ESG collaboration and competition law: Change on the horizon?

Herbert Smith Freehills, Adelaide Luke, Timothy Stutt, Antony Crockett, Joel Rheuben and Howard Chan, 25 March 2021, Asia Competition e-bulletin

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Many businesses have expressed concern that competition law inhibits or prevents them from taking certain steps to benchmark and improve their ESG performance at an industry level; at the same time, a number of competition law regulators are catching onto this growing apprehension and are preparing a response. In this e-bulletin, we summarise the recent developments on this issue, and those that remain on the horizon.

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