On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the Anti-Monopoly Law, European Chamber is delighted to invite you to join with Adrian Emch, Co-editor of the book China’s Anti-Monopoly Law - The First Five Years in our Beijing office, to explore how this book can enable a broader audience of practitioners, public officials, and scholars to understand what happens inside the Chinese agencies (MOFCOM, NDRC & SAIC) and the Chinese’s competition law system. 

The event will be moderated by Ms. Ninette Dodoo, Counsel of Clifford Chance LLP and Vice Chair of the Legal & Competition Working Group of the European Chamber.

About the book

This volume, comprised of 27 highly informative contributions by more than 40 Chinese government officials, academics, economists, in-house lawyers, and private practitioners, introduces novice practitioners to the complexities of antitrust law in China and provides new insight for those already working in the field. 

First Five Years pulls back the curtain and affords outsiders a fuller view of the enforcement apparatus and procedures. In doing so, the book does valuable service by increasing the transparency of the Chinese system and expanding the ability of observers to analyze the system, debate its operations, and engage the enforcement process intelligently. Among other contributions, the book provides a superb tour through MOFCOM’s merger control process. Chapters by government officials provide helpful additions to our understanding of decision-making and priority-setting within NDRC and SAIC. First Five Years contains the best study to date of “administrative litigation“– the set of legal controls that confine the discretion of China’s government bodies. The study of public enforcement is supplemented by two excellent chapters on private rights of action.

About the Speaker

Adrian Emch practises antitrust law. He has broad experience in all aspects of competition law, including merger control, multi-jurisdictional merger filings, cartel investigations and antitrust counseling.

Adrian is a lecturer of competition law and member of the faculty at Peking University's Law School. Prior to joining Hogan Lovells, Adrian completed an internship with the Directorate-General of Competition at the European Commission (DG COMP) and was in private practice in Brussels and Beijing in the field of competition law.

About the Moderator

Ms. Ninette Dodoo, Vice Chair of the Legal & Competition Working Group of the European Chamber. She is a Barrister of the Bar of England and Wales and an Avocat at the Brussels Bar. Ninette joined Clifford Chance in 1999 and is Counsel in its European Competition and Regulation Group in Brussels.

Agenda

16:00-16:30 Registration and Coffee

16:30-18:00 Presentation and Q&A

18:00 End of Event

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