Antitrust/Competition and Regulatory Compliance

• Represented a number of multinationals and leading companies on 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;

• Represented a number of SOEs and listed companies for compliance programs of their global business, covering antitrust, FDI screening (national security review), blocking rules and anti-foreign sanction, 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;

• Represented Walmart on various antitrust and M&A projects;

• Represented Tencent on compliance assessment in dozens of transactions;

• Represented Luxottica Group in its merger with Essilor International, and China commitments implementation (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 for Électricité de France in several offshore joint ventures projects;

• Provided legal services for Schneider Electric in its joint acquisition (with Alstom) of Areva T&D, and its acquisition of Leader & Harvest;

• Provided legal services for SIG Combibloc in its acquisition of Evergreen Asia;

• Provided legal services for Mitsubishi Gas Chemical in its joint venture with ITEQ Corporation;

• Provided legal services for SABIC in its offshore joint venture project and domestic joint venture antitrust compliance issues;

• Provided legal services for Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd in its acquisition of Cameron Rig Solutions Inc.;

• Provided legal services for Noritz Corporation in its partial acquisition of Sakura Bath and Kitchen Products (China) Co., Ltd.;

• Provided legal services for Rengo Co., Ltd. in its acquisition of certain issued shares in Hung Hing Printing Group Limited (listed in Hong Kong); 

• Provided legal services for Toll Logistics (Asia) Limited in its partial acquisition of Tianjin Anda Toll Logistics Co., Ltd.;

• Provided legal services for Warburg Pincus LLC in a number of China investment projects;

• Provided legal services for AIG Investments in its cross-border acquisition of equity interests of Chongqing Lifan Group;

• Provided legal services for two leading private equity funds on PRC merger control issues in connection with its “take private" transaction of a US listed company;

• Provided legal services for Cummins China in its several joint venture projects and advice on various PRC antitrust issues;

• Provided legal services for ZF China in its two joint venture projects and advice on certain PRC antitrust issues;

• Provided legal services for JD.com Inc.’s strategic partnership with Tencent Holdings Limited on PRC antitrust related matters;

• Provided legal services for China Merchants in 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 for China Three Gorges Corporation in its partial acquisition of Hubei Energy Group;

• Provided legal services for NHU in its joint venture with SinoPec;;

• Provided legal services for Cummins, ZF, BMW, Wabtec, Thyssenkrupp, Faurecia for a number of joint venture projects, and advice on various PRC antitrust compliance issues;

• Provided legal services for Apax, Apollo, Bain Capital, DNE, LaSalle, LCatterton, Warburg Pincus on 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 for a major multinational company on PRC merger control/national security review issues for its proposed acquisition of a state-owned company; 

• Provided legal services for a number of companies in pre-filing consultations with enforcement agencies in connection with pending acquisitions and successfully obtaining rulings of no-filing obligation;

• Provided legal services for a number of multinational companies on series of AML compliance training sessions covering a variety of topics;

• Provided legal services for a number of multinational companies on PRC channel management policy and other antitrust compliance issues;

• Provided legal services for a number of failure-to-notify cases (involving VIE structure) and trustee matters.

Corporate /M&A 

• Provided legal services for a number of multinationals for their corporate legal matters;

• Provided legal services for Emerson Electric in a number of its global reorganization projects;

• Provided legal services for Schneider Electric in its joint acquisition (with Alstom) of Areva T&D;

• Provided legal services for UBS/Gemdale on the establishment of UBS/Gemdale China Real Estate Fund I, L.P.;

• Provided legal services for Wabtec on PRC group structure and a number of joint ventures;

• Provided legal services for one of China's major telecommunication value-added operators as the target company in bringing the foreign investment by a multinational telecommunication.