In a move which will be closely watched by the pharmaceutical industry, the ACCC has commenced proceedings against Pfizer alleging breaches of the Australian Competition and Consumer Act in relation to its blockbuster product Lipitor...
Read More →Last month, the ACCC announced that it would oppose Sonic Healthcare Limited’s proposed acquisition of the assets of the Delta Imaging Group, which was in liquidation. The ACCC considered that the proposed acquisition would substantially...
Read More →The Federal Court has imposed a 3 year sentence for contempt of court, following breaches of court orders by a marketer of weight loss products. The case confirms that the ACCC can be expected to...
Read More →With the votes counted and Tony Abbott safely claiming a Coalition victory on 7 September 2013, it’s not only the government that is getting a makeover. As with most elections, the lead up was jam-packed...
Read More →Adding to the regulatory approvals in China (blogged about in our previous post), New Zealand and Europe, the ACCC has announced that it will not oppose the proposed acquisition of Gambro AB by Baxter International...
Read More →KWM’s China antitrust team, led by Susan Ning, have posted an article on MOFCOM’s conditional clearance of Baxter’s acquisition of Gambro on our sister blog, China Law Insight. According to the approval condition, Gambro must...
Read More →Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, has said that “Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.” In...
Read More →With the prospect of enforcement action from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) for the use of misleading ‘credence’ claims, seven manufacturers in the bottled water industry have dropped claims that their product is...
Read More →In a recent post on our sister blog, China Law Insight, Susan Ning, Kate Peng, Huang Jing and Li Rui discuss the investigation initiated by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) against several infant...
Read More →In its consideration of the latest in a string of authorisation applications made in the medical industry to collectively bargain on fee arrangements, the ACCC has proposed not to authorise fee arrangements by ophthalmologists. In...
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