Caroline Huang

Practice Areas

MS. HUANG SPECIALIZES IN ANTITRUST AND COMPETITION LAW, INCLUDING MERGER CONTROL FILINGS, ANTITRUST COMPLIANCE AND ANTITRUST ADMINISTRATIVE INVESTIGATIONS.

Ms. Huang started practicing competition law at the same time the PRC anti-monopoly law came into effect in 2008. She is experienced in providing legal advice on merger filings, antitrust administrative investigations and compliance reviews. Her clients operate in a wide range of industries, including consumer products, finance, high-tech, manufacturing, natural resources, pharmaceuticals and shipping.

Ms. Huang has been actively involved in consulting with and providing recommendations to legislators. She also maintains close working relationships with the administrative officials responsible for anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition. Through these interactions, she has obtained a deep understanding of the changes and developments in PRC laws and policies and can use that knowledge to fully assist her clients in communicating with administrative agencies.

Career

Ms. Huang joined Fangda in 2014. Before joining the firm, she worked at a major law firm in China and an international law firm in New York.

Languages Spoken

-Chinese

-English

Experience

Merger filing:

-Represented WABCO Holdings Inc. in the PRC merger filing for its acquisition by ZF Friedrichshafen AG.

-Represented Cargotec in the PRC merger filing for its proposed acquisition of businesses of TTS.

-Represented Anta Sports and FountainVest in the PRC merger filing for their joint acquisition of Amer Sports for EUR 4.7 billion.

-Represented AB Inbev in the PRC merger filing for its proposed acquisition of SAB Miller for USD 104 billion.

-Represented EMC in the PRC merger filing for its acquisition by Dell for USD 67 billion.

-Represented Cheung Kong Infrastructure and Power Assets in the PRC merger filing for their RMB 76.4 billion merger

Represented Goldman Sachs and Rhone in the PRC merger filing for their joint acquisition of Neovia Logistics for USD 490 million.

-Represented Dresser Rand in the PRC merger filing for its acquisition by Siemens for USD 7.6 billion.

-Represented Ant Financial on the PRC merger filing for a series of its transactions, including the acquisition of shares in the Indian online payment company One 97, the Thai online payment and online shopping companies Ascend Nano and True Money, and the Chinese rural microfinance company CFPA Microfinance.

Investigation work:

-Represented a state-owned infrastructure company in an NDRC investigation into abuse of dominance.

-Represented an international shipping company in an NDRC cartel investigation.

-Represented an electronics company in responding to antitrust inquiries from the NDRC on abuse of dominance.

-Represented two multinational pharmaceutical companies in the antitrust administrative investigation conducted by the NDRC into vertical monopoly agreements.

-Represented a state-owned financial company in an NDRC investigation into abuse of dominance.

-Represented an international agriculture company in an NDRC investigation into vertical monopoly agreements.

-Represented an international technology company in an antitrust administrative investigation conducted by the SAIC.

-Represented several domestic and multinational companies in MOFCOM antitrust investigations into the failure to notify.

-Represented two international chemicals companies in cooperating with the antitrust administrative investigation conducted by the SAIC.

Education