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Competing in China: Antitrust, Anticorruption, & Industrial Policy

Nathan Bush, O’Melveny & Myers

Date: 01/14/2010
Duration: 0:57
Description:

China’s leadership enters 2010 with a mammoth stimulus program
onstream and mounting (often conflicting pressures) to restructure
China’s hybrid “command-market” system and its role in the global
economy. At the central government’s disposal are new instruments such
as the Antimonopoly Law, older tools such as the Law on Guarding State
Secrets, and the state’s tremendous influence over Chinese finance and
commerce. Foreign firms active in China face new regulatory challenges,
from the antitrust obstacles of acquiring Chinese firms to the
corruption risks of dealing with the state sector. Nathan Bush, a partner in the Antitrust & Competition Practice Group at O’Melveny & Myers LLP and General Counsel of the American Chamber of Commerce in China, explores
the intersection of China’s evolving antitrust, anticorruption, trade,
and industrial policies.

Sponsor: Berkeley Center for Law and Business