Asian Competition Forum 8th Annual Conference, 10th and 11th December 2012, Hong Kong, “Establishing Sound Enforcement Priorities and Processes”

Posted by D. Daniel Sokol

Asian Competition Forum 8^th Annual Conference

10^th and 11^th December 2012, Hong Kong

“Establishing Sound Enforcement Priorities and Processes”

 

 

There has been continued development in competition law in Asia in the last year especially in ASEAN countries. Many jurisdictions in Asia have adopted or will soon adopt a competition regime that includes a normative law and an enforcement mechanism. The next pressing issue in many countries is the enforcement agenda. Issues such as which anticompetitive practices or sectors to target, the temptation to take easy cases at the expense of more complex investigations, political interference, judicial challenges often based on procedure rather than substance, funding priorities and inter-agency rivalry. We have thus decided to adopt as the theme for our annual conference "Establishing Sound Enforcement Priorities and Processes". The conference will be held in Hong Kong on Monday 10th and Tuesday 11th December, 2012.

 

Details of Conference

Date:                                    10^th and 11^th
December, 2012 (Monday and Tuesday)

Time:                                   9:00
a.m. – 6:00 p.m. (Registration starts at 8:15 a.m.)

Venue:                  Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Registration fee: HK$ 1,500 / US$ 200 per day (inclusive of lunch)

 

 

Law Society of Hong Kong CPD

An application has been made to the Law Society of Hong Kong for accreditation of the conference for CPD points.

Registration

To secure your registration, please complete the attached Registration Form and return by email to Ms. Samantha Ma (Samantha.ma@polyu.edu.hk) on or before 16th November 2012.

 

Registration will be confirmed by email. For any enquiries, please contact Ms Samantha Ma by the above email or phone at (852) 2766 7130.

Confirmed speakers include:

 

Gregory SO

Secretary, CEDB, HKSAR

 

Dhanendra KUMAR

Principal Advisor, Indian
Institute of Corporate Affairs, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India (formerly Chairperson of Competition Commission of India and Executive Director of the World Bank)

 

Dr. Hassan QAQAYA

Head, Competition law and Consumer Policies Branch, UNCTAD

 

Dr. Andreas STEPHAN

Senior Lecturer in Competition Law in University of East Anglia

 

Prof. Allan FELS

Dean of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government

 

Prof. Michael JACOBS

Distinguished Research Professor of Law, DePaul University College of Law, Chicago, Illinois, United
States

 

Dr Zhaofeng ZHOU

Partner, Chance & Bridge Partners, China

 

Prof. Xianlin WANG

Vice Dean of KoGuan Law School, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and director of Centre for Competition Law and Policy

 

Liyang HOU

Associate professor of KoGuan Law School, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

 

Mr. XU Lefu

Division Director, Anti-monopoly Bureau(AMB), Ministry of Commerce of China

 

Prof. Caron BEATON-WELLS

Professor, University of Melbourne

 

Mr. Burton ONG

Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore

 

Mr. Chester TOH

Partner, Integrated Regulatory Practice, Rajah & Tann LLP, Singapore

 

Adam Nakhoda

Deputy Director, Legal & Enforcement, Competition Commission of Singapore

 

Ms. Huong Ly LUU

Associate Professor, Hanoi Law University; Ph.D candidate, National University of Singapore

 

Dr. NGUYEN Anh Tuan

LCT Lawyers, Vietnam

 

Dr May Fong CHEONG

Professorial Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales

 

Ms Yin Harn LEE

Phd candidate at Cambridge University(IIUM)

 

Mr. Martyn HUCKERBY

Partner, King & Wood Mallesons

 

Mr Marc WAHA

Partner, Norton Rose, Hong Kong

 

Dr. Walter BECKERT

Senior Lecturer in Economics at Birkbeck College, University of London

 

Dr Simon VANDE WALLE

Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, University of Tokyo

 

Dr Steven Van UTYTSEL

Associate Professor, EUIJ-Kyushu Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Law, Kyushu University, Japan

 

Prof. Toshiaki TAKIGAWA

Professor, Kansai University School of Law, Osaka, Japan

 

Mr. Angus YOUNG

Assistant Professor, Hang Seng Management College, Hong Kong

 

Prof. Francisco MARCOS

Professor of Law, IE Law School

 

Dr Andrew SIMPSON

Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

 

Mr. Omar Wakil

Partner in the Competition/Antitrust Group of the Canadian law firm Torys LLP and the chair of the firm’s Foreign Investment Review Group

 

Ms Janet HUI

Partner, Jun He Law Offices, China

 

Prof. FANG Xiaomin

Professor at the Law School of Nanjing University in PR China. She is director of the German-Sino Institute of Legal Studies at Nanjing University and co-director of the German-Sino Institute of Legal Studies at Goettingen University in Germany

 

Dr Felix MEZZANOTTE

Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

 

Prof. Lin Ping

Head & Professor, Department of Economics, Lingnan University

 

Ms Ninette DODOO

Head of Antitrust, China, Clifford Chance

 

Ms. Deborah HEALEY

Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, Australia

 

Prof. XU Shiying

Professor of Law, East China University of Politics and Law

 

Mr. Chi Hang CHIANG

PhD Candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford

 

Mr. Stephen Crosswell

Head of Antitrust, Hong Kong, Clifford Chance LLP

 

Dr Stanley WONG

StanleyWongGlobal (SW Law Corporation), Vancouver, BC, Canada

 

Dr Victor HUNG

Consumer Council, Hong Kong

 

Prof. WANG Xiaoye

Professor of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China

 

Dr Dina KALLAY

Counsel for Intellectual Property and International Antitrust at the Federal Trade Commission's Office of International Affairs