Quick Question, + Canadian Smartphone

[danaeris]

If two companies based in the US but operating worldwide want to merge, does the merge have to be approved by regulatory boards all over the world, or just in the US?

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Comments

[thebitterguy]

Generally, the Canadian division of a multinational will be a 'seperate' company, so I presume the same is true around the world. So if MegaCorp USA merges with UberCorp USA, MegaCorp Canada will be a seperate company, so I can't imagine any regulatory tapdances would be needed. IANAL.

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They do in the EU

[admiralthrawn.livejournal.com]

There have been several big mergers recently where the US said yes, but the EU said "if you merge, you will be a monopoly in europe, so we will smack you", and thus killed the deal.

Anything smaller than the EU will typically get laughed at by the companies; if Boeing and Airbus wanted to merge, and Brazil said no, they'd say "ok, no airplanes for you", and watch Brazil suddenly realize that the merger was just peachy... For most megacorps, the US + EU + Japan is 90% of their business, so arbitrary penalties in any country that doesn't automatically follow the lead of the US/EU/Japan are pretty much irrelevant if they seriously think they're getting a noticeable synergy in the big markets.