European Union Chamber of Commerce in China

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[English Language] New Anti-Monopoly Law Developments and their Implications for Foreign Companies

Date and Time: Wednesday 28th June, 10:00-11:25

Venue: Zoom

A year ago, the National People’s Congress passed the very first amendment to China’s Anti-monopoly Law (“AML”), which took effect from 1^st August 2022. The amended AML brings about important changes, including on key aspects of companies’ business operations such as distributor pricing. In March 2023, the State Administration for Market Regulation (“SAMR”) adopted four regulations to implement the amended AML. These implementing regulations came into force very recently, on 15 April 2023.

In addition, over the past few weeks and months, SAMR and its provincial offices have embarked on a series of new enforcement actions and issued new penalty decisions, in the life sciences, energy and other areas.

Noting this, the European Chamber is honoured to have Mr Adrian Emch, Vice Chair, Legal and Competition Working Group, and Partner of Hogan Lovells, as guest speaker to share his insights on the recent AML developments and their implications for foreign companies. Adrian heads the Hogan Lovells Asian antitrust practice. Adrian is an EU-qualified lawyer, with several years of private practice in Brussels and a short stint at the European Commission’s DG Competition. For the last 15 years, Adrian has been based in Beijing.

The meeting will take place from 10:00 to 11:25, 28th June. If you would like to join this meeting, please kindly register online or send your name and your company name to Cindy He at jhe@europeanchamber.com.cn before 27^th June and indicate you would like to join. For reference, this meeting will be held in English.

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Mr. Adrian Emch

Partner at Hogan Lovells

Mr. Adrian Emch

Partner at Hogan Lovells

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Adrian Emch began developing his understanding in competition/antitrust law while at university. After graduation, he first worked at the Directorate General for Competition (DG COMP) at the European Commission, and then spent several years in private practice in Brussels focusing on European Union competition law. In July 2008, Adrian made his second move back to China, which was just a month before the country's Anti-Monopoly Law came into force. Since that time, Adrian has had the privilege of witnessing and actively participating in shaping the development of China's nascent antitrust regime.

As a fluent Mandarin speaker and with his experience as lecturer at Peking University, Adrian smoothly navigates business and legal communities from both the West and China. Adrian's experience covers all aspects of competition/antitrust law, including merger control, cartel/abuse of dominance investigations, and antitrust counselling. Multinational companies – based in China and outside – work with Adrian and his team in 'bet the company' matters. For example, Adrian's team worked for IBM in the disposals of both its x86 server business to Lenovo and its semiconductor assets to Global Foundries – both multi-billion USD transactions – in the Chinese merger process.

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