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Wei Huang
Managing Partner
Tian Yuan Law Firm
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| Attorney Huang Wei is a Managing Partner at Beijing Tian Yuan Law Firm. He also serves as the Vice Chair and Secretary-General of the Anti-Monopoly and Unfair Competition Committee of the All China Lawyers Association, an Arbitrator at the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), and the first Chinese expert on the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Competition Commission.
With extensive experience in antitrust litigation, monopoly investigations, merger control filings, and competition law compliance, Attorney Huang Wei has represented clients in a series of landmark cases, including but not limited to: China’s first Supreme Court antitrust case (representing Tencent in its dispute with Qihoo 360, which was selected as a Supreme Court guiding case and included in the People’s Court Case Database), the JD.com v. Alibaba "choose one of the two" monopoly case, the first abuse of market dominance case involving patented pharmaceuticals (successfully appealed and included in the People’s Court Case Database), the first hub-and-spoke conspiracy case (successfully appealed and included in the People’s Court Case Database), and the first administrative litigation related to merger control. He has also represented clients in major monopoly investigations, such as those involving LCD panel manufacturers, Kweichow Moutai and Wuliangye, and three global leading semiconductor companies. Attorney Huang has assisted numerous companies in the automotive, semiconductor, consumer electronics, wireless communications, pharmaceutical, chemical, and energy industries with merger control filings. Additionally, he has provided competition law compliance services to dozens of multinational corporations as well as large state-owned and central enterprises.
With over a decade of specialized experience at the intersection of standard essential patents (SEPs) and antitrust law, Attorney Huang Wei has handled pioneering cases in this field. He represented clients in China’s first abuse of market dominance investigation involving SEPs, the first such investigation involving non-SEPs, and represented Qualcomm in its antitrust litigation and FRAND litigation against Apple in China. Currently, he is representing a major foreign rights holder and a patent pool in SEP-related antitrust cases.
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