Abstract:

Given its amplitude, the M&A phenomenon appears to restructure industries or to create companies with a size which was unimaginable not decades, but years ago. As a result, there was an obvious preoccupation of the regulatory commissions for controlling these types of concentrations and to offer remedies, in order for the uncompetitive transactions to be avoided. The purpose of this paper is to present a quantitative analysis of the mergers and acquisitions (M&As) with a community dimension in the European Union, for the 2005-2016 period of time. The analysis will take into account the status of the economies (frontier, secondary emerging, advanced emerging, developed), the position in UE (Eastern and Western), as number of transactions and value, by drawing attention on the most important characteristics of these types of concentrations. We take into account the transactions that received clearance from the European Commission, being reported on the EU’s website.