Ms. Song Ying is currently working as a partner in AnJie Law Firm focusing on antitrust area. She has rich experience in representing multi-national and domestic corporate clients in antitrust matters. She advised clients on a broad range of sectors such as in internet, aviation, automobile, electronics, telecommunication, energy, household electric appliances, infant formula, food, semiconductor, etc. Song Ying has filed many concentration notifications with the Ministry of Commerce of P.R.C (MOFCOM) for the clients’ transactions and also defended for the client on competitors’ objections. Song Ying conducted strategic analysis for transnational and state-owned enterprises with respect to Chinese governments’ policies towards cartels, concentration, abuse of dominant position and administrative monopoly. With in-depth experience in China’s antitrust enforcement, Song Ying has also served many companies in antitrust investigations, private antitrust litigations and compliance projects.
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Highlights of the Chinese Leniency Guidelines Published by SAMR in June 2020* In June 2020, the Anti-Monopoly Bureau of the State Administration for Market Regulation (“SAMR”) published a new book, the 2019 Compilation of Antitrust Regulations and Guidelines, which contains four previously (...)
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Implications of China’s Antitrust Guidelines for the Automobile Sector on Regulation of Vertical Restraints* The automobile industry has been under the radar of China’s antitrust enforcement for a number of years. Since 2014, the agency had successively issued fines against many players in the (...)
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CHINA’S SUPREME COURT ENUNCIATED THE NON-ARBITRABILITY OF ANTITRUST CIVIL DISPUTES* For a few years, the topic of whether antitrust civil disputes could be arbitrable had been hotly debated in China. There were few precedents in connection with this issue for people to better understand what (...)
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Chemical Giant Eastman is Slapped with a Fine for Abuse of Market Dominance in China* China’s competition watchdog SAMR made a penalty decision, adopted by its Shanghai branch Shanghai Market Regulation Bureau (“SMRB”), publicized on its official website1 on April 29, 2019, right before the (...)
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A Rational Thinking on the Refusal to License Intellectual Property under China’s Antitrust Legal Framework* 1. Introduction This article will address the perplexing issue of refusal to license a patent or copyright to other undertakings conducted by intellectual property proprietors under (...)
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NDRC Imposed the Penalty against LCD Panel Companies for Their Monopolistic Behavior* China’s National Development and Reform Commission (“NDRC”) has imposed a heavy penalty of total RMB 353 million yuan against six companies for the monopolistic behavior of price-fixing on liquid crystal display (...)
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