Lifang & Partners is pleased to announce that Dr. Annie Xue has joined the Beijing office as a senior partner, who is currently in the process of lawyer relationship transfer. 

Dr. Xue specializes in antitrust and anti-unfair competition, cybersecurity and data protection, anti-commercial bribery, and Chinese social credit system. Dr. Xue has extensive experience in the said areas and profound understanding of the complicated issues standing at the intersection of those topics.

Dr. Xue has led plenty of projects i.e, antitrust administrative investigations, merger control filings, antitrust compliance consultancies, and handled various antitrust disputes. With profound insights into industrial trend and regulatory policies, she has gained diverse experience in dealing with SEP-related affairs since 2013. Dr. Xue is also particularly adept at providing clients with effective solutions in both contentious and non-contentious matters regarding cross-cutting areas such as big data discriminatory pricing, data scraping, data monopoly, assetization of data into balance sheets, and cross-border transmission of data, international compliance investigations, etc.

Dr. Xue studied competition law at the College of Law of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and obtained J.S.D. degree. She also participated in many research topics led by law enforcement authorities and academia as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Law of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and actively contributed to the formulation of competition and data regulatory policies. She authored many articles and reviews related to legal compliance and served as an editor of The China Competition Bulletin hosted by Australia and New Zealand Government College.

Dr. Xue stated, “I am delighted to join the vibrant and cohesive family of Lifang, which has rapidly developed in antitrust and compliance. Looking ahead, my team and I will closely integrate with the original team to provide comprehensive and forward-looking legal services for clients.”

We look forward to creating a new chapter in the field of antitrust and compliance together with Dr. Xue, and providing clients with more efficient and meticulous legal services.