A New Phase of AML Enforcement by SAIC - Liaoning AIC Publishes Guidelines on Evidence Handling for Antitrust Violations
Hannah C. L. Ha,John M. Hickin,Philip F. Monaghan, May 16, 2013
Announced on the State Administration of Industry and Commerce (SAIC) website on 3 May 2013, the Guideline on the Handling of Evidence for Anti-monopoly Cases (Liaoning Guideline) issued by Liaoning Administration of Industry and Commerce (AIC) represents the next phase of Anti-Monopoly Law (AML)...

MOFCOM Conditionally Approves Marubeni/Gavilon: Competition Law and Industrial Policy in the Agricultural Sector
Hannah C. L. Ha,John M. Hickin,Philip F. Monaghan, May 8, 2013
On 22 April 2013, China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) published its conditional approval of Marubeni’s acquisition of Gavilon Holdings - hot on the heels of the regulator’s conditional clearance of the Glencore/Xstrata merger which also concerned strategically-sensitive global...

MOFCOM Orders Extraterritorial Divestiture of Key Mining Asset in Glencore/Xstrata Merger: Lessons for Future Notifications
Hannah C. L. Ha,John M. Hickin,Philip F. Monaghan, May 7, 2013
Following a lengthy review lasting the best part of a year, on 16 April 2013 the Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China (MOFCOM) gave a conditional green light to the acquisition by Glencore International plc. (Glencore) of all of the remaining shares of Xstrata plc....