As the COVID-19 pandemic made cocktail hours and canapés distant memories, the American Bar Association quickly pivoted to make 2020 the year of the Virtual Antitrust Spring Meeting.   Dominating the agenda was how antitrust authorities and companies are adapting, evolving and coping with the economic fallout from the coronavirus…

We are excited to introduce PaRR’s 2020 Global Trends Monitor. It gives us great pleasure to introduce PaRR’s 2020 Global Trends Monitor. Our annual must-read report analyses the most notable antitrust developments of the past twelve months while shining a light on enforcement priorities for competition agencies across the globe for…

This special report highlights PaRR’s cybersecurity and data privacy coverage across the region. Our exclusive reporting delves into a host of hot-button issues such as the impact of the Sino-US trade war on cross-border data flows; the interplay between data and competition regulation in Japan; regulatory obstacles in Taiwan; and…

Regulators across the globe and legal practitioners gathered in Auckland, New Zealand recently for the Commerce Commission’s Competition Matters 2019 conference on 25 and 26 July, to discuss the intersection of competition, consumer and data privacy laws to address the challenges posed by the digital economy. In-house counsel and legal…

The ASEAN region is one of the world’s largest markets with over 650 million consumers. With the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations committed to the introduction and enforcement of competition law in all member states, PaRR provides readers with unparalleled coverage of the region’s ongoing antitrust evolution.   In…

Regulators and legal practitioners gathered in Hong Kong recently for the 2019 Antitrust in Asia forum on 24 May organized by Concurrences with the support of The Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Competition Association. The challenges presented by the digital economy were very much to the…

Every year, global antirust officials, lawyers and inhouse corporate counsel gather in Beijing or Shanghai for the China Competition Policy Forum. To mark the anniversary of the implementation of China’s Antimonopoly Law (AML), the annual forum is usually held on 1 August — the day the AML took effect in…

As antitrust enforcers and legal practitioners from around the globe convened in Washington DC for the ABA’s Antitrust Spring Meeting, PaRR’s global team provided comprehensive coverage of the competition community’s premier annual event. US Department of Justice’s assistant attorney general, Roger P. Alford, announced that the agency’s cherished multilateral framework…

We are excited to introduce PaRR’s 2019 Global Trends Monitor. It gives us great pleasure to introduce PaRR’s 2019 Global Trends Monitor. Our annual must-read report analyses the most notable antitrust developments of the past twelve months while shining a light on enforcement priorities for competition agencies across the globe…

As trade tensions between the world’s two largest economies continue to escalate, lawyers and investors recently gathered in Beijing at the inaugral Foreign Investment Risk Forum to discuss the rise of protectionism across the globe.   Experts from Asia, Europe and the US discussed how governments are reassessing the national…

We are excited to provide PaRR’s compilation of coverage on the evolving deal-making risk resulting from growing trade tensions between the US and China.  Our reporters, editors and analysts operating out of the regulatory and financial capitals in both countries and elsewhere around the globe have published extensively on this important…

PaRR has just released a special report highlighting our coverage of the ASEAN region. This year has seen competition agencies from the ten-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations tackle an important emerging issue in the world of antitrust: how to regulate the digital economy. In particular, PaRR has provided exclusive…

Despite the escalating trade war between the US and China, senior officials from 14 competition agencies and international organisations gathered in Beijing in late July to mark the 10th year of China’s Antimonopoly Law enforcement. The two-day event, organized by the Expert Advisory Board of the State Council’s Antimonopoly Commission (AMC),…

PaRR provides our readers with Mandarin translations of our top China-focused stories each day. This special report contains examples of breaking news, analysis and data analytics covering a range of areas including policy developments, mergers, private litigation and government investigations in China.   This report is in Chinese but please…

The Department of Justice’s (DoJ) lawsuit seeking to block AT&T’s proposed USD 85bn acquisition of Time Warner unfolded through a dramatic sequence of events. The excitement started from the moment the deal was announced, when then presidential candidate Donald J. Trump vowed to block the transaction on the grounds that…

Antitrust officials and lawyers gathered in Washington last week for the American Bar Association’s 66th Antitrust Law Spring Meeting as talk of a full-on trade war between the world’s top two economies reached a fevered pitch. Assessing litigation strategies at a time of shifting policy directives and evolving market structures,…

Antitrust regulators gathered in New Delhi for the 17th annual gathering of the International Competition Network in Mar 2018. The key resounding themes discussed over the four-day ICN conference, which included the Pre-ICN gathering, centered on the digital economy, two-sided markets, vertical mergers, need for greater action against cartel conduct…

As the leaders of China’s antitrust agencies gathered in Beijing to discuss the future of competition law in the country, PaRR provided our readers with insight into the thinking of senior government officials on topics ranging from merger reviews to the digital economy.   Highlights from this report include:  …

As the leaders of China’s antitrust agencies gathered in Beijing to discuss the future of competition law in the country, PaRR provided our readers with insight into the thinking of senior government officials on topics ranging from merger reviews to the digital economy.   Highlights from this report include:  …

The Damages Directive has been transposed in 25 of the European Union’s 28 member states. The Directive removes practical obstacles to compensation for all victims of infringements of EU antitrust law and applies all damages actions, whether individual or collective, which are available in Member States. Further, the Directive fine-tunes…

On 8th November 2017, PaRR hosted a Brexit Breakfast Briefing with the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). During the briefing, the CMA discussed its plans to prepare to partner with the European Commission in large border reviews post-Brexit.    Highlights from this report include:   Information sharing arrangements will…

On 8th November 2017, PaRR hosted a Brexit Breakfast Briefing with the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). During the briefing, the CMA discussed its plans to prepare to partner with the European Commission in large border reviews post-Brexit.    Highlights from this report include:   Information sharing arrangements will…

The anti-corruption enforcement landscape in Asia is changing. In the past, advisors, investors and corporates were primarily concerned with the long arm of the US Department of Justice and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act when evaluating the risk from bribery and graft. But a new dynamic is emerging across the…

We are pleased to share this special report on Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) and the growing risks associated with fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) licensing across the globe.   The enforcement and litigation landscape in this space is experiencing drastic changes. Following China’s landmark Qualcomm decision in 2015, regional regulators…

We are pleased to share this special report on most favoured nation clauses in the online travel sector covering the last seven years of developments in the area. Since the UK’s then competition authority, the OFT first investigated online travel agents’ vertical agreements in September 2010, up to the most…

Vietnam is fast becoming a jurisdiction to watch once the proposed amendments to its antitrust law take shape come January 2018. In our latest series of stories, sources told PaRR that the regulator will take the help of the police when it comes to cartel behavior, which will face criminal…