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  • Scott YU

    Equity Partner / Beijing

  • Tel +86-10-5957-2288

    Email scottyu@zhonglun.com

  • Practices

    Antitrust & Competition, Hong Kong & Overseas Capital Markets, Trade Compliance & Trade Remedies

  • Industries

    Telecommunications & Internet

CV

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.

Representative Matters

The representative transactions in which Scott Yu played a leading role include

  • Advised Beijing Universal Parks in its joint venture project

  • Advised Beiqi Foton Motor Co., Ltd. in its ¥ 2.7 billion joint venture project with Cummins Inc. for diesel engine production, and its ¥ 5.6 billion joint venture project with Daimler AG for truck business

  • Advised Alstom and its Chinese subsidiary Wuhan Boiler Company Limited in the latter’s restructuring plan

  • Advise Volkswagen Auto Finance on its daily operation legal matters

  • Advised Cummins in a number of acquisition transactions and daily operation related legal issues

  • Advised Warburg Pincus in its series of M & A transactions


The representative cases in relation to merger control/anti-trust filings in which Scott Yu acted for clients include

  • Advised Qualcomm in the regulatory investigation by Chinese National Development and Reform Commission on Qualcomm’s China business

  • Advised JD.com on anti-trust matters in its business cooperation with Tencent

  • Advised Focus Media on anti-trust matters in its privatization from Nasdaq

  • Advised a major US software company with respect to the regulatory investigation on its Chinese operations

  • Merger filing for Cummins, Schneider Electric, Alstom, Minmetal, Baosteel, Dongfeng Motors, in a number of transactions in China

  • Advised a major European commercial vehicle company on PRC anti-trust compliance legal issues in its localization of standard transaction documents

  • Advised one of the largest US based PE funds on anti-trust compliance legal issues in relation to its investments in China

  • Advised a major international pharmaceutical company in its anti-trust and anti-bribery compliance issues

Honors and Awards

Scott Yu was named as one of the Top 20 Client Choice Lawyers in China by Asian Legal Business in 2012 and in 2014

Related

  • 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