In force since August 2008, the new Chinese merger control regime is relatively young. Not surprisingly, many issues are still in flux. Although the business community is still eagerly waiting for new implementing measures - in the form of regulations or guidelines - to be adopted on the merger...

Predatory pricing occurs where a firm deliberately sets prices below cost to eliminate, discipline or deter entry by a competitor, with the goal to subsequently recoup its losses by charging supra-competitive prices. China's Anti-Monopoly Law, Anti-Unfair Competition Law and Price Law contain...

August 1, 2010 was a day of celebration in China — of some sort. On that day, China's Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) celebrated its second anniversary. Around two weeks later, the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) adopted the first public decision in an investigation under the AML which involved a Swiss...

Following its entry into force in August 2008, China's Anti-Monopoly Law has been applied by authorities and courts in individual enforcement decisions. This article aims to look at the achievements in the enforcement process so far. In particular, it analyzes how the merger control authority...

The US has complained to the World Trade Organization that China's intellectual property rights protection and enforcement legislation violates WTO law. A panel has presented its report and both sides are claiming victory

In the United States, beginning with the Matsushita decision in 1986, the Supreme Court has required plaintiffs in predatory pricing cases to meet stringent conditions to prevail on their claims. As a result, predatory pricing cases have become 'rarely tried and even more rarely successful', to...

China's antitrust authority – the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) – has not publicly issued any report on antitrust and the internet. With this approach, SAMR appears to go against the ‘mainstream' of antitrust authorities internationally many of which have published...