Eva Crook-Santer, a member of the Baker & McKenzie anti-trust team in Hong Kong, said: ‘It’s a detailed exercise. We guide clients through a dawn raid, focusing on all job functions – from the security guard to the IT team.' Marc Waha, partner in Norton Rose Fulbright’s Hong Kong anti-trust team, said the firm was seeing greater sophistication of the enforcement agencies and personnel and more active enforcement. He attributed this to time spent with other agencies in Germany and Europe learning about conducting investigations and the value of onsite inspections. Microsoft, Mercedes-Benz and several other western companies have been raided recently. The rules are different to what those companies might be used to in the west. In particular, legal privilege on communications with legal advisers is generally not recognised in the People’s Republic. Source: EuroNews
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