Laura Liu

Practice Areas

Laura Liu is the Partner of FenXun, Beijing office. She advises clients across a range of transactional, advisory and contentious competition matters, with a focus on China antitrust legal issues. Laura has experience in multi-jurisdictional competition law issues as well, having worked in Baker McKenzie's Brussels office, where she assisted clients with multijurisdictional merger filings and antitrust compliance. Laura has also assisted clients with handling multi-jurisdictional foreign investment filings as well as the new EU Foreign Government Subsidies Regulation for cross-border transaction and also has assisted several clients in passing the China National Security Review (NSR) in China.

Laura has advised numerous clients on complex competition compliance and advisory matters, including setting up competition compliance programs and conducting internal compliance audits etc.. In addition, she has considerable experience in handling dawn raids and antitrust investigations facing the China competition authority.

With a global perspective and deep understanding of Chinese companies' demands, Laura has assisted a significant number of China-based multinational companies in navigating layers of regulatory control, such as global multijurisdictional merger control, foreign investment review as well as the EU foreign government subsidy assessments in their cross-border M&A deals, as well as managing the global coordination of regulatory filing strategies for major deals with Baker McKenzie offices and local firms to obtain necessary clearances in overseas jurisdictions.

Career

Before joining the joint operation, Laura worked as a full-time antitrust lawyer at two leading domestic PRC law firms for six years. She now plays a key role in building up and strengthening the China practice. Clients have commented that "she is very diligent, responsive and definitely knows her stuff" and that "her advice is right to the point and commercially practical."

Publications

Co-author, "China Anti-Monopoly Law Guide Commentary," CCH China, 2009-2013

Co-author, China chapter, "PLC Cross-border Competition Handbook 2012: Q&A," PLC

Co-author, "How the Judicial Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court Affects Civil Antitrust Actions in China," LexisNexis, 2013

Co-author, "CHANGES IN THE LANDSCAPE: TRENDS IN GLOBAL MERGER CONTROL," Competition Policy International (CPI), 2017

Author, "Review on ICN's Competition Advocacy Reports," "Introduction and Review on Selected ICN Reports," Law Press China, 2018

Author, "China's SAMR Ramps Up Antitrust Enforcement," e-Competitions Bulletin of Concurrences, 2019 and 2020