Ninette is co-head of Freshfields’ competition practice in China.
Ninette’s practice covers antitrust-related work and foreign investment review in China, Hong Kong and the Asia-Pacific region. Ninette advises clients on merger control, antitrust investigations (covering a range of anticompetitive practices and abusive conduct), and foreign investment review. Ninette spent over 10 years in Brussels advising on EU and multijurisdictional matters before relocating to China in 2009.
Ninette has acted on some of China’s and Asia-Pacific’s most complex and significant merger control matters (including remedies negotiations) and antitrust investigations across a range of industry sectors. Clients include multinational companies, state-owned enterprises and sovereign wealth funds active across a range of sectors, including healthcare & life sciences, technology, consumer goods, shipping and mining.
Ninette combines international experience with on-the-ground local knowledge to deliver effective solutions for clients in in global transactions, and to devise operational antitrust risk strategies.
Ninette is ranked in Band 1 in leading legal directories. She is a frequent speaker at international conferences on antitrust and foreign investment matters, and has authored a number of publications.
