Transactions Involving Economic Concentration: the Evolution of Antimonopoly Regulation and Common Torts in Modern Conditions

   Author carries out the analysis of recent legislative changes on the regulation of anticompetitive transactions involving economic concentration and improvement of the procedure for state control over economic concentration. The will of the legislator and the reasons that contributed to the development of legal regulation on the issue under consideration, as well as its economic and legal consequences, are examined. Based on the results of studying the current law enforcement practice that developed after the entry into force of legislative changes, author identifies and systematizes the most common torts related to the facts of transactions involving economic concentration that restrict competition, as well as significant violations of the procedure for such transactions established by the current antimonopoly legislation.

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