MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS, AND MARKET DOMINANCE: LEGAL APPROACHES TO PREVENT ANTI-COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOUR

AUTHOR – SHUBHAM TIWARI* & DR AXITA SHRIVASTAVA** 

*  STUDENT OF AMITY LAW SCHOOL, LUCKNOW

** PROFESSOR AT AMITY LAW SCHOOL, LUCKNOW

BEST CITATION – SHUBHAM TIWARI* & DR AXITA SHRIVASTAVA**, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS, AND MARKET DOMINANCE: LEGAL APPROACHES TO PREVENT ANTI-COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOUR, ILE MULTIDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL, 4 (1) OF 2025, PG. 730-743, APIS – 3920-0007 | ISSN – 2583-7230.

ABSTRACT

World over, with the advent of Globalization, Deregulation and growing technological advancements have led to a super surge in Mergers & Acquisitions. Enormous literature is available in various sources for M & As in the developed and advanced economies. But for that in India, the case is different. There exists very little information on the subject in the domestic context. Where on the one side M & A ensures and promotes growth and expansion of the domestic enterprises to even foreign markets, the competition in the market economy can in no way be ignored.

Competition restores the consumers wider access to services at the most competitive prices. The Competition Policies were framed with the fundamental aim of preserving and promoting competition as a means of ensuring efficient allocation of resources in an economy and proper effective regulation of M & As (combinations).  This study attempts to understand the impact and trends of M&As in India. Further, it explores the role played by combination law in regulating M&As activity. The current study thus ontologically bases its findings on objective epistemology and employs a ‘Positive Paradigm’ Approach (including both positivism and interpretivism). In light of this, the paper has been categorized into various chapters and sub-chapters which take up the topics individually and in detail.

Keywords: Competition, Globalization, Mergers & Acquisitions