Janet Hui

Practice Areas

Janet Hui is a partner at JunHe LLP and is based in Beijing. She primarily specializes in antitrust, cross-border M&A, FDI and general corporate matters. Janet has been recognized as a Band 1 Ranked Lawyer by Chambers and Partners (Asia-Pacific 2012-2024), Leading Lawyer and Recommended Lawyer by The Legal 500 (2012-2024), Highly Regarded Lawyer by IFLR1000 (2017-2024), and Thought Leader- Global Elite by Who’s Who Legal (2017-2024) in antitrust matters. Janet is the Co-Chair of IBA Antitrust Committee from 2023 to 2024 and ex-Co-Chair of IPBA Competition Committee.

Janet has more than 30 years’ experience in providing legal services to clients in different industries, particularly in areas such as telecommunications and media, hotels and real estate, aviation, automobile, semiconductor, pharmaceutical, medical instrument, food and beverage, etc.

Janet has extensive experience in handling cross border M&A transactions including advising on viable structure for complex transactions, identifying and resolving legal and regulatory issues, drafting, revising and finalizing transaction documents and attending to closing and post-closing material matters.

Janet also has substantial experience in handling various competition and antitrust work including:

• applying for clearances for complicated merger control filings, filing complaints against transactions under merger control review;

• handling investigations for failure to file and transactions with competition concerns or issues;

• reviewing and advising on whether transactions and/or commercial arrangement may have competition concerns or issues and solutions to resolve these concerns or issues;

• defending antitrust investigations on alleged anti-competitive practices in China;

• applying for leniency for certain infringement actions under the Anti-Monopoly Law; and

• providing compliance advice and training to multinational companies in different industries.

Career

Member of the Law Society of Hong Kong.

Greater Bay Area Chinese Bar Exam, 2022.

Solicitor and Barrister of New Zealand, 1996.

Solicitor of England and Wales, 1994.

Solicitor of Hong Kong, 1990.

Languages Spoken

English, Mandarin, Cantonese and Taiwanese dialects.

Education