Guan Yue is a partner in our Dispute Resolution Department, and head of the Antitrust and Competition Practice Group. Her practice focuses on antitrust matters, commercial dispute resolution, inbound & outbound investment and trade remedy. Ms. Guan has extensive experience in consulting antitrust matters, including advising clients in merger filings in China, providing compliance advice to clients in different industrial sectors, assisting clients in responding to investigations and inquiries by antitrust authorities, and advising clients in different types of antitrust disputes. She has provided her expertise to leading enterprises in various sectors, such as telecommunications, the Internet, semiconductors, chemicals, energy, steel, automobile manufacturing, food and pharmaceutical, building materials, finance, and many more. 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 the 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.
Practice Areas
Antitrust and competition, dispute resolution, inbound & outbound investment, and trade remedy
Representative Experience
Antitrust and Competition
• Assisted numerous domestic and foreign enterprises (including PetroChina, Datang Telecom, Baosteel Metal, PIC, Mitsubishi, NYK, ZF, DSM, Benteler and ThyssenKrupp etc.) in their merger filings in China
• Assisted various clients in more than ten investigation cases initiated by the Chinese antitrust authorities regarding monopoly agreements and abuse of dominance matters (including assisting China Unicom in response to the anti-monopoly investigation initiated by NDRC etc.)
• Provided domestic and foreign enterprises with compliance advice and trainings from the antitrust and competition rules perspective
• Assisted clients in dispute resolutions in different types of antitrust litigations
Dispute Resolution
• 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 procedure before the Supreme People’s Court and obtained a favorable ruling
• Represented Bensteel Group in its three maritime arbitrations and obtained favorable arbitral awards
• Assisted numerous clients in commercial dispute resolutions (including cross-border disputes) through arbitration, litigation as well as enforcement proceedings
Investment, M&A and others
• Provided legal services to various foreign companies, including providing assistance on the acquisitions and sales of entities/assets in China
• Assisted the Spanish Wine Federation (FEV) and 88 Spanish wine enterprises in antidumping and countervailing investigations initiated by MOFCOM
• Assisted a PRC energy SOE in establishing a Sino-foreign joint venture with a US energy group in China
• Assisted foreign clients in their incorporation of foreign-invested enterprises in China
• Assisted China Development Bank Jiangsu Branch in its working capital loan project with a European company in PV industry
Awards and Rankings
• 2022 ALB China Rising Lawyers
• 2020 China Law & Practice, Lawyers of the Year, Rising Star
Qualification
Admitted in People's Republic of China
Professional Affiliations
• Member, Commercial Arbitration Committee of the Beijing Bar Association
• Arbitrator, Nanjing Arbitration Commission/Jiangsu (Nanjing) International Commercial Arbitration Centre
• Expert Member, China Beijing Equity Exchange (CBEX)
Professional Experience
• Guantao Law Firm, Partner (2016 - present)
• Tencent, Senior Legal Counsel (2014 - 2016)
• Guantao Law Firm, Associate (2009 - 2014)
Education
• Transnational Law and Business University (South Korea), LL.M.
• China University of Political Science and Law, LL.B.
Languages
Mandarin and English
