Foreign companies in China should pay close attention to pioneering court cases involving Chinese groups accused of monopolistic behaviour, international law firms have warned.
Freshfields told the Financial Times that since the introduction of a new antitrust regime in 2008, cases had been filed against big Chinese companies including China Mobile, China Netcom, Baidu, Shanda Interactive Entertainment and Sinopec.
While non-Chinese groups are unlikely to have monopolies in China, the laws could affect them because of measures targeting practices such as discriminatory pricing.
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