Guan Yue is a partner in our Beijing Office. Her practice focuses on antitrust matters, trade remedy, inbound & outbound investment and commercial dispute resolution. She has extensive experience in consulting antitrust matters, including advising clients in merger filings in China, providing compliance advice to clients in different industrial sectors and assisting clients in responding to investigations and inquiries by antitrust authorities. Guan Yue used to work for Tencent (China’s top Internet company) as senior legal counsel in antitrust area. She has in-depth experience and knowledge of antitrust matters in ICT industry.
Guan Yue also has extensive experience in areas of inbound & outbound investment and commercial dispute resolution. She advised clients in many cross-border investments and represented clients in commercial litigation and arbitration cases in China. She also has the experience in assisting foreign clients in solving investment disputes before the Chinese government.
Educational Background
• Transnational Law and Business University (South Korea), LL.M. (2007 - 2009)
• China University of Political Science and Law, LL.B. (2003 - 2007)
Professional Experience
• Guantao Law Firm, Partner (2016 - present)
• Tencent, Senior Legal Counsel (2014 - 2016)
• Guantao Law Firm, Associate (2009 - 2014)
Practice Areas
• Antitrust and Competition
• Trade Remedy
• Inbound & Outbound Investment
• Dispute Resolution
Representative Experience
Antitrust and Trade Remedy
• Assisted numerous Spanish wine enterprises in antidumping and countervailing investigations initiated by MOFCOM;
• Assisted China Unicom in response to the anti-monopoly investigation initiated by NDRC;
• Assisted various domestic and foreign enterprises (including ThyssenKrupp, Cepsa, China Electronics, Tokai Carbon etc.) in their merger filing before MOFCOM;
• Provided compliance advice to domestic and foreign clients from the PRC Anti-monopoly Law perspective;
Investment and M&A
• Assisted a PRC energy SOE in establishing a Sino-foreign joint venture with a US energy group in China;
• Assisted foreign clients in their acquisitions and sale of entities/assets in China;
• Assisted foreign clients in their incorporation of foreign invested enterprises in China;
Dispute Resolution and Others
• Assisted a Netherland energy group in resolving its investment disputes by attending consultations with the Chinese government;
• Assisted China Everbright Group in its civil retrial application before the Supreme Court of China;
• Represented Benxi Iron & Steel Group in its three maritime arbitrations and obtained favorable arbitral awards;
• Assisted China Development Bank Jiangsu Branch in its working capital loan project with an European company in PV industry.
Bar Admissions
• People's Republic of China, 2011
Language Skills
• Mandarin, native
• English, fluent