Business Competition & Data Protection

ETCoLaw advise clients on data compliance and protection. In an era where commercial data are crucial to a company’s operations and business competition, it more crucial for companies to obtain legal advice and implement:

  • data collection process
  • data compliance procedures
  • data protection measures
  • competitive use and exploitation of customer data

Data protection aside, ETCoLaw also provide advice to clients on various issues relating to Competition Law enforcement and compliance, including:

  • internal compliance programme
  • dealings with trade competitors
  • conduct of trade associations and their members
  • conduct of and dealings by or with dominant market players
  • competition compliance in mergers and acquisitions of competitor’s business
  • appeals against adverse competition decisions
  • industry regulation by the government

ETCoLaw also represent clients in:

  • administrative investigations, and
  • market reviews

conducted by the Malaysia Competition Commission (MyCC) as well as investigations conducted by Competition Law enforcement agencies in other jurisdictions.

ETCoLaw work together with lawyers in other jurisdictions in multi-jurisdictional Competition Law clearance or investigations.

ETCoLaw are the first Malaysian law firm to venture into Competition Law consultancy. Our founder, Dr. Vince, is a leading figure in the field of Competition Law. He obtained a doctorate degree focusing on Competition Law and Policy in 2009 – prior to the passing of the Competition Act 2010. He was at one point in time the Antitrust Counsel of a national carrier, and was responsible for carrier’s Competition Law issues and compliance, including handling one collaboration arrangement among the country’s air carriers which ended up as the first reported decision by the MyCC. He was instrumental in designing, introducing and implementing a Competition Compliance Program. He has been invited to speak at numerous international forums, and is the first Malaysian author to have published a number of Competition Law articles in international journals, including the European Journal of Law and Economics, and the Australian Competition & Consumer Law Journal.

Dr. Vince was invited by the ASEAN Secretariat to attend the first ASEAN Competition Conference held in Bali. He was a key speaker at the launch of the ASEAN Handbook on Competition Policy & Law organized by the ASEAN Secretariat.

If you would like to know more about ETCoLaw’s Data Protection & Business Competition, and how these two fields of law interact in your day-to-day business, and how ETCoLaw may ensure that your company conducts business in compliance with the law and represent your company in Competition Law investigations or data-related cases so as to protect your company’s commercial interests, please do not hesitate to CONTACT ETCoLaw.

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