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Ningshan FANG
Non-equity Partner / Guangzhou
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Tel +86-20-2826-1741
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Practices
Antitrust & Competition, Investment/M&A & Corporate Governance, Litigation & Arbitration
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Industries
Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences
Ningshan FANG
Fang Ningshan's practice areas focus on antitrust and competition, M&A & corporate governance, and litigation & arbitration. She has provided legal services relating to antitrust and corporate law to a variety of domestic and multinational clients, including merger filings, assisting clients to deal with antitrust enforcement, helping clients set up antitrust compliance system, representing clients in antitrust litigations, participating transactions including M&A and reorganization, and providing legal consultation service on corporate governance for clients. She is recommended by the Legal 500 Asian Pacific Region in 2020 and 2021.
Representative Matters
Antitrust & Competition
Merger filings
Represented G-Gas in filings objections with SAMR against Linde-Praxair Merger, which was approved with conditions in China, and assisting the implementation of the divestiture, helping G-Gas win the bid of the divested assets
Provided multi-jurisdictional filings (including China, US, Germany, etc.) service for Galanz in the acquisition of the control of Whirlpool China
Provided merger filings service for the set up of a new OLED joint venture by LG Display and Guangzhou Kaide Co., Ltd.
Antitrust Compliance
Provided antitrust legal service for multiple domestic and overseas clients in relation to antitrust audit, set up of compliance system and/or compliance advice
Antitrust Litigation & Public Enforcement Investigation
Represented Guangdong Administration for Market Regulation in the administrative litigations filed by 13 concrete manufacturers in Maoming city against the penalty of horizontal monopolistic agreement, which were appealed to and heard by the Supreme People's Court and were awarded favorable judgments
Represented Galanz in its report to SAMR of the abuse of market power by Alibaba and Tmall, and lodging civil antitrust compliant with Guangzhou Intellectual Property Court
Provided antitrust legal service for a bottling plant an for international beverage in handling a dispute relating to franchise
Assisted an international internet company in dealing with the antitrust investigation initiated by NDRC in OTA industry
M&A & Corporate Governance
Assisted G-Gas in its acquisition of the equity in joint ventures and Helium sources
Litigation & Arbitration
Represented Guangdong Administration for Market Regulation in the administrative litigations filed by 13 concrete manufacturers in Maoming city against the penalty of horizontal monopolistic agreement, which were appealed to and heard by the Supreme People's Court and were awarded favorable judgments
Honors and Awards
For Individual
Recommended Lawyer, the Legal 500 Asia Pacific Region, 2020 - 2021
For Deal
Represented Guangdong Administration for Market Regulation in the administrative litigations filed by 13 concrete manufacturers in Maoming city against the penalty of horizontal monopolistic agreement, which were selected as one of the ten landmark anti-monopoly cases of people's courts in 2022 promulgated by the Supreme People's Court, the landmark case of IP Tribunal of Supreme People’s Court in 2022 promulgated by the Supreme People's Court, the 2022 Summary of Fundamental Principles from the Judgments of the IP Tribunal of the Supreme People's Court, and the High Quality Judgment of IP Tribunal of Supreme People’s Court
Galanz Group’s merger filing and antitrust compliance to acquire Whirlpool in China, Impact Deal and Case Awards, asialaw Awards 2022 by asialaw Profiles
Galanz's acquisition of the control of Whirlpool China, awarded as China Deals of the Year 2021 (Cross-border) by China Business Law Journal
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Bar Admissions/Professional Qualifications
PRC Bar, 2012
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Education
LL.M., The University of Hong Kong, 2010
LL.B. & B.A., Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, 2009 -
Professional Experience
Non-equity Partner,Lawyer Zhong Lun Law Firm, 2013 to Present
Lawyer, GFE Law Office, 2010 to 2013 -
Languages
Chinese
English