Marc Waha
Partner
Marc Waha is an antitrust, competition and regulatory lawyer based primarily in Hong Kong. He also spends a considerable amount of time in Europe.
Marc advises international companies on emerging antitrust regimes in East Asia, and Asian companies on global competition compliance issues, multi-jurisdictional merger filings and international cartel investigations. He has represented US, European and Asian clients active in a number of industrial sectors, including advertising, television broadcasting, postal services, transport, software and online services, telecommunications services and equipment, banking, petrochemicals, energy, food and other consumer goods. Marc’s cartel work experience spans the air transport, automotive, food, elevator, beverage, plasterboard, and chemicals industries. He has also worked on a number of competition matters in Europe involving alleged abuses of dominant position, cartel-like behaviour and state aid, representing defendants before the European and national regulators as well as before the General Court of the EU.
Marc regularly publishes and speaks at conferences on competition law issues of relevance to Asia. He and the Norton Rose team have recently been involved in training programmes for Asian competition regulators. Several legal guides rank Norton Rose’s Asia Competition Team as a top tier competition practice and Marc as a leading lawyer, including Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Competition and Antitrust Lawyers, International Law Office’s Client Choice Awards, PLC’s Which Lawyer? and Who’s Who Legal.
Publications
A representative selection of publications and presentations includes:
- Defending Asian companies in global cartel investigations, GCR's Antitrust Law Leaders’ Forum 2012, Singapore (March 2012);
- China adds muscle to its merger enforcement powers, in China Law and Practice, February 2012 issue [co-authored with Maxime Vanhollebeke];
- Structuring Options: Merger and Competition Law Constraints, in China Outbound Investments - A Guide to Law and Practice, CCH, June 2011 [co-authored with Maxime Vanhollebeke];
- China introduces new national security review regime, in Infrastructure Journal (March 2011) [co-authored with Sun Hong and Zhao Jingjing];
- Merger control review in China, Japan, Korea and other Asian jurisdictions, GCR's Antitrust Law Leaders’ Forum 2011, Miami, United States (February 2011);
- Relevant market definition under Asian and foreign competition law regimes, Competition law conference 2010, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (November 2010);
- Abuse of IP rights and Korean antitrust, in Red Flag Issues in Korean Antitrust and Competition Law, IFLR Korea Summit 2010 (November 2010);
- The benefits of merger control: a business perspective, Competition law 2010, New Delhi, India (October 2010);
- The Hong Kong Competition Bill, Asia Legal Business competition workshop, Hong Kong, China (October 2010);
- Merger control trends in Asia, IFLR M&A Forum 2010, Hong Kong, China (March 2010).