Nick Taylor is a partner at Jones Day (Sydney office). He advises clients on the full range of competition law matters. He has extensive experience in merger clearance, cartel and abuse of dominance/misuse of market power investigations, and in advising both corporate and government clients on the defense and complainant sides of matters. Nick’s practice extends beyond his native Australia, and he has in-depth knowledge of many Asia-Pacific competition regimes, including China (mainland and Hong Kong), India, Indonesia, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, and Vietnam. Nick also has been involved in regulation issues affecting the banking sector, including payment systems and anti-money laundering, and the energy and water sectors, including the rules concerning wholesale pool electricity and gas markets, network rate/revenue regulations, and pipeline access matters. Prior to joining Jones Day, Nick was a partner in a leading Australian law firm and also worked with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) for several years as its representative on its joint venture with the Korean government, the OECD-Korea Regional Centre for Competition Law. During his time at the OECD, he organized training events for Asian competition authorities and judges. He also worked at the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), where he investigated merger matters in a wide range of industries for the agency. Prior to his time with the ACCC, he worked at the Industry Commission (the forerunner to the Productivity Commission), where he was closely involved in the Commission’s work on business regulation, and at the Australian government’s Department of Treasury, where he was involved in the country’s National Competition Policy agreements. Nick holds a Postgraduate Diploma in EU Competition Law from King’s College London (2014), a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from Australian National University (ANU) (1997), and an LL.B. from University of Adelaide (1995)
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Australia experiments with a "third way" on resale price restrictions* Resale price maintenance (RPM) occurs when a manufacture or distributor and a wholesaler prevents a retail or distributor from selling below a specified price Since the US Federal Courts decided Leegin in 2007 there has (...)
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After years of discussions, the Hong Kong Legislative Council finally passed a comprehensive competition law (the "HK Competition Law"). The HK Competition Law includes the classic prohibitions of anticompetitive agreements and abuses of market power, as well as a merger control regime (with (...)
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In June 2012, the Australian Parliament launched an Inquiry into why computer software and hardware may cost more in Australia than some believe it does in the U.K. or U.S. The risk is that the Inquiry could lead to a reintroduction of an economically damaging prohibition against price (...)
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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. (...)
