Mergers and acquisition law: the need for harmonization in ASEAN

The topic of mergers and acquisitions continues to receive significant attention from both academic and practical perspectives. The growing incidence of company takeovers, especially cross-border, raises significant policy concerns. The sustainability of companies domestically and globally has thu...

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Main Authors:	Ambaras Khan, Mushera Bibi, Abdul Ghani Azmi, Ida Madieha, Abdul Rahman, Nasarudin, Zakaria, Mohd Radhuan Arif
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta 2017
Subjects:	K Law (General)
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/54049/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/54049/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/54049/1/54049_Mergers%20and%20Acquisition%20Law.pdf

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spelling	iium-540492018-02-04T07:19:46Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/54049/ Mergers and acquisition law: the need for harmonization in ASEAN Ambaras Khan, Mushera Bibi Abdul Ghani Azmi, Ida Madieha Abdul Rahman, Nasarudin Zakaria, Mohd Radhuan Arif K Law (General) The topic of mergers and acquisitions continues to receive significant attention from both academic and practical perspectives. The growing incidence of company takeovers, especially cross-border, raises significant policy concerns. The sustainability of companies domestically and globally has thus become a major concern. There is a dire need for law to offer an avenue to allow an efficient and competitive environment for mergers and acquisition of companies. Cross-border mergers and acquisition activities have also increased in the current years, with a greater share of ASEAN firms in total acquisitions. With the introduction of ASEAN common market, ASEAN countries are now a more open, transparent and convenient investment regime which facilitate international trade and foreign investment. A comprehensive and effective legal framework for mergers and acquisitions is imperative to support the burgeoning of mergers and acquisitions as a result of the liberalization of the trade and services in the ASEAN countries. This paper suggest that harmonization of the law is inevitable in order to support the growing of mergers and acquisitions in the region. This paper suggests that a more consistent and uniform frameworks are needed to reduce restrictive regulations which may inhibit the mergers and acquisition deals in the ASEAN. Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta 2017 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/54049/1/54049_Mergers%20and%20Acquisition%20Law.pdf Ambaras Khan, Mushera Bibi and Abdul Ghani Azmi, Ida Madieha and Abdul Rahman, Nasarudin and Zakaria, Mohd Radhuan Arif (2017) Mergers and acquisition law: the need for harmonization in ASEAN. In: International Conference on Law and Society 6 (ICLAS 6), 4th-7th April 2017, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. http://iclas6.umy.ac.id/
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spellingShingle	K Law (General) Ambaras Khan, Mushera Bibi Abdul Ghani Azmi, Ida Madieha Abdul Rahman, Nasarudin Zakaria, Mohd Radhuan Arif Mergers and acquisition law: the need for harmonization in ASEAN
description	The topic of mergers and acquisitions continues to receive significant attention from both academic and practical perspectives. The growing incidence of company takeovers, especially cross-border, raises significant policy concerns. The sustainability of companies domestically and globally has thus become a major concern. There is a dire need for law to offer an avenue to allow an efficient and competitive environment for mergers and acquisition of companies. Cross-border mergers and acquisition activities have also increased in the current years, with a greater share of ASEAN firms in total acquisitions. With the introduction of ASEAN common market, ASEAN countries are now a more open, transparent and convenient investment regime which facilitate international trade and foreign investment. A comprehensive and effective legal framework for mergers and acquisitions is imperative to support the burgeoning of mergers and acquisitions as a result of the liberalization of the trade and services in the ASEAN countries. This paper suggest that harmonization of the law is inevitable in order to support the growing of mergers and acquisitions in the region. This paper suggests that a more consistent and uniform frameworks are needed to reduce restrictive regulations which may inhibit the mergers and acquisition deals in the ASEAN.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Ambaras Khan, Mushera Bibi Abdul Ghani Azmi, Ida Madieha Abdul Rahman, Nasarudin Zakaria, Mohd Radhuan Arif
author_facet	Ambaras Khan, Mushera Bibi Abdul Ghani Azmi, Ida Madieha Abdul Rahman, Nasarudin Zakaria, Mohd Radhuan Arif
author_sort	Ambaras Khan, Mushera Bibi
title	Mergers and acquisition law: the need for harmonization in ASEAN
title_short	Mergers and acquisition law: the need for harmonization in ASEAN
title_full	Mergers and acquisition law: the need for harmonization in ASEAN
title_fullStr	Mergers and acquisition law: the need for harmonization in ASEAN
title_full_unstemmed	Mergers and acquisition law: the need for harmonization in ASEAN
title_sort	mergers and acquisition law: the need for harmonization in asean
publisher	Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta
publishDate	2017
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/54049/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/54049/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/54049/1/54049_Mergers%20and%20Acquisition%20Law.pdf
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