Huikuang Jiang

Practice Areas

Antitrust & Competition, Cross-border Investment/M&A, Compliance & Investigation

Professional Memberships

Member, Foreign Affairs Committee, Beijing Lawyers Association

Member, Editor of Antitrust Magazine - Digital Edition, ABA Antitrust Law Section

Panel Expert, China Chamber of International Commerce (CCOIC) and International Chamber of Commerce -China (ICC-China)

Publications

“Market Intelligence Cartels”, Lexology GTDT, 2022

“Market Intelligence Digital Transformation”, Lexology GTDT, 2022

Personal

Frank specializes in antitrust/competition (including merger control, unilateral and joint conducts), national security review, and M&A, and has worked on over 120 mandates in a variety of industries, including aerospace, automobile, chemistry, energy, engineering, FMCG, healthcare, ICT, real estate, etc. His clients include Arm, Baowu, CHD, CNPC, CTG, Cummins, DNE, EDF, EssilorLuxottica, IBM, Mercedes-Benz, Microsoft, NHU, Parker-Hannifin, Qualcomm, Schneider Electric, Tencent, Walmart, and Warburg Pincus.

Frank has been the lead competition lawyer in a number of high-profile investigation/litigation, mergers & acquisitions, and joint venture projects, is responsible for coordinating domestic and international teams, producing documents, and communicating with relevant regulatory authorities and has maintained good cooperative relationships with lawyers from a number of well-known foreign law firms.

He has written dozens of articles and publications in the field of compliance, and actively participated in relevant legislative activities organized by law enforcement agencies.

Work Highlights

Antitrust/Competition and Regulatory Compliance

Represented a number of multinationals and leading companies in more than ten antitrust enforcements or litigations in automobile, consumer, ICT and manufacturing sectors in China and beyond, with billions of dollars at stake

Represented a number of manufacturing and platform firms in dealing with onsite investigation and compliance programs, involving such sectors as automobile, cloud computing, e-commerce, gaming, healthcare, social networking, transportation, etc.

Represented a number of SOEs and listed companies in compliance programs of their global business, covering antitrust, FDI screening (national security review), blocking rules and anti-foreign sanctions, ESG, and other regulatory issues

Provided legal services for a number of transactions involving foreign investment security review in China (incl. conditional clearance and prohibition)

Provided legal services for a number of antitrust projects

Advised Walmart on various antitrust and M&A projects

Advised Tencent on compliance assessment in dozens of transactions

Represented Luxottica Group in its merger with Essilor International, and implementation of commitments it made to the Chinese authority (the first of its kind since inception of SAMR)

Represented Yum! China on its joint venture with a leading Chinese AI technology company (the first unconditionally-cleared deal involving VIE structure)

Represented Bombardier in its sale of transportation business to Alstom

Represented Parker-Hannifin Corporation in its acquisition of LORD Corporation

Provided legal services to Électricité de France for several offshore joint ventures projects

Provided legal services to Schneider Electric for its joint acquisition (with Alstom) of Areva T&D and its acquisition of Leader & Harvest

Provided legal services to SIG Combibloc for its acquisition of Evergreen Asia

Provided legal services to Mitsubishi Gas Chemical for its joint venture with ITEQ Corporation

Provided legal services to SABIC for its offshore joint venture project and domestic joint venture antitrust compliance issues

Provided legal services to Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd for its acquisition of Cameron Rig Solutions Inc.

Provided legal services to Noritz Corporation for its partial acquisition of Sakura Bath and Kitchen Products (China) Co., Ltd.

Provided legal services to Rengo Co., Ltd. for its acquisition of certain issued shares in Hung Hing Printing Group Limited (listed in Hong Kong)

Provided legal services to Toll Logistics (Asia) Limited for its partial acquisition of Tianjin Anda Toll Logistics Co., Ltd.

Provided legal services to Warburg Pincus LLC for a number of investment projects in China

Provided legal services to AIG Investments for its cross-border acquisition of equity interests in Chongqing Lifan Group

Provided legal services to two leading private equity funds for PRC merger control issues in connection with its “take private” transaction of a US listed company

Provided legal services to Cummins China for its several joint venture projects and advised the client on various PRC antitrust issues

Provided legal services to ZF China for its two joint venture projects and advised the client on certain PRC antitrust issues

Provided legal services concerning PRC antitrust related matters for JD.com Inc.'s strategic partnership with Tencent Holdings Limited

Provided legal services to China Merchants for its joint venture with Viking Cruises

Provided legal services for China Minmetals' joint venture with CITIC and Guoxin for acquisition of Las Bambas copper mine project from Glencore – Xstrata

Provided legal services to China Three Gorges Corporation for its partial acquisition of Hubei Energy Group

Provided legal services to NHU for its joint venture with SinoPec

Provided legal services to Cummins, ZF, BMW, Wabtec, Thyssenkrupp, and Faurecia for a number of joint venture projects and for various PRC antitrust compliance issues

Provided legal services to Apax, Apollo, Bain Capital, DNE, LaSalle, LCatterton, and Warburg Pincus for PRC merger control issues in a number of investment projects

Provided legal services for a global logistics company's partial acquisition of a PRC company

Provided legal services to a major multinational company for PRC merger control/national security review issues in its proposed acquisition of a state-owned company

Provided legal services to a number of companies for pre-filing consultations with enforcement agencies in connection with pending acquisitions and successfully obtained rulings of no-filing obligation

Provided legal services to a number of multinational companies for a series of AML compliance training sessions covering a variety of topics

Provided legal services to a number of multinational companies for PRC channel management policy and other antitrust compliance issues

Provided legal services concerning a number of failure-to-notify cases (involving VIE structure) and trustee matters

Corporate /M&A

Provided legal services to a number of multinationals for their corporate legal matters

Provided legal services to Emerson Electric for a number of its global reorganization projects

Provided legal services to Schneider Electric for its joint acquisition (with Alstom) of Areva T&D

Provided legal services to UBS/Gemdale for the establishment of UBS/Gemdale China Real Estate Fund I, L.P.

Provided legal services to Wabtec for its PRC group structure and a number of joint ventures

Provided legal services to one of China's major telecommunication value-added operators as the target company for receiving inbound investment by a multinational telecommunication