Jet Deng

Practice Areas

Competition and Antitrust

Litigation and Dispute Resolution

Privacy and Cybersecurity

Compliance

Career

Senior Partner, Dentons Beijing office, LLP,2013-Present

Partner/Associate, T&D Associates,2005-2013

Professional Memberships

Merger Control Experts Panel of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Commission on Competition

Competition and Regulation European Summer School (CRESSE), EU

Antitrust Expert Pool of the Beijing Municipal Administration for Market Regulation, China

Competition Law and Antitrust Professional Committee of Beijing Lawyers Association, China

Antitrust Professional Committee of the International Bar Association, UK

Antitrust Professional Committee of the American Bar Association, US

Professional Technical Committee of the China Cybersecurity Review and Certification Center (CCRC)

Data Compliance Standards expert of the China Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (CICS), China

Personal Information Protection Panel of the Cyber Security Association of China

Network and Information Law Research Center of China Law Society, China

Academy of Arbitration Law, China

Publications

“Conflicts in Competition Regulation Practices and the Resolution”, Economic Law Review, 2023

“Competition Enforcement in Digital Markets in China”, the Antitrust Bulletin, 2022

“The Alibaba Case: An Open Sesame to China’s Antitrust Regulation on the Internet Platforms”, Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, 2022

“China PIPL FAQs”, Bloomberg Law, 2021

“Failure To File Reportable Mergers – Update from China”, CPI Antitrust Chronicle, 2021

“Big Data and Competition in China: Antitrust Regulation and Beyond”, CPI Antitrust Chronicle (Year of the Ox Antitrust Enforcement), 2021

“The Merger Control Review: China”, Law Business Research, 2020

“Antitrust Enforcement in the Chinese Automobile Industry: Observations and Future Perspectives”, CPI Antitrust Chronicle, 2020

“The Chinese State Administration for Market Regulation releases its draft proposing amendments to the Chinese Anti-Monopoly Law”, Concurrences, 2020

“China Overview,” Global Competition Review: Private Litigation Guide, 2019

“Trends and Developments China”, Chambers & Partners: Antitrust Litigation, 2019

“Yutai: A Landmark Case on Resale Price Maintenance in China”, CPI Asia Column, 2018

“The Roots, Characters and Legal Regulation of Administrative Monopoly (second version)”, Law Press, 2017

“Antitrust Treatment of Standard Essential Patent Abuse: China’ s Experience and Lessons”, Jindal Global Law Review, 2017

“Managing Distribution and Antitrust Compliance Issues in China: Post Medtronic & GM”, Competition Policy International, 2017

“Public Enforcement of Antitrust Law in China: Perspective of Procedural Fairness”, Competition Law Enforcement in the BRICS and in Developing Countries, Springer, 2016

“MOFCOM Probes and Punishment For Unfiled Business Concentration”, China Business Law Journal, 2015

“Trade Remedies – Anti-dumping”, Law Press, 2006

Personal

Chair of Dacheng China Competition and Antitrust Practice

Member of Legal Team of China Consumer Association

One of the major contributors to the Data Compliance Audit Guidelines as released in 2024.

External Research Supervisor of Graduate Students at University of International Business and Economics’ Law School

External Research Supervisor of Graduate Students at Renmin University of China

External Research Supervisor of Graduate Students at Beijing Foreign Studies University

Arbitrator, Ningbo Arbitration Commission

Researcher of the Competition Law Research Center at University of International Business and Economics

Researcher of the Competition Law and Industrial Development Research Center at Jinan University

Clients

Unilever China

TOTAL

Volkswagen

Inspur

Munich Re

CCPIT

S.F. Express

Schaeffler Greater China

DENSO

Trip.com Group Ltd.

Henlius

China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation

Shanghai Fosun Health Technology (Group) Co., Ltd.

Contemporary Amperex Technology Co.，Limited (CATL)

CNNC Capital Holding Co., Ltd

Yunnan Yuntou Capital Operation Co., Ltd.

Beijing Shenzhou Aerospace Software Technology Co., Ltd

Work Highlights

Battery manufacturer: Advising on coping with antitrust investigation on RPM (2023-present)

City gas company: Advising on coping with antitrust investigation on abuse of dominant market position (2022-present)

Internet companies: Conducting mock dawn raids and providing competition compliance training (2020-2021)

Online music streaming platform: Advising on coping with antitrust investigation on abuse of dominant market position (2019-present).

Cement manufacturing company: Advising on coping with antitrust investigation on horizontal agreement (2019-present).

Online food delivery service company: Advising on coping with antitrust investigation on exclusive dealing (2019-2021).

Beijing Administration for Market Regulation: Produced a third-party competition assessment report for its antitrust investigation (2019).

World-renowned MNC: Advised it on coping with antitrust investigation against alleged monopoly agreement concerning terminal handling charge (2018).

Yunnan Yuntou Capital Operation Co., Ltd.: Provided merger filing services for equity acquisition of Yunnan Geology Mining Group Co., Ltd. by Yunnan Yuntou Capital Operation Co., Ltd. (2023)

China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC): Provided merger filing services for establishment of joint ventures between CRRC and Chinese local metro companies (2022-2024).

TOTAL: Provided merger filing services for the establishment of foreign and Chinese joint ventures between TOTAL and other companies. (2019-2022).

Chongqing Yaoyou Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.: Provided merger filing services for equity acquisition of GlaxoSmithKline (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. by Chongqing Yaoyou Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (2019).

DENSO&TOYOTA: Provided merger filing services for establishment of a joint venture between DENSO CORPORATION and TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION (2019).

Semiconductor material company: Representing it in an antitrust civil lawsuit against its American supplier of raw ore materials (2023-2024)

Chinese medical device company: Represented it in an antitrust civil lawsuit against its American competitor (2022-2023).

Chinese shipping company: Assisted it in successfully defending an antitrust class action in the US through a motion to dismiss (2019).

China Chamber of International Commerce (CCOIC): Assisted it in claiming damages on behalf of Chinese victims in various air cargo shipping cartel civil actions in the US (2018).

China Air Transport Association and CCOIC: Assisted in claiming damages on behalf of Chinese victims in various air cargo shipping cartel civil actions in the US, the UK and the Netherlands (2012, 2015 &2016).

Global leading Japanese medical device company: Advised it on its proposed distribution arrangement in China, mainly including the bundling practice, and the vertical restriction on the platform distributor.

US medical device company: Advised it on its distribution arrangement in China, focusing its business model of bundling and tying.

Industry Sector Expertise

Online Business

Chemicals & Energy

Health and Life Sciences

Semiconductor & Manufacturing

Finance & Investment

Expert in these Jurisdictions

PRC

Languages Spoken

Chinese and English

Experience

As an antitrust lawyer with extensive hands-on experience, Dr. Deng has handled an enormous amount of antitrust filings for domestic and cross-border M&A transactions and received swift and satisfying results. Dr. Deng has represented a number of multinational and domestic corporations to cope with investigations on monopoly agreements and abuse of dominance brought by Chinese anti-monopoly law enforcement authorities. He has abundant practice experience regarding complex antitrust civil litigations such as abuse of IP rights. Furthermore, Dr. Deng has provided legal advice on antitrust risks for multiple commercial transactions, and has assisted a multitude of large multinational corporations, SOEs, private domestic companies and industry associations in establishing antitrust compliance systems.

Since as early as 2004, Dr. Deng has been participating in China’s antitrust legislation and providing domestic and foreign clients with legal service. Dr. Deng has been repeatedly interviewed by relevant media including CCTV, China National Radio and Xinhua News Agency. He has published dozens of Chinese and English antitrust treatises on various publications.

In 2012, Mr. Deng began to engage in the cybersecurity and data protection legal practice. He has been paying close attention to China’s data protection legislation for many years. Based on a deep understanding of China’s cybersecurity, data and privacy protection legal system, he has advised numerous domestic and foreign clients on establishing compliance systems, designing business models, and coping with administrative investigations and civil litigations. He has also assisted companies in solving problems involving collection, processing, privacy protection, and cross-border transfer of client and employee information on many occasions.

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