Hylands Law Firm

Antitrust & Competition Law，Compliance & Government Regulation，Digital Technology and Internet

Consultant

2025-present | Hylands Law Firm Shanghai Office | Senior Consultant 2010-2025 | Hogan Lovells | Partner Before that, Adrian worked at the Beijing, Brussels and Madrid offices of several international law firms. Professional Background

Adrian Emch is a Senior Counsel, based in Hylands’ Shanghai office. He is a specialist in antitrust and competition law.

Adrian has broad experience in all aspects of competition law, including merger control, multi-jurisdictional merger filings, cartel investigations, and antitrust counselling. In recent years, Adrian has also worked on investigations and counseling in relation to the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation.

Apart from his work at Hylands, Adrian Emch is a lecturer of competition law at Shanghai Jiaotong University Law School, and used to teach at Peking University’s Law School.

Prior to joining Hylands, Adrian Emch completed an internship with the Directorate-General of Competition (DG COMP) at the European Commission (DG COMP) and worked at international law firms in Brussels, Beijing and Shanghai in the field of competition law.

Adrian is widely recognized as competition law practitioner. For example, he has been listed Band 1 for China competition law by Chambers & Partners since 2016.

Chinese, English

Spanish lawyer Social Activities

IBA Antitrust Committee | Member Shanghai Jiaotong University | Law School lecturer Swiss Fulbright Alumni Association | Founding Member

2004 | Tulane Law School | International and comparative law | LL.M. 2001 | College of Europe | European Union law | LL.M. 2000 | University San Pablo CEU | Spanish law | Law degree 2000 | University Montesqieu IV, Bordeaux | French law | Law degree