Practice areas

Antitrust and compliance; M&A; Corporate

Introduction

George Wang joined Duan & Duan in 2000, and is now executive chairman of the firm. Wang has represented foreign and private companies, and state-owned enterprises, handling more than 100 FDI and inbound and outbound M&A projects. He is familiar with laws and regulations in sectors such as TMT, pharmaceutical, medical device, food, and automobile.

Wang has experience in litigation and arbitration in and out of China, and has won cases where foreign-invested and Chinese enterprises were represented by him in Chinese and overseas courts, arbitral tribunals, international litigation and arbitration. Thanks to his holistic litigation and project experience, Wang is particularly good at representing companies in complicated corporate compliance cases such as market supervision, tax and antitrust raids, and criminal charges against companies.

Wang graduated from Shanghai International Studies University with a BA and Shanghai University with an LLB, and University of Oxford with a Magister of Juris (MJur) degree in 2005.

He currently serves as a member of the international committee at the All China Lawyers Association (ACLA) and served as deputy director of the international investment and Antitrust committee at Shanghai Bar Association. He is also a councillor of the competition law committee at the Shanghai Jurisprudence Association.

Wang is a talented national lawyer, especially when handling foreign-related matters, and undertakes the co-ordination of ACLA’s legal project of investment laws for the Belt and Road initiative’s outbound investment countries. He holds serves as independent director for several Chinese companies including Juneyao Airlines and Hujiang.com.

Honours: Chevening Scholarship awarded by Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK; Top 10 Outstanding Young Lawyers in Pudong new district, Shanghai; New Long March-young men and women in Pudong new district; China Business Law Journal’s “A-List 2016”.

Publication: Practice and depth profile of laws involving foreign affairs, Law Press, 2012.

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