Foreword

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FOREWORD

The Section of Antitrust Law of the American Bar Association is

pleased to present to the antitrust community the fourth edition of a

comprehensive guide to the process and procedures of U.S. and foreign

merger review from a U.S. perspective. The goal of The Merger Review

Process: A Step-by-Step Guide to U.S. and Foreign Merger Review is to

make the merger review process more comprehensible and accessible to

parties and their counsel, and thus to enable them to be more effective in

the review process. Importantly, this Handbook focuses on the strategic

decisions that parties and theircounsel must makeatkey junctures in the

merger process.

The fourth edition: (1) updates the procedures followed by the U.S.

federal agencies and the correspondingoptions available to parties;

(2) expands the discussion of the role of state Attorneys General, foreign

competition authorities, federal and state sectoral regulators, the

executivebranch, andnationalsecurity agencies;and(3) includes new

chapters on second request production in the electronic age, preliminary

injunction litigation, administrative challenges, and the role of

economists before the agencies and in court. We are deeply indebted to

many private and government attorneys who contributed their time and

talents to the creation of this Practice Guide. Special thanksgotoformer

Section chair Ilene Gotts, who continuedin the role of editor of this

Practice Guide and coordinated the drafting of its many contributors.

March 2012Richard M. Steuer

Chair, Section of Antitrust Law

American Bar Association

2011-2012