As the antitrust environment evolves across Asia, regulators and legal practitioners gathered in Hong Kong recently to discuss the changing landscape.   This special report brings together PaRR’s exclusive coverage of the 2018 Antitrust in Asia: One Size Fits All? conference organized by Concurrences and the Chinese University of Hong Kong on 18 May.   Highlights include the CEO of Hong Kong’s Competition Commission discussing his new vision for increased engagement, and the head of Singapore’s antitrust authority sharing his views.

The Department of Justice’s (DoJ) lawsuit seeking to block AT&T’s proposed USD 85bn acquisition of Time Warner unfolded through a dramatic sequence of events. The excitement started from the moment the deal was announced, when then presidential candidate Donald J. Trump vowed to block the transaction on the grounds that it would put the too much of the media in the hands of too few, who in turn could wield the power to tell voters what to think and do.  Deals like this one destroy democracy, Trump would explain. Throughout the campaign, Trump expressed.

Antitrust officials and lawyers gathered in Washington last week for the American Bar Association’s 66th Antitrust Law Spring Meeting as talk of a full-on trade war between the world’s top two economies reached a fevered pitch. Assessing litigation strategies at a time of shifting policy directives and evolving market structures, PaRR provided our readers with front-line coverage of the panels, fireside chats and exclusive interviews that make the ABA Spring Meeting the preeminent event on the global competition docket. This year was no exception..