AnJie Broad Law Firm’s antitrust practice holds an impressive set of clients and the team recently obtained a number of new clients including GSK, Korean Air, and Samsung Electronics. Hao Zhan, head of the Beijing team, is among the very first antitrust lawyers in China; he has notable experience in conditional approval cases. Beijing-based Ying Song counts ChemChina, Syngenta and Global Wafers as his key clients. The team hired Zhining Wang who joined from Xiaomi Corp.’s Chinese in March 2023; Wang excels in complex merger filings and antitrust investigations. Michael Gu departed to Hylands Law Firm in May 2023.
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Key clients
- Roche
- AO Smith
- Cognex
- PepsiCo
- International Air Transport Association
- Panasonic
- Huayou
- Korean Air
- Ping An Group
- Hitachi Metals
- SINOPEC
- Samsung Electronics
- VeriSign Inc.
- Joiebaby
- COFCO
- Huaming Power
- Daimler
- Daikin
- GSK
Work highlights
- Represented the State Administration for Market Regulation (“SAMR”) in defending against the administrative litigation brought by Kanghui Medicine and Puyunhui Pharmaceutical.
- Successfully secured SAMR’s conditional approval for Korean Air relating to its acquisition of Asiana Airlines for merger filing with SAMR and all related works.
- Successfully represented Huaming Power Equipment Co. Ltd to appeal to the SPC, specifically requesting the SPC to confirm the settlement between Huaming and Wuhan Taipu Transformer Changer Co. Ltd. invalid due to the horizontal monopoly agreement.
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Hao Zhan