UK Competition Regime: A Practitioner’s Guide, covers all aspects of competition law, including detailed treatment of procedure, coverage of recent developments, with a focus on guidance for practitioners. It includes an overview of the role of economics. The second edition covers how Brexit has led to UK agencies finding themselves free to pursue cases and policy objectives in their own way, while legislation has brought in new powers and procedures, including: The new digital markets regime that introduces ex ante “pro-competition” enforcement regime Reforms to the mergers, markets and antitrust regimes introduced by the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act New merger control thresholds and new mandatory notification regime for digital companies with market power New guidance for assessing mergers and new merger investigation procedures The introduction of UK Block Exemptions and guidance on anticompetitive agreements The growth of “class-action” litigation in competition cases

Singapore’s political and economic system is based on the premise of well-functioning competitive markets. The country recognises the need to ensure that its markets operate in a fair and transparent manner. It has therefore enshrined strong laws to mandate that market participants do not engage in anti-competitive behaviour that can hurt consumers or other firms.

The Competition Act has three key prohibitions. These prohibitions are:

• Agreements, decisions and practices which prevent, restrict or distort competition ("the section 34 prohibition")
• Abuse of a dominant position ("the section 47 prohibition")
• Mergers and acquisitions that substantially lessen competition ("the section 54 prohibition")

Amendments to the Competition Act made by the Public Sector Governance Act (Act 5 of 2018) and the Enterprise Singapore Board Act (Act 10 of 2018) came into effect on 1 April 2018. The Competition Amendment Bill (Bill 8 of 2018) has also been taken into consideration and encapsulated in the Annotations