Preface

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PREFACE

At the time of the publishing of this Handbook, there were over

4,000 private fund advisers registered with the Securities Exchange

Commission and, in addition to the United States,over 160 jurisdictions

with merger control regimes. Given the increasing importance for private

equity entities to be aware of and understand the complexities of the

antitrust and merger control laws in the United States, as well as other

select jurisdictions, the Section created this Handbook.

The Handbookis designed to be a resource for business people and

legal practitioners alike—a useful guide for business people at private

equity firms in understanding the potential competition issues that arise

inconnection with their business, and to assist legal practitioners

working with private equity firms in navigating the particular

intersections of antitrust law and the private equity industry.

Special thanks are due to Deidre J. Johnson and Brandon E. Bigelow,

who coordinated the writing of this Handbookand Stephen Stack, who

suggested that the Section create this Handbook. Special thanks also goes

to the members of the Books and Treatises Committee, particularly

Stephen Stack and Mark W. Nelson, who provided invaluable assistance

in completing this Handbook. There were many other individuals in the

private bar—both in the United States and abroad—who assisted with

this project, including:

Xuefei Bai

Dr. Wolfgang Bosch

David R. Brenneman

D. Jeffrey Brown

Jonathan E. Cheng

Naval Satarwala Chopra

Dr. Birgit Colbus

Reed Collins

Bruno de Luca Drago

Nicole C. Durkin

Adam N. Eckart

Mark Gurevich

Eric S. Hochstadt

Janet Hui

Deidre J. Johnson

Michael Kilby

Jonathan S. Klarfeld

Peter Laybourn

Aparna Mehra

David Menchaca

Barbosa Morselli

Louisa Penny

Amy N. Roth

Robert Vidal

Fabianna Vieira

Andrew A. Walsh

Kevin R. Walsh

Simone L.F. Waterbury