Cunzhen Huang’s practice focuses on competition/antitrust law.

She also has experience in enforcement and international trade law matters.

Cunzhen joined the firm in January 2009 and became a partner in 2025. She was previously resident in the Brussels and London offices. Prior to joining the firm, Cunzhen had an internship in DG Competition of the European Commission and worked in the Brussels and London offices of another international law firm.

Cunzhen has published articles on competition law, contributed to antitrust treatises, and worked with the ABA to provide comments to international antitrust agencies regarding draft antitrust rules.

Notable Experience

Notable Experience

  • Synopsys in its pending $35 billion acquisition of Ansys.

  • Broadcom in its $87 billion acquisition of VMware Inc.

  • Applied Materials on antitrust aspects of numerous acquisitions and related advice, including in its proposed $2.2 billion acquisition of Kokusai Electric.

  • KLA-Tencor in its $3.4 billion acquisition of Orbotech.

  • Google in its acquisition of Motorola and subsequent sale of Motorola’s mobile devices business to Lenovo and its release from obligations under a prior conditional clearance in China.

  • Western Digital in its $4.8 billion acquisition of Hitachi’s hard drive business, as well as in compliance efforts related to remedies adopted by MOFCOM in the acquisition and in advocacy leading to MOFCOM’s decision allowing Western Digital to integrate its WD and HGST hard drive businesses.

  • Dow Chemical in numerous transactions, including its $130 billion merger of equals with DuPont.

  • Veolia Environment in its €12.9 acquisition of Suez.

  • Medtronic in its $49.9 billion acquisition of Covidien, cleared globally less than six months after announcement.

  • GlaxoSmithKline in its multibillion-dollar three-part transaction with Novartis involving its consumer health care, vaccines, and oncology businesses.

  • Vivendi in its acquisition of sole control of Lagardère.

  • The Walt Disney Company in its $71.3 billion acquisition of 21st Century Fox.

  • LVMH Moët Hennessy – Louis Vuitton SE on the global antitrust aspects of its $16.2 billion acquisition of Tiffany & Co.

  • Essilor in its €46 billion acquisition of Luxottica, owner of Ray-Ban and Oakley.

  • Alstom in its €4.4 billion acquisition of Bombardier Transportation.

  • Westlake Chemical Corporation $1.2 billion acquisition of Hexion’s global epoxy business.

  • Whirlpool in the $1.08 billion sale of its Embraco refrigeration compressors business to Nidec.

  • Johnson Controls in its $40 billion merger with Tyco International.

  • Advised MOFCOM in drafting its merger remedies rules and invited to MOFCOM’s internal closed-door seminars.

  • Contributed to antitrust treatises and worked with the ABA to provide comments to China’s antitrust agencies regarding draft rules under China’s Anti-Monopoly Law.

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Selected Activities

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  • Vice Chair of the International Corporate Counsel Committee, American Bar Association International Law Section

Publications

MOFCOM Issues Final Determination on Trade and Investment Barrier Investigation into the EU’s Foreign Subsidies Regulation,” (co-author) Cleary Gottlieb Alert Memorandum, February 24, 2025

SAMR Streamlined Merger Notification Forms for Simple Cases,” (co-author) Cleary Antitrust Watch blog, September 24, 2024 

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