Tag: SAMR

The current “anti-monopoly enforcement storm” was prompted by China’s top leadership in late 2020 under the policy objective of “preventing disorderly expansion of capital”. ...

The auto sector has been under strict scrutiny by antitrust regulators across the globe including China. In 2020, the State Administration for Market Regulation...

In the past year, one of the most important and noteworthy events for China's antitrust legislation and enforcement has been the intensification of antitrust...

The Chinese competition authority went through a major restructuring in November 2021. The Anti-Monopoly Bureau under the State Administration for Market Regulation (“SAMR”) was...

By Elizabeth Wang, Kun Huang, Sophie Yang & Aston Zhong1   Question 1: The Chinese competition authority just issued its 2020 annual report, which provides a...

Tencent announced that it had notified all parties involved in such agreements of a move, according to a statement published on its official WeChat...

Like many other jurisdictions, China has a system of compulsory pre-closing merger control. Like other jurisdictions, the Chinese antitrust authority – the State Administration...

The power of the State Administration of Market Regulation (SAMR), the regulator in charge of “market order” in China, appears to be growing after...

In the first of this month’s editions of CPI Talks… we have the pleasure of speaking to Dr. Zhenguo Wu, Director General of the...

In 2020, the State Administration for Market Regulation implemented the antitrust law in both legislation and public enforcement. It has had a significant and...