Competition Law & Antitrust
We offer specialist advice in competition and antitrust work with expertise in a full spectrum of commercial activities spanning key industries; financial services; consumer goods and services, shipping, merchandising and retail, logistics, healthcare, technology, telecommunications and multimedia, aviation, manufacturing and distribution, construction. We provide strategic solutions and innovative approaches. Our clients enjoy the benefit of the fact that we are a full service firm with the ability to identify competition law concerns in all nature of transactions and across all areas of law.
As leading experts, we provide regular client updates on competition law developments. We create awareness through speaking engagements and training sessions. We proactively provide feedback on key competition and antitrust issues to the Malaysian authorities and agencies. Our clients include foreign corporations, multinationals and Malaysian enterprises.
Within this practice, our areas of work include:
- Competition and Antitrust Advisory
- Compliance Audits, Reviews and Due Diligence
- Enquiries, Investigations and Dawn Raids
- Competition Dispute Resolution and Private Actions
- Competition law concerns in relation to other areas of the law
Key cases that showcase our expertise in this area:
- Representing various insurance companies in competition law investigations on allegations of price fixing
- Representing a major logistics company in competition law investigations on allegations of abuse of dominance and anti-competitive vertical agreements
- Conducting competition law compliance exercise of a nationally established food and beverage company
- Advising and providing compliance audit for a group of government linked companies (“GLCs”) in the telecommunications industry on commercial activities regulated under the Communications and Multimedia Act
- Advising on joint venture arrangement between airport operator and logistics multinational on non compete arrangements
- Advising communications and multimedia licensee on commercial arrangement involving software provider on excessive pricing
- Acting for Australian-based insurance giant on competition law consideration in their acquisition of an interest in a Malaysian entity
- Advising a multinational in the life insurance business on their commercial arrangements and activities, including relationships with their agents/intermediaries.