Scott Yu

Antitrust & Competition, Hong Kong & Overseas Capital Markets, Trade Compliance & Trade Remedies

Mr. Scott Yu’s practice focuses on cross-border M&A transactions, anti-trust, FDI, and other corporate matters.

Mr. Yu has extensive experiences in advising clients across various industries and sectors on corporate law and competition law issues as well as general operation matters. He has over 16 years of experience working with leading Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, and US law firms and serving a wide array of clients ranging from start-ups to large multinationals, which enabled him to develop deep expertise and vast skillsets for navigating cultural nuances and effectively tailor his legal guidance to clients from varied backgrounds.

With a keen eye for clients’ legal and commercial needs, Mr. Yu’s exceptional ability to devise practical solutions within the legal framework, even under seemingly insurmountable circumstances, has earned him trust and admiration from clients. He has acted as lead counsel in many big-ticket acquisitions and joint venture projects, including several billion-dollar joint venture projects and acquisitions. His clients include leaders in their respective areas, such as Alstom, Areva, Cummins, Schneider Electrics, Warburg Pincus, and Microsoft. In recent years, he has advised on a number of large merger, privatization, and joint venture projects from anti-trust perspective and helped clients to optimize deal structures in the most advantageous way.