Baisha Zhang

Practice Areas

Antitrust & Competition, Litigation & Arbitration, Investment/M&A & Corporate Governance

Professional Memberships

Academic Partner, Research Partnership Platform on Competition and Consumer Protection (RPP) of UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development)

Deputy Director, Anti-Monopoly & Anti-Unfair Competition Committee of ACLA

Expert Advisor, Guangdong Provincial Administration for Market Regulation

Adjunct Professor, Jinan University

Researcher, Intellectual Property and Competition Center of Wuhan University

Appointed Mentor for Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne

Consultant, Guangzhou International Investment Center

Consultant, Guangzhou Foreign Trade and Trade Remedy

Arbitrator, Foshan Arbitration Commission

Vice President, Alumni Association of East China University of Political Science and Law

President, Guangdong Alumni Association of East China University of Political Science and Law

Former Counsel, Guangzhou Municipal People's Government

Former Adjunct Professor, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Personal

Mr. Baisha Zhang is Special Counsel at Zhong Lun Law Firm. Mr. Zhang has been practicing in antitrust and competition law, litigation, and arbitration as well as M&A and corporate governance for almost three decades and made great accomplishments in these areas. Devoted to antitrust law in both academic research and practice for more than 20 years, he has always stayed at the forefront in this field, participated in a host of landmark cases and awarded Band 1 recommendation and special recommendation by well-known legal rating agencies including Chambers & Partners, The Legal 500, asialaw Profiles, and Who’s Who Legal for many years. In terms of dispute resolution, Mr. Zhang has handled cases with a significant impact before the Supreme People's Court and many provincial high courts in China, and has also acted for clients in high-profile arbitration cases before the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission as well as the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce. As for M&A and corporate governance, Mr. Zhang has represented a large number of companies across various industries including hi-tech, biopharma and health care, Internet, chemical, energy, FMCG, and home appliance, and is particularly adept at handling large and complicated cross-border or domestic deals.

Work Highlights

Antitrust and Competition Law

Antitrust Compliance

• Assisted Galanz in multi-jurisdictional filings and antitrust compliance in the tender offer to acquire Whirlpool (China) Co., Ltd., winning 2022 “Impact Deal and Case Awards" by asialaw Profiles

• Assisted G-Gas in bidding for divested assets in the Linde-Praxair merger, provided antitrust services, and facilitated the execution of divestiture

• Providing retainer-based antitrust compliance audit services to an international brewery

• Providing retainer-based antitrust compliance audit services to a Chinese manufacturer of high-tech devices

• Provided vertical antitrust compliance audit services to a central enterprise in FMCG

• Providing antitrust compliance legal services to a Chinese cellphone manufacturer

• Providing antitrust compliance legal services to a Chinese manufacturer of high-tech devices

• Providing antitrust compliance legal services to an Internal platform operator

• Providing antitrust compliance legal consultation services to a power company

• Providing antitrust and anti-unfair competition compliance legal consultation services to an international FMCG manufacturer

• Providing antitrust compliance legal services to an international FMCG manufacturer

• Providing antitrust compliance legal services to an international data company

• Providing antitrust compliance legal services to an international FMCG manufacturer

• Providing antitrust compliance legal services to an international chemical manufacturer

• Providing antitrust compliance legal services to an Internal platform operator

• Providing antitrust compliance legal services to an online game developer

• Providing antitrust compliance legal services to a Chinese automobile manufacturer

• Providing antitrust compliance legal services to a Chinese manufacturer of high-tech devices

• Providing antitrust compliance legal services to an international pharmaceutical company

• Providing antitrust compliance legal services to an Internet company

• Providing antitrust compliance legal services to an Internet platform operator

• Providing antitrust compliance legal services to an international data company

• Providing antitrust compliance legal services to an international device manufacturer

• Providing antitrust compliance legal services to an international auto part manufacturer

• Providing antitrust compliance legal services to an international manufacturer

• Providing antitrust compliance legal services to an international auto part manufacturer

• Providing antitrust compliance legal services to a Chinese medical device manufacturer

• Providing antitrust compliance legal services to an international medical device manufacturer

• Providing antitrust compliance legal services to an international medical device manufacturer

• Providing antitrust compliance legal services to an international cosmetic manufacturer

• Providing antitrust compliance legal services to an international device manufacturer

• Providing antitrust compliance legal services to an international chemical manufacturer

• Providing antitrust compliance legal services to a Chinese household appliances manufacturer

• Providing antitrust compliance legal services to an international device manufacturer

• Providing antitrust compliance legal services to an international energy gas company

• Providing antitrust compliance legal services to a Chinese gas company

• Providing antitrust compliance legal services to a Chinese material manufacturer

• Providing antitrust compliance legal services to an international material manufacturer

• Providing antitrust compliance legal services to an international material manufacturer

• Providing antitrust compliance legal services to an international shipping company

• Issuing antitrust expert opinions re several antitrust cases to Guangdong Administration for Market Regulation

• Issuing antitrust expert opinion re insider trading to Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong

• Providing antitrust compliance legal training to Guagndong Food Trade Association and Guangdong Drug Trade Association

Merger Filings

• Assisted LG Display in the notification of concentration in the setting up of an OLED joint venture in Guangzhou, in which the total investment amounts to RMB 46 billion, making it one of the largest FDI projects in China in 2018

• Assisted Galanz in the partial tender offer and the related filing concentration review with SAMR and agencies in other jurisdictions including U.S., Germany, etc., for acquiring the control of Whirlpool China

• Assisted G-Gas in the divestiture of the Linde-Praxair merger and the related filing concentration review with SAMR for the acquisition of the divested assets

• Assisted Hainan Development Holding Co., Ltd. in the notification of concentration in the acquisition of the airport business segment of Hainan Airline Group in its bankruptcy reorganization

• Assisted Guangzhou City Investment in the notification of concentration in the acquisition of shares of Guangzhou Restaurant

• Assisted Guangzhou City Investment in the notification of concentration in the acquisition of shares of Pearl Piano

• Assisted Science City Xinke Group in the notification of concentration in the acquisition of shares of Heren Technology

• Assisted Guangzhou Development Zone Investment Group in the notification of concentration in the acquisition of shares of Shunwei Plastics

• Assisted Guangzhou Wangli in the notification of concentration in the acquisition of shares of Sunward

• Assisted Jiangxi Chinese Media in the notification of concentration in the acquisition of shares of Qtone Education

• Assisted Shuifazongxing in the notification of concentration in the acquisition of shares of Dalian Paisi

• Assisted Guangdong Hengjian in the notification of concentration in the acquisition of shares of East

• Assisted Midea in the notification of concentration in the acquisition of shares of Hiconics

• Assisted Oerlikon Driving System in filing concentration review with SAMR for the selling the business to Dana

• Assisted Henniges Automotive in filing concentration review with SAMR for setting up a joint venture with Guizhou Guihang

• Assisted JAML in filing concentration reviews with SAMR and agencies in other jurisdictions including Germany for the share acquisition of a Japanese company

• Assisted ITOCHU in filing concentration reviews with SAMR and agencies in other jurisdictions including Germany for the share acquisition of a Japanese company

• Assisting GEM China in filing concentration review with SAMR for the setting up of a new joint venture with Brunp Recycling

• Assisted Chaowei Power Group Co., Ltd. in filing concentration review with SAMR for the setting up of a new joint venture with GE

• Assisting H&T Intelligent Control in filing concentration review with SAMR for a share acquisition of NPE S.r.l

• Assisted the concentration review with SAMR of a share acquisition of Woodbridge by GAC Component;

Mr. Baisha Zhang’s bio can be found here: https://en.zhonglun.com/team/baishazhang.html

Expert in these Jurisdictions

PRC Bar, 1994

Experience

Special Counsel, Zhong Lun Law Firm

Partner, GFE Law Firm

Managing Partner, Li De Law Firm

Lecturer, Guangdong University of Finance & Economics

Languages Spoken

Chinese

English