Legislation Affecting Corporate Mergers: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 170 on S. 3341, a Bill to Amend the Clayton Act to Prohibit Certain Bank Mergers and Provide for More Effective Enforcement Thereof, and for Other Purposes; S. 3424, a Bill to Amend the Clayton Act, as Amended, by Requiring Prior Notification of Certain Corporate Merger; H.R. 9424, an Act to Amend the Clayton Act, as Amended,by Requiring Prior Notification of Corporate Mergers... |
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Page vii
... existing legislation is that section 7 of Clayton Act covers only stock acquisition - not assets acquisition - in the banking field , “ even though such mergers may involve a reasonable probability of a substantial lessening of ...
... existing legislation is that section 7 of Clayton Act covers only stock acquisition - not assets acquisition - in the banking field , “ even though such mergers may involve a reasonable probability of a substantial lessening of ...
Page ix
... existing Federal agen- cies . They do not feel this authority should be extended to Department of Justice and FTC . " On the whole , in our judgment the banking agencies through the years have supervised and regulated the banking ...
... existing Federal agen- cies . They do not feel this authority should be extended to Department of Justice and FTC . " On the whole , in our judgment the banking agencies through the years have supervised and regulated the banking ...
Page x
... existing law . " Federal Reserve Board is interested in the pending bills only insofar as they apply to banks . " It is the Board's opinion that the law should require the advance approval by a Federal bank supervisory agency before any ...
... existing law . " Federal Reserve Board is interested in the pending bills only insofar as they apply to banks . " It is the Board's opinion that the law should require the advance approval by a Federal bank supervisory agency before any ...
Page xii
... existing supervisory agencies have the power to restrict number of banks , he asked why the power " to approve consolidations ( should ) be placed elsewhere . " Contrary to widely held views , the experience of his bank " shows it was ...
... existing supervisory agencies have the power to restrict number of banks , he asked why the power " to approve consolidations ( should ) be placed elsewhere . " Contrary to widely held views , the experience of his bank " shows it was ...
Page xvii
... existing section 7's failure to cover asset acquisition by banks . " Even though we may still move against this tide of bank mergers under Sherman Act section 1 , our antimerger efforts are nonetheless cramped by Clayton Act section 7's ...
... existing section 7's failure to cover asset acquisition by banks . " Even though we may still move against this tide of bank mergers under Sherman Act section 1 , our antimerger efforts are nonetheless cramped by Clayton Act section 7's ...
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90 days 90-day waiting period acquiring corporation ALVORD amendment antitrust laws apply approval asset acquisitions Association Attorney authority bank mergers banking agencies BERGSON bill branch banking branches CELLER Chairman Clayton Act committee companies Comptroller Congress consolidations consummated court create a monopoly CROW Department of Justice economic effect enactment exemption Federal Reserve Board Federal Reserve System Federal Trade Commission FRIEDMAN GIDNEY Government GWYNNE industry injunction Interstate Commerce Interstate Commerce Act Interstate Commerce Commission involved Judge Barnes jurisdiction legislation lessen competition lessening of competition loans McHUGH ment merge MILLER Nassau County National Bank notice Number of banks operation paragraph pending percent premerger notification present problem proposed merger provisions public interest railroad regulated require retail food ROTH Senator DIRKSEN Senator O'MAHONEY Senator WATKINS share capital Sherman Act situation statement subcommittee substantial lessening suggested supervisory agencies tion transactions vested violation