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Philippine antitrust regulator to get hybrid merger review regime, stronger powers under contentious bill

By Jet Damazo-Santos
  • 22 Jul 2021 03:24
  • 22 Jul 2021 03:24
The Philippines’ competition regulator will get a hybrid compulsory-voluntary notification regime and stronger powers to fight entrenched cartels under a contentious bill approved by a legislative committee yesterday, despite objections from the regulator’s commissioners.
The most controversial of the bill’s proposed changes to the 2015 Philippine Competition Act seek to

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Jet Damazo-Santos

Correspondent, Jakarta


Jet Damazo-Santos has been covering antitrust, data protection and other compliance issues in key jurisdictions in Southeast Asia for MLex full time since 2018. She has almost two decades of journalism experience in the Philippines and Indonesia, where she was the associate editor for the Jakarta Globe and the Jakarta bureau chief for Rappler Indonesia prior to joining MLex. She holds a master's degree in Applied Business Economics from the University of Asia and the Pacific.

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