Steve Yu is a partner based in our Shanghai Office. He has more than 14 years of experience in cross-border transactions and international investment relating to China. His practice encompasses a broad range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, technology licensing, international joint venture, business consolidation and restructuring.
His recent representation includes advising European and American corporations on investment projects in the high-tech, telecommunication, media, automotive, pharmaceuticals, luxury products, retail and franchise, industrial manufacturing, chemicals, food and beverage, and real property industries. He also advises Chinese State-owned companies and privately owned companies on their outbound investment projects.
Steve negotiates international joint venture projects for western clients in a number of industrial sectors. He also has extensive experience in joint venture related restructuring, buy-out, re-capitalization, asset swap and shareholder disputes.
In addition to his corporate practice, Steve advises clients on cross-border IP licensing, establishment and operation of R&D centers, commercialization of IP rights, and enforcement by civil and criminal actions. He advised a leading on-line travel service company in one of China's earliest on-line unfair-competition cases.
Steve is one of the earliest Chinese lawyers advising western clients on China’s anti-trust law. He was individually recognised in "Country Survey - China Competition Practice" by Global Competition Review (2009). He is the China national contributor for Global Competition Litigation Review, a Sweet & Maxwell publication.
Steve writes on corporate law, anti-trust law, intellectual property and other regulatory issues in Corporate Counselor, New York International Chapter News, Global Competition Policy, CCH, Asian Counsel, China IP, and International Journal of Franchising Law.
He speaks frequently about the legal development in China, and was interviewed by international and local media on China-related business issues.
Steve received his LLB from the Law School of North China University of Technology, and his LLM from the Northwestern School of Law in Chicago.