Antitrust and Competition Law

Business Overview

Llinks boasts a highly specialized team in the field of antitrust and competition law, providing comprehensive antitrust legal services to a diverse clientele including multinational corporations, Chinese listed companies, and leading companies in various industries . Llinks is renowned for its transactional legal services, and Llinks' Antitrust and Competition Law team handles merger control filings triggered by high-profile mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and other complex transactions. Our profound expertise ensures smooth clearance through regulatory reviews.

Amid an increasingly stringent regulatory environment in China and globally, companies are placing greater emphasis on building up systematic antitrust compliance frameworks. Llinks' Antitrust and Competition Law team possesses a deep understanding of industry nuances and commercial practices. We excel in developing customized compliance policies and preventive mechanisms for enterprises, offering targeted legal training, and conducting precise competition law compliance reviews for routine contracts and significant transactions. By this approach, we effectively assist clients in preventing and mitigating compliance risks. Furthermore, leveraging our extensive practical experience and comprehensive capabilities, the team provides pragmatic and efficient legal solutions to appropriately deal with dawn raids launched by regulators.

Key Capabilities

Designing merger filing strategies, preparing and submitting notification documents, and conducting negotiations with the Anti-Monopoly Bureau
Developing internal antitrust and competition law compliance policies and preventive mechanisms for enterprises
Providing antitrust and competition law compliance training
Offering legal consultation on day-to-day compliance issues
Conducting antitrust compliance reviews for significant transactions
Defending clients during government agency investigations, inspections, or penalties; communicating with enforcement and regulatory bodies; and formulating and executing contingency plans
Conducting internal and third-party compliance due diligence

Practice Highlights

Represented Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited (CATL) in its merger control filings on a long-term basis
Represented SAIC Volkswagen in the merger control filings for its multiple joint venture projects
Represented Ping An Group in the merger control filing for its acquisition of the Huadian project
Represented Rockwell in a specialized antitrust compliance analysis of its distribution model
Represented Pernod Ricard in legal matters responding to unfair competition
Represented IDEXX in legal matters responding to unfair competition

Market Recognition

Consistently recognized for numerous consecutive years as a leading Chinese law firm in the field of antitrust and competition law by authoritative Asia-Pacific legal rating agencies such as asialaw Profiles and ALB.
Consistently recognized for numerous consecutive years as a leading Chinese law firm in the field of antitrust and competition law by authoritative international legal rating agencies such as LEGALBAND.
Consistently recognized for numerous consecutive years as a leading Chinese law firm in the field of antitrust and competition law by internationally authoritative legal rating agencies such as The Legal 500.