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Asia Pacific Competition Highlights Q1 2022

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In this regional update, we provide you with a practical overview of the most notable antitrust legal developments of quarter 1 in 2022 that may affect your business.

In this issue:

Australia

  • ACCC announces compliance and enforcement priorities for 2022/23
  • CDPP withdraws charges in bank criminal cartel case
  • ACCC continues focus on digital platforms
  • Federal Court imposes AUD 12 million penalty for exclusive dealing

China

  • China’s top court considers pay-for-delay settlement agreements for first time
  • Heightened scrutiny of RPM continues in China
  • China announces 5 year antitrust enforcement plan

Hong Kong

  • HKCC investigates online food delivery platforms
  • HKCC investigates passenger car warranty terms and conditions

Indonesia

  • Merger control filing deadline to revert to original 30 day period
  • ICC to certify competition compliance programs
  • ICC begins investigation of palm oil
  • ICC issues first decision under law governing large and small business cooperation

Japan

  • First parallel imports case resolved under commitment procedures 

Singapore

  • CCCS issues proposed decision against warehouse operators for price-fixing

Taiwan

  • TFTC releases draft White Paper on the Digital Economy

Thailand

  • TCCT updates post-closing merger notification form
  • TCCT publishes new unfair trade practice guideline
  • Public consultation commences for credit term guidance amendment
  • Authority undertakes review of competition law enforcement in Thailand
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Highly acclaimed and Band 1 ranked Leading Antitrust Lawyer Stephen Crosswell is the chair of Baker McKenzie's Asia-Pacific Antitrust & Competition Group, the head of our Greater China Antitrust & Competition team and the immediate past chair of our Asia-Pacific TMT Industry Group. He is one of the leading trial lawyers in Hong Kong, admitted as a Solicitor Advocate, with the right to appear as an advocate at all levels in the Hong Kong Courts, including the Competition Tribunal, the High Court, the Court of Appeal and the Court of Final Appeal.
Clients laud Stephen for his "years of experience working on competition matters." He is described as a "vital resource for clients seeking to navigate the nuances not only of the local competition law regime in Hong Kong but also across other Asian jurisdictions – including China." Stephen is uniquely placed as a specialist competition advocate in Hong Kong. He represented one of the parties to the first enforcement action taken in Hong Kong's Competition Tribunal. His practice covers investigations, dawn raid response, multijurisdictional cartel investigations, leniency, merger clearance, collaboration/joint ventures and antitrust advisory. Stephen’s three decades of experience includes running and advising on some of the largest and most high-profile competition trials, dawn raids, leniency applications, cross-border cartel matters and merger clearance projects in Asia.
Stephen is also one of the leading telecoms, media and technology regulatory lawyers in Asia, with a practice that covers a broad range of regulatory and litigation issues in China, Hong Kong and throughout the Asia Pacific. This includes digital market regulation, AI, interconnection disputes, premium media content disputes, telecommunications licensing, spectrum allocation and auctions, 5G rollout, submarine cables, cable landing stations, satellite disputes, pay and free TV licensing, judicial review proceedings and access claims.

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