Associate
Yanyan Yang is an associate in the Hong Kong office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the firm’s Antitrust & Competition Practice. She focuses her practice on global merger control, and antitrust investigations, with a specialty in handling matters before China’s antitrust authority (SAMR), and other Asian antitrust agencies.
Yanyan, previously based out of our Washington, D.C. office, has helped some of the world’s most sophisticated clients in clearing large-scale transactions in jurisdictions around the globe. She has also served as a key strategist for complex matters reviewed by China’s SAMR, particularly in devising creative strategies that successfully secure conditional approvals from the authority.
Fluent in Mandarin and English with an expansive view of the global competition landscape, Yanyan plays a key role in ensuring filings are coordinated globally and mind the specific local and regional considerations at play. She is adept at working with local counsel, and key regulators throughout Asia, to help deals clear regulatory scrutiny.
She has worked with household name clients across a wide range of industries, including semiconductor and high technology, agriculture, consumer goods & services, oil & gas, industrial and automotive sectors, as well as in the sciences and healthcare fields.
Representative matters include advising/representing:
Globally active private equity clients on multiple transactions include: One Rock Capital, Apollo, Leonard Green & Partners, Oaktree Capital, One Equity Partners, Global Infrastructure Partners, and Carlyle.
KIND honors Latham for its work on behalf of a group of Afghan siblings, ages 10 to 16.