GLO has established a professional lawyer team in anti-trust, national security review and anti-unfair competition since 2008 when the "Anti-trust Law" became effective.
The GLO antitrust and competition legal team consists of partners and lawyers with extensive practice experience. Many members of the group once worked at domestic and foreign anti-trust law enforcement authorities (e.g. the MOFCOM, NDRC and AICs, DGCOM of European Commission) or served as judges at courts. With such background, they offer clients a unique combination of experience and insight as both a regulator/judge and a lawyer. In addition, some of our partners and associates have profound industry background (e.g. the pharmaceutical industry) and/or intensive experiences in other practices (e.g. intellectual property), and are thus well-equipped for highly-sophisticated issues.
We have provided professional anti-trust and competition law services for domestic and foreign clients across a number of industries including medicine and healthcare, internet, automobile, electric appliance, IT, food and beverage, chemical engineering, banking, transportation, trade and retail industries.
Anti-trust
We have accumulated extensive experience by undertaking a large number of projects related to this field. Our services mainly include:
- initiating or responding to complaints related to anti-trust law on behalf of clients
- responding to anti-trust investigations initiated by competition authorities on behalf of clients
- filing anti-trust civil and administrative proceedings on behalf of clients
- making anti-trust declarations of concentration of business operators (also known as merger control filings) within China on behalf of clients or coordinating their anti-trust declarations outside China
- providing anti-trust compliance legal services for clients
Representative deals:
- Anti-trust declaration regarding II-VI Incorporated's acquisition of Finisar Corporation
- Anti-trust declaration regarding SINOMACH's acquisition of China High-tech Group Corporation
- Anti-trust declaration regarding Suning.com Group's acquisition of Carrefour’s China Business
- Responding to anti-trust investigation on behalf of a yard enterprise in Tianjin Port
- Providing all-around anti-trust compliance plan for the sales business of a Chinese automobile group
Anti-unfair Competition
We have accumulated extensive experience by undertaking a large number of projects related to this field. Our services mainly include:
- initiating or responding to administrative complaints related to anti-unfair competition law on behalf of clients
- responding to investigations initiated by anti-unfair competition law enforcement authorities on behalf of clients
- filing unfair competition civil proceedings on behalf of clients
- filing administrative reviews or administrative proceedings regarding unfair competition on behalf of clients
- providing clients with compliance services related to anti-unfair competition law
National Security Review
We have accumulated extensive experience by undertaking a large number of projects related to this field. Our services mainly include:
- submitting national security review applications on behalf of clients
- responding to national security review procedures initiated by governments on behalf of clients
- providing clients with legal services including prior consulting and analysis related to national security review
Media's Evaluation
One client said, "The level of service from Universal Law Firm is excellent. They are responsive and timely." He also praised the firm as "a very good firm and a large, comprehensive firm with good all-around service capabilities."
——Chambers-Greater China Region 2023
"GLO partners have rich practical experience and are able to provide operational compliance advice to clients," confirms a client.
"The team are highly experienced and client-oriented," says an interviewee, who elaborates: "They also delivered practical legal advice that was extremely helpful to the development of our business at the time."
——Chambers-Greater China Region 2022
Awards & Rankings
- 2022, FIRMS OF THE YEAR: China - Competition, China Law & Practice
- 2021, Deals of the year 2021 - TCL, Ericsson unfair competition dispute, China Business Law Journal
- 2017-2022, Nominated in several years in Anti-Trust & Competition Law Firm of the Year, Asian Legal Business
- 2018, winner of “Global Competition Review (GCR) Matter of the Year - Dow/DuPont deal” and this deal is one of “top ten” most influential antitrust cases of the past decade issued by the expert advisory group of the State Council’s Anti-Monopoly Commission in the year.
- 2022-2023, Recommended firm in Competition/Antitrust, Chambers and Partners Greater China Region
- 2020, Recommended firm in Antitrust & Competition, Chambers and Partners Asia Pacific
- 2018-2023, Recommended firm in Antitrust and Competition, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific
- 2017, 2020-2022, Recommended firm in Antitrust & Competition, LEGALBAND
- 2022, Top 25 China IP & Antitrust Domestic Law Firm, China Intellectual Property Forum
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