Yan Yu

Yan Yu is a Partner of RBB Economics with more than 15 years’ experience in providing economic advice on competition matters.

Yan has experience in a wide range of sectors including mining, aviation, healthcare, energy, advertising, retailing, entertainment, and transport. Yan regularly contributes to the capacity building of the competition law development in Australia, mainland China, Hong Kong and other Asian jurisdictions.

Since joining RBB in 2006, Yan has been involved in many high-profile competition cases before both the European Commission and national authorities including in the UK, the Netherlands, South Africa, Australia, and China. That experience includes advising on in-depth Phase II merger investigations, alleged abuse of dominance matters, and investigations of agreements.

Yan advised many international clients on merger notifications in China including WABCO/ZF, Essilor/Luxottica, Dow/Dupont, FedEx/TNT, Shell/BG, Coca-Cola/Chuliangwang, Wilmar/Kemira, Samsung/Corning JV, and others.

Yan was retained by SAMR (and MOFCOM) to provide economic advice on high-profile mergers and acquisitions including Applied Material/TEL, and MediaTek/MStar, as well as abuse of dominance matters.

Yan regularly delivers competition seminars on timely issues to leading law firms, industry bodies, and competition authorities in mainland China and Hong Kong. In 2020, Yan was retained by SAMR to formulate the standards of economic analysis and submission in AML cases.

Yan is a regular lecturer at SAMR (previously SAIC, NDRC and MOFCOM), and has delivered lectures on many antitrust economic topics to national and provincial competition bureaus in China.

As a regular conference speaker in Asia Pacific, Yan has contributed to various GCR, ACF, CIIAI and Concurrent conferences in the region.