direct Investment

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  • Tania Pantazi

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When the term “mergers and acquisitions” is referred to in legal documents, it normally corresponds to two different types of contract. A merger occurs when two or more previously independent undertakings or parts of undertakings become one; an acquisition happens when one or more persons already controlling at least one undertaking, or one or more undertakings, acquire direct or indirect control of the whole or parts of one or more other undertakings. The general term used in European Union (EU) law in particular is “concentrations.”

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  • Tania Pantazi, 2012. "The Legal Framework for Mergers and Acquisitions in the European Union and the United States," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Aristidis Bitzenis & Vasileios A. Vlachos & Pyrros Papadimitriou (ed.), Mergers and Acquisitions as the Pillar of Foreign Direct Investment, chapter 0, pages 195-205, Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-03155-6_11
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137031556_11
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