China doubled its merger notification thresholds effective on January 26, 2024.
China's State Council recently published new merger control notification thresholds doubling the previous China revenue thresholds in an...more
The Development: China's State Administration for Market Regulation ("SAMR") recently released four regulations ("Regulations") that implement 2022 amendments to the Anti-Monopoly Law of China ("AML"). The most significant...more
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The Development: China's Supreme People's Court recently ruled for the plaintiff in Miao Chong v. SAIC-GM, which marked a rare triumph for a plaintiff in antitrust litigation as a follow-on to an administrative...more
2/7/2023
/ Anti-Monopoly ,
Anticompetitive Behavior ,
Antitrust Provisions ,
Automotive Industry ,
China ,
Competition ,
Enforcement Actions ,
General Motors ,
Monopolization ,
Motor Vehicles ,
Resale Price Maintenance (RPM) ,
Retail Market ,
Supreme People's Court of China
In late June 2022, the 13th National People’s Congress Standing Committee adopted the First Amendments to China’s Anti-Monopoly Law (“AML”). The amendments will take effect on August 1, 2022. Although the First Amendments to...more
In August 2020, the Anti-Monopoly Bureau of China's State Administration for Market Regulation released four long-awaited sets of anti-monopoly guidelines addressing issues relating to leniency, commitments, the automobile...more
10/26/2020
/ Administrative Authority ,
Anti-Competitive ,
Anti-Monopoly ,
Antitrust Provisions ,
China ,
Competition ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Monopolization ,
New Regulations ,
Regulatory Standards ,
Standard Essential Patents ,
State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR)
The Anti-Monopoly Bureau of China's State Administration for Market Regulation ("SAMR") released four sets of long-awaited anti-monopoly guidelines. This White Paper addresses the Guidelines on Application of Leniency Program...more
The Anti-Monopoly Bureau ("AMB") of China's State Administration for Market Regulation ("SAMR") recently released four sets of long-awaited anti-monopoly guidelines, including the Anti-Monopoly Guidelines on the Automobile...more
The Development: China's State Administration for Market Regulation ("SAMR") fined three suppliers of active pharmaceutical ingredients ("API") for injectable calcium gluconate a total of RMB 325.5 million (approximately...more
China's State Administration for Market Regulation ("SAMR") recently released three new antitrust regulations that consolidate the antimonopoly regulations of its predecessor antimonopoly enforcement agencies, but also...more
In its first resale price maintenance ("RPM") ruling since the passage of its Anti-Monopoly Law, China's highest court held that Chinese antitrust enforcement agencies do not have to prove that RPM has an anticompetitive...more
8/8/2019
/ Anticompetitive Behavior ,
Antitrust Provisions ,
China ,
Competition ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Monopolization ,
Resale Price Maintenance (RPM) ,
Rule-of-Reason Analysis ,
State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) ,
Supreme People's Court of China ,
Vertical Agreement
The Background: Over the first decade of China's Antimonopoly Law ("AML"), there has been a divergence between the approaches adopted by the Chinese antimonopoly enforcement agencies ("AMEAs") and the Chinese courts toward...more
Ten years after the introduction of China's Anti-Monopoly Law, the functions and duties of the three agencies originally charged with enforcing the law's provisions are now unified under the direction of the newly formed...more
6/6/2018
/ Anti-Monopoly ,
Antitrust Violations ,
China ,
Competition ,
Manufacturers ,
Medtronic ,
Monopolization ,
NDRC ,
Price-Fixing ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
SAIC
Over the first decade of China's Antimonopoly Law, we have seen a divergence between the approaches adopted by the Chinese antimonopoly enforcement agencies and the Chinese courts towards agreements that restrain trade; what...more