Authored by Michael Gu (michaelgu@anjielaw.com) and Bai Chen (baichen@anjielaw.com) at AnJie Law Firm

Background

On 29 September 2015, the Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China (“MOFCOM”) issued four penalty decisions on parties involved in four merger cases that failed to fulfill their notification obligations under the Anti-Monopoly Law (“AML”). It is the second time that MOFCOM has announced penalties on non-filers following the penalty decision for Tsinghua Unigroup’s failure to notify its acquisition of RDA Microelectronics in December 2014.

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