Antitrust

A series of high-profile investigations from the NDRC has led companies to worry about pricing. Early action when an investigation starts is crucial, as is awareness of how China's Anti-monopoly law works

The Guangdong Higher Court has ruled in favour of Tencent in its closely watched anti-monopoly case with Qihoo, but as Fang Qi points out, the Court failed to analyse the market correctly

O'Melveny & Myers

This year's report has derived 37 law application issues with general guiding significance from 34 typical cases carefully selected from the intellectual property and competition cases completed by the Supreme People's Court in 2012.

Overseas unfair competitive acts of Chinese companies will be recorded.

Issued: April 3 2013 Main contents: According to the Draft, the following are regarded as simple cases: (1) the concentration of business operators…

Issued: March 27 2013 Main contents: The Draft suggests that MOFCOM may, when approving a concentration of business operators, impose restrictive…

O'Melveny & Myers

The Ministry of Commerce has set out what merger applications can be classed as simple cases, but has not yet clarified what the streamlined approval process will look like