Competition, antitrust and market share—all issues on the top of global counsel’s lists. To help GCs see what’s “trending” on these topics around the world, partners and counsel at Linklaters have made the following international predictions for 2014:
China
Clara Ingen-Housz and Fay Zhou say resale price maintenance (RPM) will continue to be a “particularly active and publicized enforcement area in China.” The People’s Republic’s National Development and Reform Commission is “leaning towards or even essentially treating RPM as ‘per se illegal’ in its enforcement,” according to Ingen-Housz and Zhou, who note China will also be focusing on cartel enforcement and other high profile areas. These include investigations into collective dominance and excessive pricing practices.
