Yong Bai
Greater China Region Guide 2024
Band 3 : Competition/Antitrust (International Firms)
Band 3
About
Provided by Yong Bai
Practice Areas
Yong Bai is a partner in the Antitrust Group of Clifford Chance.
He specializes in antitrust and competition issues and has more than 10 years of experience advising Chinese and multinational corporations on merger control, foreign investment regulatory matters and investigations across a range of industries.
Yong joined Clifford Chance in 2010 and became a partner since 2018. Prior to joining Clifford Chance, he worked at the PRC's Ministry of Commerce.
Yong is admitted in New York and also holds a PRC legal professional qualification certificate (currently not a PRC practising lawyer).
Yong is a native Mandarin speaker and fluent in English.
Career
Shanghai International Studies University (LLB) 2003
Obtained PRC legal professional qualification certificate (non-practising) 2006
Tsinghua University (LLM) 2007
Columbia University (LLM) 2010
Admitted as an Attorney-at-Law in New York 2011
Partner since 2018
Chambers Review
Greater China Region
Bai Yong is the principal antitrust partner in the firm's Beijing office, and advises Chinese and foreign clients on competition-related investigations and regulatory matters. He also plays a key role in regional and global merger filings as well as antitrust compliance.
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Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"He has very decent business acumen, which makes his advice practical and constructive to the client, and it also makes a lot of technical sense before the antitrust authorities."
"He has a good reputation in the market and is active on some of the big cases in the market, doing work on merger control filings, but also outbound investments."
"He has very decent business acumen, which makes his advice practical and constructive to the client, and it also makes a lot of technical sense before the antitrust authorities."
"He has a good reputation in the market and is active on some of the big cases in the market, doing work on merger control filings, but also outbound investments."