Philippine Competition Act penalties for price fixing and market allocation, including 2–7 years’ jail time for responsible corporate directors and officers.
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Compliance warning on Philippine Competition Act cartel cases: PCC enforcement, OFC prosecution, penalties, and steps to reduce price-fixing risk.
Learn how the Philippine Competition Act penalizes price-fixing and corporate cartels with major fines and jail time, and how firms can comply.
This article talks about the mergers and acquisition notification to the Philippine Competition Commission
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This legal explainer navigates the intricate process of corporate mergers under Philippine law, detailing the governing statutes, procedural requirements from board and stockholder approval to regulatory certification, and the significant legal and practical consequences for the involved corporations and their stakeholders.
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What is Structure-Conduct-Performance Framework To determine whether a business conduct contravenes antitrust laws, it is necessary to make a competition analysis. The analytical framework that is commonly used in competition analysis is the Structure-Conduct-Performance Framework (SCP). The SCP approach assumes that there is a stable, causal relationship between the structure of an industry, firm conduct
The Philippine Competition Act (“PCA”) prohibits certain anticompetitive conduct. The Philippine Competition Commission (“PCC”) is tasked with the enforcement of the law. To successfully prosecute violators of the PCA, the PCC, under the the Philippine Supreme Court issued A.M. 19-08-06-SC, is empowered to conduct dawn raids, and apply for an inspection order before the Special Commercial Court of the place to be inspected is located.
Antitrust/ Competition Law: Investigation of Administrative Cases involving Anti-Competitive Conduct before the Philippine Competition Commission* The Philippine Competition Commission (“PCC”) shall have original and primary jurisdiction over the enforcement and implementation of Republic Act No. 10667, otherwise known as the Philippine Competition Act (“PCA”).[i] It has the power to conduct inquiries and investigate, upon complaint
Antitrust/ Competition Law: Relevant Product Market and the Hypothetical Monopolist Test* Market definition is usually the first step in competition analysis because the concepts that will be used in the analysis occur in the market (i.e. market power, competition, statutory restrictions, etc.). Furthermore, defining the market is relevant in calculating and determining variables such
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Antitrust/ Competition Law: Vertical Restraints and Exclusive Dealing* A vertical agreement is an agreement or concerted practice entered into between two or more undertakings each of which operates, for the purposes of the agreement or the concerted practice, at a different level of the production or distribution chain, and relating to the conditions under which
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