Ninette Dodoo
Greater China Region Guide 2025
Band 1 : Competition/Antitrust (International Firms)
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About
Provided by Ninette Dodoo
Practice Areas
Ninette is a partner in our antitrust, competition and trade practice in Asia and leads our practice in China. Ninette's practice focuses on antitrust-related work and foreign investment review in China, Hong Kong and the Asia-Pacific region.
Ninette advises clients on the antitrust aspects of M&A, joint ventures, strategic alliances, distribution and intellectual property-related arrangements, and other competitive conduct. Ninette also advises clients on investigations (including cartels and abuse of market dominance issues) and on foreign investment and subsidy control matters.
Ninette spent over 10 years in Brussels advising clients on EU and multijurisdictional matters before relocating to Asia in 2009. Ninette has acted on some of China’s and Asia-Pacific’s most complex and significant merger control matters (including remedies negotiations) and antitrust investigations across a range of sectors. Clients include multinational companies, state-owned enterprises, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds and private equity active across a range of sectors, including technology, automobile, aviation, shipping, healthcare & life sciences, consumer goods and energy.
Ninette combines international experience with on-the-ground local knowledge to deliver effective solutions for clients in global transactions, and to devise operational antitrust risk strategies.
Ninette is ranked in Band 1 in leading legal directories. She is a frequent speaker at international conferences on antitrust and foreign investment matters and has authored several publications.
Professional Memberships
Admitted to the Brussels Bar
Admitted to the Bar of England and Wales (non-practising)
Foreign Registered Lawyer in Hong Kong
Publications
GTDT: Merger Control in China
Foreign Investment Regulation Review Edition 10 (Chapter 5 China)
Antitrust in Asia: The business impact of fast-evolving competition laws
Chambers Review
Greater China Region
Ninette Dodoo co-heads the competition offering from the firm's Beijing office. She is highly proficient in EU competition law matters, having formerly been based in Brussels. Her principal area of focus is on regional and global merger filings.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"She has very good intel and a vantage point in China."
"Ninette not only understands China's antitrust matters but came from Brussels, so she understands how international competition policy works. She puts all of our issues in a global context."
"She has very good intel and a vantage point in China."
"Ninette not only understands China's antitrust matters but came from Brussels, so she understands how international competition policy works. She puts all of our issues in a global context."
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