Antitrust

There is more to dispute resolution in China than meets the eye. By making strategic choices, foreign businesses can maximise their chances of winning anti-monopoly and IP disputes

Mofcom sets out measures to curb unreported concentrations of business operators.

A new regulation from the foreign exchange regulator has returned the right of foreign-invested holding companies to re-invest their dividends in China

A new regulation shows China's competition regulator is serious about proactive enforcement of the country's merger-control regime

Including: National Development and Reform Commission, Foreign Investment Industrial Guidance Catalogue (Revised in 2011) (Full translation available in the Feb issue)

Mofcom brings an improved regulatory system with its first guideline for antitrust reviews of concentrations. Foreign investors should take note of the public interest aspect the new rules consider when assessing competitive effects

When an online pharmacy brokering platform accused internet search giant Baidu of tampering with its search results ranking in 2009, it was a case that made headlines and tested the fledgling Anti-monopoly Law. In the wake of the final decision, a provincial high court, for the first time, issued a detailed discussion on three key elements of abuse of market dominance disputes

Factors laid out for consideration of the competitive effects of concentrations.

New provisions provide competition notification guidance