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Kunlin Wang is the managing partner of GLO’s Chengdu Office, he specializes in banking and finance, dispute resolution, M&A, compliance & risk control, government & public affairs, real estate and construction and etc. He advises numerous banks, financial regulator, government agencies, large scale state-owned enterprises, and financial institutions with respect to regulatory compliance, issuance of financial bonds, disposal of non-performing assets, project financing, merger restructuring, and financial derivatives. His main clients include Chengdu Municipal Committee of the CPC, Chengdu municipal government, Standing Committee of Chengdu Municipal People's Congress, Chengdu Municipal Committee of the CPPCC, Qingyang District Government, Shuangliu District Government, Jianyang District Government, Sichuan Supervision Bureau of China Banking Regulatory Commission, Chengdu Branch of People's Bank of China, ICBC, ABC, The Export-Import Bank of China, Citibank, Sichuan Tianfu Bank Co. Ltd, Yibin City Commercial Bank, China Cinda Asset Management Co., Ltd, China Railway No.2 Engineering Group Co., Ltd and etc. He has won many cases in the Supreme People's court in the field of dispute resolution.

Alan Zhou

Alan Zhou's practice is focused in the areas of mergers & acquisitions, private equity/venture capital, regulatory compliance, and general corporate. Mr. Zhou has a particularly strong background in pharmaceutical and healthcare industrial sectors. Mr. Zhou has represented many multinational corporations, reputable Chinese state owned and private corporations, and private equity/venture capital funds. He has routinely represented such multinational corporations as Sanofi, Schlumberger, Siemens, Boehringer Ingelheim, Novartis, Aon, Bureau Veritas, Catalent, Terumo, Tosoh, Barclays, Societe Generale Bank, Samsung and SK Telecom. Mr. Zhou has not only worked for reputable Chinese private companies such as Focus Media, VIPShop, Acorn International, Hisoar Pharmaceutical, Tianyuan Biopharm, and GeneScience Pharma, he has also advised PRC state owned companies such as Shanghai Dasheng, Shanghai Industrial and Shanghai Airport Authority. ��In the area of PE/VC, Mr. Zhou has acted for CBRE Investors, Colony Capital, Navis Capital, Lightspeed Ventures, Qiming Ventures, DT Capital, NEA, New Alliance Capital, Warden International, WINS and other international and local PE/VC funds.

Alex Liu

Alex Liu focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity investment & financing, and capital markets, with established expertise on takeover and restructuring of public companies, state-owned assets related transactions, cross-border M&A and red-chip restructuring. In the field of merger and acquisitions, Alex has been involved in many representative deals, which include: Takeover of control, such as, Infore Group’s over RMB 8.88 billion takeover of KUCA (603816.SH); Broadex’s (300548.SZ) takeover by YOFC (601869.SH; 06869.HK); Orient Zirconic’s (002167.SZ) takeover by LB Group (002601.SZ); Meiya Pico’s (300188.SZ) takeover by SDIC; Sichuan Shuangma’s (000935.SZ) takeover by IDG Capital; and Cangzhou Dahua’s (600230.SH) sale by a central SOE. Restructuring by public companies, such as, Zoomlion’s (000157.SZ; 01157.HK) carve-out by way of RoadRover’s (002813.SZ) backdoor listing; Synermore Biologics’ sale to NUCIEN (688189.SH); NuClover’s sale to Jieqiang Equipment (300875.SZ); affiliates’ restructuring by SOE YNHC (001896.SZ); and merger of Huabei Expressway (000916) by China Merchants Highway. Cross-border M&A transactions, such as, over RMB 3.3 billion strategic investment into CGN’s Brazilian subsidiary; over RMB 18.47 billion takeover of Israel’s ADAMA by Sanonda (000553.SZ); merger integration of Xiamen Port involving three A-shares and two HK listed companies; combination of CR Pharmaceutical and Beijing Pharmaceutical involving four A-shares companies; acquisition of Tianjin Port (600717.SH) by Tianjin Port Development (00382.HK) through shares exchange; RTO of HanKore Environment (U9E.SGX) by Everbright International (00257.HK); VSA injecting properties by CR Land (01109.HK); sale of TNUVA to Bright Food by APAX Fund; and acquisition of skiing resorts in Yabuli by Melco. Red-chip or VIE restructuring, Alex’s representative clients include Xiyun, Douyu, EASOU Technology, Bangcle, Chunyu Yisheng, Baixing.com, and Baofeng Group etc. In the field of PE investment and financing, Alex has represented numerous RMB or USD funds such as China Merchants Capital, CDB Capital, CIIF, Hony Capital, Goldstone, and Jinrong Street Capital etc., in investments ranging from technology, healthcare to energy sectors. In capital markets, Alex has advised on the listings or additional issues on the stock exchanges in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Beijing, Hong Kong or US, including the IPO of China Resources Microelectronics (688396.SH) on SSE STAR, the first case in Chinese capital markets of an offshore red-chip company; Douyu.com (DOYU) and VisionChina (VISN)’s Nasdaq listing; Tong Ji Tang’s NYSE listing; Dynasty (00828), Huaying Highway (01823), Hongba Digital (00802) and Sanlin Global (019020)’s HKSE listing; Vanke’s B to H share conversion; and the delisting of Zhengzhou Gas, etc.

Amy Dai

Amy Dai is a Shanghai-based partner with Global Law Office. Amy Dai has rich experience providing legal services for fund formation and PE/VC investment. She has advised on more than 30 fund formation projects, including pure RMB Fund, JV Fund and USD Fund. She has also helped many domestic and international funds to invest in China through various structures across industrials such as life science, medical and pharmaceutical, health care, telecommunications, new energy, semi-conductor etc. In addition, Amy Dai has helped several issuers in their initial public offering on both the international stock exchanges such as Nasdaq, AIM, Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and Taiwan stock exchange. Amy Dai worked for Boehringer Ingelheim (China), a top fifteen multinational pharmaceutical company, as the legal counsel in 2009 and 2010.

Angela Sui

Ms. Sui has extensive experience in litigation and arbitration. She has handled over a hundred of litigation and arbitration cases related to domestic and foreign-related commercial disputes which are involved in multiple fields such as corporate governances, equity transactions, international trades, financial leasing, financial derivatives transactions, construction projects and medical services. She has represented her clients before various levels of people’s courts and multiple international and domestic arbitration centers, including the ICC International Court of Arbitration, the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), the Shanghai International Arbitration Centre (SHIAC), Shanghai Arbitration Commission, Wuxi Arbitration Commission, etc. In addition, Ms. Sui is also experienced in bankruptcy and liquidation. She acted as a bankruptcy administrator in multiple bankruptcy and liquidation cases. She also succeeded in declaring the financial derivatives claims on behalf of financial institution creditors.

Bella (Fengpei) Zhou

Bella (Fengpei) Zhou is an of counsel of Global Law office in Shanghai and specialized in dispute resolution, including domestic and foreign-related litigation, arbitration, and non-litigation resolution of various disputes. She is skilled in litigation and arbitration related to PE/VC, M&A, company equity. Bella (Fengpei) Zhou has represented clients before the people's courts at multiple levels and major arbitration committees such as CIETAC, SHIAC, SHAC etc., She is also familiar with the preservation and enforcement proceedings.

Bing Bai

Bing Bai is mainly engaged in legal services such as dispute resolution in the fields of banking and finance, construction projects, and civil enforcement. In the financial field, Bing Bai has a wide range of ideas, concepts and rules for judicial organs to try financial cases, and provides legal services for more than ten banks, trusts, asset management companies, small loan companies and other financial institutions. In the field of construction engineering, Bing Bai is well versed in the status and characteristics of owners, general contractors and subcontractors in the business model of construction projects. Provide legal services in due diligence, transaction structure design, business negotiation, dispute resolution, etc. In the field of litigation and arbitration, Bing Bai has more than ten years of experience in civil enforcement, and is good at the organic combination of preservation and litigation, non-litigation enforcement in the financial field, and reasonable control of nodes in preservation, litigation, enforcement and business negotiations. In the field of perennial legal counsel, Bing Bai is currently the perennial legal counsel of Meituan Select and Robin Hotel Management Company.

Catherine (Cuihong) Song

Catherine Song is a partner of Global Law Office and based in the firm’s Shanghai office. Ms. Song practices primarily in the areas of real estate, cross border acquisitions, foreign direct investment and banking and finance. Industries in which she has been involved include real estate, logistics and warehousing, commercial retail and banking, etc. Ms. Song specializes in the real estate industry and logistics and warehousing industry with solid experiences in providing a full range of legal services on acquisition and disposal of real estate projects, logistics and warehousing projects, land expatriation and reservation by the PRC local governments and corporate real estate. She has closed more than 100 cross border M&A real estate and logistics and warehousing transactions by way of equity transfer, asset transfer or joint ventures. Her clients include Angelo Gordon, Arch Capital, Tomson Group, METRO, Everview Capital, Kailong REI, CapitaLand and other offshore funds and multinational entities. Ms. Song also provides legal services for Taubman and Disney in their PRC leasing matters. In the area of banking and finance, Ms. Song has acted for Hong Kong Bank of China Group and its member banks on their financing transactions in connection with various projects in China.

Cheng Li

During the past years of practice in law firms, Mr. Li has accumulated extensive professional experiences in corporate restructuring, IPO on Chinese and overseas capital markets and M&A transactions. Mr. Li has advised on the restructuring and securities offering of dozens of enterprises at overseas stock markets, including Shanghai Electric, China Lesso, China South City, Hydoo International, Wuzhou International, Lvgem, Everbright Grand China Assets, Hung Fook Tong, Vincent Medical, Meitu, Wanka Online and Fangdd. Mr. Li has also represented clients in various complex M&A transactions among listed companies, large-scale state-owned enterprises and private equity funds, such as the acquisitions of Wanda Department Store and Carrefour (China) by Suning, the backdoor listing of SF Holding Co. Ltd., and the private equity financing of SF Express, FangDD.com, MEIZU Hive Box, MGI Tech and etc. Mr. Li is particularly experienced in projects regarding natural resources, real estate, infrastructure, Internet, consuming and the medical industries.

Coco Fan

Ms. Fan is the legal counsel of many multi-national companies in Mainland China, including Sanofi, Boehringer Ingelheim, MSD, GSK, Novartis, Eli Lilly, Catalent, BRITA GmbH, TOSOH SMD Inc., Schlumberger, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Gensci、Bureau Veritas, Biomet, Capital Today, Qiming Venture Partners, DT Capital, HGI FINAVES China Fund, etc. Ms. Fan has rich legal and regulatory compliance experiences in the healthcare industry involving prescription medicine, OTC, CRO, medical device, biopharmaceuticals, health foods, clinical supply, vaccine, animal health and hospitals, etc.

Degang Ma

Degang Ma has over 20 years of legal experience. His practice areas focus on intellectual property protection, transnational intellectual property trade (technology import), technology transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and intellectual property dispute resolution. Degang Ma is one of the few Chinese lawyers who has represented Chinese companies in dealing with 337 investigation cases in the United States. He was qualified to inspect the counterpart's confidential information in his previous 337 investigation case. Degang Ma has represented many major and difficult litigation cases and commercial arbitration cases conducted by the Supreme People's Court and the High People's Court. Some of his cases were selected as classic cases by the Supreme Court and the China National Intellectual Property Administration. His practice areas focus on patent law, but the entire practice scope includes patent infringement litigation, patent invalidation, freedom to operate (FTO), infringement of trade secrets, infringement of trademark exclusive rights, infringement of computer software copyrights, and anti-unfair competition, etc.

Deming Zhao

Apart from general corporate work, Dr. Zhao has also provided regulatory compliance and crisis solution services covering anti-monopoly, anti-commercial bribery, customs and AQSIQ, product labeling, import compliance regarding pharmaceutical, medical, food, healthcare, cosmetics and luxury products. He has acted as the leading counsel in various joint venture, acquisition, merger, divestiture and corporate restructuring projects, and also participated in overseas investment and offshore listing, covering aviation, banking, internet, mining, motor, electric, electronic, chemical, pharmaceutical, medical instrument, textile, cosmetics, other consumer product, shipping & shipbuilding, real estate and human resources consulting service industries. In the practice of customs & trade compliance, Dr. Zhao has advised, represented or defended many renowned multinational companies in connection with import & export duty and VAT, consumption tax, anti-dumping duty, retaliation duty, import duty deduction and exemption programs, export tax rebate, transfer pricing and valuation consultation, valuation, tariff classification, HS code precedent database, customs pre-ruling, royalties, assist, country of origin, customs survey and inspection, import & export license, quarantine and non-tariff barriers, processing trade, bonded logistics models, customs supervision zones, plant relocation, deep processing transit (inter-plant transfer), and outsourced processing. Deming Zhao has also advised, represented and defend many corporate clients in administrative and criminal cases concerning customs audits, ASB investigations and criminal cases with smuggling or other charge. He has led many legal audits and health-check on trade compliance, training and consultation projects for business operations of multinationals in China. Dr. Zhao frequently gives speech on practical and legislative issues concerning Chinese customs regulatory environment at customs law symposiums and at different law schools in and outside China. For export control and economic sanctions, Dr Zhao advises and trains many clients on export control or economic sanctions, and frequently makes speeches on China export control and customs supervision practices at symposiums or seminars in Europe. In 2019, Dr Zhao was invited by the International Anti-Corruption Academy to lecture on China and US export control practices in Seoul to professional audiences from Asian countries. In an administrative review case, Dr Zhao successfully defended a multinational client against the export licensing requirement for a given chemical product. Dr. Zhao has worked as an outside legal counsel providing various legal services (including aircraft leasing) for a leading Chinese airline company. Dr. Zhao has been a maritime law expert as well. He was specialized in maritime law during his study at University College London and has many years of experience in teaching and practicing maritime law, and serving as counsel for shipping companies. His services have covered litigation and non-litigation matters concerning insurance, charter parties, cargo claims, subrogation claims, bills of lading frauds, P&I defence, marine pollution, limitation of liabilities, collision, general average and international sale of goods. Dr. Zhao has also advised clients on their logistics and supply chain models. Dr. Zhao has an extensive experience both as an in-house and outside counsel in supporting human resources functions of multinational companies and foreign-invested enterprises. He has advised clients on labor union, employee representatives and employee club issues, labor aspects of M&A transactions, expatriate issues, overtime issues, social security issues as well as the risk control and management of labor arbitration and litigation and intellectual property protection in labor relations. He helps his clients in preparing confidentiality and non-competition agreements, service invention agreements, corporate rules and policies, labor severance guidelines, employee handbooks, labor contracts, training contracts, optional employee benefits and secondment agreements. Dr. Zhao has more than 25 years of experience in litigation and arbitration in relation to investment，M&A, financing, insurance, shipping, domestic & international trade and engineering projects. He as an arbitrator also has participated in CIETAC and other arbitration cases. Mr.Zhao is the chief editor of International Maritime Law, a popular textbook for law school students. He has contributed articles in Chinese, English or German on customs and trade compliance aspects to domestic and foreign publications or magazines, including the Yearbook of Global Ethics, Compliance & Integrity published in English by Deutscher Fachverlag – dfv, and the magazine Der Zoll-Profi (The Customs Professional) in German.

Dongdong Wang

Dongdong Wang is a partner of Global Law Office based in Chengdu and he mainly focuses his practice on banking and finance, insurance, family wealth management and succession, as well as private equity and investment funds . Notably, Dongdong Wang has extensive experiences in the field of anking and finance. He has advised more than 10 leading trust companies, including CRTC, CITIC Trust, AVIC Trust, FOTIC, JIC trust, CRC Trust, ZSJH Trust, CCB Trust, Chang’an Trust, Everbright Trust, COFCO Trust and etc., on hundreds of trust projects. The trust projects involve include real estate, infrastructure, industrial and commercial enterprises, family trust, elderly services trust, consumer finance, factoring and bills and other industry sectors; provide special and permanent legal services for Bank of China, Longjiang Bank, China CITIC Bank, Sichuan Bank and many other banks. In the field of private equity and investment funds, Dongdong Wang sponsored and participated in more than ten private equity fund managers' registration and major change projects, such as Sichuan Hexin Zhenxing Equity Investment Fund Management Co., Raystone Capital, Guanjin Capital, etc.; he has provided due diligence investigation, transaction structure design, and drafting of transaction documents for dozens of fund establishments and foreign investments. In the field of insurance, Dongdong Wang has provided full legal services for the acquisition of equity interests in Groupama AVIC Insurance by Shudao Investment Group Co. Ltd, the acquisition of equity interests in CHAC by Everbright Trust, and has also provided year-round legal services for CTIH, Sino-US United MetLife Insurance Company Limited, Heng an Standard Life, Sichuan Branch of Hua Life Insurance Co, and Tai Hang Insurance Broker, among others. In the field of family wealth management and succession, Dongdong Wang has hosted a family trust for stock income rights in listed companies of a high net worth client of CCB Trust, made the trust contract template for the family trust of CRTC, and provided perennial and special legal services for the family wealth management and inheritance of a number of high net worth clients.

Ealing Cheng

Ealing Cheng focuses on capital markets, mergers and acquisitions and private equity investment & financing, with well-established expertise on M&A, domestic and overseas IPO, and state-owned assets regulatory related. In the field of capital markets, Ealing has advised on a number of equity and debt offerings on both domestic and overseas capital markets (SSE STAR market, ChiNext market, Shanghai/Shenzhen Stock Exchange Hong Kong Stock Exchange). Industries in which he has been involved include life science and healthcare, manufacturing, IoT, TMT, Fin-tech and pharmaceutical, etc. In the field of mergers and acquisitions, Ealing has advised a considerable number of domestic and cross-border M&A, including, Henan Yuneng Holdings Co.,Ltd. Merger of Puyang Yuneng Power Generation Co., Ltd., Epoxy Base Electronic Material Corporation Limited merger of Wuxi GRACE Electron Technology Co., Ltd., Meijin Energy cross-border M&A. As for Takeover of control and tender offer projects, target companies in which she has been involved include A-share Listed Companies, NEEQ Companies, etc. In the field of private equity investment & financing, Ealing has represented numerous funds and investors regarding various PE investment, such as China Merchants Capital, CDB Capital, Marathon Venture Partners, CICC Alpha, Hony Capital, etc. Industries in which she has been involved include life science, healthcare, pharmaceutical, industrial Internet/IoT, software services/SaaS, cloud computing/big data, robotics, chips and semiconductors, military equipment manufacturing, etc. In the field of State-owned assets regulatory and Compliance, Ealing has advised a number of SOEs such as Chengdu Gas Group Corporation Ltd., China Resources Microelectronics Limited, Tencent, ByteDance, Sina, Samsung, Nokia, Future Capital, Dongfeng MOTOR Corporation, State Development and Investment Corporation, ect.

Eric Chen

Eric is a partner of Global Law Firm based on Shenzhen, where his main practice focuses on dispute resolution (litigation and arbitration), bankruptcy restructuring and non-performing assets, corporate and M&A, etc., He is especially good at handling legal affairs related to domestic and foreign listed companies, financial institutions and cross-border enterprises. In the area of dispute resolution, Eric has led his legal team to handle hundreds of litigation, arbitration and other dispute matters. Eric has a keen insight into the commercial background and the position of the parties to the dispute, and is good at grasping the pace of negotiation and litigation/arbitration strategies, so as to protect the legitimate interests of clients in an efficient and direct manner in complex commercial disputes. In recent years, representative clients that Eric has or is serving include Kweichow Moutai Group, Huawei Technologies, Qianhai Financial Holdings, Evergrande Life, Qianhai Financial Association, Libaoge Group (HK01869), Biovalley (833266), Ban Loong Holdings Limited (HK00030), a subsidiary of Yunnan Baiyao, Worldunion (002285), Nayuki Holdings Limited (HK02150), Success Electronics Ltd(002289), Wongtee International (000056), Eaglerise(002922), Lenschine (a leading enterprise in the field of building materials), Janezt (a well-known consumer brand "Beneunder"), Smartcitysz (wholly-owned subsidiary of Shenzhen State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission), Vergiga Semiconductor, Freshippo Technology, South Korea's LG Group, Lead Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd. and other customers and their affiliates. Eric has advised these clients on a wide range of matters, including contract disputes, tort disputes, equity disputes, corporate control disputes, disputes over corporate executives harming the interests of companies/creditors, joint venture contract disputes, equity incentive disputes, securities misrepresentation disputes, stock pledge repurchase disputes, trust/asset management financing disputes, bond default disputes, family property disputes, etc. In the field of bankruptcy reorganization and non-performing assets, Eric has provided services to Bank of China Head Office, Cinda Asset, Huarong International, China Orient Asset Management Co., Ltd, Shenzhen Asset, Futian Investment Holdings, Shenzhen Futian District Housing and Construction Bureau, Penghua Fund, Tianhong Fund, Bohai Bank, Bank of Dongguan, a number of listed companies and controlling shareholders, a number of real estate companies and actual controllers, involving bankruptcy liquidation/ reorganization, debt restructuring, debtor crisis disposal, bankruptcy derivative litigation and other legal affairs. In this type of legal work, Eric starts from the client's position and interest demands, and uses his experience in providing legal services for different subjects to provide the most stable and efficient solutions for clients. Representative cases include: HNA Group's series of restructuring cases, an industrial group restructuring case in Shenzhen, a landmark building enterprise liquidation case in Tianjin, and a debt restructuring case of a number of real estate companies in South China. In these cases, Eric has made positive contributions to solving the problem of enterprise deadlock and optimizing the allocation of social and economic resources.

Evan Sun

Evan Sun is our Shanghai-based partner. Evan Sun has extensive experience in foreign direct investment, general corporate, merger and acquisition, private equity fund formation and investment, and capital market. Evan Sun has advised Morningside Ventures, Trustbridge Partners, CICC Capital, Tencent, ByteDance, Cai Niao, SenseTime, Qiming Venture Partners, Panda Capital, Grand Flight Capital, SummitView Capital, Jian Yuan Capital and other leading VC / PE institutions in over one hundred investment projects. He also advises many start-up companies on legal issues in their daily operations, financings, and ESOP design and implementation. Evan Sun’s practice covers a variety of industries, including life science, renewable energy, automobile, education, food, chemical, manufacturing, finance, telecommunications, internet, culture and entertainment. Throughout his career, Evan Sun has worked for many multinational company clients, such as United Technology Corporation, Associated British Foods, DSM, ZF, Sodexo, etc.

Fanqin Meng

Fanqin Meng is a Beijing-based of counsel of Global Law Office. His primary practice areas include dispute resolution and non-contentious cases in real estate and construction engineering, energy and mining, corporate mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and investment funds. He has rich experience in dealing with complex cases such as large-scale project construction, corporate operation, and cases with criminal and civilian elements cross-over. Fanqin Meng has provided dispute resolution legal services, perennial legal counsel services, and specialized legal services for many well-known enterprises at home and abroad, including Capital Airport, Daxing Airport Construction Headquarters, China National Energy Construction Guangdong Engineering Institute, China National Machinery Group, Moutai Group, Beijing Capital Corporation, Siemens China, TÜV Rheinlan, Otis China, LaneCrawford & Joyce Group, etc. The prominent arbitration cases Fanqin Meng has recently participated in include: a contract dispute over the international sale of goods under the jurisdiction of the Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) jurisdiction of an Indonesian coal-fired power plant construction contract dispute, a coal power plant in Pakistan EPC contract dispute; A series of project settlement disputes in a data room under the jurisdiction of Beijing Arbitration Commission (BAC). The prominent litigation and non-litigation cases that Fanqin Meng has participated in recently are the equipment settlement payment dispute of a 2.4 million laying chicken factory in Ganzhou, Jiangxi; the Contract dispute of a series of unfinished projects in Qingdao; legal services for several stated owned enterprises, including construction project tendering and bidding disputes, contract drafting, and review, settlement consultation.

Faye (Feifei) Song

Faye Song is a partner of Global Law Office, based in Beijing and specialized in banking and finance, capital markets, asset management products and compliance. In the field of banking and finance, Faye Song has provided legal services to international financial institutions, Chinese and international banks as well as export credit agencies active in the market and advised on various types of syndicated loans, project financing, structured trade financing and financial derivatives. In the field of bond issuance, Faye Song has participated in a large number of onshore and offshore bond issuances (including Panda Bonds, corporate bonds, debt financing instruments of non-financial enterprises issued in the PRC bond market, and RMB, USD and EUR bonds issued in the Hong Kong, Singapore and London markets). She has worked as the lead counsel in several “first” Green Bonds and Panda Bonds issued by onshore and offshore financial institutions and corporates. In the field of asset management products and compliance, Faye Song has led the legal service team to advise on commercial banks, financial management subsidiaries and insurance companies with respect to bank financial products, trust products and asset management schemes. She also provides annual retainer and ad hoc legal services in this field to Chinese financial institutions and corporates.

Feng Sheng

Feng Sheng specialized in finance, private equity & investment funds, private client & wealth management, dispute resolution. As an experienced finacial attorney, Feng Sheng is well versed in the logic of financial operation, the concept, rules and boundaries of financial regulation, and has rich practical experience in compliance management, crisis communication and dispute resolution of financial institutions, and advised on more than 20 insurance, banking, trust and other financial institutions. In the area of private equity & investment funds, Feng Sheng has provided comprehensive legal services, including but not limited to due diligence, transaction structure design, delivery document drafting, for clients, the industry range of which covers Internet, software, real estate, and manufacturing etc. Feng Sheng has provided asset protection, transfer, inheritance and other aspects of planning and audit optimization for more than 100 high-net-worth individuals and individual shareholders. He also acts as legal counsel for private banks and family offices. Feng Sheng is also good at dispute resolution in the area of finace, he guides clients to prevent compliance risks and legal risks, and to grasp the initiative in the multi-party game of financial regulation, financial institutions, and financial consumers.

Frank Hang

Mr. Hang is specialized in international trade, including antidumping, countervailing, safeguard, Section 337 and customs related matters. Mr. Hang has represented more than 100 clients from US, Japan, EU, Korea, etc to respond to China antidumping, countervailing and safeguard investigations; Mr. Hang has also represented hundreds of Chinese clients to respond to antidumping, countervailing, Section 337 investigations initiated by US, EU, Canada, Australia, India, Turkey, Indonesia, Pakistan, etc. These investigations involve a variety of industries, such as petrochemical, steel, tires, solar cells, electronic, paper, textiles, light and agricultural products. Mr. Hang handles antidumping and countervailing investigations for local and international clients, such as BMW, Vallourec, Sasol, MHCS, Ascend, Shagang Steel, Hengyang Valin, Suntech, Hanwha, Xiashun. Mr. Hang has formed long-term partnership with many firms specializing in international trade located all over the world. Mr. Hang represents China and foreign clients in customs matters, such as export control, certificate of origin, customs classification. Mr. Hang provides anti-monopoly opinions and guidelines to clients; he also assists clients in their merger control filing before the Chinese anti-monopoly authorities. Mr. Hang deals with merger & acquisition, direct investment and other general corporate issues. Mr. Hang has been recognized by Chambers, Who's Who Legal, Legal 500, LEGALBAND as the leading lawyer in the area of International Trade. Mr. Hang is listed in the Chinese 1000 International Lawyers.

Geoffrey (Jianhai) Zha

Geoffrey Zha is a partner of Global Law Office based in Beijing. Geoffrey is a highly accomplished attorney specializing within the complex realm of intellectual property law. Geoffrey offers an exceptional blend of legal expertise and strategic insight in trademark portfolio management, negotiation of IP issues, trademark prosecution and enforcement, domain name protection, copyright protection and anti-unfair competition. Geoffrey possesses extensive litigation skills and vigorously advocates for clients' interests before the Court. Additionally, Geoffrey incorporates his understanding of judicial practice into the handling of administrative cases to ensure that cases are well prepared for ultimate success. Geoffrey has had the honor of representing numerous top international corporations, medium-sized enterprises, and innovative startups across diverse sectors, including information technology, energy, hospitality, electronics, electrical appliances, automotive, pharmaceuticals, retail, sports, food & beverage, and fashion.

Guosheng Xu

Guosheng Xu is a trusted partner to lawyers, compliance officers and business executives. He is qualified in both the UK and Singapore Bar and has over 25 years of experience working both in-house and as an external counsel. He advises clients on cybersecurity, data and privacy law and compliance matters, including compliance program assessments, data processing contracts, and data incident management, cross border data transfers as well as internet and business licensing. He is also experienced in anti-corruption and fraud compliance. He has advised and continues to support many multinational companies such as Xiaomi, Autohome, Schneider, Nike, Volvo on data protection and regulatory matters in China and overseas. He has recently been selected by Bytedance to consult in the area of data compliance. His in-house experience allows him to help clients assess risks in a meaningful way and craft practical solutions which can be quickly and easily implemented. Guosheng Xu, has over 15 years of in-house legal, corporate and compliance experience having served as the Compliance Director for Asia Pacific and the China General Counsel at Diebold Inc. as well as the Compliance Director AP for Nokia Siemen’s Greater China networks business. At Diebold, Guosheng Xu was responsible for managing the corporate governance and compliance programs of all Diebold entities in over 12 countries in Asia as well as promoting compliance adoption among all distributors and vendors in the region. His experience includes dealing with compliance monitors under deferred prosecution agreements, and the successful resolution of investigations by regulators in China, India and Indonesia, setting up and serving on compliance committees for US and European listed companies. Guosheng Xu is also an accomplished commercial of counsel having negotiated many telecom network deals in Asia. By working closely with clients and understanding their business plans and challenges, Guosheng Xu has helped many clients with their compliance strategies as well as advising on the effective roll out of compliance initiatives and programs.

Haishan Sun

Carrie Sun has extensive experience in non-litigation legal matters such as corporate reorganization, M&A, PE/VC, overseas listing and foreign direct investment. Carrie has served companies in the industries of pharmaceutical, manufacturing, telecommunication, automobile, real estate, mining, service, etc. Carrie has extensive experience in investment & financing and capital market, and some representative projects including: Shenzhen Capital Value Partners Greater Bay Area Opportunity Limited Partnership Fund’s acquisition of 2.09% issued shares of Fengxiang Co (09977.HK), Dawnrays Pharma’s (02348.HK) selling of shares of AD Pharmaceuticals, Hong Kong Sincere Watch's (00444.HK) acquisition of Hainan Boao Lecheng, PanAsialum Holdings Company Limited’s (02078.HK) sale of its domestic subsidiaries, representing Haitong in its issuance of short-term private placement bonds to a number of domestic real estate companies, Taiping Financial Holdings Company Limited’s investment in ClouDr Group Limited (09955.HK), CLSA's investment in a Hangzhou baby products company, Orchid Asia's investment in online-consuming companies in Shenzhen and Guangzhou, CGN's acquisition of LNG Gas station project, Goldman Sachs' equity acquisition on Shenzhen Mindray and its listing on NASDAQ and subsequent series of additional issuance, DBS Bank’s investment in Jinhao, Heng Ding and New World's acquisition of convertible bond of an agricultural company in Sichuan, Thomson's Investment on Konka, Hyosung's acquisition of a Chinese transformer manufacturer, Ashmore Investment Management Limited’s acquisition of Shenzhen Minrun Agricultural Products Chain Commercial Co., Ltd., 7daysinn’s private equity financing of Warburg Pincus’s and Merrill Lynch’s investors, PingAn’s investment in Ciming Checkup, Enpack’s investment in a large-scale electronic product manufacturing enterprise project in Huizhou, DCH HOLDINGS’s acquisition of a famous 4S store in Shenzhen, US Rotorcraft Companies and Chinese companies’ directly investment in the establishment of a domestic aircraft manufacturing company, China Overseas Holdings Limited’s overseas bond issuance, the public listing on the NYSE and subsequent capital increase issuance of Mindray International; public offering and listing on the main board of the HKEX of Belle, Yide International (01396.HK), Wuzhou International (01369.HK), Hung Fook Tong (01446.HK), Ten Pao Group (01979.HK), Vincent Medical Holdings (01612.HK), Smart-Core Holdings (02166.HK), Mengke Holdings (01629.HK), Trio Industrial Electronics (01710.HK), Oneforce Holdings (01933.HK), Tian Chang Group (02182.HK), Tian Yuan Group (06119.HK), Maike Tube Industry Holdings Limited (01553.HK), Nayuki Holdings Limited (02150.HK), General Education (02175.HK); public listing on the Growth Enterprise Market of the HKEX of Golden Power Group (03919.HK) and ZC Tech GP (08511.HK); the initial public offering and listing on NASDAQ of Connect Biopharma (CNTB.US) and Jin Medical International Ltd. (ZJYL.US); MicroPort Scientific Corporation’s (00853.HK) overseas bond issuance, etc.

Haiyan Yu

Haiyan Yu is a partner of Global Law Office based in Chengdu, specialized in intellectual property, unfair competition, anti-monopoly, intellectual property criminal cases, as well as recreation and sport. Haiyan Yu has been practicing law for more than ten years, who has advised on more than 50 clients provided intellectual property and unfair competition legal services, involved manufacturing, software games, energy, commercial retail, arts, media, telecommunications, and medicine. Haiyan Yu has more experience and achievements in litigation, and served as counsel for several companies. “Yang Jinhong No.1” kiwi plant new variety disputes have been selected the top 10 typical cases of Chengdu Middle court and Sichuan High court, also the top 20 typical cases of judicial protection of the seed industry of the Supreme Court, and 100 typical cases on the fifth anniversary of the establishment of the Supreme Court Intellectual Property Division in 2022. The Qiao Ruth BJD doll copyright dispute case was selected as the Top 10 of typical cases of Sichuan High court, and included as China Copyright typical cases in 2021; “Tower brand” trademark disputes were included the Top 10 of cases against unfair competition Sichuan High court from 2019 to 2021. “Dongfang Electric”, the competition disputes were selected as the top 10 typical cases of Sichuan High Court in 2022.

Haoyan Yang

Haoyan Yang specializes in banking and finance, mergers and acquisitions, debt restructuring/bankruptcy, and dispute resolution. Haoyan Yang has long served government agencies and state-owned enterprises, holding positions as a perennial legal advisor for Chengdu Rural Commercial Bank, Sichuan Tianfu Bank, Dazhou Bank, Postal Savings Bank Dazhou Branch, Dazhou City Finance Bureau, Dazhou City Transportation Investment Group, and Culture and Travel Investment Group, among others. In the banking and finance sector, Haoyan Yang has rich legal practice experience, representing numerous financial institutions in providing professional consulting and solutions for high-risk and complex legal matters. He has provided comprehensive financing legal consultation for multiple PPP projects and handled several local bond issuance projects. In terms of debt restructuring and bankruptcy, Yang has been involved in several bankruptcy liquidation and reorganization projects as an administrator, successfully achieving debt restructuring and ensuring the continuous operation and development of enterprises. He has repeatedly represented Tianfu Bank and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Sichuan Branch as a creditor in bankruptcy litigation, promoting the realization of claims. In the area of mergers and acquisitions, Yang is not only efficient in designing transaction structures, due diligence, and contract negotiations but also provides strategic advice to clients.

Hemin Zhou

Hemin Zhou is a partner based in our Shanghai office. His practices cover International Trade & Customs, Corporate, Intellectual Property, Capital Market as well as Litigation and Arbitration. Engagement in teaching and research on Customs laws for more than a decade enriches Hemin Zhou with intensive expertise and experience in Customs laws. Hemin Zhou has provided many multinational companies, listed companies and local enterprises with legal services regarding customs declaration, import & export tariff and VAT (customs classification, valuation and Rule of Origin), business model, processing trade, plant relocation and customs IP protection. Hemin Zhou has also provided helpful legal opinions to several clients when facing customs inspection or investigation and acted as a defender in criminal cases suspected of smuggling. Hemin Zhou works with several large-scale foreign invested enterprises and local companies as an in-house counsel, providing them with general corporate including employment and IP. As to the capital market, Hemin Zhou has represented a renowned Taiwan-funded enterprise leading its project financing. He also has a good legal command of the inter-bank bond market.

Heng Wang

Ms. Wang has represented clients in arbitration proceedings before international arbitration institutions, including, inter alia, China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), ICC International Court of Arbitration (ICC), Hong Kong International Arbitration Center (HKIAC) and Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC). Ms. Wang has also represented clients in court proceedings before all levels of PRC People’s Courts, ranging from District Courts to the Supreme People’s Court (including CICC of the SPC). Ms. Wang’s experience includes, inter alia, representing- TCP Group (Thailand), in the Red Bull series disputes in relation to joint venture and corporate law, including several litigation proceedings before PRC People’s Courts for disputes on joint venture’s profit distribution, director’s breach of fiduciary duties, shareholder identities, etc., which have been escalated by CICC of the SPC as the first batch of cases tried by CICC due to the significant international influence caused; an offshore VC Fund in arbitration proceedings under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules administered by the HKIAC in relation to loan agreement disputes; an offshore VC Fund in arbitration proceedings under HKIAC Arbitration Rules taking place in Hong Kong in relation to convertible notes disputes; a Chinese VC Fund in arbitration proceedings before CIETAC in relation to investment agreement; a Chinese famous garment manufacturing company in arbitration proceedings before ICC under the ICC Arbitration Rules taking place in Paris, France, against an Italian company for disputes under a manufacturing technology and know-how license and service contract; a US company in arbitration proceedings before CIETAC against a Chinese company for disputes under an air product supply contract; a Chinese wind-turbine manufacturer in arbitration proceedings before CIETAC against an Italian company and its subsidiary in China for disputes under a supply contract for components, and in court proceeding for disputes under financial lease contracts; a Chinese leading activated carbon manufacturer in the court proceedings on refusal of recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards rendered by HKIAC in relation to joint venture contract disputes and supply contract disputes

Henry Hou

Henry Hou is a partner of Global Law Office in Shenzhen, whose main practice areas are international banking and financing and cross-border dispute resolution. Henry Hou has extensive legal service experience in the field of cross-border dispute resolution, specializing in handling major or difficult cases of cross-border dispute resolution related to finance, international trade, and equity disputes. He has handled numerous international litigation or arbitration cases involving great influence or substantial amounts. For example, Henry Hou has represented a large cross-border e-commerce company and participated in an international arbitration case involving a dispute over an international sales contract with a multinational trading company from the United States and obtained a favorable arbitral award. As the attorney of a major multinational energy company from the United States, he was involved in a cross-border commercial litigation case concerning a dispute over an international sales contract with an electronics company from Shenzhen and obtained a successful judgment. Besides the above-mentioned cases, Henry Hou also represented clients in numerous litigations and arbitrations in equity disputes and financial loan contract disputes, achieving positive results and receiving high recognition from clients. In the field of international banking and financing, Henry Hou provides professional legal services for policy banks and commercial banks, including export credit, project financing, M&A loans, syndicated loans, trade financing and general banking services. The clients that have been served and are being served include the Export-Import Bank of China, Bank of China, Agricultural Bank of China, Bank of Communications, SPD Bank, Ping An Bank, China Everbright Bank and ABN AMRO, etc. Representative projects include: “Export-Import Bank of China providing export credit loan with an approximate amount of US$150 million to a well-known domestic telecom operator for its export of telecommunications products to Mexico,” “Ping An Bank (Shenzhen branch) providing cross-border commercial loan with an approximate amount of US$200 million in relation to a commercial real estate project located in California developed by the US subsidiary of a large domestic real estate group,” and“Bank of Communications (Shenzhen branch) providing CNY 4 billion in syndicated loans to a finance leasing group company, and providing CNY 5.2 billion in syndicated loans for an urban renewal project by a large real estate development company in Shenzhen, ”etc.

Hong Jiang

Hong Jiang specializes in the study and practice of commercial dispute resolution. She has extensive experience in handling complex and high-profile domestic and international arbitration cases. The types of disputes she handles include investment & financing, equity transactions, foreign investment, finance & securities, international trade, technology transfer &licensing, real estate, pharmaceuticals & health care and energy. Hong Jiang represented clients including multinational companies, foreign-invested enterprises, private equity investment funds and large state-owned and private enterprises before all levels of PRC courts and various arbitration institutions, and the rules applicable to the arbitration involve China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), Beijing Arbitration Commission (BAC), Shanghai International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (SHIAC), Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (SCIA), International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Court of Arbitration, Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) and Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) rules. Hong Jiang currently serves as panel arbitrator at HKIAC, CIETAC, China Maritime Arbitration Commission (CMAC), SHIAC, SCIA, etc. Since 2004, Hong Jiang has handled over 400 arbitration cases in domestic and international arbitration institutions as presiding arbitrator, sole arbitration or party-appointed arbitrator.

Jacky Li

Jacky (Jiajie) Li is a partner at Global Law Office, based in Shanghai. He is an attorney-at-law in the PRC and California, US, and is a US ACFE certified fraud examiner and a contributing expert for the United Kingdom’s The Law Reviews. He mainly focuses on regulatory compliance, corporate and government investigations, dispute resolution and litigation, healthcare and life sciences. Jacky Li has practised in regulatory compliance for more than 15 years and has extensive experience. He is well versed in conducting various types of internal investigations and dealing with government investigations, in connection with anti-corruption (including US FCPA), anti-monopoly and anti-money laundering matters, white-collar crime, cybersecurity and data compliance. He provides a full range of legal and compliance services to many large multinational companies, and state-owned and privately owned enterprises, and he has represented companies in dealings with cross-jurisdictional government authorities. In addition, Jacky Li has been publishing over 10 academic journals and more than 50 articles to support the development of the industry. Notably, Jacky Li was invited by the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade Commercial Legal Service Center and China Pharmaceutical Industry Association in 2022 as an expert to draft and edit the Guidance Books for Corporate Compliance Practitioner Professional Training and Pharmaceutical Industry Compliance Management Practice, introducing practical guidelines on dealing with internal and external compliance & regulatory investigations for China compliance officers, making the industry’s first. He also serves as a standing member of the Law and Compliance Committee of the Shanghai Bar Association and a director of the Association of China Compliance Professionals (ACCP). Jacky Li lectures on law and compliance-related practice courses for postgraduates. presented multinational corporations including Abbott, GSK, Boehringer Ingelheim, BeiGene, Sanofi, AstraZeneca, Siemens, CBMG, Align Tech, BGI, Western Union, Leverate, SMI, Yusen Logistics, Yihai Kerry, Hennessy, TWE, ABInbev, etc., he also represented reputable centrally governed state-owned enterprises on a long-term basis.

James (Wenyuan) Wu

James Wu is specialized in PE/VC investments, cross-border M&A, ODI, FDI and other general corporate matters. James Wu provided legal services for numerous foreign and domestic investors in their strategic and financial investment, financing, joint venture and M&A projects, covering a wide range of industries, including TMT, data service, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, retailing, high-end manufacturing, automotive parts, etc. James Wu counseled a variety of clients, including PE/VC firms, start-up companies and Fortune 500 Company Groups. He has advised high-end investment institutions such as Shunwei Capital, CCIG, Yunfeng Fund, CDH, GGV and RC Capital for their onshore and offshore investment projects. He has also advised large group companies such as ThermoFisher, WuXi AppTec affiliates, Noble Group, Barilla Group and Bose Inc. for their commercial activities in China.

Jason Wang

Mr. Wang specializes in hospitality, real estate, asset management and non-performing asset management, M&A, PE/VC, entertainment, and dispute resolution/litigation/arbitration arising from the aforementioned industry. Mr. Wang’s practicing area involves hospitality, financial and asset management, real estate investment/operation/M&A, infrastructure construction, local municipal investment company, automobile retailer, manufacture industry, environmental protection, clean energy, education, entertainment and emerging IT and high-tech enterprises. Mr. Wang specializes in hospitality industry with solid experiences in providing a full range of legal services on hotel projects. Mr. Wang has advised a large number of various hotel projects in connection with all of the main international hotel operators in China. Furthermore, Mr. Wang holds in-depth expertise of dispute resolution and has advised tens of dispute resolution and arbitration cases in hospitality industry. Mr. Wang's insightful knowledge on each phase of negotiation and implementation of hotel agreements between owners and operators contributes to his extensive experiences in hospitality dispute resolution, which in return strengthen his HMA negotiation tactics and skills from owner's side, such as requesting essential HMA terms from the operator rather than all of them, since the operator usually has more bargaining power during HMA negotiation. Mr. Wang has plenty of case experience of dispute resolution in finance and asset management area. Mr. Wang is a seasoned veteran to use his legal knowledge and sufficient hands-on experience to provide and implement practical solution to investors, financial institutions and disputing parties.

Jeffrey Zhu

Mr. Zhu works with prominent multinational corporations and PRC enterprises in the fields of internet, financial services, hotel, education, advertising, automobile, consumer products pharmaceuticals and petrochemical. He has advised companies on their incorporation to IPO, sale, or merger, as well as daily operation. Mr. Zhu's recent experience in the area of disputes resolution includes representing domestic companies and multinational companies on their cross-border investment projects, as well as compliance investigation and dispute resolution in connection with contract enforcement, share redemption, and shareholder and senior management infringement.

Jenny Chen

Jenny Chen is a partner of Global Law Office based in Shanghai, attorney at law in PRC, passing the US California Bar Exam, US, certified fraud examiner of US ACFE, and Certified Public Account in China (non-practicing). She mainly focuses her practice on compliance, government investigation, internal investigation and data security. Jenny is well versed in conducting investigations in connection with anti-corruption (US FCPA and UK Bribery Act), financial frauds, occupational embezzlement, self-dealing, trade secrets, from both Chinese and relevant foreign law perspectives. Jenny also has extensive experience in cybersecurity and data compliance, assisting numerous large enterprises in identifying potential cybersecurity risks, establishing data compliance management systems and structures, and responding to various types of cybersecurity incidents. In addition, she has handled multiple large-scale projects in e-discovery, cross-border data protection and security, and sensitive information review, providing sophisticated and comprehensive compliance solutions to the clients.

Jerry Liu

Tim has been practicing law since 2002. He worked with Mori Hamada & Matsumoto, Morrison & Foerster LLP, Heller Ehrman LLP, Nixon Peabody LLP, Clifford Chance LLP, also with Accenture as in-house legal counsel / director on complex digital and capital deals. Tim worked for Byte Dance, Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sachs Gao Hua, Nomura Securities, Invesco, Invesco Great Wall Fund Management, Soft Bank, Lenovo, Accenture, Nestlé, Shanghai Electric, China Continental Insurance, Amazon, UPS, State Grid, Mitsubishi Heavy Industry, All Ride, Jing Gong Steel International, etc.

Jia Guo

Mr. Guo is a partner of Global Law office based at Beijing. The main practice area of Mr. Guo is Capital Market, M&A, PE/VC, Asset Management and General Corporate. Industries in which he has been involved include energy and resources, real estate, infrastructure, education, advertisement and media, telecom, hi-tech, internet, financial services, big data, entertainment, pharmaceutical and medical services and etc. In Capital Market, the practice experience of Mr. Guo includes Hongkong listing, US listing, A-Share listing, NEEQ listing and debt offering. Mr. Guo has advised on more than 20 equity and debt offerings in both domestic and oversea capital markets (Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Singapore Stock Exchange, Shenzhen Stock Exchange, NEEQ and NASDAQ). Mr. Guo has also led the projects in the listing of Wanda Film (002739 SZ), 361 degree (01361 HK) and Fushouyuan (01448 HK). In M&A, PE&VC area, Mr. Guo has advised on more than 80 cases representing both investors and the fund-raising companies. Mr. Guo has advised both financial investors and industrial investors. The clients that Mr. Guo has advised includes Wanda Group, Standard Charted, Cinda Group, CDB Capital, Taikang Group, CSAIR Group, JIC Group, Pingan Group, Harvest Inversment, GX Captial, and Goldstone Investment. In Asset Management, the main practice area of Mr. Guo includes insurance fund investment, non-performing asset and trust. The clients that Mr. Guo has advised includes Pingan Group, Cinda and Taiping Group.

Jihong He

Ms. He is a partner of Global Law Office specialized in capital markets, M&A, PE/VC, FDI and corporate matters. Ms. He has provided a wide range of legal services to clients in different industries including real estate, medical devices, telecommunications, finance, retail, electric power, electronic, chain hotel and etc. In the field of capital markets, Ms. He has advised on the issuance and listing of red-chip shares and A shares of a number of enterprises, including Mindray, China South City, Fook Woo, Wuzhou International, Hydoo International, Time2U, LvGem, Meitu, SF Express, Goal Rise Logistics, Everbright Grand China Assets, Fangdd and etc. In the field of PE investment and financing, Ms. He has been significantly involved in a number of major transactions, including Goldman Sachs in its investment in Mindray International, Ashmore’s acquisition of Minrun supermarkets, Bristow in an acquisition of COHC, Warburg Pincus in its investment in 7 Days, CVC in an acquisition of Zhuhai Zhongfu, Ping’an Trust in an acquisition of an express way assets in Kunming, cross-board share swap of TCL Electronics and TCL’s domestic assets, CGNPC’s acquisition of Xinjiang Xituo, PE projects of SF Express, FC Box and FangDD, Suning’s acquisition of Wanda department store outlets, Suning’s acquisition of Carrefour and etc.

Jinghe Wang

Mr. Jinghe Wang is a partner of Global Law Office and specialized in PE/VC and Investment Fund practice. With over 10-year extensive experience in this area, Mr. Wang has represented various international and domestic leading investment institutions regarding abundant of PE/VC investment funds design and formation as well as investment vehicles related matters. He has advised many funds, insurance companies, and start-ups in many minority equities investment / financing, M&A and mezzanine investment matters with significant transaction values. Mr. Wang's clients are from the leading management institutions in the PE industry. The number of funds and other investment vehicles designed and formed by him has exceeds 100, raised more than RMB 300 billion, covering equity funds, venture capital funds, mezzanine funds, and FOFs, real estate funds, securities funds, etc. in the form of partnership, corporate, contract, asset management plans, trust plans, etc. The investment scope he assists covering energy, TMT, finance, infrastructure, real estate and many other sectors and fields. The investors he’s advised in raising and negotiating including Social Security Fund, insurance companies, banks, government guidance funds, state-owned enterprises, private enterprises, wealth management institutions and other types of investors. Mr. Wang deeply understands the art of communicating with investors in order to solve all parties’ demands through the fund structure and terms creatively. Additionally, Mr. Wang has also advised various investors, including insurance institutions, state-owned enterprises, private enterprises, FOFs, etc, in investment in domestic and foreign funds. Mr. Wang is also specialized in various performance incentive systems and corporate governance arrangements within the PE fund management team. He has been deeply involved in designing and implementing performance incentives and corporate governance systems within the management team for many funds.

Jingye Jiang

Mr. Jiang Jingye is well experienced in dispute resolution with a particular focus on arbitration and litigation. On behalf of clients including domestic and abroad shipping companies, P&I clubs, insurance companies, import/export companies, project contractors and manufacturers, he has handled more than 500 cases relevant with bills of lading, charter parties, marine oil pollution, salvage, shipbuilding and ship purchase, insurance claims, international trade, contracts disputes, corporate disputes, financial claims, real estates and construction, etc. in front of courts including supreme people's court, local people's courts and maritime courts and before arbitration tribunals in the major arbitration institutes including CIETAC, CMAC, BAC, HKIAC, LMAA and ICC. Meanwhile, Mr. Jiang provided services for state-owned enterprises, foreign-funded companies and private companies in connection with foreign direct investment and mergers & acquisitions, etc. Mr. Jiang also served as the presiding arbitrator, co-arbitrator and sole arbitrator in hundreds of arbitration cases at CIETAC, CMAC and BAC, etc.

Jinrong Liu

Jinrong Liu, the Managing Partner of Global Law office, is specialized in capital markets, M&A, PE/VC and taxation. Jinrong Liu has advised on more than 150 equity and debt offerings on The Hong Kong Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, New York Stock Exchange, Shanghai Stock Exchange and Shenzhen Stock Exchange. These transactions have covered a wide range of industries, including TMT, AI, biotech, healthcare, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, mining, power, real estate, banking, insurance, financial services, infrastructure, consumer goods, shipping and environmental protection, etc. Jinrong Liu has advised both Chinese and international companies on more than 2,500 cross-border M&A transactions, including, inter alia, ChemChina’s USD43 billion acquisition of Synenta (the largest outbound investment by Chinese companies); Sanonda’s RMB18.4 billion acquisition of all the shares of Adama; Zoomline’s attempted USD5 billion acquisition of Terex; China Merchants Expressway Network & Technology Holdings Co., Ltd. and other 5 listed companies USD688 million joint acquisition of 51% equity and shareholder loan of the Third Bridge and the Northern Marmara Motorway in Turkey; Jiangxi Copper Company Limited (600362:SH, 0358:HK) USD1.1159 billion acquisition of 124 million shares of First Quantum Minerals Ltd. (“FQM”, FM:TSX) ; IFC’s strategic investment in China Postal and Savings Bank; Khazanah NKhazanah Nasional Berhad’s strategic investment in China Huarong Asset Management Co., Ltd., China Resources Group and Beijing Municipal Government’s merger of pharmaceutical assets worth of about RMB50 billion; Tianjin Port Development’s HKD11.2 billion acquisition of the controlling interest of an A-share listed company via a share swap scheme; SAB Miller’s attempted HKD40 billion take-over of Harbin Brewery via a general offer on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

Jiuguang Zhao

Jiuguang Zhao has handled nearly 1,000 litigation and arbitration cases, accumulating extensive practical experiences. He has represented large state-owned enterprises, well-known financial institutions, listed companies and investment institutions etc., handling various civil and commercial cases before courts of different regions, China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission, Beijing Arbitration Commission and other arbitration institutions. The typical dispute cases Jiuguang Zhao has dealt with include: representing China Light Industrial Products Import and Export Group Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of China General Technology (Group) Holding Co., Ltd., in handling multiple contract disputes with the amount over billions RMB; representing CITIC Securities in handling disputes over a series of stock pledge repurchase contracts; representing HSBC in handling several financial loan disputes; representing a well-known private equity funds to handle disputes related to its investment projects; representing T.C. Pharmaceutical in handling a series of Red Bull Cases regarding corporate control; representing a multinational group of mining machinery in handling disputes over the corporate control of its Chinese subsidiary. Meanwhile, Jiuguang Zhao and his team have participated in numbers of significant bankruptcy projects as the investors’ legal counsel, creditor agent and bankruptcy administrator, which include: representing a listed company as the investor to participate in consolidated bankrupt reorganization over 11 companies of Dongchen Group; representing a minerals trading company as the investor to participate in bankruptcy reorganization of a company located in Ningxia Province; representing a state-owned bank and a Korean bank as the creditors to participate in consolidated bankruptcy reorganization of Hainan Airlines Group; representing a state-owned bank as the creditor to participate in bankruptcy reorganization of Tewoo Group; representing a large-scale state-owned enterprise and a prestigious solely foreign invested bank as the creditors to participate in bankruptcy reorganization of Bohai Steel Group; representing a joint-stock bank as the major creditor to participate in bankruptcy reorganization of Yunnan Coal Chemical Industry Group (including a listed company Yunwei Stocks); handling bankruptcy liquidation for many enterprises in Beijing as administrator; handling bankruptcy reorganization as the member of administrator for Xinjiang Zhongji Company and Hanchuan CNC Machine Company.

Jun Qian

Jun Qian is one of our Shanghai-based partners. His main practice areas include domestic capital market, M&A, fund formation, PE/VC investment &Venture Capital and settlement of major investment and financing disputes. Jun Qian is not only a PRC qualified lawyer but also a certified public accountant and certified tax advisor admitted to practice in the PRC. Jun Qian is skilled in providing comprehensive legal service for clients by integrating financial and taxation knowledge. The key clients that Jun Qian has advised include Centurium Capital, West Summit Capital, New Fund Capital ,Cathay Fortune Corp, Orient Capital, Rui yuan Capital, Zhang Jiang Venture Capital, GTJA Investment Group, Morale Capital, China Orient Asset Management Co., Ltd ,36Kr Capital, China Ireland Growth Technology Fund, Lufax, Zhong An, PICC, Guo Tai Jun An Securities.

Kelly Cao

Kelly Cao's main practice areas encompass dispute resolution, compliance and risk control, and labor and employment. Kelly Cao has represented clients in court proceedings before all levels of PRC People’s Court and is highly experienced in dealing with disputes relating to contracts, labor and employment, and torts. Kelly Cao has represented clients in arbitration proceedings before arbitration institutions. Kelly Cao provides legal service with regard to compliance to multinational corporations and domestic well-known companies, including compliance risk assessment, compliance system establishment, drafting and improving compliance policies, conducting internal compliance investigation and handling related labor disputes, coping with government investigation, as well as training concerning labour and employment. In the course of practice, Kelly Cao also has dealt with dozens of cases/projects regarding labour and employment, providing legal service to companies in connection with their HR management, policies and SOPs, and potential labour disputes. She also advises companies on compliance risk assessment and training concerning labour and employment.

Kelly (Xuefei) Zhang

Kelly Zhang is specialized in PE/VC and investment fund practice. With extensive experience in this area, Kelly Zhang has represented various leading investment institutions regarding abundant of PE/VC investment funds formation and exit as well as investment vehicles related matters, covering equity funds, venture capital funds, mezzanine funds, QFLP/QDLP funds, FOFs, real estate funds, securities funds, etc. The investment scope she assists covering consumption, finance, health medical treatment, infrastructure TMT, real estate and many other sectors and fields. Kelly Zhang also represents PE/VC funds and venture companies in providing legal advices in equity, debt investment and investment exit in various investment projects, the investment scope she assists covering artificial intelligence, automotive upstream and downstream medicine, energy conservation and environmental protection, internet finance, medical equipment, real estate upstream and downstream industries, etc.

Ken (Keyou) Wang

Keyou Wang is a partner at Global Law Office(“GLO”) based in Shenzhen. He advises on a wide range of corporate compliance and dispute resolution issues. Keyou Wang has extensive experience in building up and optimizing compliance management programs as well as advising on a variety of international regulatory and compliance matters, such as Export Control, Sanctions, Anti-bribery & Anti-corruption and ESG. Prior to joining GLO, he had worked for Zhongxing Telecommunication Equipment Co. Ltd.(“ZTE”) for about 13 years with the last position as the General Counsel. In this role, Keyou Wang led ZTE’s global legal and compliance management, and coordinated the establishment of its global compliance system. He also has extensive experience dealing with corporate compliance crises. As for Export Controls and Sanctions related matters, Keyou Wang has direct communication and negotiation experience with the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Department of Justice. He helped ZTE to obtain the first Temporary General License (TGL) from U.S. Department of Commerce in 2016 and eventually helped it delisted from the Entity List. Keyou Wang also has significant litigation experience, with a particular focus on commercial disputes and white collar crimes. He has exceptional insights on how to achieve optimal resolution in such disputes from the corporate perspective. After joining GLO, Keyou Wang has provided compliance and dispute resolution advice to many well-known corporate clients from various sectors, including Renewable Energy, Medical Devices, High-Tech Manufacturing, Advanced Materials, Internet Services, Consumer Electronics, Finances and Chemicals, etc.

Kun Yin

Kun Yin is an of counsel of Global Law Office based in Beijing. Her main practice areas are cyber security, data compliance, personal information and privacy protection, e-commerce and digital economy compliance. Kun Yin has extensive expertise and proficiency in delivering data compliance advice and related services to domestic and foreign enterprises in industries such as the Internet, e-commerce and retail, game, connected vehicles and autonomous driving, transportation and infrastructure, artificial intelligence, etc. Her clients include Perfect World, Zhaopin, Alibaba, Li Auto, Liby, Amap, etc. Kun Yin has also provided data compliance services in the listing projects, including providing legal opinions and responding to comments from exchanges, and her clients include Keep and Easou, etc. Kun Yin has rich experience and professional skills in providing compliance solutions for different business scenarios, establishing and improving the internal data compliance system for the whole group, designing and enhancing internal data fusion solutions and DMP building strategies, assisting multinational companies in sorting out data flow and implementing cross-border data transfer solutions, designing and guiding underlying product privacy solutions, analyzing potential impact under privacy standards and industry practices in multiple jurisdictions, and assisting in data assets valuation and international policy orientation, etc.

Kyle (Kai) Xiao

Kyle Xiao is an of counsel of Global Law office and specialized in civil and commercial dispute resolution (including litigation and domestic & international arbitration), especially corporate disputes and financial disputes. Kyle Xiao represented many well-known domestic and foreign companies to deal with a large number of complex commercial litigations and arbitrations involving investment and merger disputes, equity transfer disputes, financial and asset management disputes and other fields. Kyle Xiao not only has rich experience in dealing with cases before China’s Supreme People’s Court, various provincial high courts, intermediate courts, financial and maritime courts, but also dealing with many complex commercial arbitration cases in China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), Shanghai International Arbitration Center (SHIAC), Shanghai Arbitration Commission (SAC), Singapore Chambers of Maritime (SCMA) and other well-known arbitration commissions. Typical cased dealt by Kyle Xiao includes, Represented the controlling shareholder of a listed company in its merger dispute with the controlling shareholder of another listed company in SHIAC, with the disputative amount of over RMB 300 million; Represented the former actual controller of a listed company in its equity transfer dispute with its current controlling shareholder in SAC, with the disputative amount of over RMB 150 million; Represented an aviation corporation in the second instance of the dispute over the guarantee contract in the China’s Supreme People's court. The Supreme People’s Court reversed the wrongful judgment and helped the client avoid the losses of nearly RMB 100 million.

Lai Wang

Wang Lai obtained the bachelor's degree and the master's degree from Jilin University, the doctor’s degree from Renmin University of China, and worked as a post-doctor at China University of Political Science and Law. As the independent consultant in Global Law Office, Ms. Wang concentrates her practice on economic and financial crime, duty crime, corporate compliance and risk control, data compliance, anti-money laundering, anti-sanctions, compliance investigation of investment projects, construction of cooperating compliance system and risk warning mechanism. Ms. Wang currently works at Shanghai University of Political Science and Law, as the director of the Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Security Research Center of The Shanghai Cooperation Organization International Exchange and Judicial Cooperation, and the academic leader of financial compliance. Prior to joining SCO, Ms. Wang served as the doctoral Supervisor of Economic Crime Investigation at the People’s Public Security University of China. Ms. Wang has rich experiences in compliance including evidence collection and preservation of cyberspace economic crimes, fund analysis and penetration, corporate data security protection and cross-border fund tracking, overseas rights protection, and criminal crisis handling of public companies. Ms. Wang successively presided over the Ministry of Public Security's researches including “Strategies and Methods of Economic Crime Investigation”, “Commercial Crime Investigation”, “Identification and Treatment of Commercial Crime”, “Research on the Prevention of Internet Financial Crime”, “Theory and Practice of Big Data Investigation of Tax-related Crime Cases”. Ms. Wang also conducted several research projects of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, including “Research on the Psychology and Investigation of Bribery Crimes”, “Research on the Expansion of Anti-money Laundering Upstream Crimes”, “Building and Application of the Big Data Model for Falsely Issuing Special Invoices for Value-Added Tax”. Ms. Wang led key social science project including “Internet Finance Supervision and Judicature”, and participated in “Research on the Establishment of Monitoring and Prevention of Internet Financial Risk Mechanisms” of the Financial Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Science. Ms. Wang participated in the project of the People’s Bank of China on “the Protection of Personal Financial Information under the Mobile Internet Environment” and won the second prize. Ms. Wang presided the project of the State Administration for Market Regulation -“Identification and Prevention of Commercial Bribery from the Perspective of Anti-Unfair Competition Law”; presided over the Ministry of Justice’s research – “Criminal Law Protection of Data Rights”, and other crimes related researches of the Ministry of Public Security as well as the Bureau of the International Cooperation.

Lan Luo

Jessie Luo's main practice areas include mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, securities issuance and direct foreign investments. She also focuses on health care industry, Internet industry, real estate and financing services. Jessie Luo participated in various kinds of cases relating to medical and healthcare providers and has extensive experiences in acquisition of medical institutions, public hospital reform, acquisition, reorganization and IPO of pharmaceutical enterprises. She is skilled at deal structure design, due diligence investigation and dealing with various legal issues coming up in the operation process of health care projects with satisfactory solutions. Jessie Luo has represented various investors (including Hony Capital, Sequoia Capital, CDH Investments, Legend Capital, etc.) for the acquisitions of private hospital and nursing home. Her remarkable cases include representing Hospital Corporation of China Limited for the acquisition of Dongyang Guangfu Hospital, Zhejiang Jinhua Guangfu Tumor Hospital and a Shandong private non-profit hospital; representing CITIC Capital for investing in Century Medical Group; representing Hony Capital for investing in I-Mab, etc.

Lawrence Lin

Lawrence Lin is specialized in foreign investment, mergers & acquisitions, acquisition finance, project finance, international syndication, aircraft and shipping finance, structured finance, general banking and securities issuance. In the past 20 years, Lawrence Lin has advised thousands of all kind of cross-border financing transactions for foreign and Chinese banks and financial institutions, such as Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Citi Bank, Bank of America, BNP, UBS, RBS, HSBC, Standard Chartered, Mizuho Bank, KFW, China Development Bank, CCB, ICBC, BOC and so on. Lawrence Lin has rich experience in dispute resolutions, having been acting for so many clients including famous international oil company, automobile company, large state-owned companies, foreign banks, multinational companies and foreign invested companies in arbitrations proceedings before China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) / Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC) and in court proceedings before all levels of Courts in China including the Supreme People's Court. In the past over 10 years, Lawrence Lin has been ranked by Chambers and The Asia Pacific Legal 500 as one of the leading lawyers in Banking & Finance and Projects in China.

Lei Niu

Lei Niu's practice focuses on dispute resolution, intellectual property, compliance & risk control, debt restructuring & corporate liquidation/bankruptcy, shipping and real estate & construction. Lei Niu has represented many of the world’s leading multinational companies and international financial institutions before the Arbitration Court of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Singapore International Arbitration Center (SIAC), Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), China Maritime Arbitration Commission (CMAC), Shanghai International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (SHIAC), Beijing Arbitration Commission (BAC), Shanghai Arbitration Commission, as well as various ad hoc arbitral tribunals in London, Hong Kong and other jurisdictions, with which he has built a solid practice record in international commercial arbitration. Lei Niu is also a litigation lawyer and has represented clients before China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC) and various provincial high courts, intermediate courts, district courts, financial and maritime courts in different localities, involving disputes concerning corporate organizations, private equity and investment funds, real estate and construction, finance lease, insurance, intellectual property, shipping, among others. A retrial case instituted through the adjudicatory supervision procedure which Lei Niu won before the SPC was selected by the Court as one of the “Ten Model Cases of the Supreme People’s Court in 2016”. As an arbitrator and mediator, Lei Niu sits on the panels of CIETAC and CMAC since 2005. He also sits on the panels of HKIAC, SIAC (Reserve Panel), SCMA and other well-known domestic and foreign institutions. Lei Niu was appointed as the presiding arbitrator/sole arbitrator/co-arbitrator in hundreds of arbitration cases including cases administrated by domestic arbitration institutions and international arbitration cases in Hong Kong, Singapore and London.

Li Su

Ms. Su is a partner based in our Beijing office specializing in corporate compliance risk control, which includes compliance review, internal control, risk assessment, data management and compliance review, crisis incident handling, compliance policy formulation, auditing, finance, corporate antitrust, anti-fraud, anti-commercial bribery, anti-unfair competition investigation, and anti-money laundering, etc. Ms. Su is experienced in identifying non-compliance issues and regulatory risks, streamlining reporting system, and developing effective compliance measures. She also has considerable experience of assisting clients to intervene and make response plans when a crisis event occurs, and assisting companies to develop operational early warning mechanisms. Ms. Su has provided perennial legal advisory services and special legal advisory services to many enterprises, institutions and foreign-invested enterprises. She has completed nearly 100 compliance risk control projects and litigation projects. These projects cover a wide range of industries, including fintech, securities, funds, internet finance, big data, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, shipping, energy, telecommunications, food, and real estate. Ms. Su has represented many civil litigations, criminal charges, and criminal defense projects. Ms. Su is good at handling company control disputes, Sino-foreign cooperation disputes, investment and financing disputes, intellectual property disputes, company liquidation, bankruptcy, family disputes and labor dispute resolution. Ms. Su also has extensive experience in the area of criminal litigation. She has successfully helped clients to obtain immunity from prosecution, decision of not guilty, suspension of sentence and commutation of punishment. Ms. Su has represented various multinational clients, Chinese State-owned and private companies, such as SASAC, HP, CR, Boehringer Ingelheim, Qiming Ventures, New Alliance Capital, Tai Kang, GeneScience Pharma, YeePay, AmoyDx, Bohai Securities, and etc.

Ling Li

Lilian Li is a partner of Global Law Office based in Beijing, where her practice areas include M&As, company compliance and risk control, overseas investment, health and medical care, and ESG investments and compliance. Lilian Li has deeply involved in and led a number of domestic and overseas investments, company compliance system build-up projects, data compliance projects, FDIs, dispute resolutions, etc. and she also advised on general corporate and commercial regulatory matters. Her clients cover domestic enterprises (including reputable SOEs, Start-ups, public companies), foreign enterprises and overseas enterprises, and the industrial sectors of her domains mainly include data and AI, health and medical care, renewable energy, ESG investments and compliance.

Lintao Zheng

Lintao Zheng is a partner based in our Beijing office specializing in litigation, arbitration, enforcement, disposition of non-performing assets and corporate. Lintao Zheng has solid experience in dispute resolution. He has represented hundreds of civil and commercial dispute and enforcement cases before Supreme People’s Court, high and local courts in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Tianjin, Shandong, Hebei, Hunan, Jilin, Jiangxi, Gansu, Ningxia etc., and CIETAC, BJAC. In a landmark enforcement appeal case before Supreme Court, Lintao Zheng successfully represented a client persuading the Supreme Court to rule in favor of the purchaser of non-performing loans by clarifying the application of “Hainan Minutes”. Lintao Zheng represented in numerous investment disputes and equity disputes for his client, involving an amount more than RMB 2 billion. Lintao Zheng also successfully facilitated the sealing up of an aircraft in another unprecedented case, which was elected as one of the Ten Cases of Beijing Courts in 2016 Catching the Most Media Attention. In an enforcement of notarial obligatory right document case, Lintao Zheng helped a client successfully recover bad debts in full amount (more than RMB300 million). Lintao Zheng’s main clients included: BNPP, Schneider Electric, Amazon, Samsung, SingTel, China Life, COFCO, CCIC, China CO-OP, CAH, China Cinda Asset Management CO., Ltd., Postal Savings Bank of China, CITIC, Huaxia Bank, Ping An Bank Co., Ltd., Hangzhou Bank, Everbright Trust, China Jingu International Trust Co., Ltd., Daye Trust Co., Ltd., ICBC Leasing, CCB Financial Leasing, Huaxia Financial Leasing Co., Ltd., PSBC Wealth Management, Xinghai Piano, Beijing Airlines, etc.

Liya Peng

Liya Peng is a partner of Chengdu office of Global Law Office and specialized in capital markets, M&A, private equity and investment funds, particularly complex multi-party mergers or reorganizations with complicated background. Liya Peng has advised multiple equity and debt offerings on both domestic and overseas capital markets, such as the IPO of Vanov Holdings Company Limited on the Main Board of the HKEX in 2022. Widely recognized by clients ranging from manufacturing to food, retail, AI, pharmaceutical, electronic, and new material industries, she served listed companies, state-owned and private enterprises in the field of project financing and issuance of financial bonds, including Tianqi Lithium Corp, EMei Shan Tourism, New Hope Group, and Sichuan Development Holding. With a solid reputation for excellence and being able to successfully achieve the financial and business M&A objectives of her clients, including large scale state-owned enterprises and private corporates from home to abroad, she has conducted nearly 100 financing and M&A cases of renewable-energy power plants for central and regional government owned enterprises in recent 5 years. Her practice covers reorganization of pharmaceuticals industry, medical establishment, and elderly service institutions, for instance JinXin Medical Group, and investment of listed companies varying from food, cultural industry to electronic, new material enterprises in Sichuan.

Lu Jiang

Lu Jiang is a partner of Global Law Office based in Beijing, specializing in civil and commercial dispute resolution, corporate bankruptcy, liquidation, and debt restructuring. Lu Jiang is skilled in handling complex disputes over finance, asset management, equity, corporate control, various business contracts, etc. She is experienced in representing clients in different levels of PRC courts and tribunals of CIETAC, BIAC, and other arbitration institutions and is familiar with asset preservation and enforcement proceedings. The representative dispute cases Lu Jiang has dealt with include representing two primary shareholders to win the arbitration over the asset management involving over a billion RMB; representing a well-known private equity fund in several disputes related to its investment projects, and notably, she represented client to negotiate with counterparty during asset preservation, recovering client’s overall investment amounting to nearly 200 million RMB; representing famous securities companies and fund companies in several typical and complex disputes over finance products and all secure favorable results; representing the state-owned companies before CIETAC, BIAC in several significant contract disputes; representing T.C. Pharmaceutical in a series of Red Bull Cases regarding corporate control; representing a European multinational group of mining machinery in a series dispute regarding corporate control of its Chinese subsidiary; representing financial lease companies and commercial factoring companies in dozens of disputes over financial leasing and factoring; Lu Jiang has also represented creditors in some significant bankruptcy and reorganization cases. Typical cases include representing an American-invested company to declare the claims involving several hundred million dollars in the pre-reorganization of Oceanwide; representing a state-owned company to declare the claims involving several hundred million RMB in the bankruptcy reorganization of Chongqing Iron & Steel; representing a foreign-invested bank in a debt restructuring with its debtor, a local state-owned company and has achieved a restructuring plan involving over ten million dollars; representing a large joint-stock bank to declare the claims involving multibillion RMB in the reorganization proceeding of Yunnan Coal Chemical Industry Group and its affiliated companies. Besides, Lu Jiang has also represented Chinese and foreign shareholders in numerous disputes over compulsory liquidation and dissolution of domestic companies.

Maggie Meng

Maggie Meng is a partner of Global Law Office based in Beijing. Her main practice areas are cyber security, data security, personal information and privacy protection, e-commerce and digital economy compliance. She manages a team of over 20 dedicated data compliance lawyers. Maggie Meng has extensive expertise and proficiency in delivering data compliance advise and related services to domestic and foreign enterprises in industries such as Internet, artificial intelligence, connected vehicles and autonomous vehicles, IoT, communications, cloud computing services, IDC, e-commerce and retail, fintech, health care and life science, transportation and infrastructure, advertising and marketing, big data etc. Maggie Meng has rich experience and professional skills in assisting clients to improve their data compliance capabilities and enhance strategies, interpreting data protection related legal/regulatory requirements, analyzing and evaluating the potential impact on business operations, guiding the personal information and data security management process, communicating and coordinating with government and regulatory agencies, and assisting in the implementation of security measures or data localization requirements. Maggie Meng has more than 17 years of internal and external legal service experience. She previously worked at a well-known law firm, served as the chief counsel of a Fortune 500 multinational company and a global unicorn company, and as the general counsel, director of government relations affairs and data protection officer of a domestic AI unicorn company. Her clients include Tencent, Alibaba, Xiaomi, Agricultural Bank of China, Civil Aviation Information Group, PICC, Medtronic, Wuxi Biologics, Samsung, HP, LG, ZTE, Mengniu, Orion, Liby, Perfect World, iQiyi, Meituan, Ele.me, Zhihu, Ke, Jet Express, AutoNavi, Supor, China Merchants Group, Tianjin Port, Moutai Group, etc. Maggie Meng has also advised and provide data compliance training to senior managers of many state-owned enterprises. With the evolving laws development of the national digital economy and increased focuses on the digitalization and the intelligent technology, Maggie Meng has provided legal services and practical advices for many enterprises on building up toC, toB, CDP, DMP, CRM and ERP platforms etc., ensuring the data interactive operation and processing between different platforms, and developing trust with clients. At the same time, she is committed to supporting enterprises to strengthen their innovation, research and development, and digital and intelligent transformation under the framework of compliance.

May Liu

May Liu assisted many international and PRC companies in connection with their actives of mergers & acquisitions, foreign direct investment, general banking, international syndication, acquisition financing, project financing, trading financing, aircraft and shipping financing, real estate financing, private equity/venture capital investment and capital markets. In addition to the traditional industries such as finance, real estate, mines and energy, power, chemical, May Liu has also served companies in the new industries of telecommunications, medical, high-technology, new energy and etc. May Liu, as one of the key lawyers, has assisted in numerous foreign investment, IPO and M&A projects, including without limitation: acquisition by Fushan International Energy (HK:00639) of certain onshore assets, acquisition by Asia Coal (HK:00835) of certain onshore assets, acquisition by CITIC 21CN (HK:00241) of onshore assets, investment Trussent into Chinacomm, acquisition by Loudong General Nice (HK:00988) of certain onshore assets, Cayman Aluminum acquisition and financing, and etc. May Liu has also provided legal service and assistance to numerous international investment banks, commercial banks and other financial institutions, such as ICBC, Bank of China, Bank of Communications, Merchant Bank, China Development Bank, Bank of Constructions, Deutsche Bank, SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, HSBC, Hang Seng Bank, East Asia Bank, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, and etc.

Meph Jia Gui

As one of the earliest lawyers to litigate intellectual property (IP) cases in China, Meph Jia Gui is admitted to practice laws in China and the State of California. With solid work experience at leading law firms in China for years, he represented multinationals in relation to enforcement, acquisition and licensing of trademark, copyright, patent, trade secret and domain names. He advises on various IP matters in China relating to the creation, exploitation and protection of IP rights, including contentious and non-contentious matters. Meph has a great deal of experience in representing clients for IP lawsuits in different levels of courts in China. Some lawsuits he handled were recognized by Supreme People’s Court of China and Beijing High Court as top 10 exemplary cases respectively. In addition to his contentious experience, Meph has provided clients with legal service of general IP advice, IP due diligence, strategic IP advice, transactional IP work, and advice against future IP disputes in commercial deals.

Michael Yu

Michael Yu is a corporate partner based in our Beijing Office. Michael has extensive experience representing clients in complex domestic and cross-border transactions, advising public and private companies in corporate mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, minority investments and joint ventures and assisting private equity firms with equity transactions, leveraged buyouts and going-private transactions. Michael is specialized in assisting private equity firms in the portfolio management and exit, including related dispute resolution matters. Michael has also represented issuers and sponsors with respect to initial public offerings, secondary equity offerings Over the past 20 years, Michael’s experience has extended across a broad array of sectors including life sciences and healthcare, education, energy, consumer market, real estate, TMT, financial services, etc. In the past a number year, Michael has been a regularly recommended legal practitioner in China by Chambers and Partners, Asian Legal Business, Legal 500, etc.

Miller Wang

Miller WANG advised international and PRC clients in connection with matters of general corporate, capital market, project finance, M&A, private equity/venture, financial leasing, foreign direct investment and banking, covering sectors of TMT, high tech, new energy, education, pharmacy, petro, mining, power, aircraft and infrastructure etc, and identified by Chambers Asia, ALB, The Legal 500 as a Chinese leading lawyer in the area of financing, banking, TMT. Mr. Wang has rich experience in financing and capital market and advised on overseas IPOs of either issuers or the underwriters such as Chunlan, Nanjing Landsea, China Putian, Musical Holdings, Japfa Ltd. etc on China A share market, HK, US and Singapore exchange market; and in debt market, Mr. Wang advised The Royal Bank of Scotland plc, Goldman Sachs, Beijing Infrastructure Investment (Hong Kong) Ltd. CCB Leasing, Toyota Motor Finance (China), CIB Leasing etc on Financial bond issue, MTN and various RMB, USD or Euro bond issues on either domestic and overseas debt markets. In the area of mergers and acquisitions, Mr. WANG advised ICBC on its sale of shares in Qingdao International Bank to Hana Bank, represented Sinopec, Huaneng Power International, China Mobile on their various acquisition of equity interests or assets, worked for multinational companies such as Orica, ArcelorMittal, and Singapore Technologies Kinetics Ltd, he also assisted both PRC State-owned and private companies in connection with their offshore acquisitions. In the area of PE/VC, Mr. Wang advised ASSA ABLOY, SBI Crosby Ltd, IDG, Huashan Capital, YIYI Capital etc on various venture capital investment projects, also helped the growth-stage companies and their founders in connection with venture capital transactions. In the area of financial leasing, Miller WANG advised CCB Financial Leasing, Huaxia Financial Leasing, CIB Financial Leasing and other leasing companies on hundreds of financial leasing matters in sectors of aircraft, vessel, subway, highway and other manufacturing and equipment leasing.

Minghao Xu

Minghao Xu is a partner at a Global Law Firm based in Beijing, specializing in finance and asset management, real estate and infrastructure, and private equity and investment funds. In the field of finance and asset management, Minghao Xu has provided legal services for clients such as Agricultural Bank of China, Everbright Trust, Zhongrong Trust, Minsheng Trust, Beijing Trust, China Life Investment, Zhonghong Insurance, Dajia Investment, Taikang Community, ABC Wealth Management, Galaxy Asset Management, and Northeast Securities. His expertise covers insurance, banking wealth management, funds, non-performing assets, and other related businesses. In the field of real estate and infrastructure, Minghao Xu has offered legal services in M&A transactions for companies and institutions including China Resources Land, Sino-Ocean Group, GLP, Seazen, Yintai Land, HNA Tourism, Pohang City of South Korea, and Huarong. His practice scope encompasses land acquisition, company formation, equity acquisitions, asset acquisitions, property customization, and debt restructuring. In the construction sector, Minghao Xu has provided legal services for projects such as the Ministry of Justice's new office building, BOC's large-scale vault, Blackstone's logistics storage, SK Hynix's semiconductor factory EPC, Sanofi's R&D and laboratory base in Beijing Changping, and Beijing Wanda Plaza. His services in this sector include bidding, contract drafting and revising, engineering management, and settlement. Additionally, Minghao Xu has provided legal services in the property operation and management sector to companies and projects such as ByteDance, Sequoia Capital, Stores of Guazi Used Car, Glory City, Beijing Solana Shopping Center, Beijing Pohang Center, Zhongguancun Shopping Mall, CGV Cinema, and Ocean Capital Logistics. His expertise in this sector encompasses leasing, joint ventures, property management, and other related businesses. In the field of private equity and investment fund, Minghao Xu has advised Huadian Capital Holdings, ICBC, CMB, Xiaomi, China Aviation Industry Investment, Pudong Kechuang, Guotai Venture Capital, China Minsheng Investment, and National Financing Guarantee Fund on matters related to fund establishment and project investments.

Ping Qiao

Mr. Qiao has extensive practice experience in handling complex IP disputes, including authorization and determination litigation of trademark rights, trademark infringement litigation, trade secret and other unfair competition litigation, copyright infringement litigation, authorization and determination litigation of patent rights, patent infringement litigation, and other intellectual property contract dispute, etc. Well vested in IP dispute practice, Mr. Qiao has handled many IP cases attracting great social attention in the Supreme People’s Court, Beijing High Court, Beijing Intellectual Property Court and other courts across the country. Having helped his clients win favorable decisions involving billions of yuan from courts, Mr. Qiao has been acclaimed as a leading expert in dealing with complicated IP disputes whether it is a domestic case or a cross-border one. Many cases represented by Mr. Qiao have been selected as the top 10 or best yearly IP cases in China. In particular, the computer software copyright infringement dispute of Kuaifa Technology Co., in the field of “Internet +” was selected as one of the typical cases of the Annual Report of the Supreme People’s Court on intellectual property cases (2019); the unfair competition dispute regarding the “Ode to Joy” TV series as one of the top 10 innovative intellectual property protection cases in Beijing of 2017; and the trademark infringement and unfair competition disputes of the “Joy City” trademark as a “complex new type of case with guiding significance” among the typical cases of Beijing IP Court in 2016. Mr. Qiao has extensive experience in providing a full range of service plans for intellectual property planning, system management and dispute resolution for varies domestic and foreign well-known enterprises. His clients are from broad spectrum of industries, including technology, insurance, finance, real estate, Internet, education, media, food and beverage, sports and entertainment, communications, and manufacturing, etc.

Qin Zhu

Qin Zhu is a partner of Global Law office and specialized in capital markets, M&A, PE/VC and taxation. Qin Zhu has advised on several equity and debt offerings, merger and acquisition of listed corporation on The Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Shanghai Stock Exchange, Shenzhen Stock Exchange and National equities exchange and quotations, and also advised on the deals related to PE/VC, fund formation, M&A, reorganization of VIE structure. These transactions have covered a wide range of industries, including TMT, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, environmental protection, high technology, mining, power, trade, real estate, banking and financial services, game industry, IDC, shipping and water service, etc. In the area of capital market, Qin Zhu has participated in the following representative projects, such as the A shares IPO projects of Hopewind Electric, Avary Holding, Bank of Guiyang, China Film, Baofeng Group, the applications of public transfers of shares in the NEEQ markets of Zhonghao Ziyun, CEC Environmental Practice and Biochem, IDG’s acquisition of Sichuan Shuangma by way of tender offer, private offering or public offering of A shares, convertible bonds, preferred shares, financial debts by Bank of Ningbo, private offering of financial debts of Bank of Chonqing, Hankore Enviroment’s acquisition of water services controlled by Everybright International, permanent legal counsel to B+H shares listed company Yitai Coal (including capital market, investment and regulation). In the area of investment, Qin Zhu has participated in the following representative projects, such as Jiangxi Copper’s acquisition of First Quantum, KKR’s investment in Yuguan agriculture, Yuguan agriculture’s acquisition of Sylvan, China Mobile Capital’s investment in Qingniu software and Ucloud, CICC Capital’s investment in Guobo Electric, SIDC’s investment in Cixing Group, NICF’s acquisition of China Wafer Level CSP, Xiaomi Capital’s investment in Shenzhen Xinghe etc.

Qing Ren

Qing Ren concentrates his practice on international trade, dispute resolution and anti-trust law. Qing Ren has extensive experience in the field of trade law, including export control, economic sanctions, and supply chain due diligence. He has assisted leading domestic and foreign enterprises in various industries of aerospace, telecommunication equipment, semiconductors, machine tools, automotive, consumer electronics, household appliances, engineering, petroleum, chemicals, new energy, pharmaceuticals, internet, artificial intelligence, banking, insurance, and shipping, for trade compliance matters such as establishment or assessment of compliance program, compliance audit, transactions due diligence, and removal from restrictive lists. He has also advised the Chinese government for FTA negotiations and represented CCOIC in response to the USTR’s 301 investigation against China. Qing Ren has been consulted by legislative and administrative authorities during the legislative process of the Export Control Law and related regulations. Qing Ren is arbitrator of leading arbitration institutions and has arbitrated, or represented clients as counsel in, a large number of domestic and international commercial arbitration cases, relating to, inter alia, sale of goods, construction and engineering, joint venture, equity transfer/repurchase, real estate, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals, insurance, film & television, games, and software. He has also represented clients in several investment treaty arbitration cases, including winning a high-profile investment arbitration case for a host State and assisting two Chinese enterprises pursuing in investment arbitrations with foreign States. He has handled a number of WTO dispute settlement cases as well. Qing Ren has represented international and Chinese companies in dozens of merger control filing cases, across various sectors like minerals, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, machinery, automotive, electrical, telecommunication equipment, food, retail, catering, shipping and logistics. He also represents or advises clients on antitrust investigations, litigations and compliance. Representative cases include: SINOMACH’s acquisition of China Hi-tech Group, II-VI’s acquisition of Finisar, Suning’s acquisition of Carrefour China.

Qiuning Kang

Qiuning is a Partner in the Capital Markets, Merger and Acquisition, Private Equity investment, Assets Restructuring and general corporate practices. Qiuning has advised issuers and underwriters in nearly 100 of significant IPOs, debt offerings and privatization on the HKEX, the Singapore Exchange, NYSE, NASDAQ, Toronto Stock Exchange, KRX as well as China domestic stock exchanges, including the security offering by China Film Co., Ltd, China Vanke Co., Ltd., Zhaopin.com, and the debt offering by Haier, Anta Sport, China Resources Land, Road King Infrastructure and Lai Fung Holdings. The industries involved include consumer goods, real estate, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, education, high technology, energy, resources, Internet, telecommunications, manufacturing, commercial retail, media, infrastructure, etc. Qiuning has also been involved in numerous overseas and domestic M&A projects, such as ChemChina's acquisition of the entire equity stake of Syngenta, at a price of USD43 billion (the largest overseas merger and acquisition project of China); Hubei Sanonda's (000553) acquisition of Adama, the largest pesticide manufacturer in Israel and the seventh largest in the world, through major asset restructuring (promoting the revision of the Measures for the Restructuring of Listed Companies); Malaysia Sovereign Fund's investment in China Huarong; China Resources Group's acquisition of pharmaceutical assets with a combined value of more than CNY50 billion (involving four A-share listed companies and more than 50 unlisted enterprises) with Beijing Municipality; China Resource Land’s acquisition of over 100 domestic real estate enterprises from China Resource Group, China Resources Enterprise’s acquisition of Pacific Coffee and Hosen Capital’s acquisition of controlling interest in TOUS les JOURS. In the field of private equity investment and financing, Qiuning has completed a series of investments in companies engaging in business of automobile and e-commerce, online travel, data intelligent service, online education and fintech on behalf of Sina; represented the fund of China National Petroleum Corporation invested in Jiemian.com (news and commercial and social networking platform), AMC, Weiche Technology (smart oil station), Jizhi Car Technology (auto consumption finance), Zhongguancun River Capital and TEDA of Tianjin; represented New Horizon Fund in investing in A share listed companies Jidong Cement (000401), Wangfujing Department Store (600859) and Dehong Coffee; represented Macquarie Capital in the investment of Ganji. In addition, Qiuning also assists many start-ups to complete financing, such as Luoji Lab, MeWe Media and Reading at 10 o’clock.

Rae Zhang

Rae Zhang is senior associate at Global Law Office. Her main practice areas include corporate legal affairs and compliance risk control in the field of life science and healthcare. She has provided services such as contract review, legal research, and issuance of legal opinions to various pharmaceutical companies on issues including data protection, drug promotion, clinical trials, and other legal matters.

Shifang Guo

Shifang Guo is a partner of Global Law Office based in Shenzhen and Beijing. She specializes in cross-border M&A, capital markets, PE/VC investment and investment fund. Shifang Guo is well-versed in cross-border investment, mergers and acquisitions. Her representative deals include Chem China’s 43 billion acquisition of Syngenta, Jiangxi Copper’s acquisition of First Quantum, SF’s acquisition of Kerry Logistics, Infore’s 8.88 billion acquisition of Kuka, China Merchant Expressway’s 4.44 billion acquisition of Road King’s toll road assets, SF’s sale of Fengwang to J&T Express, Luxshare’s investment in Chery Automobile, International Finance Corporation’s strategic investment in Postal Savings Bank of China, merger of Tongcheng and Elong, Xiaomi’s acquisition of ZiMi, Luxshare’s acquisition of Hong Kong listed TIME Interconnect Technology, Luxshare’s acquisition of Westron’s Kunshan factory, Luxvision’s acquisition of Hong Kong listed Cowell e Holdings, Tongding Group’s acquisition of NASDAQ listed UTStarcom, Guangdong Electronics Information Industry Group’s acquisition of A-share listed Foshan Lighting shares from OSRAM, IDG’s acquisition of A-share listed Shuangma, asset restructuring between Tianjin Port Holdings Co. and Tianjin Port Development, and merger restructuring of Mengniu’s subsidiaries. The fund investment deals Shifang Guo oversees include Primavera Capital Group’s investment in Cainiao of Alibaba, CICC Capital and ARA’s joint acquisition of The Atrium in Chengdu, CAFIC’s investment in Foton’s Hong Kong joint venture project, Oceanpine Capital’s investment in Chipone Technology, Wise Road Capital’s investment in Juneway Electronic, Source Code Capital’s investment in Hongyu Technology, Macquarie’s investment in Zhilian Zhaopin, and Samsung’s VC investment in Montage Technology. Shifang Guo also represented Xiaomi in numerous investment projects in its suply and ecological chain, including RoboSense, DataStory, Chiponeic Technology, ACC Optics, HKC and many other renowned companies. Shifang Guo’s capital market experiences include IPO of Zhaopin, AsiaInfo, Sogou, Mogu, Vision China, Xueda Education, Huayu Expressways, Technovator Technology, Midas Aluminum, Xinchen Power, Molbase, Lvji Technology, Wanka, Ambow Education, RCG Holdings and O-net on the HKSE, NASDAQ and NYSE. Shifang Guo also has extensive experience in fund formation. She has assisted clients in forming or investing in a number of RMB and USD funds both in China and overseas, which include SSF’s investment in Hillhouse Tiancheng RMB Fund II, CITIC Capital’s formation of hospital M&A fund, Jiangxi Copper’s formation of a Cayman USD fund specialized in global mining investment.

Shino Hu

Shino Hu is specialized in the areas of aviation field and aircraft transactions, mergers and acquisitions, project financing, FDI, wealth management, general corporate matters, etc. In the aviation field, Shino has advised on more than a hundred transactions of various types over the years, including aircraft purchase, aircraft importation, leasing and financing, M&A, and aviation industrial park development and investment and the clients she advises include commercial airlines, general aviation enterprises, business jet owners, private bank, leasing companies and aircraft operators. In the field of FDI, she has advised a number of international companies in making investments in the industries of auto components and real estate in China. In general corporate matters, she advises a number of international companies for their daily operation and business.

Shiping Zuo

Ms. Zuo is a partner based in our Shanghai office specializing in real estate, construction, M&A, general corporate matters, litigation/ arbitration. Ms. Zuo has extensive experience in dealing with legal affairs and investment matters for real estate. Ms. Zuo mainly provides legal services on M&A, litigations and general corporate matters. Her clients include Vanke, V-Capital, Shanghai Hengda, Sunkwan Group, Harbour City Group, Zhang Jiang Group, Hai Liang Group, Star-Capital, China Railway Group, China Construction 7th Engineering Division. Corp. Ltd and other world top 500 corporations. Ms. Zuo has served companies in the industries of real estate, construction, design and involves automobiles, entertainment, sports, etc.

Shujun Liu

Shujun Liu is the leading partner of our Japanese practice and based in Beijing and Shanghai offices. In addition to providing comprehensive legal services with respect to foreign investment, mergers & acquisitions, labor, foreign exchange, international trade, dispute resolution & litigation, etc. to Japanese enterprises in China and Chinese enterprises in Japan over ten years, Shujun Liu focuses on antitrust, anti-unfair competition, government regulatory compliance and crisis management. She has served a number of clients across a wide range of industries and sectors, including pharmaceutical, TMT, automobile and spare parts, finance, commercial operation, real estate, maritime transportation, chemicals, food, consumables.

Stella Jiang

Stella JIANG specializes in PE/VC, M&A, foreign direct investment, general corporate and intellectual property transactions. Notably, Ms. Jiang has extensive experiences in internet data center practice and offered one-stop services for IDC clients, including financings, offshore listing, assets and equity acquisition, and general corporate and compliance matters. Ms. Jiang is also experienced in PE/VC investment and has represented various leading private equity funds in their onshore and offshore investments. Ms. Jiang also provides general corporate services to both multinational and domestic enterprises in major industrial sectors, such as telecommunication, internet, financial institution, life science, education, and automobile.

Steven Zhu

Mr. Zhu has extensive experience in assisting a variety of multinational companies and major Chinese companies in structuring and negotiating cross-border transactions, such as foreign direct investment (including inbound into and outbound from China), joint ventures, VC/PE investments, and strategic alliances. He has also advised multinational and Chinese companies across a variety of sectors on anti-trust issues and disputes involved in cross-border transactions, such as counseling clients on anti-trust filings and dispute resolution. Mr. Zhu has particular expertise in the media and entertainment sector, having assisted many Hollywood and Chinese motion picture studios (e.g., 20th Century Fox, Tencent Penguin Pictures), independent producers, distributors and talents (e.g., actors, directors, screenwriters) in structuring and negotiating commercial, corporate and partnering transactions in U.S. and China, including film financing, development, co-production, distribution, strategic collaborations, copyright acquisitions, talent agreements and other aspects of the media and entertainment industry in China. Mr. Zhu also has significant experience in advising multinational companies and major Chinese companies on a variety of compliance and regulatory matters, including, without limitation, anti-corruption (e.g., FCPA), World Bank Sanction System, and data privacy and data security. Mr. Zhu has advised a variety of multinational companies across multiple sectors on FCPA and PRC anti-bribery laws, having assisted clients with relevant internal investigations, risk assessment, and development of compliance programs and policies.

Steven Yu

Being a partner with Global Law Office who is based in Shanghai, Steven Yu has long focused his practice on the areas of foreign direct investment (FDI), mergers and acquisitions (M&As), private equity/venture capital, fund formation, cross-border technology transfer and other general corporate Steven Yu had ten-year experience with leading international and domestic law firms and gained extensive experience in representing multinational corporations, state-owned enterprises and private companies on their inbound/outbound investments, M&As and restructuring transactions. The legal services rendered by him typically include, among others, structuring the transactions, conducting due diligence, drafting, reviewing and negotiating documents, issuing legal or advisory opinions as well as assisting with the closing matters and completion of government approval procedures. The projects that Steven Yu has been involved in encompass a wide spectrum of industries, including high-end manufacturing, chemical, logistics, TMT (Technology, Media and Telecom), IoT, AI, fintech, digital asset management, consumer staples, clean energy and environment service, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, commercial property, movies and entertainment, education and tourism. The clients Steven Yu served include financial investors such as the Carlyle Group, Bain Capital, SBCVC, CITIC Capital, IDG, Sequoia Capital, Sinovation Ventures, SIG, Northern Light Venture Capital, Hidden Hill Capital, Shunwei, YF Capital, Source Code Capital, Loyal Valley Innovation Capital, CS Capital, Oriza Capital, CMC Capital, Greenwoods, BR Capital, Arena Capital, Yunqi Partners, ClearVue Partners, Ping An Ventures, NIO Capital, HashKey Capital, WestSummit Capital, Puhua Capital and Innovator Capital as well as industrial giants such as Xiaomi, Tencent, JD.com, Fosun, HUPU Sports, Ximalaya.com, Bilibili, miHoYo, Cisco, Continental, Olitanking, LG Chemical, SK Hynix, Dow Chemical, Visa, PepsiCo, PVM, Total Group, Caterpillar, Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), BorgWarner, Coherent, Cooper Tire, POSCO, Citibank, Marks & Spencer (M&S), Far East Horizon, Wuhan Iron & Steel (Wisco), Sinochem, Shanghai Electric and Shanghai GM. Steven Yu was also retained by the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination to prepare various sponsorship agreements and attend the relevant negotiation secessions for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo.

Tianshi Wang

Tianshi Wang is the of counsel of Global Law Office and specialized in investment funds, PE/VC, M&A, insurance, and life sciences and healthcare. Tianshi Wang specializes in investment funds and PE/VC and has advised on many private fund managers in completing private fund manager registration major changes as well as fund filings, and advised on fund structure design, drafting and negotiation of fund documents, fundraising, fund exit and other fund-related issues, serving clients such as Lilly Asia Ventures, China Life Capital, ICBC, Manulife, International, Dajia Insurance, etc. Tianshi Wang has also advised on many PE/VC and M&A projects for domestic and international companies, such as representing China Life to invest in COFCO, representing Centrium Capital in investing in Meican and Newtech Textile, and representing Lilly Asia Ventures in investing in TargetingOne, etc.

Tim Yimin Liu

Tim Yimin Liu, FCIArb, mainly works on China domestic and cross-border dispute resolution arising from corporate governance, shareholder rights, complex commercial, merger and acquisition, liquidation and bankruptcy, etc. Tim’s practices include parallel litigation, international commercial arbitration and mediation, seeking or rejecting recognition and enforcement of awards, setting aside awards before state courts. Tim is also involved in cross border bankruptcy and assets recovery in various jurisdictions. His cases are from the jurisdictions such as several states of the USA, China, the UK, the UAE (DIFC and ADGM), the KSA, Qatar, Turkey, Egypt, Israel, Kazakhstan, ASEAN, India, Australia and New Zealand. Tim works in the capacity as legal counsel advocating for client’s interest, as neutral professional assessing a case before formal proceedings, or as arbitrator, mediator or expert as appointed by the parties or nominated by the relevant institutions. Industries related to Tim’s practices include insurance, defense and security, electric power projects, construction, life science, materials and manufacturing, the Internet and the Internet of Things, private investment funds and digital assets, etc.

Ting Lei

Mr. Lei Ting is specialized in shipping, maritime matters, international trade, protection of intellectual property rights, foreign direct investments, merger and acquisition of assets and companies, contract matters, insurance, dispute resolution. He has advised clients engaged in a wide range of industries including finance, banking, investment, resources, energy, manufacturing, shipping, infrastructure, and trading, etc. Mr. Lei Ting has handled a large number of international disputes (litigation and arbitration), recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral award involving charter party, international sale and purchase of goods, cargo claims, insurance claims, financial leasing and investment. He also represented clients for arbitrations before China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission, Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, the Arbitration Institute of Stockholm Chamber of Commerce and the London Maritime Arbitrators Association. He is also academically productive and has published a number of articles on leading magazines such as Annual of China Maritime Law and Annual of China Maritime Trial.

Vincent Wang

Vincent Wang is a partner of Global Law Office based in Shanghai. Vincent focuses his practices working on multinational businesses and cross-border transactions in a broad-spectrum of industries. He is particularly skillful of providing innovative solutions and regulatory advice in telecommunications and internet businesses, high technology businesses, cybersecurity and data protection, and digital assets regulation and good at landing businesses in multi-jurisdictions. In his main areas of practice, Vincent has represented several Fortune 500 multinational clients, as well as many Chinese private companies. He frequently advised clients on cross-border investments, commercial transactions and regulatory compliance matters, including businesses of cloud computing, internet contents, eCommerce platforms, IoTS, and other internet related operations; business of FinTech, electronic payments, blockchain, NFT, cryptocurrencies, and digital assets managements; business of high technology equipment/device manufacture, artificial intelligence and algorithm regulation, chatbots, digital twins and other new and emerging technologies; business of traditional and new energy powered automotive, e-mobility, medical devices, new media and streaming entertainment, food and beverage, agriculture and farming, and international trade and export control. In addition to the above, Vincent also assists clients in management of cross-border dispute resolutions or serving as expert witness on PRC law issues in the above areas. In serving the clients, Vincent is familiar with the differences between foreign and Chinese parties and can effectively and efficiently set the proper expectation and smooth out the communication of the parties. He is particularly good at making complicated legal issues clear and simple and is creative to offer practical and use-friendly solutions.

Wei Qin

In the field of ABS, as a legal adviser retained for a lot of special plans and an external member of the evaluation committee of ABS of Shenzhen Stock Exchange, Mr. Qin has actually implemented or reviewed dozens of ABS projects. The forms of business enterprises and underlying assets cover financial leasing companies, micro-credit companies, expressway companies, power generation enterprises, heat-supply enterprises, property management companies, securities companies, real estate companies, auto (ship) leasing companies, park (scenic) business, state owned large trading companies, construction companies, private education enterprise, road transport enterprises, etc.. In the fields of IPO, refinancing, M&A, corporate restructuring, bond issue and trust, Mr. Qin has provided efficient and high quality comprehensive legal services to dozens of enterprises including Huatai Securities (601688), Changhai (300196), Tongrun (002150), Kerong Environment (300152), Dalian Bank, CITIC Securities, China Merchants Securities, GF Securities, CITIC Trust, Suzhou Amusement Park, Xugong Technology, GHPE and China Asset Management Co. , Ltd.

Weiwei Gu

Mr. Gu has rich experience in connection with anti-trust matters. Mr. Gu helps his clients on regulatory matters, including training, carrying out internal investigation and risk control procedure. Mr. Gu has extensive experience in deal with government investigation matters and cases.

Wen Li

Wen Li is a partner of Global Law Office based in Beijing. His practice areas cover capital markets, M&A, structured finance & securitisation, financial investment and VC & PE. In the area of capital markets, Wen Li has participated in a number of IPOs of Chinese enterprises on both Shanghai Stock Exchange and Shenzhen Stock Exchange. In the area of securitisation, Wen Li 's representative clients include: Agricultural Bank of China, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank and other Chinese financial institutions. Wen Li is a member of the Securitisation and Structured Finance Committee and the Legal Committee of the National Association of Financial Market Institutional Investors of the PRC.

Wendy (Yongheng) Wu

Wendy (Yongheng) Wu has been an attorney for nearly 20 years, mainly focusing on the areas of intellectual property, cross-border investment and dispute resolution and providing service to the clients including international luxury brands and some famous enterprises in industries of food, consuming goods and cross-border e-commerce, as well as high-tech enterprises and Fortune 500 companies such as pharmaceuticals, medical devices, computer software, electronic products, and semiconductors. Wendy Wu has a solid legal background, practical legal work experience in the field of intellectual property and can provide services in fluent English. Her practice fields mainly include trademark, trade secret, copyright, domain name, patent, anti-unfair competition rights confirmation, rights protection, dispute resolution, litigation, and is good at providing overall strategic legal advice on IP protection, IP cross-broader transferring and complicated due diligence.

Xi Wang

Mr. Wang is the partner of Global Law office in Beijing. His main areas of practice are corporate risk management，corporate crisis response ,economic crimes defense , intellectual property rights protection, corporate civil and commercial litigation. Industries in which he has been involved include medicine, data, finance, real estate, media, commercial retail, infrastructure, hi-tech, energy, resources, and telecommunications. Mr. Wang has adviced and assistance both Chinese and international companies on creation, implementation and maintenance of the corporate compliance programs, including top management policy making, risk assessment review, internal rules drafting, internal seminars and training and follow-up audit, concerning anti-corruption issues. In the field of intellectual property, he has represented clients in many criminal protection cases involving data and trade secrets and provided legal advice on risks management in acquisitions and corporate data information. Mr. Wang has significant criminal trial and appellate experience, as well as significant experience leading compliance investigations and jurisdictional enforcement matters and assisting clients with corporate compliance, especially in the anti-corruption area.

Xianlai Liu

Mr. Liu has almost 15 years experiences in investment fund and venture capital areas. Mr. Liu has deep and extensive knowledge on Chinese PE/VC market, and he once worked as the general counsel of New Horizon Capital, one of the top PE Fund in China, for more than five years. Mr Liu is always invited by Asset Management Association of China (“AMAC”), the supervisor of PE/VC fund industry, to attend the meetings in respect of new rules study and provide advice on supervision of investment funds. Key clients of Mr. Liu include IDG Capital, China Merchants Capital, CDH Capital, China Life Capital, CMIG Capital, GRS United Capital, Poly Capital, Innovation Works, New Horizon Capital and etc.

Xiaofeng Tang

Xiaofeng Tang is a partner of Global Law Office (Cheng Du) and specialized in dispute resolution, M&A, capital markets, real estate, and energy & mining areas. As an experienced arbitration and litigation attorney having practiced for over 20 years, Xiaofeng Tang is proficient in the laws and regulations, judicial interpretations, and judicial cases that most kinds of commercial disputes may involve. He has acted in nearly 1,000 litigation, the subject matter of the disputes relates to real estate, corporate control, investment, financing and guarantee, commercial trade, and infringement. He represented China Huarong Asset Management Co., Ltd. (Chengdu Office) in disposing of NPL of billions RMB, acted in a dispute over investment contracts on a Chengdu’s district government’s behalf against Hong Kong Agile Property Holdings Limited, and was retained by a pharmaceutical company in Sichuan to settle the dispute over construction contracts against China Construction First Group Co., Ltd. Xiaofeng Tang is also good at handling state-owned assets management, corporate compliance, and capital market business. He has been invited to participate in the legislative revision of local laws and regulations in Sichuan Province and Chengdu Municipality, and has successfully led the IPO Project of Chengdu Gas Group Corporation Ltd., the Legal Risk Sorting Project to the entire business process of Chengdu Gas Group Corporation Ltd., and the M&A Project of CR Gas' etc. Xiaofeng Tang dedicated in providing perennial legal services for government agencies, large and medium-sized state-owned and private companies, and domestic listed companies, such as SASAC of Chengdu Municipal Government, Jinniu District Government of Chengdu, China Huarong Asset Management Co., Ltd (Chengdu Office), Guodian Daduhe River Hydropower Development Co., Ltd , CR Gas Southwest Region, Chengdu Gas Group Corporation Ltd. (603053), Sichuan Goldstone Asia Pharmaceutical Inc. (300434), and Chengdu International Trade City Co., Ltd. etc.

Xiaoni Qi

Xiaoni Qi specialises in corporate bankruptcy liquidation, reorganization as well as settlement. She also has extensive experience in practice areas of debt and non-performing assets disposal, M&A, corporate restructuring, litigation and arbitration. Xiaoni Qi had been acting as the person in charge of a first-level corporate bankruptcy administrator institution in Guangdong Province for 15 years. During her practice as the corporate bankruptcy administrator, Xiaoni Qi led nearly 100 bankruptcy liquidation/reorganization/settlement cases successfully, including A-share listed companies, state-owned enterprises, large-sized private enterprises, Sino-foreign joint ventures, foreign-owned enterprises and collective ownership restructuring enterprises, etc. Xiaoni Qi performed key bankruptcy related cases includes Gionee Communication Ltd. liquidation case, Shengrun Group Co. reorganization case, Xindu Hotel Co. reorganization case, Huasheng Technology reorganization case, Jianhua Vocational College liquidation case, Wanghaiyikang reorganization case, New Era reorganization case, Xunbao reorganization case, Changsha Huifeng reorganization case, Huale Corporation liquidation case, Zhongshan Tianyi Logistics Company settlement case, etc. Xiaoni Qi has been also acting as a special legal counsel for various assert management companies, security companies and state-owned enterprise, participating in non-performing asset disposal, mergers and acquisitions and restructuring projects.

Xin Zhang

Xin Zhang provides legal services for Chinese and international banks and investors in relation to banking and finance, M&A, FDI and overseas investment, with an extensive coverage of financing, energy, power, real estate and natural resources sectors. In the area of banking and finance, Mr. Zhang has represented most of Chinese and international banks, international financial institutions and ECAs active in the market and advised on syndicated loans, project financing, structured trade financing, vessel and aircraft financing, export credit loans and financial derivatives. He has acted for a number of projects which are awarded by authoritative industrial journals as the annual best projects (including the Guangdong LNG Shipping Financing Project, China Oil & Gas Fund's US$1.4bn Syndicated Loan and Eurobond Issue and Qinghai Liuyang Xinda Non-ferrous Metal Co. Ltd.'s US$180m Commodity Financing), and has been awarded as the Leading Lawyer in PRC Banking and Finance by Chambers Asia: Asia's Leading Lawyers for Business and Asia Legal 500. In the area of corporate works, Mr. Zhang has represented a number of industrial investors to invest in Chinese petrochemical, renewable energy, power, telecommunication and other traditional manufacturing sectors by way of greenfield investment or merger and acquisition. He also provides legal supports to Chinese SOEs, banks, investment funds and Sinosure for their overseas investment and financing projects under the "Going Abroad" efforts, which involves the export of China-made telecommunication equipments, vessels and other capital equipments and EPC services and the investment in power, real estate, petrochemical and mining projects. Mr. Zhang has profound knowledge and experiences in the legal and regulatory regime, financial product innovations and market development for the China inter-bank market. He has been one drafting group member for the drafting of the China Inter-bank Market Financial Derivatives Master Agreement, Bond Repurchase Master Agreement, Loan Assets Transfer Master Agreement, Underwriting Agreement and Underwriters' Agreement, led by the National Association of Financial Market Institutional Investors (NAFMII), as well as one writer of the official guidelines. He also participates as a legal expert in the research and development of the first credit risk mitigation instruments (the Chinese equivalent of CDS). He serves as one member of the NAFMII Financial Derivatives Experts Committee and one registration expert for the Inter-bank Bond Market Non-financial Institutions' Debt Financing Instruments (the Chinese equivalent of MTNs and CPs).

Xiusong Xing

Xing Xiusong is a partner of Beijing Global Law Office. He currently serves as a Vice Chairman of the Arbitration and ADR Committee of ICC China (since 2017), an arbitrator on the panel of China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC, since 1997), a member of the Board of CIETAC (since 2014), a member of CIETAC’s Expert Consultation Committee (since 2014), an arbitrator on panel of Hong Kong International Arbitration Center (HKIAC, since 2012), an arbitrator on the panel of Kuala Lumpur Regional Center for Arbitration (KLRCA, since 2009), a mediator on the panel of CCPIT/China Chamber of International Commerce Mediation Center (since 2003), a member of the International Dispute Resolution Group (“IDR Group”). Xing Xiusong advises and represents foreign and Chinese clients on dispute resolution matters in relation to Chinese-foreign joint ventures, foreign direct investment in China, construction projects, technology transfer and license agreements, trademark licensing, manufacturing and distribution agreements, loan agreements and project finance, international sale of goods, anti-monopoly and unfair competition, etc., by means of negotiation, mediation, adjudication, arbitration and litigation. He has represented clients in arbitration proceedings before international arbitration institutions, including China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC); Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), ICC International Court of Arbitration (ICC), American Arbitration Association (AAA), Hong Kong International Arbitration Center (HKIAC), Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) and the Japan Commercial Arbitration Association (JCAA). (More than 200 cases) . He has served as an arbitrator in international arbitration proceedings at CIETAC, ICC, SCC, and in ad hoc arbitration proceedings. (More than 200 cases). He has represented clients in court proceedings before all levels of PRC People's Courts, ranging from District Courts to the Supreme People's Court. (More than 100 cases). He has acted as an expert witness on Chinese law in proceedings before The High Court of Justice of London and the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce.

Xuchun Huang

Ms. Huang is specialized in foreign investment and M&A. She has been actively involved in advising multinational companies on their corporate governance, daily operation and compliance, has an extensive knowledge and experience in life-science and healthcare industry. The clients Ms. Huang regularly represents include listed or multinational pharmaceutical companies, leading medical device enterprises, medical institutions, state-owned group companies and various foreign investors. Ms. Huang has advised on projects including equity acquisition by foreign/sate-owned/private investors, integration and restructuring of MNC’s pipelines, license or cooperation project in pharmaceutical and medical service sectors. She continually advises and represents GSK, Abbott, Align (Invisalign), Boehringer-Ingelheim, Lilly, SIIC, Lv Ye Pharm in daily operation and innovative projects (gene therapy, digital medicine, AI medical, internet healthcare, etc). Ms. Huang has also advised both Chinese and international companies on compliance assessment and risk control, especially anti-corruption and cybersecurity.

Yalin Li

Yalin Li is a partner of Global Law Office based in Beijing and specialized in banking and finance, outbound investment, corporate and acquisitions and dispute resolutions. In the field of bank financing, Yalin Li has been working on syndicated loans, project financing, export credit, cross-border loans and guarantees on behalf of most of major Chinese and international financial institutions in the market (including CDB, Sinosure, ICBC, CCB, IFC, ADB, BNPP, SCB and BBVA etc.). In the field of bond issuance, Yalin Li has participated in a number of onshore and offshore bond issuances (including Panda Bonds and debt financing instruments issued in the PRC bond market, and RMB, USD and EUR bonds issued in Hong Kong, Singapore and London markets). She has worked as the lead counsel in several “first” bond issuance projects, including the world’s first simultaneous issuance of tri-product ESG bonds, the first offshore supplemental capital instrument issued by Chinese financial leasing companies, and the first RMB Dim Sum bonds in Central Asia. In the area of dispute resolutions, she has participated in arbitration proceedings before domestic and international arbitration institutions, including, inter alia, China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), Shanghai International Arbitration Center (SHIAC), London Maritime Arbitrators Association (LMAA) and Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC).

Yifeng Gao

Gao Yifeng's practice areas include International Trade, Commercial Contracts, Shipping, Transportation and logistics, Insurance, Real Estate Matters, FDI and Corporate Matters, Litigation and Arbitration, etc. He has handled and supervised over 15 hundred arbitration and litigation cases. Most of the cases are foreign-related. The clientele that he has served includes major international commercial groups, shipping companies, trading companies, insurance companies, P&I Clubs, product manufacturers and investment entities, etc. He has acted as legal counsel and an attorney for clients in over 500 court cases and over 600 arbitration proceedings. He has acted as counsel for clients or PRC legal expert in arbitrations before ICC, CIETAC, SCC, HKIAC, SIAC, LMAA and CMAC, etc. and has given legal opinions before courts in various jurisdictions. He has also served as an arbitrator or the presiding arbitrator in about 400 cases at CIETAC, ICC，CMAC and BAC. Through academic researches and legal practice for over 37 years, he has intimate knowledge of the laws of the PRC Mainland and the relevant international norms and practice. On quite a number of occasions in respect of international court litigations, he has given expert reports or opinions in English on the laws of the PRC Mainland. He has been nominated for consecutive years by a number of international legal publications such as Chambers Asia Pacific, Chambers Global, Legal 500 Asia Pacific and Asialaw & Profiles as an “eminent practitioner” and leading lawyer in the areas of arbitration and shipping in China.

Yu Zhang

Mr. Zhang was recommended as one of PRC lawyers of capital market and of PRC lawyers of Merger & Acquisition by The Asia Pacific LEGAL 500 and Asialaw Profiles on multiple occasions. Mr. Zhang has more than two decades of legal experience, focusing on practice in the fields of capital market, merger & acquisition and private equity/venture capital and providing legal service to a large clients base, including numerous famous domestic or foreign public companies, equity funds, and MNCs. His notable clients include Bytedance, Focus Media, Sogou, Skyworth Digital, ICBC International, PingAn Insurance, BGE, Septwolves, Tesiro, Fountainvest, DT Capital, VisionPlus, GIC, Ventech, KION, ESR, Mitsubishi UFJ. The volume of transactions Mr. Zhang participated and is participating exceeds USD 10 billions. In the field of capital market, Mr. Zhang led over 50 cases of securities issuance by public companies, including initial public offering, additional share offering/placement, issuance of convertible bonds and issuance of corporate bonds. The notable cases in such field include first ever A Share IPO by a foreign registered company in China (China Resources Microelectronics Limited), Sogou’s IPO at NASDAQ and ESR’s IPO at HKEX (the third biggest IPO case at HKEX by proceeds raised in Y2019). In the field of merger & acquisition, the notable cases Mr. Zhang led include the China’s very first case in which a red chip Hong Kong listed public company (Skyworth Digital) spins off part of its China business to list in A share market through reverse merger, acquisition of majority shares of YangGuang (A share stock code: 000608) by a consortium led by ICBC (representing the consortium), acquisition of Greater China business of Karl Lagerfeld by Septwolves (representing Septwolves), acquisition of Target Media and CGEN media by Focus Media (representing Focus Media), acquisition of Leysen (a Belgium jeweler) by Tesiro (A share stock code: 603900).

Yuan Yuan

Ms. Yuan represents a number of top-tier investment institutions and PE/VC funds. She assists renowned managers of PE/VC funds in the design and formation of their first and subsequent series of RMB funds in the Chinese market, including equity funds, mezzanine funds, M&A funds, real estate funds, hedge funds and funds of funds, and is also active in special investment vehicles for various types of project. Ms. Yuan specializes in the design of flexible and efficient legal frameworks for funds in complex and volatile market environment under strict regulatory requirements. She is frequently involved in the negotiations on the behalf of PE/VC funds managers with the investors including SSF (National Council for Social Security Fund), insurance companies, government guidance funds, funds of funds, industrial investors and other institutional investors. Ms. Yuan has broad experience in advising managers of fund of funds in funds investing matters and she assists them in the negotiations with almost all the outstanding funds managers in the domestic private equity industry. Ms. Yuan represents PE/VC funds in providing legal advices in equity, debt investment and investment exit in various investment projects, including many significant transactions in the market. Ms. Yuan’s practice also focuses on advising PE/VC funds managers on matters of private equity management institutions’ compliance management, internal governance arrangements and economic incentives.

Yuanyuan Li

Yuanyuan Li is a Chengdu-based partner of Global Law Office and specialized in corporate compliance, domestic and cross-border M&A, international trade and dispute resolution. Yuanyuan Li has provided annual legal consultancy services to more than 50 enterprises and institutions. Yuanyuan Li has advised on a number of domestic and international investment and financing projects, including, inter alia，represented Zhongliang Real Estate in the acquisition of Lanzhou Tianli Education Real Estate; advised on the projects of market-oriented disposal of state-owned assets of government organs and public institutions; assisted Dongfang Turbine as the first batch of central enterprises to pilot the mixed ownership reform; advised on the corporatization and transformation of Sichuan Key Highway Engineering and Supervision Service Institution; advised on bankruptcy reorganization of Sichuan Keheng Mining Group and its subsidiaries; advised on overseas investment of Chinese companies and participated in edition of Investment Guide in India for Chengdu Foreign Legal Services Guide (Overseas Investment Chapter). Yuanyuan Li has broad experience in various power station construction and plant operation. Yuanyuan Li has been involved in multiple domestic and cross-border construction-related dispute resolutions, including, inter alia，the international arbitration concerning on technology license dispute before Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce and recognition and enforcement of the arbitration award; domestic litigation on the bank guarantee for the overseas EPC project before Chengdu Intermediate Court for the purpose of injunction of the payment; assisted a state-owned enterprise to settle the dispute on the construction contract with its foreign partner.

Yun Shen

Mr. Shen's practices cover customs law and trade compliance. His clients include multinational companies, foreign-invested enterprises, state-owned enterprises and private domestic companies. In the practice of customs & trade compliance, Mr. Shen has advised, represented or defended many companies in connection with tariff classification, royalties, country of origin, export tax rebate, transfer pricing and valuation consultation, HS code precedent database, customs pre-ruling, customs survey and inspection, import & export license, quarantine and non-tariff barriers, processing trade, bonded logistics models, customs supervision zones. Mr. Shen has also advised, represented and defend many corporate clients in administrative and criminal cases concerning customs audits, ASB investigations. He has led many legal audits and health-check on trade compliance, training and consultation projects for business operations of multinationals in China.

Yunjian Hou

Yunjian Hou is a partner of Global Law Office (Beijing) and specialized in disputes resolution (including domestic and transnational litigation, arbitration, and alternative disputes resolution), corporate liquidation and bankruptcy, and intellectual property businesses. Yunjian Hou has extensive practical experience in handling complex disputes resolution cases. He has represented over a hundred famous transnational companies, financial institutions, state-owned and private enterprises，to deal with several hundred litigation and arbitration cases, the scope of which include major equity, contract, intellectual property, etc. Also, he has joined in a series of negotiations and bargains regarding important business and disputes on behalf of clients. With exquisite professional skills and focused service attitude, Yunjian Hou has helped his clients to achieve unexpected outcome in many significant cases, and has safeguarded interests of the clients to a great extent. With the achievement, Yunjian Hou has gained wide recognitions and high evaluations from the clients. Besides, Yunjian Hou has participated in a series of bankruptcy liquidation and reorganization cases as a member or a principal of the administrator, and has achieved satisfiable results. In addition, he has represented creditors and investors, to participate in many reorganization cases, such as the reorganizations of Yunnan Coal Chemical Industry Group, Bohai Steel Group, Tewoo Group, HNA Group, etc. that have significate domestic influence. Yunjian Hou’s major clients include well-known foreign enterprises, such as TC Group (Thailand), Blackstone Group, Hong Leong Group (Singapore), Doosan Group (Korea), MMD Group (UK), etc.; and Famous state-owned and private enterprises, such as Minmetal Group, China Light IMP. & EXP. Group, Wanxiang Group, Delong Steel, Yango Group, etc.; and banks and financial institutions, such as China Bank, Minsheng Bank, CITIC Securities, Huarong Trust, etc. Yunjian Hou has also provided long-term legal service for many famous enterprises, such as China Mobile, CCTV, CNTV, People Education Press, NBA, etc.; and has joined in a series of important international and domestic negotiations on behalf of CCTV and CNTV.

Yuxin Wu

Yuxin Wu is the counsel of Global Law Office (Shenzhen) and specialized in M&A, FDI, ODI and PE/VC investment. Yuxin Wu has advised both Chinese and international companies on a number of cross-border M&A transactions, including, inter alia, the acquisition of the Canadian listed company First Quantum Minerals Ltd. shares by A-share and H-share listed company Jiangxi Copper Company Limited with a consideration exceeding USD 1.1 billion, the acquisition of the Turkey Istanbul Third Bosphorus Bridge and the Northern Marmara Motorway by six-party consortium including Merchants Expressway, the acquisition of 100% shares Taiwanese listed company Wistron’s wholly owned subsidiaries by A-share listed company Luxshare Precision Industry Co., Ltd. and its controlling shareholder, the acquisition of 62.67% shares of Hong Kong listed company Cowell by an affiliate of A-share listed company Luxshare Precision Industry Co., Ltd., the acquisition of 70.95% shares of Hong Kong listed company TIME Interconnect by a subsidiary of A-share listed company Luxshare Precision Industry Co., Ltd., the disposition of Fengwang Express by A-share listed company SF to J&T Express and the acquisition of four Chinese expressway of Hong Kong listed company Road King by Merchants Expressway. The PE/VC investment deals Yuxin Wu has participated include Oceanpine Capital’s investment in Chipone Technology, Wise Road Capital’s investment in Juneway Electronic, Source Code Capital’s investment in Hongyu Technology. Yuxin Wu also represented Xiaomi in numerous investment projects in its supply and ecological chain, including RoboSense, DataStory, Chipone Technology, ACC Optics, HKC and many other renowned companies.

Zhanke Li

Jack Zhanke Li is a Beijing-based partner of Global Law Office, who specializes in intellectual property matters and dispute resolution. Jack has over fifteen years of experience in the field of intellectual property. With the combination of engineering and legal background, Jack specializes in intellectual property litigations including patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, technology contract, and unfair competition. In addition, Jack has rich experience in non-contentious IP matters, including strategic planning and management of corporate intellectual property, special IP services in the process of IPO, IP due diligence, FTO and infringement analysis, and IP licensing and transaction matters. Jack’s clients include top domestic and multinational enterprises in high-end manufacturing, medicine, communications, Internet, software and other industries. Some cases including follows handled by Jack have been selected as the top ten IP cases of the year or typical IP cases in China. “The first case of anti-monopoly regulation of pharmaceutical patent reverse payment” - Top 50 typical IP cases of the Supreme People's Court in 2021 Represented Beijing New Airport in the patent infringement case re a construction method - Top 15 typical cases of the Beijing IP Court in 2019 Represented Tsinghua Univ. and Nuctech in a patent infringement case re container inspection system - Top 50 typical IP cases of the Supreme People's Court in 2018 Represented LEGO in a trademark infringement and unfair competition case - Top 10 IP case in Shanghai in 2018 Represented in a patent invalidation case re “Authorization device and method for temporary users on Internet access control” - Top 10 patent reexamination & invalidation cases in 2017 Jack has ever represented Sony Mobile v. IWNCOMM in the first SEP case in the wireless industry in China. In addition, Jack has extensive experience in the fields of life sciences such as biology, medicine and medical devices, and has represented a number of important pharmaceutical or related patent infringement lawsuits, patent invalidation proceedings and follow-up administrative lawsuits, as well as pharmaceutical patent administrative enforcement proceedings.

Zhaogang Wang

Zhaogang Wang is the partner of Global Law office based in Beijing. His main practice areas are labor law and labor disputes, including labor law compliance management and employee investigations, employee settlement arising from M&A transactions and organizational restructuring, labor law consultation (employees related issues before employees complete on-boarding, during the employment relationship and after their separation).He has tremendous experience in handling various disputes arising from the termination of employment such as non-competition disputes, trade secrets disputes and reputation-related disputes. He also regularly represents clients in various disputes among executives, shareholders and the company based on disagreement on the control of the company. Zhaogang Wang has provided comprehensive legal advice on employment-related matters for over 100 multinationals and domestic enterprises, and has represented clients in over 200 employment dispute cases, with major clients covering a wide range of industries, including Apple, Airbnb, AstraZeneca, Bombardier, Business Finland Oy, Cook Medical, Crazy Maple, Emerson, Essex, Funplus, HP, IBM, Ito Yokado, Johnson & Johnson, KKR, LG, Medtronic, NTT, Otis, Panasonic, PwC, Shiseido, Siemens, ICBC Leasing, Capital Airports Holding Company, Agricultural Bank of China, Sinolight Corporation, China City Press, Bank of China Insurance Company Limited, China University of Political science and law, Peking University Founder Group Corp.,etc.

Zhenglin Ma

Zhenlin Ma is a partner based in Beijing office. His main practice areas focus on domestic litigation, arbitration, alternative dispute resolution of various commercial disputes, and business related to corporate liquidation and bankruptcy. He is highly experienced in handling disputes over asset management, M&A and restructuring, finance, and business regarding company’s voluntary liquidation, bankruptcy liquidation and reorganization. Zhenlin Ma has dealt with plenty of typical and influential dispute resolution cases: representing several best-known securities corporations in handling disputes over stock pledge repurchase contracts; representing a famous securities corporation in handling disputes over a series of bonds trading; representing a well-known securities corporation in handling disputes over fund contracts; representing an investment company in handling disputes over fund contracts; representing several trust and asset management companies in litigations requesting the courts to confirm creditors’ rights; representing many financial institutions including banks and trust companies in handling financial loan contract disputes; representing a listed corporation and its affiliated corporations in handling a series of disputes over financial loan contracts and financial lease contracts. Meanwhile, Zhenlin Ma has participated in numbers of major bankruptcy and reorganization projects, either as the investor’s legal counsel, or the creditor’s legal counsel, or the member of administrator. Typical and influential cases include: representing Bloomage Biotechnology Co., Ltd. as an investor to participate in the bankruptcy reorganization of 11 companies in Dongchen Group; representing a large joint-stock bank in the reorganization project of Yunnan Coal Chemical Industry Group and several affiliated corporations; representing a large state-owned company in the bankruptcy reorganization project of Chongqing Iron and Steel Co., Ltd.; representing a famous Korean company in the bankruptcy liquidation project of Zhejiang OUHUA Shipbuilding Co., Ltd.; handling several bankruptcy cases as a member of the administration team. Zhenlin Ma has served CITIC Securities, Huarong Securities, New Times Securities, Tonglian Capital, Bank of China, HSBC, Minsheng Bank, Pingan Bank, Sino Light Group, CR Power, Beixun Group, Asiainfo Group, etc.

Zhihong Jian

Mr. Zhihong Jian is a partner based in GLO Beijing office. He specializes in private equity fund formation as well as investment and financing. Mr. Jian has rich experience in designing and reviewing private equity fund plans and other crucial legal issues and he has represented many PE funds in investor negotiations. He also provides legal services regarding PE fund manager registration, fund filing, and operational compliance related matters. In the field of PE funds formation, Mr. Jian’s representative clients include Sequoia China, CDH Investment, CITIC Industry Fund, IDG, Legend Capital, Northern Light Venture Capital, ICBC International Parent Fund, Baidu Venture Capital, Legend Star, GSR Ventures, China Chengtong Group SOEs Structure Adjustment Fund, Kaiyuan Capital, Dongfang Hongtai Capital, Shunwei Capital, GGV Capital, V Star Capital, InnoVision Capital, Yao Capital, China Growth Capital, etc. The accumulated amount of PE investment funds assisted by Mr. Jian has exceeded RMB 50 billion, covering equity funds, venture capital funds, mezzanine funds, parent funds, real estate funds, and special project funds, etc. He has also advised various investors including state-owned enterprises, government guidance funds, parent funds, banks, industrial investors, wealth management institutions, etc. In the field of private equity investment, Mr. Jian has assisted many clients regarding private equity investment and FOF investment projects, such as Sequoia China, ICBC International Fund, Northern Light Venture Capital, and China Cultural Industry Investment Fund. The representative bidder subjects include Hillhouse Capital RMB Fund, Yunfeng Capital RMB Fund, Source Code Capital RMB Fund, Sherpa Medical Fund, CITIC Industry Fund-Multi-Strategy Fund, HaiXue, April Star, EASYPNP, Max Photonics, and Datsing Bio-tech.

Zhiming Fang

Zhiming Fang has represented hundreds of dispute resolution cases, involving financial loans, equity transfer, notes, trust loans and other types of commercial disputes. Typical cases include Contract dispute between Sichuan Tianfu Bank Co., Ltd and Anxin Trust Co., Ltd., Shanghai Gorgeous Investment Development Co., Ltd., Tianjin Rongtai Investment Co., Ltd., Tianjin Hanwei Investment Co., Ltd., Tianjin Rongtai Hengsheng equity investment fund Co., Ltd., Tianjin Boya Investment Development Co., Ltd.；Trust loan dispute between Northern International Trust Co., Ltd. and Chengdu Fuhong Trading Co., Ltd., Shanghai Guozheng Investment Management Co., Ltd., Cai Xi and Sichuan Longxiang Investment Co., Ltd. Zhiming Fang has advised government agencies including People's Government of Qingyang District, Qingyang District Audit Bureau, Jinjiang District Financial Bureau, Wenjiang District Audit Bureau on daily affairs, compliance training, disposal of letters and visits, major cases. Zhiming Fang has advised financial institutions including commercial banks, trust companies, micro-credit companies, financing guarantee companies on compliance, design of trust loan, assets disposal and risk management. Zhiming Fang has practiced dozens of debts restructuring and M&A projects, involving due diligence, assets replacement and restructuring, and employee arrangement.

Zhongcheng Wang

As a rich experienced litigator, Kevin Wang has appeared in courts or arbitration tribunals for several hundred times during the past 20 years. Kevin Wang experts in making strategies and crafts in details to make sure that the quality of each court hearing meets the clients’ expectations. Besides, Kevin Wang also appear in courts or arbitration tribunals overseas as Chinese legal expert and well experienced on cases involving multiple jurisdictions and legal cultures. As one of the top lawyers in project construction and energy area, his competence and expertise in infrastructure and energy projects, merger and acquisition, building and relative dispute resolution are well recognized by the legal profession. His client highlights that he understands the market and is very much an expert on the clients’ business as well as on law and practice. Recently, Kevin Wang also represents clients participating in the investment and financing business in the new industries including modern agriculture, clean energy, new material, environmental protection and energy saving, logistics, development of new urban districts and characteristic town, etc.

Zora (Yujin) Zhang

Zora Zhang is specialized in PE/VC, mergers and acquisitions, fund formation, capital market, foreign direct investment, overseas investment and other corporate business. During her practice period in GLO Law Office, Zora Zhang has been involved in a large number of PE/VC and mergers and acquisitions projects, representing investment institution clients such as Xiaomi Group, Hidden Hill Capital, Softbank China, YF Capital, Continental, Sinovation Ventures, SIG, Sequoia Capital, Shunwei Capital, CS Capital, miHoYo, Source Code Capital, Loyal Valley Capital, Tencent, Ping An Ventures, NLVC, Greenwoods Investment, Westsummit Capital and HashKey Capital. The legal services rendered by her include structuring the transactions, conducting due diligence, drafting, reviewing and negotiating documents, issuing legal or advisory opinions as well as assisting with the closing matters and completion of government approval procedures.

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