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Merger Control Fillings
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We assist our clients in conducting self-assessment exercises for their mergers (a requirement specified by the CCCS) and draft merger filings for submission to the CCCS.
We assist to identify potential competition law issues in a proposed merger transaction and help parties to address such issues efficiently. We adopt a holistic approach in assessing competition law risks within the applicable legislative and regulatory framework. We undertake pre-notification discussions and negotiations with the CCCS to expedite the merger filing process.
We have experience and the requisite contacts through our international law network to provide clients with a seamless merger filing coordination across multiple jurisdictions.
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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”.