Kirstie is Global Competition Counsel at BHP. Based in Singapore, Kirstie is responsible for the group’s competition law compliance framework and advises clients located across the BHP group on the full range of competition law matters, including merger control, investigations and day to day counselling. Before joining BHP, Kirstie spent over a decade in private practice as a competition law specialist with international law firms in London, Brussels, Shanghai and Singapore, and was among the first European competition lawyers to relocate to China to assist clients with aspects of the developing competition laws in Asia. Her practice has covered all aspects of competition law, including cartels, dominance, mergers and appeals to the European Courts. Kirstie was also a founding partner of Landmark Asia in Singapore, a boutique public affairs consultancy assisting clients with regulation and policy throughout the APAC region.
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Comment: On 13 November 2014, the Competition Commission of Singapore (the “CCS”) released its grounds of decision conditionally clearing the proposed acquisition by SEEK Asia Investments Pte. Ltd. (“SEEK Asia Investments”), of 100 per cent. of the online recruitment business assets of JobStreet (...)
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On 20 August 2014, the Competition Commission of Singapore (the “CCS”) issued its grounds of decision clearing the completed acquisition by Cebu Air, Inc. (“Cebu”), of Southeast Asian Airlines (SEAir), Inc. (“SEAir”) (the “Decision”). The CCS, however, concluded that the Strategic Alliance Agreement (...)
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On 27 May 2014, the Competition Commission of Singapore (the “CCS”) announced that it had issued an infringement decision, and imposed total financial penalties amounting to over S$9 million, against four Japanese bearings manufacturers and their Singapore subsidiaries (collectively, the (...)
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On 16 December 2013, the CCS issued a media release stating that a Proposed Infringement Decision (the “PID”) had been issued against four Japanese bearings manufacturers and their Singapore subsidiaries (the “Parties”) pursuant to the Singapore Competition Act, Chapter 50B (the “Act”). The CCS has (...)
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On 4 November 2013, the Competition Commission of Singapore (the “CCS”) issued a media release confirming that it had ceased its investigations into a non-compete clause contained in the Share Purchase Agreement relating to the completed acquisition by Heineken International B.V. (“Heineken”) of (...)
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On 18 September 2013, the Competition Commission of Singapore (the “CCS”) published its decision of 3 September 2013 relating to its assessment under Section 34 of the Competition Act, Chapter 50B of Singapore (the “Act”) of the Multilateral Interchange Fee (“MIF”) system (the “Decision”), as (...)
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On 2 April 2013, the Competition Commission of Singapore (the “CCS”) published a market study entitled “Competition Assessment on the Industrial Property Market in Singapore” (the “Market Study”). The Market Study contains the CCS’ competition assessment of the industrial property market in Singapore (...)
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On 28 March 2013, the Competition Commission of Singapore (the “CCS”) issued its Notice of Decision to approve the proposed alliance between Emirates and Qantas Airways Limited (the “Parties”) (the “Proposed Alliance”), subject to voluntary undertakings. In order to alleviate the competition concerns (...)
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In May 2008, the Hong Kong Trade and Development Bureau published a set of detailed proposals for a competition law. This proposal, if adopted, would introduce for the first time in Hong Kong’s legal order a competition regime covering: (i) anti-competitive agreements and practices, and (ii) (...)
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