Your Guide To Dealing With The New Anti-Monopoly Laws In China

Initially published in the February edition of the China-Britain Business Review.

The new laws will impose burdens on business but that is unavoidable, write Niamh Grogan, partner in EU and Competition, SJ Berwin, Susan Ning, Head of International Trade, King & Wood, and Matthew Townsend, trainee solicitor, SJ Berwin.

For the last six months, investors in China have been subject to a new source of regulation which is changing the way in which they go about pursuing mergers and acquisitions in the People's Republic. The rules, which were intended to establish China as a regulatory capital similar in stature to Brussels and Washington DC, have been criticised for incorporating vague clauses and unnecessarily wide administrative powers.