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This Special Report on Anti-trust & Competition law includes Fasken Martineau DuMoulin’s overview of the merger control regime under Canada’s Competition Act and the foreign investment review regime under the Investment Canada Act in their article Merger control and foreign investment review in Canada, Anjie Law Firm’s article entitled What in-house counsel should know about China’s anti-monopoly law in the intellectual property sector, which gives history and case studies of China’s anti-trust laws in relation to IP and presents the reader with China’s anti-monopoly law’s ‘big question’ and CCI rulings in the e-commerce sector: paving the pathway for a virtual marketplace – Phoenix Legal’s discussion on the anti-trust aspects of online portals as ask whether this innovation has increased competition by generating more businesses or made it so that only the big boys can compete.

Business Development (BD): it’s a term that sends shivers down the spine of even the most hardened and experienced lawyer. In some cases it has even deterred people …

Sitting in a coffee shop in downtown Sydney on a recent trip to Australia, a look around at the diversity of faces discussing business, the price of coffee (and last weekend’s ‘footie’), it was clear that Australians of Asian descent are very much part of the fabric of the country. But whilst Asia has come to Australia, is Australia investing in Asia, and are Australian businesses taking full advantage of their geographical proximity to either the region’s mature or fast-emerging markets?