Liability of a Parent for the Antitrust Violations of a Subsidiary Under Asian Antitrust Law

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David Eggert, Jingbo Hou, Nov 12, 2009

On September 10, 2009, the European Court of Justice (the highest court in the European Union) issued its much-anticipated decision in Akzo Nobel. N.V., and held that a parent company’s 100 percent ownership of a subsidiary automatically creates a presumption that the parent company controlled the actions of the subsidiary and is therefore liable for the antitrust violations of the sub