China’s leniency rules contain many grey areas, making leniency applications an unpredictable affair. Sébastien Evrard and Peter Wang, of Jones Day in Beijing and Shanghai, investigate.

The KFTC’s new chairman has made some profound changes at the agency in the three months since he took office. But some lawyers are concerned that he has gone too far. They believe that in supposedly refocusing the agency’s fundamental policy mission to centre on price surveillance, antitrust enforcement will suffer. Rachel Bull investigates

A tenacious, well-resourced and heavily staffed competition authority ensures that Dutch competition lawyers are never left struggling for work. Faaez Samadi takes a look at the Netherlands’ competition bar

The Netherlands’ Competition Authority (NMa) is a world-renowned antitrust enforcer, with a strong track record and an enviable reputation. Yet there are fears that the agency is showing signs of waning. Faaez Samadi investigates

In the three years since GCR last visited the Netherlands, the competition authority has received greater powers to help it impose a stricter regime. Faaez Samadi met authority head Pieter Kalbfleisch in The Hague to find out more

Chile is a rising star in the Latin American competition world. Its antitrust enforcer, the National Economic Prosecutor’s Office (FNE), is among the most respected in the region, ready and willing to bring cases in a country where litigation reigns supreme. Ron Knox explores which competition practices are thriving amid the changes

A year ago, Felipe Irarrázabal left the private bar to take over as head of Chile’s National Economic Prosecutor’s Office. Since then, he has overseen one of the most high-profile merger challenges in the country’s history, as well as the first criminal prosecutions for price-fixing. Ron Knox asks him to reflect on the past year

The past two decades have ushered in major changes to competition law regimes throughout Latin America – and several new amendments and leaders promise to bring further improvements. Ron Knox looks at four countries where antitrust enforcement is thriving outside of the international spotlight

Title: Group vice president – legal

Company: Mersen Group

Age: 44

Previous employment: Junior legal counsel at Solvay France, senior legal counsel at Exide Europe, Mersen in 1997 and became group general counsel in 2002

Ronan Harty and Edward Moss

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

New York

Stephen C Wu and Yvonne Y Hsieh

Lee and Li, Attorneys-at-Law

Taipei

Ancuta Delia Leach and Claudia Chiper

Wolf Theiss

Bucharest

Alexandra Dias Henriques and Ricardo Filipe Costa

Marques Mendes & Associados

Lisbon

Jan-Erik Svensson

Gorrissen Federspiel

Copenhagen

Danijel Pribanic´

Wolf Theiss

Zagreb

Dessislava Iordanova

Wolf Theiss

Sofia