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 shall acquire, directly or indirectly, the whole or any part of the stock or other share capital and no person subject to the jurisdiction of the ...

The section of the Clayton Antitrust Act prohibiting mergers, acquisitions, and certain joint ventures where the effect may be to substantially lessen ...

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.

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 ...

The Commission is charged under Sections 3, 7 and 8 of this Act with preventing and eliminating unlawful tying contracts, corporate 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 ...

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 ...