...that are shown.) l09/ Section 7 of the Clayton Act, l5 USC l8 (l976) , in pertinent part provides: "No corporation engaged in commerce shall acquire, directly or indirectly, the whole or any part of the stock or other share capital. . .or. . .assets of another corporation. . .where...

...the Clayton Act (15 OSC § 18). and the case law T57 " — That section provides, in pertinent part, that "[n]o corporation engaged in commerce shall acquire, directly or indirectly, the whole or any part of the (Continued) which interprets it. In Brown Shoe Co. v. United States (1962) 370 US...

...provision of the antitrust laws dealing with mergers. The operative part of Sec. 7 reads as follows: ". . . no corporation engaged in commerce shall acquire, directly or indirectly, . . . the whole or any part of the assets of another corporation engaged also in commerce, where in any line of commerce...

...any person or persons, to monopolize trade or commerce in any relevant market within this State. b. No corporation engaged in commerce shall acquire,...acquisition may be to substantially lessen competition within this State between the corporation whose stock is so acquired and the corporation making the...

...October 15, 1914, as amended (USC, title 15, sees. 18 and 21), are hereby amended to read as follows : "Sec. 7. That no corporation engaged in commerce shall acquire, directly or indirectly, the whole or any part of the stock or other share capital and no corporation subject to the jurisdiction of the...

...of the Federal Trade Commission shall acquire the whole or any part of the assets of another person engaged also in commerce, where ... the effect of such acquisition may be substantially to lessen competition, or to tend to create a monopoly." area, this statute impacts mostly...

...Act 2 Eg, Northern Securities Co. v. United States, 193 US 197 (1904TT~ prohibited stock acquisitions "where the effect of such acquisition may be to substantially lessen competition.' According to the Senate Report on the Act, the purpose of statute was "to arrest the creation of trusts,...

...Section 7 of the Clayton Act specifically prohibited a corporation from acquiring "the whole or any part of the stock or other share capital of another corporation engaged also in commerce" where the effect of the acquisition "may tend to substantially lessen competition" between the two companies or tend to...

...against unlawful restraints and monopolies; section 7 heing, so far as pertinent, as follows : "See. 7. That no corporation engaged in commerce shall acquire,...effect of such acquisition may be to substantially lespen competition between the corporation whose stock is so acquired and the corporation making the...

...the jurisdiction of the Federal Trade Commission shall acquire the whole or any part of the assets of another corporation engaged also in commerce, where ... the effect of such acquisition may be substantially to lessen competition, or to tend to create a monopoly." The Celler,Kefauver Act was...