Jet Deng’s major practicing areas cover Anti-Monopoly Law (AML)/Anti-unfair Competition Law, Litigation and Arbitration. He specializes in handling complex projects and cases. He received PhD degree in International Economic Law from the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE).
As an experienced antitrust lawyer, Jet had represented oversea and domestic clients before MOFCOM in dozens of control cases including designing remedies proposals, and successfully helped the clients to go through the mud and maze of antitrust review process of Chinese authority. He also managed to help clients block competitors’ deals in term of antitrust review and appropriately respond to MOFCOM’s investigations on failing to file M&A deals. Jet is one of the few lawyers with the experience of representing multinationals in investigations of cartel/RPM agreement/dominance abuse by NDRC and SAIC. He is familiar with practice of the authorities and specializes in designing strategies to cope with those investigations. He provided legal advice on antitrust risk for many business transactions and also helped multinationals, SOEs, private enterprises as well as trade associations to develop compliance programs under China’s AML.
He started to participate in the legislative procedures of the AML and to provide legal advice to multinationals in 2004, and since then he has been active in China’s Anti-monopoly community. He has formed close ties with scholars of universities and research institutes, and he also maintains effective working relationship with Anti-monopoly authorities, inter alia MOFCOM, SAIC and NDRC. Enjoying good interaction with media circle, he showed frequently in Anti-monopoly related interviews on Chinese media such as CCTV, China National Radio and various newspapers. He also published serials articles on AML on Jurisprudence Magazine, Social Science, China Business Law Journal, CPI Antitrust Column etc, and authored one book and translated one book on AML which were published by the Law Press.
Jet is admitted to Chinese bar, the Antitrust Committee of the IBA, and the ABA Section of Antitrust Law. Last recently (October 2014), he was recognized by Chambers as one of the “Leading Lawyers for Antitrust Practice in Asia-Pacific”; in March 2015, NDRC sent Dacheng Law Offices “Letter of Acknowledgment”, expressing that Jet Deng provided expert advice for the proper dealing of the investigation and highly appreciating his crucial contribution.
