AnJie Broad Law Firm is ranked ‘Outstanding’ in competition/antitrust and insurance. The firm also has expertise in the areas of banking and finance, cross-border M&A, dispute resolution, intellectual property, and labour and employment. Partner Michael Gu specialises in competition/antitrust, handling merger control filings for multinational companies. He also frequently advises clients on the monopoly agreement and abuse of dominance issues and provides strategic preventive solutions. Zhining Wang joined the firm’s competition/antitrust team from Xiaomi Technology in March 2023.
Client feedback
“The firm is very professional in providing legal consultancy and helped us with negotiation with the other party. They always provide prompt and professional response.” – Intellectual property
“Being able to think out of box and act commercially when principals are absent.” – Private equity
Hang Cai
“Provided great advice on the overall deal structure and supported principals’ immersivity in the negotiation stage.”
Hongchun Liu
“Mr. Liu is very good at understanding clients' needs and can understand clients' business in a short time. Most of time, he can provide professional advice which is easy to be understood by someone without a legal background.”
Work highlights
Represented Levi’s in a labour dispute against its store manager and won the second instance case, the judgment of which reversed the first instance case.
Key clients
Golden Arches (China), SAP, Siemens, Ying Feng Fastening System.
Work highlights
Represented Nanjing Sanhome Pharmaceutical in a pharmaceutical patent invalidation case before the Supreme People’s Court (SPC). The SPC revoked the first instance judgment ruled by the Beijing Intellectual Property Court. This case is the first civil and administrative cross-over case of chiral drug patents judged before the Intellectual Property Court of the SPC involving major legal issues such as the judgment of inventiveness of inventions for pharmaceutical use and the identification of prior art enlightenment.
Represented Acon Biotech (Hangzhou) in a patent infringement case against Sinocare before the Hangzhou Intermediate Court.
Key clients
Drone Racing League, Hangzhou PingPong Intelligent.
Work highlights
Represented Huaneng Zalaida Solar Photovoltaic Power Generation in a contract dispute before the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region High People’s Court.
Key clients
China Life Property and Casualty Insurance, China Re Asset Management, Ping An Property & Casualty Insurance.
Work highlights
Advised CICC Chunhua on its investment into Taixing Yongzhi Electronic Devices.
Advised Beiqi Foton Motor in its investment into Shanghai Eastern Airlines Equipment Manufacturing.
Work highlights
Represented Korean Air in a merger control filing before the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) for its acquisition of Asiana Airlines’ shares. The millstone filing is conditionally approved, making it the first conditionally approved transaction between airlines in China's merger control history.
Successfully advised GlobalWafers on the merger control filing before the SAMR for its acquisition of Siltronic's shares. The challenging case related to China’s sensitive semiconductor industry.
Represented Huaming Power Equipment to appeal to the Supreme People’s Court against Wuhan Taipu Transformer Changer in a horizontal monopoly agreement dispute.
Key clients
Hitachi Metals, Wanhua Chemical Group.
Work highlights
Advising Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China and Ping An Life Insurance on the restructuring of Peking University Founder Group.
Advising China Life Investment Insurance Asset Management on the establishment and the investment process of the China Life-Railway Construction Infrastructure Investment Fund.
Key clients
PICC (Tangshan branch, Beijing branch), Sun Life Everbright Life Insurance.
