From 26 to 28 February 2025, Dr Zhan Hao and Ms Song Ying, partners at AnJie Broad Law Firm, participated in the ABA Asia-Pacific Conference held in Singapore Management University.

Bringing together over 200 legal professionals from around the world, the conference served as a platform for in-depth discussions on key legal and regulatory developments…

On 10 December 2024, the State Administration for Market Regulation (“SAMR”) released the Guidelines for Review of Horizontal Concentration of Undertakings (“Guidelines”). It is the first time that China publishes guidelines to display the detailed analytical framework, review approach and key considerations in the merger review procedure. The Guidelines were based on years of review…

On July 30, 2024, China’s merger control authority, the State Administration for Market Regulation (“SAMR”), released its official statistics on the merger review cases in China in the first half of 2024. This note outlines the key statistics published by SAMR and extracts a few implications thereon for companies that keep an eye on China’s…

On 7 June 2024, the State Administration for Market Regulation (“SAMR”) released its decision against Shanghai Highly (Group) Co. Ltd. (“Shanghai Highly”) and Qingdao Haier Air Conditioning Co. Ltd. (“Qingdao Haier”) for their failure to obtain the SAMR’s prior approval before setting up a joint venture that was caught by China’s merger control regime (the…

Interpretation of the Guidelines on Antitrust Compliance for Undertakings (Draft for Public Comments)

On September 18, 2020, the State Administration for Market Regulation (“SAMR”) released the Guidelines on Antitrust Compliance for Undertakings. On March 21, 2024, SAMR released a draft for public comments of the revised Guidelines on Antitrust Compliance for Undertakings (the…

–At the Juncture of the Supreme Court Judgment

At the onset of 2024, AnJie Broad’s antitrust team secured a pivotal second instance judgment from the Supreme People’s Court of China (“the Supreme Court”) in the rare earth antitrust litigation. The ruling completely overturned the first instance judgement rendered by the first instance court…

——Analysis of the Supreme Court’s Trial Pattern in the First Antitrust Litigation of Rare Earth Sector

Introduction

Recently, the Supreme People’s Court of China (“the Supreme Court”) has rendered its second instance judgment on the first antitrust case in China’s rare earth industry. The ruling overturned the first instance judgement by having dismissed…

Preface

The revised Anti-Monopoly Law of the People’s Republic of China (“New AML”) entered into force on August 1, 2022. The New AML introduces in the second paragraph of Article 60 that “where the monopolistic conduct of an undertaking damages social and public interest, the people’s procuratorate at or above the level of…