Ninette Dodoo | Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

“Widely respected by peers for her knowledge and technical ability.”

Chambers Global 2014
Ninette Dodoo, Counsel & Co-head of ACT, China
Antitrust, competition and trade

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3705 China World Office Two 1 Jianguomenwai Avenue
Beijing 100004
T +8610 6505 3448
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ninette.dodoo@freshfields.com

Ninette is co-head of Freshfields’ competition practice in China.

She spent over 10 years in Brussels advising on EU and multijurisdictional matters before relocating to Beijing in 2009 to head the antitrust practice of another 'magic circle' firm.

Ninette’s practice covers advising clients on antitrust matters in China, Hong Kong and southeast Asia. She specialises in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, distribution arrangements, cartels, abuse of dominance, compliance and audits, and investigations.

Ninette has recently acted on some of the most significant merger-control matters (and a substantial number of transactions involving remedies) and investigations in China, including in the shipping and healthcare sectors. In Hong Kong, she has advised several clients in the fast-moving consumer goods, retail and telecommunications sectors.

Clients include multinational companies, state-owned enterprises and sovereign wealth funds active across a range of sectors, including shipping, pharmaceuticals, healthcare and life sciences, consumer goods, food and beverages, mining and IT.

Advising AB InBev on its £78.4bn acquisition of SABMiller. Ninette also: co-led the team advising AB InBev on the sale of SABMiller’s minority interest in CR Snow for $1.6bn, resulting in one of the first 'fix-it-first' remedies in China; and advised InBev on its acquisition of Anheuser-Busch, the first remedy decision under China’s anti-monopoly law.
Advising on a landmark settlement with China’s National Development and Reform Commission for a major container shipping line – the largest investigation to date in China.
Advising Boehringer Ingelheim on its acquisition of Sanofi’s animal health business, part of a wider €22.8bn asset swap between the two companies.
Advising Continental on its $1.9bn acquisition of Ohio-based rubber and plastics company Veyance Technologies from the Carlyle Group.
Advising Hapag-Lloyd on its merger with the container liner shipping activities of Chile’s Compañía Sud Americana de Vapores, creating a company with pro-forma annual sales of $12bn in 2014. Ninette also advised Hapag-Lloyd on its acquisition of United Arab Shipping Company.

Education

University of Exeter, UK (LLB)
Free University of Brussels, licence spéciale (LLM)

Professional qualifications

Admitted to the Brussels Bar
Admitted to the Bar of England and Wales (non-practising)

Beijing

3705 China World Office Two 1 Jianguomenwai Avenue
Beijing 100004
T +8610 6505 3448
F +8610 6505 7783

ninette.dodoo@freshfields.com

Widely respected by peers for her knowledge and technical ability. Clients also rate her highly, with one interviewee reporting that "I think Ninette is wonderful: a real antitrust expert"

Chambers Global 2014

Noted by sources for her "sound working knowledge of competition principles and the processes in China." One client added: "Her knowledge and her way of handling matters are very impressive, but she also understands our business perspectives, not just the pure legal stuff, which is vital for a competition lawyer."

Chambers Global 2013

Ninette is recognised as a leading antitrust lawyer by each of the principal legal directories and was recently named one of the world’s top 100 Women in Antitrust

Global Competition Review

Publications

Kluwer Law International, 2016, pp.185-204 Co-author of the China chapter of 'Intellectual Property and Competition Law', P. Chrocziel, M. Lorenz and W. Prinz zu Waldeck und Pyrmont (eds)
Freshfields briefing, January 2017 MOFCOM fines company for failure to file foreign-to-foreign transaction in China (co-author with Alastair Mordaunt, Nicholas French and Joy Wong)
Competition Law Insight, December 2016, p.17 Healthcare in China: Enforcement is being ramped up by the authorities (co-author with Nicholas French and Joy Wong)

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Kluwer Law International, 2016, pp.185-204 Co-author of the China chapter of 'Intellectual Property and Competition Law', P. Chrocziel, M. Lorenz and W. Prinz zu Waldeck und Pyrmont (eds)

Freshfields briefing, January 2017 MOFCOM fines company for failure to file foreign-to-foreign transaction in China (co-author with Alastair Mordaunt, Nicholas French and Joy Wong)

Competition Law Insight, December 2016, p.17 Healthcare in China: Enforcement is being ramped up by the authorities (co-author with Nicholas French and Joy Wong)

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Kluwer Law International, 2016, pp.185-204 Co-author of the China chapter of 'Intellectual Property and Competition Law', P. Chrocziel, M. Lorenz and W. Prinz zu Waldeck und Pyrmont (eds)

Freshfields briefing, January 2017 MOFCOM fines company for failure to file foreign-to-foreign transaction in China (co-author with Alastair Mordaunt, Nicholas French and Joy Wong)

Competition Law Insight, December 2016, p.17 Healthcare in China: Enforcement is being ramped up by the authorities (co-author with Nicholas French and Joy Wong)

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