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Scott YU
Equity Partner / Beijing
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Tel +86-10-5957-2288
Email scottyu@zhonglun.com
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Scott YU
Scott Yu's practice focuses on the cross-border M&A transactions, anti-trust, FDI and other corporate matters.
Scott Yu has extensive experiences in advising clients across various industries and sectors on corporate law and competition law issues as well as daily operation matters. He has over 16 years of experiences of working with leading PRC, Hong Kong and US law firms and serving all types of clients from start-ups to large multinationals, which enabled him to develop legal knowledge and expertise as well as the skills of working for clients with different cultural backgrounds.
Scott YU is always willing to understand client’s legal and commercial needs, and impressed clients of his ability to find a practical solution within the legal framework. He has acted as the lead counsel in a number of mega sized acquisitions and joint venture projects, including certain billion-dollar-value joint venture projects and acquisitions. His clients include those leaders in their respective areas such as Alstom, Areva, Cummins, Schneider Electrics, Warburg Pincus, Microsoft. In recent years, he has advised in a number of large merger, privatization and joint venture projects from anti-trust perspective and helped client to structure the transaction in the most optimized way.
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Bar Admissions/Professional Qualifications
New York USA, 2007
PRC Bar, 1997 -
Education
2003 LL.M. University of University of California at Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall), Berkeley California, USA
2000 LL.M. Renmin University of China School of Law Beijing PRC
1999 Visiting Scholar University of Paris 1 (Pantheon-Sorbonne) Paris, France
1996 LL.B. Renmin University of China School of Law Beijing PRC -
Professional Experience
Scott Yu’s practice focuses on the cross-border M&A transactions, anti-trust, FDI and corporate matters. Before joining Zhong Lun, he worked with a major international law firm for six years and acted as the lead counsel in a number of mega sized acquisitions and joint venture projects.
Scott Yu has extensive experiences in advising foreign investors across various industries and sectors on corporate law and competition law issues in their investments and operations in China. He was named as one of the Top 20 Client Choice Lawyers in China by Asian Legal Business in 2012. -
Languages
Chinese
English