Laura Liu

Practice Areas

Laura Liu is the Partner of FenXun, Beijing office. She advises clients across a range of transactional, advisory and contentious competition matters, with a focus on China antitrust legal issues. Laura has experience in multi-jurisdictional competition law issues as well, having worked in Baker McKenzie's Brussels office, where she assisted clients with multijurisdictional merger filings and antitrust compliance. Laura has also assisted clients with handling multi-jurisdictional foreign investment filings as well as the new EU Foreign Government Subsidies Regulation for cross-border transaction and also has assisted several clients in passing the China National Security Review (NSR) in China.

Laura has advised numerous clients on complex competition compliance and advisory matters, including setting up competition compliance programs and conducting internal compliance audits etc.. In addition, she has considerable experience in handling dawn raids and antitrust investigations facing the China competition authority.

With a global perspective and deep understanding of Chinese companies' demands, Laura has assisted a significant number of China-based multinational companies in navigating layers of regulatory control, such as global multijurisdictional merger control, foreign investment review as well as the EU foreign government subsidy assessments in their cross-border M&A deals, as well as managing the global coordination of regulatory filing strategies for major deals with Baker McKenzie offices and local firms to obtain necessary clearances in overseas jurisdictions.

Career

Before joining the joint operation, Laura worked as a full-time antitrust lawyer at two leading domestic PRC law firms for six years. She now plays a key role in building up and strengthening the China practice. Clients have commented that "she is very diligent, responsive and definitely knows her stuff" and that "her advice is right to the point and commercially practical."

Publications

Co-author, "China Anti-Monopoly Law Guide Commentary," CCH China, 2009-2013

Co-author, China chapter, "PLC Cross-border Competition Handbook 2012: Q&A," PLC

Co-author, "How the Judicial Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court Affects Civil Antitrust Actions in China," LexisNexis, 2013

Co-author, "CHANGES IN THE LANDSCAPE: TRENDS IN GLOBAL MERGER CONTROL," Competition Policy International (CPI), 2017

Author, "Review on ICN's Competition Advocacy Reports," "Introduction and Review on Selected ICN Reports," Law Press China, 2018

Author, "China's SAMR Ramps Up Antitrust Enforcement," e-Competitions Bulletin of Concurrences, 2019 and 2020

Languages Spoken

English

Mandarin

Experience

- Advised ADM on the multijurisdictional merger control assessment and China merger control aspects of its various transactions.

- Advised a Chinese state-owned conglomerate company group on the multijurisdictional assessment of its acquisition of certain assets in Europe and coordinated the merger filings in several jurisdictions.

- Advised a Chinese chemical company on the multijurisdictional merger control and, foreign investment review as well as the EU FSR assessment for its cross-border share acquisition of a foreign company.

- Advised Chr. Hansen on the China merger control filing relating to the merger between Novozymes A/S and Chr. Hansen and obtained the unconditional clearance.

- Advised FedEx on the Chinese merger clearance aspects of its USD 4.8 billion acquisition of TNT, and obtained the unconditional clearance.

- Advised a Chinese state-owned enterprise on setting up its overseas antitrust compliance guidance with focus on the US and the European market.

- Advised a US based retail company to deal with China competition authority's antitrust investigation for its distribution management in China.

- Advised a foreign company dealing with a failure-to-notify investigation targeting an offshore JV transaction conducted by the China competition authority.

- Advised a Japanese electronic parts company on its antitrust compliance in China as well as dealing with the antitrust investigation conducted by the China competition authority.

- Provided legal advice for a MNC with respect to SEP litigation and China antitrust law compliance.

Education

Awards