Yan Yu

Yan Yu is a Partner of RBB Economics with 20 years’ experience in providing economic advice on competition matters.

Yan has experience in a wide range of sectors including but not limited to digital, semiconductor, aviation, mining, aviation, shipping, 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, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Mainland 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 and other Asian jurisdictions including Alcon/STAAR, China Mobile/HKBN, Synopsys/Ansys, 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 Keysight Technologies / Spirent Communications, Applied Material/TEL, and MediaTek/MStar.

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.

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