This book is a fully up-to-date, comprehensive guide to the law, economics, and practice of UK merger control law. This guide presents an integrated legal and economic assessment of the substantive appraisal of mergers. It examines in detail the following topics: the history of the Enterprise Act and its development from the Fair Trading Act; the various regulatory bodies that form the institutional structure of the UK merger control regime; enterprises subject to merger control regulation and the jurisdictional thresholds of the Enterprise Act; the relationship of the Enterprise Act with the...