Friday, 20 April 2012
As the International Competition Network comes closer to a multi-agency framework for merger review, counsel have been urged by the heads of Canada and Japan’s competition agencies not to prioritise the largest jurisdictions when filing a merger, calling it a very risky strategy. Clare Bolton in Rio de Janeiro.
Friday, 20 April 2012
Preventing, detecting and prosecuting bid rigging rings often requires extensive outreach efforts to help raise awareness and foster cooperation among procurement officials, contractors and public prosecutors, a panel of top cartel enforcers said today. Ron Knox in Rio de Janeiro.
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
Featured In: March 2012 (Vol. 15 Iss. 3)
Antitrust enforcers and lawyers say an ongoing investigation of a global auto parts cartel will prove to be the largest in history. Although much remains to be seen, documents and interviews offer a partial examination of the investigation’s considerable scope. Ron Knox reports
Thursday, 15 March 2012
Japan’s Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) has conducted dawn raids on the headquarters and branch offices of four automobile light manufacturers, the latest section of the country’s auto-parts industry to be targeted over alleged cartel activity.
Wednesday, 07 March 2012
Japan’s Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) has ordered Adidas to stop fixing the resale price of some of its shoes because the practice breaches antitrust law.
Friday, 24 February 2012
Junfeng Cai, of MOFCOM’s Anti-Monopoly Bureau, will be taking part in a China-focused panel at GCR Live: Law Leaders Asia-Pacific, to be held next Friday and Saturday in Singapore.
Thursday, 01 September 2011
Three of Japan’s largest electronics companies – Sony, Hitachi and Toshiba – are forming a joint venture to combine their small and medium liquid crystal display (LCD) businesses.
Wednesday, 27 July 2011
Japan’s Fair Trade Commission has carried out dawn raids at the premises of four industrial bearings manufacturers on suspicion of price-fixing activity.
Wednesday, 20 July 2011
Japan’s Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) is mirroring other competition authorities worldwide in investigating manufacturers of car parts for suspected cartel activity.
Monday, 13 June 2011
Japan’s Fair Trade Commission has issued a cease and desist order to social gaming platform DeNA for requesting software developers not to provide games to a rival.
Premium Article - Monday, 23 May 2011
Antitrust counsel has lined up on both sides of Toshiba’s US$2.3 billion purchase of Switzerland’s Landis+Gyr in a move that the companies expect to boost Toshiba’s presence in the smart grid utility market.
Premium Article - Friday, 20 May 2011
Japanese pharmaceutical heavyweight Takeda Pharmaceutical has agreed to pay more than US$13 billion to take over Switzerland’s Nycomed in what would be the third-largest foreign takeover in Japan’s history.
Premium Article - Wednesday, 09 March 2011
Western Digital is buying Hitachi’s hard disk drive business for US$4.3 billion in a deal that will merge the world’s second and third-largest data storage companies.
Premium Article - Thursday, 17 February 2011
NERA Economic Consulting has made Hiroaki Ishigaki a vice president in its Tokyo-based antitrust practice.
Premium Article - Monday, 14 February 2011
A merger between two of Japan’s largest steel companies could be weighed on its impact on the international market, says a top competition official.
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