Andre Gan is the managing partner of Wong & Partners (a member firm of Baker McKenzie International) based in Kuala Lumpur. He is a corporate and securities partner who also heads Wong & Partners’ Competition Group. His practice areas covers mergers and acquisitions, corporate securities, venture capital and private equity, and competition. He has been acknowledged by Chambers Asia Pacific 2016 as one of only three Band 1 practitioners for Corporate/M&A in Malaysia and also a recognised competition practitioner. Andre Gan is also a member of the Firm’s Global Antitrust and Competition Steering Committee and is noted as a leading competition lawyer in Global Competition Review - Who’s Who Legal in 2016. He has worked in the Singapore and London offices of Baker McKenzie International.
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In brief In an effort to strengthen the working relationship and collaborative efforts of the Malaysia Competition Commission (MyCC) and the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), both regulators have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 3 August 2023 (MoU) in light of (...)
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MAVCOM issues Malaysia’s first merger clearance decision The Malaysian Aviation Commission ("MAVCOM") took into account the failing firm defence for the first time in approving the proposed merger between Korean Air and Asiana Airlines ("Anticipated Merger"), and issued its final decision (...)
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On 28 December 2017, the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) upheld the Malaysian Competition Commission’s (MyCC) decision on 24 June 2016 that My E.G. Services Berhad (MyEG) and its wholly-owned subsidiary, My E.G Commerce Sdn. Bhd. (MyEG Commerce) have abused their dominant position in the (...)
