Dear clients,
2020 has been an interesting year to say the least, with the
COVID-19 outbreak changing the way we live, learn, work and play.
One notable result has been the hastening of the shift towards
e-commerce and platforms, a trend that many of the competition
regulators in the region have picked up on and responded to, either
by conducting market studies, issuing guidelines or conducting
investigations in this area. Competition enforcement and activity
by the competition regulators in the region also remained high in
the other traditional areas, such as merger review, cartel
enforcement and investigations.
Many of your businesses would be impacted by these competition
developments, and it is critical for businesses to keep abreast of
these legislative and enforcement updates. Hence, we thought that a
wrap of the Year in a 2020 Report touching on the countries that we
have market leading presence in, i.e. across Southeast Asia, would
lend a personal touch
