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Frank JIANG
Equity Partner / Beijing
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Tel +86-10--59572131
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Practices
Antitrust & Competition, Cross-border Investment/M&A, Compliance & Investigation
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Industries
Energy & Power, Telecommunications & Internet, Information & Intelligence Technology, Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences
Frank JIANG
Frank specializes in antitrust/competition (including merger control, unilateral and joint conducts), national security review, and M&A, and has worked on over 120 mandates in a variety of industries, including aerospace, automobile, chemistry, energy, engineering, FMCG, healthcare, ICT, real estate, etc. His clients include Arm, Baowu, CHD, CNPC, CTG, Cummins, DNE, EDF, EssilorLuxottica, IBM, Mercedes-Benz, Microsoft, NHU, Parker-Hannifin, Qualcomm, Schneider Electric, Tencent, Walmart, and Warburg Pincus.
Frank has been the lead competition lawyer in a number of high-profile investigation/litigation, mergers & acquisitions, and joint venture projects, is responsible for coordinating domestic and international teams, producing documents, and communicating with relevant regulatory authorities and has maintained good cooperative relationships with lawyers from a number of well-known foreign law firms.
He has written dozens of articles and publications in the field of compliance, and actively participated in relevant legislative activities organized by law enforcement agencies.
Representative Matters
Antitrust/Competition and Regulatory Compliance
Represented a number of multinationals and leading companies in more than ten antitrust enforcements or litigations in automobile, consumer, ICT and manufacturing sectors in China and beyond, with billions of dollars at stake
Represented a number of manufacturing and platform firms in dealing with onsite investigation and compliance programs, involving such sectors as automobile, cloud computing, e-commerce, gaming, healthcare, social networking, transportation, etc.
Represented a number of SOEs and listed companies in compliance programs of their global business, covering antitrust, FDI screening (national security review), blocking rules and anti-foreign sanctions, ESG, and other regulatory issues
Provided legal services for a number of transactions involving foreign investment security review in China (incl. conditional clearance and prohibition)
Provided legal services for a number of antitrust projects
Advised Walmart on various antitrust and M&A projects
Advised Tencent on compliance assessment in dozens of transactions
Represented Luxottica Group in its merger with Essilor International, and implementation of commitments it made to the Chinese authority (the first of its kind since inception of SAMR)
Represented Yum! China on its joint venture with a leading Chinese AI technology company (the first unconditionally-cleared deal involving VIE structure)
Represented Bombardier in its sale of transportation business to Alstom
Represented Parker-Hannifin Corporation in its acquisition of LORD Corporation
Provided legal services to Électricité de France for several offshore joint ventures projects
Provided legal services to Schneider Electric for its joint acquisition (with Alstom) of Areva T&D and its acquisition of Leader & Harvest
Provided legal services to SIG Combibloc for its acquisition of Evergreen Asia
Provided legal services to Mitsubishi Gas Chemical for its joint venture with ITEQ Corporation
Provided legal services to SABIC for its offshore joint venture project and domestic joint venture antitrust compliance issues
Provided legal services to Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd for its acquisition of Cameron Rig Solutions Inc.
Provided legal services to Noritz Corporation for its partial acquisition of Sakura Bath and Kitchen Products (China) Co., Ltd.
Provided legal services to Rengo Co., Ltd. for its acquisition of certain issued shares in Hung Hing Printing Group Limited (listed in Hong Kong)
Provided legal services to Toll Logistics (Asia) Limited for its partial acquisition of Tianjin Anda Toll Logistics Co., Ltd.
Provided legal services to Warburg Pincus LLC for a number of investment projects in China
Provided legal services to AIG Investments for its cross-border acquisition of equity interests in Chongqing Lifan Group
Provided legal services to two leading private equity funds for PRC merger control issues in connection with its “take private” transaction of a US listed company
Provided legal services to Cummins China for its several joint venture projects and advised the client on various PRC antitrust issues
Provided legal services to ZF China for its two joint venture projects and advised the client on certain PRC antitrust issues
Provided legal services concerning PRC antitrust related matters for JD.com Inc.'s strategic partnership with Tencent Holdings Limited
Provided legal services to China Merchants for its joint venture with Viking Cruises
Provided legal services for China Minmetals' joint venture with CITIC and Guoxin for acquisition of Las Bambas copper mine project from Glencore – Xstrata
Provided legal services to China Three Gorges Corporation for its partial acquisition of Hubei Energy Group
Provided legal services to NHU for its joint venture with SinoPec
Provided legal services to Cummins, ZF, BMW, Wabtec, Thyssenkrupp, and Faurecia for a number of joint venture projects and for various PRC antitrust compliance issues
Provided legal services to Apax, Apollo, Bain Capital, DNE, LaSalle, LCatterton, and Warburg Pincus for PRC merger control issues in a number of investment projects
Provided legal services for a global logistics company's partial acquisition of a PRC company
Provided legal services to a major multinational company for PRC merger control/national security review issues in its proposed acquisition of a state-owned company
Provided legal services to a number of companies for pre-filing consultations with enforcement agencies in connection with pending acquisitions and successfully obtained rulings of no-filing obligation
Provided legal services to a number of multinational companies for a series of AML compliance training sessions covering a variety of topics
Provided legal services to a number of multinational companies for PRC channel management policy and other antitrust compliance issues
Provided legal services concerning a number of failure-to-notify cases (involving VIE structure) and trustee matters
Corporate /M&A
Provided legal services to a number of multinationals for their corporate legal matters
Provided legal services to Emerson Electric for a number of its global reorganization projects
Provided legal services to Schneider Electric for its joint acquisition (with Alstom) of Areva T&D
Provided legal services to UBS/Gemdale for the establishment of UBS/Gemdale China Real Estate Fund I, L.P.
Provided legal services to Wabtec for its PRC group structure and a number of joint ventures
Provided legal services to one of China's major telecommunication value-added operators as the target company for receiving inbound investment by a multinational telecommunication
Honors and Awards
For Individual
PRC Firms, Next Generation Partners, The Legal 500, Antitrust and Competition, 2020-2023
Memberships & Affiliations
Member, Foreign Affairs Committee, Beijing Lawyers Association
Member, Editor of Antitrust Magazine - Digital Edition, ABA Antitrust Law Section
Panel Expert, China Chamber of International Commerce (CCOIC) and International Chamber of Commerce -China (ICC-China)
Publications
“Market Intelligence Cartels”, Lexology GTDT, 2022
“Market Intelligence Digital Transformation”, Lexology GTDT, 2022
Related
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Articles Related
Highlights on China's New IPR Antitrust Related Rules/Guidelines
In June 2023, significant regulatory developments occurred in the TMT sector, most significantly the new regulations and guidelines rolled out by various authorities. The CAC issued regulations on short-range self-organizing network services and published the first record list for deep synthesis service algorithms in China. The MIIT expanded the scope of and procedures for administrative penalties. The SCA issued security evaluation measures for commercial cryptography. The SAMR issued antitrust guidelines for mergers and acquisitions and compliance rules for blind box business. The SPC, SPP, and MPS jointly veiled guidelines to address cyber violence. The NISSTC established standards for classifying cybersecurity incidents. Enforcement highlights included a joint report by the CSAC and CNCERT/CC on data collection by video streaming apps and a data breach case under the Data Security Law that resulted in significant penalties. These updates underscore the intensified regulatory focus on data security, network service management, antitrust compliance, and cybercrime, signaling the need for enhanced compliance measures across the TMT sector.
2023-07-24 -
Deals Related
Zhong Lun Advises L Catterton on Strategic Investment in Viee
Zhong Lun Law Firm acted as the PRC legal counsel to L Catterton throughout this transaction.
2024-08-07 -
Events Related
Zhong Lun Partner Invited to 2024 Antitrust Writing Awards Ceremony and Received Award
Recently, Zhong Lun Partner, Frank JIANG has been invited to attend the 2024 Antitrust Writing Awards Ceremony organized by Concurrences (a globally respected antitrust publisher) and George Washington University Competition Law Center in Washington DC, U.S.A.
2024-04-30 -
Awards Related
Zhong Lun Partner Frank Jiang Honored among “2024 ALB China Top 15 Rising Lawyers”
Frank Jiang from Zhong Lun was recognized on the list.
2024-08-20
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Bar Admissions/Professional Qualifications
PRC Bar
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Education
LL.B., School of Law, Peking University
B.A. (dual degree) in Psychology, Peking University -
Professional Experience
Partner, Zhong Lun Law Firm
Frank was seconded to two Fortune 500’s China headquarters for part of 2011 and part of 2012, and to Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in New York from 2017 to 2018. -
Languages
Chinese
English