It therefore permits a corporation formed through a vertical amalgamation to apply its post-amalgamation losses against the pre-amalgamation income of its predecessor parent corporation.

As announced in the January 2 press release, EnCana Corporation completed its vertical amalgamation with its wholly owned subsidiary, Alberta Energy Company Ltd., effective January 1, 2003.

In effect, subsection 87(2.11) permits the parent corporation following a vertical amalgamation to be treated in much the same manner as if the subsidiary had been wound up under subsection 88(1) into the parent.

For example, in the case of a short-form vertical amalgamation, the applicant may specify "Manitoba" in Item 2 of Form 9: Articles of Amalgamation , since the articles of incorporation of the parent corporation indicate "Winnipeg".

It can be seen that vertical mergers are relatively rare.

"We're not going to start an offensive against all vertical mergers, but some of them are a problem," he said.

A. I strike down the vertical merger if a fair reading of the statute says that.

What is needed, many say, are vertical mergers - the combination of companies offering different though complementary services.

Vertical mergers involve companies operating at different levels of the supply chain.

A vertical merger occurs when two firms at different stages of the production process join together.

Our analysis permits consideration of vertical mergers that change the net demand.

A vertical merger represents the buying of supplier of a business.

Roberts called the merger a vertical merger without significant overlapping businesses.

In vertical mergers it is often claimed that there are important gains to co-ordination and planning.

In a vertical merger, where the companies have been offering different services, the combined company cannot hope to save as much by eliminating duplicate operations.

Vertical mergers have very few guidelines and few standards so it's much more an unknown."

Meanwhile, vertical mergers increasingly look like bad bets.

We should note that these rules have been abolished since the 1990s, leading to vertical mergers between producers, broadcasters and … the Internet.

Vertical mergers are treated little differently from horizontal mergers by the law.

Vertical mergers are means of creating efficiency, not of injuring competition."

He said antitrust law on so-called vertical mergers - those between companies and their suppliers or distributors - does not generally favor the Government.

Vertical merger activity is seen as more significant indicator of a change in industry structures in response to the convergence phenomenon.

Vertical mergers have significant potential to create efficiencies largely because the upstream and downstream products or services complement each other.

Others counter that the agency merely had a run of so-called vertical mergers to consider, where conduct agreements more often form part of the solution.

Why do firms accomplish some transactions through vertical mergers but accomplish others through contracts?

Hence few vertical mergers are investigated.

Vertical mergers having a Community dimension can be investigated under the various provisions in EC law.

Nevertheless, some might fear this chain of events, citing the general reluctance of antitrust authorities to attack vertical mergers.

Deterrent mechanisms 88 Vertical mergers may affect coordinating firms' incentives to adhere to the terms of coordination.