Sam Cai

Sam Cai worked at the China Academy for Telecommunications Research and at the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. His areas of expertise are telecommunications and internet law, e-commerce, intellectual property protection, competition law, and WTO rules.

He assisted in drafting a series of laws and regulations targeting the Chinese internet and telecommunications industries, including, among others, the ‘Telecommunication Act’ ‘Regulation on Real Name Registration System of Telecommunication’ and ‘ Several Provisions on the Internet Information Service Market Order’.

Mr Cai also developed the negotiation strategy for and provided legal advice to the Chinese Government on the China and Australia Free Trade Agreement, the China-Korea Free Trade Agreement ,the China-US Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) and the Shanghai Free Trade Zone Pilot.
He also served as a telecommunications negotiator representing the Chinese Government in the China-Switzerland Free Trade Zone negotiations.

Mr Cai received a Masters degree from the Transnational Law and Business University in Korea and a Masters degree from the University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne’s EU and International Economic Law Programme). He holds the Chinese Legal Professional Qualification Certificate and also a member of China Law Society . Mr Cai was invited to give a keynote speech in English to the WTO in 2012 and also served as the judge of the final round of International Price Media Law Moot Court Competition. This was the first time for the Moot Court to have a Chinese judge on the bench for the final round.