Section 7 of the Clayton Act (Section 7)1 is the principal federal substantive law governing mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures.2 Section 7 prohibits ...

No person engaged in commerce or in any activity affecting commerce shall acquire, directly or indirectly, the whole or any part of the stock or other share ...

Section 7 of the Clayton Act prohibits mergers and acquisitions where the effect "may be substantially to lessen competition, or to tend to create a monopoly.

In 1914 Congress en- acted the Clayton Act,2 section 7 of which generally prohibited the acquisition by a corporation of stock in another corporation where the.

A Note providing an overview of Section 7 of the Clayton Act and explaining its legal standard for antitrust challenges to mergers and acquisitions.

Section 7 prohibits mergers or acquisitions that might tend to lessen competition in any line of commerce in any section of the country. Mergers and ...

The primary source for regulation of mergers under the antitrust laws is section 7 of the Clayton Act, which proscribes those corporate acquisitions “where in ...

Under this amendment, a merger is a violation if "in any line of commerce in any section of the country, the effect of such acquisition may be substantially to ...

Utilizing the topic of vertical acquisition as the subject of his discus- sion, Mr. Blackford argues that the government and certain courts have.