Antitrust, Competition and Trade in China

The CMS Antitrust, Competition and Trade (ACT) group is one of the largest specialist competition and trade teams in the world. More than 225 CMS experts advise clients in more than 40 countries worldwide on all ACT matters. Our Chinese team is part of the fully integrated CMS global team, spread out across our offices in Shanghai and Beijing.

Due to our size and very wide footprint, we are able to deal with all ACT matters irrespective of their geographic dimension. Where necessary we cooperate with long established contacts from our wider network of law firms everywhere in the world.

We are specialists across the full range of Antitrust, Competition and Trade matters. We have expert sub-groups specialising in specific areas within the wider competition and trade field, e.g. FDI/Foreign investment screening. We are also well-known as experts in various sectors of the economy. Our renowned sector specialisation encompasses automotive, consumer products/FMCG, construction, digital economy, energy/oil & gas, life sciences, telecommunications/media and transport to name but a few.

Our clients range from many very large multinationals who frequently use our team as their ACT law firm of choice for the entire region (e.g., in Greater China), to governments at all levels and also a high number of medium-sized companies.

We use the most up-to-date technical and AI tools to support our business in China and abroad.

We put out regular case law updates on Chinese, European and international competition and trade developments on our Law Now service.  Our group is steered, not just by a management committee of partners but also by an active associates’ group that keeps us innovating to serve clients.