Gao Liang is a Partner at Gaopeng & Partners, where his practice focuses on Chinese and EU competition law. He has extensive experience in advising clients on general Chinese antitrust counselling across the whole spectrum of competition law. He also has experience in Chinese and international merger control matters, and has been involved in complex multinational merger filing in broad range of sectors, including pharmaceuticals, chemicals, IT, real estate, textiles, logistics and steel. He obtained a LL.M from Europa-Institut of Saarland University. Before joing Gaopeng & Partners, Gao worked in Hammonds LLP Brussels office and Global Law Office (Beijing). He lectures and writes frequently on Chinese and EU competition law. Gao is a member of Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht.
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I. Background Hainan Yutai Technology Feed Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as ’Hainan Yutai’) entered into agreements with its distributors in 2014 and 2015, pursuant to which it was agreed that “Party B (distributor) would maintain the confidentiality of Party A’s (Hainan Yutai) discount (...)
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I. Introduction On March 23, 2017, the Anti-monopoly Commission of China’s State Council released the Anti-monopoly Guidelines on Abuse of Intellectual Property Rights (Draft for Comments) (hereinafter referred to as the ’Draft’) on the official website of the Ministry of Commerce of China. The (...)
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Since the cases made public in China in which a concentration between undertakings is formed by IP transactions are rare, the case of Microsoft/Yahoo in the EU is a good example to shed light on the way the EU deals with concentrations in the case of transfer and license of IPRs. I. Background (...)
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