Jenny Connolly was, until March 2020 a partner in the antitrust, competition and trade group at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Tokyo. A significant part of her practice involved getting merger clearances for clients in complex, difficult cross border transactions, including remedies cases which required coordination across jurisdictions. She has acted for a number of the world’s largest technology companies in high profile investigations by the EC and MOFCOM, the UK competition authority and numerous Asian and European NCAs.
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Recent amendments to Japan’s Anti-Monopoly Act (AMA) that came into effect on 1 January 2019 give the country’s competition regulator, the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC), powers to accept voluntary commitments from companies suspected of having infringed the AMA. This will allow the JFTC to (...)
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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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