July 2018 Guidelines on Merger Remedies in Brazil – Paulo Burnier da Silveira1 (CADE) Click here for a PDF version of the article The Brazilian Competition Authority (CADE) has issued several guidelines in the past few years as an effort to promote competition enforcement in Brazil. The recent examples concern Compliance Programs, Leniency Agreements, […]
July 2018 Before “After Consumer Welfare” — A Response To Professor Wu By A. Douglas Melamed (Stanford Law School)1 and Nicolas Petit (Hoover Institution)2 Click here for a PDF version of the article Introduction In a short article After Consumer Welfare, Now What? The “Protection of Competition” in Practice, Professor Tim Wu proposes abandoning […]
ICN Training on Demand: the world’s competition law experts are just a click away. – By Kristina Mulligan (US Federal Trade Commission)1 Click here for a PDF version of the article. Launched in 2011, the International Competition Network’s Training on Demand project (ITOD) sought to meet the need for accessible training materials that competition agencies can […]
CPI Asia Column edited by Vanessa Yanhua Zhang (Global Economics Group) present: 2008-2018: A Retrospect of China’s Anti-Monopoly Law Enforcement System and Prospect and Commentary on the New System By Dr. John Wan (Global Law Office, Beijing) Click here for a pdf version of this article. On March 17th, 2018, the 1st Session of the 13th NPC […]
Delrahim restores balance to antitrust treatment of SEPs By Willard K. Tom (Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP)1 Click here for a pdf version of this article. In a recent open letter to Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim,2 a group of former government enforcement officials and professors took aim at recent speeches of AAG Delrahim […]
Report on the ICN’s 17th annual conference – By Olaf Wrede (Bundeskartellamt) Click here for a PDF version of the article. The International Competition Network (ICN) held its 17th annual conference on March 21-23, 2018, hosted by the Competition Commission of India (CCI). Nearly 500 participants from more than 70 jurisdictions attended the conference, including representatives […]
By Carlos Mena-Labarthe, Jaime Barahona U, Vinicius Marques de Carvalho and Eduardo Frade1 Click here for a PDF version of the article April 23, 2018 may mark the end of an era for leniency programs in the Andean region. Even more, the date may herald an insurmountable harm to the leniency programs of the […]
In his New Year speech on December 31, 2016, President Xi Jinping stated that “[f]or the Chinese people, the year of 2016 is not only outstanding but also unforgettable…. We actively promoted the building of rule-of-law in this country, deepened the reform on the judicial system, enhanced judicial justice in all aspects, and maintained social […]
By Vanessa Yanhua Zhang Interview with Mr. Handong Zhang, Director General of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) of P.R. China Since the Anti-Monopoly Law (“AML”) took effect in August 2008, agency enforcement has been an important area that attracts scholars and practitioners’ attention. We are very honored to have an interview, conducted in […]
By Yong Huang and Baiding Wu – In recent years, the issue of “fair competition review” has become a key priority for the Chinese Central Government in its consideration of competition policy and a hot topic in the circle of Chinese agencies, jurists and economists specialized in competition policy. China has attracted widespread attention since […]