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XIAOPENG LAI

Senior Associate
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Xiaopeng Lai is a senior associate of RuiMin's antitrust and foreign investment team. His primary practice areas include antitrust and regulatory aspects of cross-border mergers and acquisitions, antitrust investigations, antitrust litigations and the intersection between antitrust and intellectual property in China.

Xiaopeng has recently advised a range of clients in TMT, air transportation, shipping, automotive, semiconductor, and pharmaceutical sectors, among other sectors. Prior to joining RuiMin, Xiaopeng worked with Freshfields and two leading PRC firms.

Xiaopeng speaks fluent English and Mandarin.

  • Experience
    • Advising a global big tech company in abuse of dominance litigations related to its app store business before China's Supreme People's Court and lower courts

    • Advising Viterra on the global merger control aspects of its $8.2 billion merger with Bunge, creating a $34bn agri-trading conglomerate

    • Advising Korean Air on the China merger control aspects of its 1.8tn won acquisition of Asiana, merging the two largest airlines in Korea - Winner of Merger Control Matter of the Year -  Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa at GCR Awards 2023 

    • Advising Universal Music Group on the China merger control assessment aspects of Tencent’s $3.4bn acquisition of a minority interest in UMG

    • Advising Cargill and the buyer consortium led by Cargill and Continental Grain on the China merger control aspects of its $4.53bn take-private transaction of Sanderson Farms

    • Advising Volkswagen on the China merger control aspects of its $2.6bn co-investment with Ford in autonomous vehicle technology company Argo AI  

    • Advising ABB on the China merger control aspects in its acquisition of the wiring and accessories business of Siemens in China

    • Advising AAC Technologies on the China merger control aspects of its acquisition of Premium Sound Solutions

  • Publications
  • Qualifications

    Xiaopeng graduated from the University of Illinois College of Law at Urbana-Champaign with a Juris Doctor degree. In law school, he was a Harno Scholar and a recipient of the CALI Excellence for the Future Award in Antitrust Law and in International Trade Policy. Prior to his legal career, he obtained a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Brown University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from St. Louis University.

    Xiaopeng is admitted to practice in District of Columbia, United States, and has passed PRC bar.