Ninette Dodoo joined Freshfields in 2014. She is a partner in the antitrust, competition and trade group in Asia and leads the practice in China. Her practice focuses on antitrust-related work and foreign investment review in China, Hong Kong and the Asia-Pacific region. She assists clients on the antitrust aspects of M&A, joint ventures, strategic alliances, distribution and intellectual property-related arrangements, and other competitive conduct. Ninette Dodoo also assists clients with investigations (including cartels and abuse of market dominance issues) and on foreign investment and subsidy control matters. She spent over 10 years in Brussels assisting clients on EU and multijurisdictional matters before relocating to Asia in 2009. Ninette Dodoo has acted on some of China’s and Asia-Pacific’s most complex and significant merger control matters (including remedies negotiations) and antitrust investigations across a range of sectors. Clients include multinational companies, state-owned enterprises, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds and private equity active across a range of sectors, including technology, automobile, aviation, shipping, healthcare & life sciences, consumer goods and energy.
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On 2 January 2020, China’s State Administration for Market Regulation (the “SAMR”) launched a public consultation on proposed amendments to China’s Anti-Monopoly Law (the “AML”). This signals the dawn of “Version 2.0” of China’s competition law, which has been on China’s legislative agenda since 2015. (...)
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China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) confirmed plans last week to merge China’s three antitrust authorities into a single agency under a new government body called the State Administration for Market Supervision. At the same time, the NPC also confirmed plans to merge China’s banking and (...)
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China’s State Council has submitted proposals to the National People’s Congress (NPC) to merge China’s three antitrust authorities into a single agency under a new government body called the State Administration for Market Supervision. The reform follows several years of speculation of an (...)
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Yesterday, the Hong Kong Competition Commission (the HKCC) took ten construction and engineering companies to the Competition Tribunal (the Tribunal) for an alleged market sharing and price fixing cartel relating to the renovation of over 800 flats in On Tat Estate, a public housing estate in (...)
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On 16 December 2016, China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) published its decision to fine Canon Inc. (Canon) for failure to notify its acquisition of Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation (TMSC) under the Anti-Monopoly Law (the AML). The decision is an important development for two key reasons: (...)
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On September 20, in a landmark decision, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed a district court’s decision in In re: Vitamin C Antitrust Litigation on international comity grounds. In vacating a $147m antitrust judgment against Chinese vitamin C manufacturers, the Second (...)
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In one of the most notable decisions at the end of last year, the Beijing High Court rejected an appeal in China’s first follow-on private action in Junwei Tian v. Beijing Carrefour Shuangjing Store and Abbott Shanghai. The claim followed the decision in 2013 of China’s National Development and (...)
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China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), one of China’s three agencies responsible for antitrust enforcement, recently published its decisions to fine three Chinese companies active in the manufacture of estazolam (a drug commonly used to treat insomnia) for refusing to supply (...)
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Thermo Fisher and Life Technologies are US-based multi-nationals that are active in biotechnology and life sciences. The transaction was notified on 3 July 2013 and accepted by MOFCOM on 27 August. On 26 September, MOFCOM initiated a Phase II review and with the parties’ consent it extended its (...)
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The operation Following a Phase II review, by decision dated 25 April 2008 the Council authorized the two-stage merger resulting in the acquisition of control by Tecteo of certain cable networks in Wallonia. The concentration involved several associations of local authorities transferring (...)
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The operation At the request of the acquirer, a cable operator, the Belgian Competition Council abolishes one of the conditions imposed in the context of a merger clearance in the markets of cable infrastructure and pay television channels. The Competition Council’s review concerned the (...)
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The operation The Belgian Competition Council abolishes the conditions imposed by its decision of 17 November 1997 (97-C/C-25) on the activities Kinepolis Groep and Kinepolis Filmdistributie, created by the merger of Groep Bert and Groep Claeys The markets The relevant markets have been (...)
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The operation By decision dated 9 October 2006, the Belgian Competition Council authorised the merger between Autogrill and Carestel subject to remedies. The merger combined the parties’ fast food and commercial catering activities. The market(s) concerned by remedy(ies) The Belgian (...)
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The operation NV Uitgeversbedrijf De Tijd, owned by NV Rossel & Cie. and NV De Persgroep, acquired all the shares of NV Editeco, owner of the "Les Echos" financial newspaper. The original transaction was notified and approved on 26 January 2004 (2004-C/C-16). Third parties appealed the (...)
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By the operation cleared by the Belgian Competition Council in phase I (extended at the request of the parties) on 10 June 2005, N.V. Dela Holding, active in the funeral insurance and related services sector, acquires N.V. Sophia Group, a Belgian company that runs funeral homes in Belgium. The (...)
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Cartels have been an enforcement priority in China since the Anti-Monopoly Law entered into force on 1 August 2008. Notwithstanding this focus on cartel enforcement, the authorities have, over time, expanded into other areas of potential anti-competitive conduct between competitors such as (...)
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Over the past ten years, China has quickly established itself as one of the world’s three major antitrust regimes alongside the European Union and the United States, impacting international business activities with its active merger control regime, antitrust investigations resulting in (...)
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