Laura Liu advises clients across a range of transactional, advisory and contentious antitrust and competition law related matters, with a focus on China antitrust legal issues. Laura has experience in multi-jurisdictional competition law issues as well, having worked in Baker McKenzie's Brussels office, where she assisted clients with multijurisdictional merger filings and antitrust compliance. Laura also has rich experiences of handling foreign investment review assessment and filings in cross-border transactions and she has assisted clients in handled National Security Review (NSR) filings in China as well.

Laura has played a key role in building up and strengthening our China practice. Clients have commented that "she is very diligent, responsive and definitely knows her stuff" and that "her advice is right to the point and commercially practical."

Laura has extensive experience in merger filings, having assisted numerous clients with antitrust filings before the China competition authority, including some of the most significant merger clearance cases to date. Laura also has extensive experience in advising clients on deal structuring and filing strategies to achieve commercial outcomes while avoiding gun-jumping risks.  

Laura has advised numerous clients on complex competition compliance and advisory matters, including setting up competition compliance programs, conducting internal compliance audits, reviewing and adapting distribution models and business operations, and providing competition compliance trainings for clients. In addition, she has considerable experience in handling dawn raids and antitrust investigations facing the China competition authority.  

With a global perspective and deep understanding of Chinese companies' demands, Laura has assisted a significant number of China-based multinational companies in navigating layers of regulatory control, such as global multijurisdictional merger control, foreign investment review as well as  the EU foreign government subsidy assessments in their cross-border M&A deals, as well as managing the global coordination of regulatory filing strategies for major deals with Baker McKenzie offices and local firms to obtain necessary clearances in overseas jurisdictions.

Laura advises multinational companies, SOEs and domestic companies in a broad range of sectors such as industrials, manufacturing and transportation, pharmaceuticals and medical services, TMT and fast-moving consumer goods.