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In this legal update, we highlight a number of anticipated changes to the key antitrust legislative instruments and rules that are expected to come in the near future.

In a ruling issued on December 18, 2018 but not published until June 24, 2019, China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) ruled in favor of the Hainan Provincial Price Bureau...

On 10 February 2015, China’s National Development and Reform Commission announced that it was imposing fines of RMB 6.088 billion (approximately USD 975 million) on Qualcomm for abusing its dominant position.

In this edition of our series on doing business in China, we discuss some issues to consider before a foreign seller (the "Seller") ...

On December 1, 1993, China's first AUCL came into effect. 24 years later, on November 4, 2017, the NPC Standing Committee of the People's Republic of China passed the newly revised AUCL, which comes into force on January 1, 2018.

This is the second of two Client Alerts relating to China's Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) merger control regime, focusing on two new guidance measures published by the Anti-Monopoly Bureau of China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) on 27 November 2009.

It has been four years since China became a member of the World Trade Organisation. During that time it has implemented a number of changes to its formerly command-based economy to open up its markets to foreign investment and competition.

Many U.S. companies have begun to utilize the U.S. International Trade Commission ("ITC") to seek relief from imported goods that infringe on a domestic producer’s patent, trademark, or copyright. The Commission also can redress acts of unfair competition, misappropriation of trade secrets, passing off, false advertising, and violations of the antitrust laws.

China's Anti-Monopoly Enforcement Authorities ("AMEAs") have taken a further step towards more active enforcement of the Anti-Monopoly Law ("AML"), with the publication of draft "Guidelines for Defining the Relevant Market" for public comment.

China’s Ministry of Commerce recently issued the long-anticipated Tentative Provisions on the Applicable Standards Relating to the Summary Procedure for Cases of Concentration of Business Operators.

On 23 October 2009 the Beijing Dongcheng District People's Court announced the settlement of an Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) case brought by an activist lawyer in Beijing against China's largest mobile network operator, China Mobile.

The China Ministry of Commerce ("MOFCOM"), which serves as the antitrust authority in charge of merger control under the new Anti-Monopoly Law ("AML"), announced on November 18, 2008, its conditional approval of the acquisition of Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc. by InBev N.V./S.A. ("InBev").

On August 30, 2007, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, enacted its antitrust law, literally translated "Anti-Monopoly Law (the Law)." The Law, which will take effect on August 1, 2008, is comprehensive in scope. Because some of its key provisions are open to multiple interpretations, it remains to be seen how it will be implemented and interpreted in practice

The past few years have witnessed the rapid growth of cross border e-commerce in China.

In late 2010, the National Development and Reform Commission ("NDRC") and the State Administration for Industry and Commerce ("SAIC"), two of the three key Anti-Monopoly Law Enforcement Authorities ("Enforcement Authorities") in the People’s Republic of China ("PRC"), formally issued five (5) long-awaited implementing set of rules in relation to the enforcement of the PRC Anti-Monopoly Law ("PRC AML"), which respectively address the enforcement policies against pricing monopolies and prohibition

On 5 June 2009, China's State Administration of Industry and Commerce (SAIC) officially issued its first two procedural rules under the Anti-Monopoly Law (AML), signalling that from 1 July 2009, firms will need to be ready for SAIC investigations and the risk of fines being imposed.

On June 14, 2016, the State Council issued Opinions on Establishing the Fair Competition Review System in the Development of Market System...