Peng Wu

Practice Areas

Antitrust & Competition, Cross-border Investment/M&A, Litigation & Arbitration

Professional Memberships

Arbitrator, China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission

Researcher, Centre for Private Law Studies Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Science

Part-time Professor, Beijing University, Renmin University of China, China University of Political Science and Law

Vice President, Sino- Japan Civil Law Association

Director, Delos Foundation International

Personal

Mr. Wu has been practicing law since 1993 and has provided legal counseling for dozens of well-known transnational companies. His expertise covers anti-monopoly, litigation and arbitration, international investment and other fields. Mr. Wu has maintained a long-term relationship with many large central or state-owned enterprises, private enterprises, and well-known multinational corporations. With his unique understanding of law and rich experience, Mr. Wu could responds to client needs accurately and provides tailored solutions, and has won long-term trust and widespread praise from clients.

Work Highlights

Special legal affairs of enterprises

Anti-monopoly

• Provided legal opinions for compliance consulting on anti-monopoly issues for multinational enterprises

• Rendered legal opinions on possible abuse of dominant market positions by enterprises

• Represented lawsuits regarding competition law/ possible abuse of dominant market positions under anti-monopoly law

• Assisted clients in completing declaration of business concentration

• Provided legal opinions on enterprises under possible monopoly investigation for monopoly pricing

• Participated in legislative consultation and research regarding anti-monopoly organized by Ministry of Commerce

• Gave theme lectures in academic seminars hosted by Beijing University, Renmin University and Chinese Academy for Social Science regarding to anti-monopoly issues

• Gave theme lectures in academic seminars hosted in Japan, Korea and China

Up till now, Mr. Wu has represented the following influential merger filing cases and antitrust investigation cases

• Antitrust Investigations by NDRC

• Antitrust investigation against a communication technology company of U.S.

• Antitrust investigation against Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

• Antitrust investigation against a Japanese auto parts manufacturer

• Antitrust investigation against NTN

• Antitrust investigation against Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.

• Advised Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics in NDRC’s anti-monopoly investigation

• Advised OKAYA Electric Industries Co., Ltd. in NDRC’s anti-monopoly investigation

• Antitrust Investigations by SAIC

• Antitrust investigation against an IT company of U.S.

Merger Filing

• Merger filing for the M&A transaction between Panasonic and Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

• Merger filing for the M&A transaction between Sharp Corporation and Pioneer Corporation

• Merger filing for the (offshore) M&A transaction between Komatsu Ltd. and Nippei Toyama Corporation

• Merger filing for establishment of a joint venture by Mitsui & Co. (China) and New Hope Group Co., Ltd.

• Merger filing for M&A transaction between TCL Multimedia Technology Holdings Limited and Toshiba

• Merger filing for the transaction of business transfer from Hitachi to Panasonic

• Merger filing for establishment of a joint venture by Jiangsu Rainbow Heavy Industries Co., Ltd and Cagortec Industries

• Merger filing for acquisition by Mitsui & Co. of stock equity of Tianjin Gateway Industrial Power

• Merger filing for establishment of a joint venture by Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Mitsubishi Electric (China) Co., Ltd. and Shihlin Electric International Investment Co., Ltd.

• Merger filing for merger between Nippon Steel Corporation and Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.

• Merger filing for acquisition of Sanyo Precision Co., Ltd. by Nidec Corporation

• Merger filing for SK Telecom’s Acquisition of 21.05% equity in Hynix Semiconductor Inc.

• Merger filing for establishment of a joint venture by Furukawa Electric in Tangshan, North China

• Merger filing for establishment of a joint venture in Xiamen by Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

• Merger filing for acquisition of Severstal-SSC-Vsevolozhskro by Mitsui & Co. Ltd.

• Merger filing for establishment of a joint venture company by RIKEN Cable, Ltd. in Tangshan

• Merger filing for establishment of a joint venture by Sumitomo Corporation and New Hope Liuhe Co., Ltd.

• Merger filing for establishment a joint venture by Mitsui & Co., SEVEn-ELEVEn Co.,Ltd(China) and South Hope Industrial Co., Ltd

• Merger filing for establishment of a joint venture by Mitsui & Co. and Celanese

• Merger filing for establishment of a joint venture in the US by Mitsui & Co. and Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd

• Merger filing in connection with establishment of joint venture by Mitsui & Co., Ltd., Otsuka Pharmaceutical Factory and Claris ( India)

• Merger filing for establishment of a joint venture by Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and Hefei King Home Electrical Appliance Co., Ltd

• Merger filing for establishment of a joint venture by Harman (China) Investment Co., Ltd.

• Merger filing for ADM’s acquisition of stock equity of GrainCorp Limited

• Merger filing for Funds managed by Blackstone Real Estate Advisors L.P. in its acquisition of more than 50% stock equity of Tysan Group through public offering

• Merger filing for acquisition by Sichuan Kelun Industry Group of Lijun International Pharmaceutical (Holding) Co., Ltd

• Merger filing for acquisition by Marubeni Corporation and Marubeni (Beijing) Corporation of Qingdao Runtian Food

• Merger filing for acquisition by Mitsui & Co. (USA) of 30% equity of Yorozu Corporation held by Yorozu Automobile (Brazil) Ltd.

• Merger filing for the business reorganization where Mitsuibishi Chemical, Japan Polychem Corporation, and JNC transfer their polypropylene compounds business and JNC’s Long glass fiber reinforced thermoplastics business, respectively, to Japan Polypropylene Corporation

• Merger Filing of Huizhou TCL Electrical Appliances Corporation’s acquisition of 21% shares of Toshiba Video Products (China) Corporation held by Toshiba Merger filing for the establishment of a joint venture by Metal One and Mitsui & Co. (Steel)

• Merger filing for ThyssenKrupp (China)’ s transfer of its shares in Huizhou Sumikin to Sumitomo Corporation and Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation

• Merger filing for ADM’s acquisition of joint control of T5 business of Marubeni Corporation

• Merger filing in connection with the acquisition of Huizhou Zhujin Forging Co., Ltd by Sumitomo Corporation, Sumitomo (China) Ltd. and Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation

• Merger filing in connection with the establishment of JV, Oji JEN Green Resources Co., Ltd. by Oji Green Resources Co., Ltd. and JEN Holdings Co., Ltd.

• Merger filing in connection with the establishment of JV to remanufacture vehicles in China by Mitsui & Co., Ltd., HONEST Co., Ltd. and Shenzhen GEM Co., Ltd.

• Merger filing in connection with the establishment of JV by Oji Green Resources Co., Ltd. and Itochu ENEX Co., Ltd.

• Merger filing in connection with the establishment of JV by Komatsu Ltd. and Mitsui & Co. Ltd. in Mexico

• Merger filing in connection with the acquisition of the shares of Huanxin Logistics by Toyota Tsusho Corporation

• Merger filing in connection with the establishment of JV to sell automobile accessories by Toyota Tsusho Corporation and Huanxin Group

• Merger filing in connection with the acquisition of Sumisho Tekko Hanbai Co., Ltd. by Marubeni-Itochu Techno Steel Inc.

• Merger filing in connection with the establishment of JV by NTN (China) Investment Corporation and Luoyang LYC Bearing Co., Ltd.

• Merger filing in connection with the establishment of JV by JSR Corporation and Changchun Petrochemical Co., Ltd.

• Merger filing for Nissan (China) Investment Co., Ltd.

International investment and M&A

• Assisted enterprises in the submission of bids for large and medium-sized construction projects such as BOT and international engineering contracts, and drafting, reviewing and preparing all kinds of contracts required by the project such as loan facilities agreements, concession agreements, operation agreements and insurance agreements

• Rendered legal opinions and feasibility analysis on consolidation, merger, assets reorganization and transfer of property ownership to reduce transaction costs and risks, conducting due diligence investigations on the target subject and its affiliates, drafting legal documents in connection with merger, participating in negotiations and supervising the performance and completion of transaction contracts

International finance

• Drafted, reviewed and prepared all kinds of international loan facilities contracts, financial lease contracts and collateral guaranty contracts, designing financing structure and rendering our legal opinions to the credit side

Intellectual property

• Drafted, reviewed and prepared technology transfer contracts, technology license contracts, trademarks license contracts, publication license contracts

• Assisted enterprises in the settlement of disputes over infringement of trademark, patent, copyright, trade secret

Mr. Wu ’s bio can be found here: https://en.zhonglun.com/team/wupeng.html

Experience

Partner, Zhong Lun Law Firm, 1995 to present

Partner, Beijing Times Law Firm, 1993 to 1995

Lectured in Seinan Gakuin University, Japan, 1989-1993

Expert in these Jurisdictions

PRC Bar

Languages Spoken

Chinese

Japanese

English