Angie Ng is a partner in the competition practice of Ashurst, based in Singapore. Angie’s practice covers a broad range of competition issues across Australia, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore and the rest of the Asia Pacific region. In 2020, Angie relocated from Sydney to Singapore to head up Ashurst’s Asia-based competition practice. Angie has strong pan-Asian competition law credentials. She has spent a significant portion of her career in Beijing and Hong Kong and advised on the drafting and design of Hong Kong’s competition law. She brings depth to multi-jurisdictional merger filings for complex and large-scale transactions and cross-border investigations by combining international experience with "on-the-ground" local knowledge to deliver effective outcomes and solutions for clients. Angie has been recognised in the Ashurst "Competition and Trade" Legal 500 ranking. She was also shortlisted as Special Counsel of the Year at the 2018 Australian Law Awards (Lawyers Weekly).
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What you need to know: From 9 November 2023, entering into and applying or relying on (or purporting to apply or rely on) an unfair term in a standard form consumer or small business contract will be illegal, and will attract significant pecuniary and non-pecuniary penalties. In addition, (...)
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What you need to know The Australian Federal government has embarked on a significant review of the country’s competition policy settings. The review will report progressively over two years and will consider whether competition laws, policies and institutions remain fit for purpose. The full (...)
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Amendments to Indonesia’s merger regulation are a welcome change, as the Indonesian regulator shifts its focus to transactions more likely to affect competition in local markets. Summary The Indonesia Competition Commission (ICC) has issued two new regulations that introduce significant (...)
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The Supreme People’s Court of China (’SPC’) issued a judgment on 21 March 2022 which found that a patent settlement between Shanghai Huaming Power Equipment Manufacturing (’Huaming’) and Wuhan Taipu Transformer Switch (’Taipu’) constituted a horizontal monopoly agreement in violation of (...)
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In February 2022, the Indonesia Competition Commission ("ICC") published two decisions involving bid-rigging conduct pursuant to government funded tenders. The first case related to a fishing port tender in Tulungagung and the second case related to the construction of a swimming pool in (...)
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In January 2022, the State Administration of Market Regulation ("SAMR") conditionally approved two merger transactions in the technology sector - the acquisition of Siltronic AG by Global Wafers and the acquisition of Xilinx by Advanced Micro Devices. These two cases demonstrate SAMR’s (...)
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The Indonesia Competition Commission ("ICC") has imposed a penalty of IDR 1 billion (approx. USD 70,000) on Garuda Indonesia Airlines ("Garuda") for engaging in conduct in violation of Article 19 of the Indonesian Competition Law. The ICC held that Garuda engaged in discriminatory conduct for (...)
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Key takeaways The Indonesian merger regime requires notifiable transactions to be submitted 30 days post-closing. Failure to meet filing deadlines could result in fines of at least IDR 1 billion being imposed. There is no express statute of limitations pursuant to the merger regime, meaning (...)
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On 5 April 2021, the Indonesian Competition Commission ("KPPU") imposed fines totalling IDR 3.2 billion (approximately USD 221,000) on one Japanese and two Indonesian companies for failing to notify their respective transactions in a timely fashion. Key takeaways The Indonesian merger regime (...)
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On 26 January 2021, Hong Kong’s Competition Commission (HKCC) issued infringement notices to six hotel groups and a tour operator for facilitating a cartel arrangement between two competing travel service providers, which fixed the prices of tourist attractions and transportation tickets in (...)
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On 5 January 2021, the Hong Kong Competition Tribunal ("Tribunal") issued fines totalling approximately HKD 3.26 million against six decoration contractors and two individuals for engaging in cartel conduct in contravention of section 6 of the Competition Ordinance ("Ordinance"), which (...)
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On 4 December 2020, Singapore’s Competition Appeal Board (CAB) reduced penalties imposed on eight out of thirteen distributors of fresh chicken found to have engaged in cartel conduct in September 2018. The reduction in fines ranged from 20% to 70%. What you need to know - key takeaways (...)
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On 10 September 2020, the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore ("CCCS") published its findings and recommendations from its market study on e-commerce platforms. While the market study did not identify any significant competition concerns in the sector, the CCCS has concurrently (...)
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This article looks at the merger control regimes in 14 Asia Pa c i fic jurisdictions. These are Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Mongolia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Singapore, Ta i wan, Thailand and Vietnam. The jurisdictions have been selected these because they represent (...)
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Un programme de recherche international regroupant des avocats de la défense a été constitué sous l’égide de Concurrences afin de comparer les protections mises en place dans 15 régimes différents pour assurer le respect des droits fondamentaux dans le cadre des investigations informatiques. (...)
