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Competition Compliance
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Competition Compliance Programs are vital to a company’s risk management strategy. Such training programs play a key role in encouraging compliance and help mitigate against the infringement of competition legislation. We assist clients to develop bespoke competition compliance programs to suit the industry and sector in which they operate. Our compliance programs typically comprise of an audit, training and practice manual.
During the audit, we will conduct a thorough review of a company’s corporate background, market share, relevant communications, major agreements and it’s pricing and distribution strategy, thereby identifying areas of concerns and proposing appropriate actions to be taken under the company’s Competition Compliance Program.
We regularly conduct training programs for clients that are proactive in competition compliance. Typically, these would include seminar and role-playing methods. We can also conduct mock dawn-raids to tests the responsiveness of employees to prepare in case the offices are raided by the CCCS.
We also design specific competition compliance codes and guidelines for companies, depending on the industry they are operating in, so that employees have a main reference document in the basic aspects of competition law.
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John Mark Chen
John Mark is a corporate mergers and acquisitions lawyer who specialises in competition law.
With more than 18 years PQE from Singapore and the United Kingdom, John Mark’s expertise encompasses a wide variety of corporate and commercial matters including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity funds, commercial agreements, employment, and regulatory matters. His clients comprise from a diverse range of industries such as F&B, telecommunications, card payments, electronics, aviation, financial services, hospitality, raw materials, maritime, pharmaceuticals, freight forwarding, etc.
John Mark also regularly handles matters such as cartel investigations, abuse of dominance investigations, dawn-raid management, leniency applications, antitrust and merger control notifications. He has previously acted in landmark cases in Singapore such as SISTIC, Ferry Operators, Chicken Distributors, Freight Forwarders and Heineken/Asia Pacific Breweries.
John Mark is recognized as a “Leading Competition and Anti-Trust Lawyer”, and “Expert in Competition Law” by various journals including Asialaw. He has been featured as one of Singapore’s influential young lawyers in the third edition of Singapore Business Review’s “Top Singapore lawyers aged 40 and Under” in 2016 and one of “Singapore’s most influential young individuals who “exhibited job excellence and strong dedication” in Singapore Business Review’s inaugural “Class of 40 and under” in 2014. He has been described by clients as “intelligent”, “focused”, “technically excellent”, “a safe pair of hands” and “able to get it (the issue) very quickly”.