Ninette Dodoo
Greater China Region Guide 2024
Band 1 : Competition/Antitrust (International Firms)
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About
Provided by Ninette Dodoo
Practice Areas
Ninette is a partner in Freshfields' antitrust, competition and trade group in Asia and leads the practice in China. Ninette's practice focuses on antitrust-related work and foreign investment review in China, Hong Kong and the Asia-Pacific region.
Ninette assists clients on the antitrust aspects of M&A, joint ventures, strategic alliances, distribution and intellectual property-related arrangements, and other competitive conduct. Ninette also assists clients with investigations (including cartels and abuse of market dominance issues) and on foreign investment and subsidy control matters.
Ninette spent over 10 years in Brussels assisting clients on EU and multijurisdictional matters before relocating to Asia in 2009. Ninette has acted on some of China’s and Asia-Pacific’s most complex and significant merger control matters (including remedies negotiations) and antitrust investigations across a range of sectors. Clients include multinational companies, state-owned enterprises, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds and private equity active across a range of sectors, including technology, automobile, aviation, shipping, healthcare & life sciences, consumer goods and energy.
Ninette combines international experience with on-the-ground local knowledge to deliver effective solutions for clients in global transactions, and to devise operational antitrust risk strategies.
Ninette is ranked in Band 1 in leading legal directories. She is a frequent speaker at international conferences on antitrust and foreign investment matters and has authored several publications.
Career
Ninette has more than 20 years of professional experience, and has been working at Freshfields since 2014. She was previously with another international law firm for more than 14 years, where she led the China antitrust team.
Professional Memberships
Admitted to the Brussels Bar
Admitted to the Bar of England and Wales (non-practising)
Foreign Registered Lawyer in Hong Kong
Publications
GTDT: Merger Control in China
Foreign Investment Regulation Review Edition 10 (Chapter 5 China)
Antitrust in Asia: The business impact of fast-evolving competition laws
Chambers Review
Greater China Region
Ninette Dodoo co-heads the competition offering from the firm's Beijing office. She is highly proficient in EU competition law matters, having formerly been based in Brussels. Her principal area of focus is on regional and global merger filings.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Ninette and her team were hard-working and very responsible when helping us solve problems and progress towards completion of the matter."
"Ninette is very famous in China. She is very knowledgeable and capable, and knows everything about antitrust law."
"Ninette and her team were hard-working and very responsible when helping us solve problems and progress towards completion of the matter."
"Ninette is very famous in China. She is very knowledgeable and capable, and knows everything about antitrust law."
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