ESTABLISHED IN 2004
Managing Partner: Ji Jun
Number of partners: 26
Number of associates: 74

Firm Overview

Broad & Bright, founded in 2004, is a full-service Chinese law firm providing a broad range of specialized legal services in multiple practice areas for domestic and international clients. Among the various practice areas, Broad & Bright is one of the leading law firms in antitrust law practice in China.

The antitrust team of Broad & Bright has extensive experience and expertise in competition law practice, including merger control review, cartel investigation, antirust compliance and counselling. The quality service has won recognition from our clients and the legal society. It has been awarded by prestigious legal ranking publications such as Chambers, Global Competition Review, China Business Law Journal and Asia Law & Practice.

Feng Yao is one of the founding members of Broad & Bright, and she is also the head of the firm’s antitrust team. She graduated from Jilin University Law School in Jilin, China, with an LLB and from Columbia Law School, New York, with an LLM. Upon graduation from Jilin University, she worked in MOFTEC (now the Ministry of Commerce [MOFCOM]) as governmental counsel and later for the Washington DC office of Covington & Burling, until 2003.

Experience in anti-monopoly practice

Since 1 August 2008, MOFCOM/SAMR has reviewed more than 2,000 transactions, out of which Broad & Bright has represented hundreds of filings, many of which are either high-profile or significant cases. Broad & Bright is one of the local firms that handle most of the cases.

Broad & Bright is experienced and has the expertise in handling sensitive and complicated cases. In MOFCOM/SAMR’s 37 conditional approvals so far, Broad & Bright handled almost half of the cases, including China’s first conditional approval of InBev’s acquisition of Anheuser-Busch. In 2009, Broad & Bright represented Coca-Cola in its acquisition of Huiyuan, which is one of the most complicated filings in China to date. In 2015, the firm assisted Seagate in successfully obtaining approval by MOFCOM to lift its “hold separate” restriction, which is the first case where “hold separate” conditions were completely released. Within the same year, Broad & Bright represented NXP in its acquisition of Freescale, which is the first conditional approval of MOFCOM where the “upfront buyer” situation was involved in the divestment remedy. In 2017, Broad & Bright represented five of the seven cases that were conditionally approved by MOFCOM. In 2018, the case which was conditionally approved by SAMR for the very first time was also represented by Broad & Bright.

Broad & Bright has also advised many clients on various antitrust issues, including representing clients in cartel investigations and other behavioural investigations with the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). Broad & Bright also has extensive experience in advising international companies in compliance with the AML.