Li Ren

Practice Areas

Competition/Antitrust

Career

Lawyer of the People's Republic of China

Senior Equity Partner of Beijing DHH Law Firm

Mr. Ren (Roy) started his practicing in antitrust law since 2007 and is one of China's first batch of antitrust lawyers. He received J.D. degree in antitrust law in UIBE and LLM degree in law school of Temple university. He is one of the few lawyers with both deep theory understanding and extensive experience in antitrust law in China. Mr. Ren has handled hundreds of cases involving concentrations of undertakings, cartels, and abuses of market dominance. Some of the cases he handled in response to government investigations successfully attained the result of non-constitution of abuse or cartel, or non-punishment. He is also working as antitrust legal counsel for several leading energy companies in China.

Professional Memberships

Secretary General, Competition and Anti-Monopoly Law Professional Committee, Beijing Lawyers Association

Member of Anti-Monopoly Expert Pool of Beijing Municipal Market Supervision Bureau, 2022-2025

Member of Foreign Lawyer Pool, Beijing Municipal Lawyers Association, 2020

2021 Appointed as Special Researcher of the Institute of Foreign-related Rule of Law, University of International Business and Economics

2023-2026 Mediator, Mediation Center of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT)

2020-2023 Practical Supervisor for LLM Degree Graduate Students of Law School of University of International Business and Economics (UIBE)

2023-2026 Practice Supervisor for Postgraduate Students of LLM Degree Program, School of Law, Renmin University of China

Publications

“The Theoretical Evidence of Arbitrability of Antitrust Disputes in China.” Arbitration and Law, Issue 148, 2023.

“A Study on the Constitutive Criteria of Predatory Pricing Problems under the Conditions of Network Economy.” Hebei Law Journal, No. 5, 2017.

“On the Legal Application of Unfairly High Price System in the Antitrust Law.” Hebei Law Journal, Issue 4, 2017.

“On the Practice of Declaring Operators' Concentration under China's Anti-Monopoly Law.” Japan Lexis Magazine, March 2010 Issue.

“Relevant Market: A Concept That Can Directly Determine the Fate of a Case.” China Foreign Investment, May 2008 Issue.

“Analysis of Horizontal Monopoly Agreements.” Foreign Investment in China, February 2008 Issue.

“Whether the Pricing Policy of Zhi.com's Products Constitutes’Unfairly High Prices’.” WeChat.com's Knowledge and Power.

Clients

Chinese National Petroleum Corporation(CNPC)

Chinese Football Association Super League Co., Ltd.

China State Shipbuilding Corporation Limited (CSSC)

State Grid Corporation Of China (State Grid)

China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN)

Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Ltd.(CATL)

BYD Company Limited

China Development Bank (CDB)

The Foxconn Technology Group

Alibaba Group Holding Limited

Shenzhen S.F. Taisen Holding(Group) Co., Ltd.

Jiang Tai Insurance Brokers Co., Ltd.

China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC)

Experience

Antitrust

Representing an energy company located in Northwest China to respond to the investigation by Anti-trust authority;

Representing a professional sports company to respond to the investigation by Anti-trust authority;

Representing an energy company located in Northeast China to respond to the investigation by Anti-trust authority;

Representing an energy company located in South China to respond to the investigation by Anti-trust authority;

Representing an insurance broker company to respond to the investigation by Anti-trust authority;

Representing two top ship-building company in China for their merger control notice;

Representing Foxconn to report to China Anti-trust authority for the abuse behaviors conducted by the leading software company in US;

Representing an internet company to report to China Anti-trust authority for the illegal merger of the two top competitors in China;

Legal counsel of a top energy company in China;

Legal counsel of a top new energy company in China.

Education

Awards