Mergers : Finance and Banking

Mergers

Strategic Alliance as a Prelude to Merger
Ward Bower of Lexpert

Merger mania is back - in the U.
Banking and Financial Institutions Regulatory Law
James R Christie and Ian J Binnie of Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

This past year has been a comparatively quiet period for developments in the regulation of Canada's financial services sector. So it seems appropriate to take a retrospective look at two quite different regulatory stories from the past few years?the fate of bank mergers and the emergence of the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (the "FCAC") as an important consumer protection body.
Antitrust Analysis of Bank Mergers: A Survey of Recent Developments
Terry Calvani of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

In Antitrust Analysis of Bank Mergers: Recent Developments, Terry Calvani and W. Todd Miller reviewed dramatic ch.