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In the field of merger and acquisitions, including the acquisition of listed companies, major restructuring, cross-border transactions and mixed ownership reform of state-owned enterprises, Alex has represented various clients regarding many significant deals, which include:   Takeover of control and tender offer projects, eg: Meiya Pico (300188); Cangzhou Dahua Group (600230); Sichuan Shuangma Cement (000935); and Yinge Investment (600069). Restructuring and cross-border transactions, eg: the merger of Huabei Expressway (000916) by China Merchants Highway; the over RMB 18.7 billion takeover of ADAMA (the biggest pesticide manufacturer in Israel) by China Chemical-owned listed company Sanonda (000553); the establishment and merger integration of Xiamen Port involving various A share and Hong Kong listed companies; the restructuring of China Resources Pharmaceutical and Beijing Pharmaceutical with various A share listed companies involved; the acquiring of Tianjin Port (A shares listed) by Tianjin Port Development (Hong Kong listed), the first cross-border share exchange transaction; various significant domestic property assets acquiring by China Resources Land (Hong Kong listed); the reverse takeover (RTO) of HanKore Environment (Singapore listed) by Everbright International (Hong Kong listed); the selling of TNUVA (Israeli assets) to Bright Food by APAX Fund; and the acquiring of skiing resorts in Yabuli by Melco International, etc. Red-chip restructuring, Alex’s representative clients in this area include Douyu.com, Baofeng Group, Bangcle, Chunyu Yisheng, EASOU Technology and Baixing.com, etc.   State-owned assets regulatory, Alex has represented the target companies or investors in many merger and reorganization matters of central enterprises and local state-owned enterprises, as well as introducing strategic investors for state-owned enterprises’ mixed ownership reforms initiatives, etc.   In the field of PE investment and financing, Alex has represented numerous funds and investors regarding various PE investment, funding as well as fund manager’s registration and filing matters, such as China Merchants Capital, Goldstone, CICC Alpha, Jinrong Street Capital, China Internet Investment Fund, and New Horizon Capital, etc. His representative deals include providing legal services to Montage Technology, Manbang Group, Xiyun International, CHJAutomotive, Lufax, and Ping An Good Doctor for their RMB or red-chip structure inbound and outbound investment projects.   In the field of capital markets, Alex has advised on China Resources Microelectronics Limited’s IPO on SSE STAR – the first case in Chinese capital markets of a red chip company directly issuing A shares and listing in China; Baofeng Group (300431)’s IPO; Douyu.com (DOYU) and VisionChina (VISN)’s Nasdaq listing; Tong Ji Tang (600090)’s listing on New York Exchange Stock;  Dynasty (00828), Huaying Highway (01823), Hongba Digital (00802) and Sanlin Global (019020)’s listing on Hong Kong Exchange Stock; Vanke’s B to H share conversion; the delisting of Zhengzhou Gas (Hong Kong listed); and various real estate companies’ overseas bond issuance, etc.

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.

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.

In the area of mergers and acquisitions, Mr. Zhong not only works for multinational companies such as Visteon Corporation, Treasury Holdings and UTC and its affiliates (like Pratt & Whitney, Carrier) and Arm China in connection with their acquisitions in China, he also assists certain WOFE in connection with their offshore acquisitions. In the area of foreign direct investment, he represents Visteon Corporation and its affiliates in connection with their joint ventures with many Chinese auto giants like Dongfeng, Changan, etc. In the area of banking, he advises international banks like DBS, HSBC, Hang Sang Bank, ICBC (Asia) in connection with their lending activities involving China. In the area of real estate, he advises companies like Treasury Holdings in connection with their acquisitions of local real properties. In the field of aviation, Mr. Zhong assists clients in handling purchase, sale and financing of private jets. In the area of capital markets, Mr. Zhong assists Treasury Holdings to list a business trust on SGX which involves commercial and office properties in China.

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Mr. Shen has participated in numerous public offerings of Chinese enterprises on both domestic and international stock exchanges, and has provided legal services to the clients from incorporation to public offerings, and subsequent acquisitions and daily operations. Mr. Shen is knowledgeable in advising restructuring and equity transactions, and has represented clients in many acquisitions for a wide range of industries. His client portfolio covers a diverse sector range from pharmaceutical, financial service, education, consumer products, real estate, energy, logistics, retail and media. Mr. Shen has also represented foreign and domestic private equity and venture capital firms in their investments in China in various sectors, including highly regulated sectors such as financial services, telecom and media. 

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.

He has extensive experience in advising foreign investors in connection with their acquisitions of equity interests and operating assets of Chinese companies and establishment of joint ventures and wholly-owned subsidiaries in China, and representing Chinese clients in domestic and overseas share offering and listing, investment and acquisition transactions.  Mr. Fu has a deep knowledge of local regulations as well as local business practices.  He has extensive experience in automobile, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, Internet, information technology, mining, power, safety equipment, agriculture and aquaculture projects.   Prior to joining Global Law Office, Mr. Fu worked at the Beijing, New York and Toronto offices of Shearman & Sterling LLP for nearly 15 years.  During the first half of 2013, Mr. Fu worked as a member at the Strategy and Development Committee of China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC). Among other distinctions, Mr. Fu was awarded as a Leading M&A Lawyer in China by Chambers Global 2012-2013, a Leading M&A Lawyer in China and a Leading PRC Lawyer in Healthcare by Chambers Asia Pacific 2012-2013, a Leading Lawyer in China M&A by AsiaLaw Leading Lawyers 2011-2013, and a Leading Lawyer in China M&A and Private Equity by IFLR Guide to Leading Practitioners – China 2011.  Mr. Fu is a frequent speaker at international conferences on topics such as China M&A, and Domestic and Overseas IPOs by Chinese Companies. 

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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.

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Since joining private practice in 2006, Dr. Zhang has provided services to a wide range of well-known multinationals and Chinese clients, including those of Fortune 500 and SMEs in such industries as manufacturing, real estate, retail, energy and education. Most of his clients are leaders of their businesses in China or international markets. Over the past 10 years, Dr. Zhang successfully counseled on more than 300 investment projects (such as FDI and M&A), over 20 merger control filings, and the issuing of corporate bonds of more than RMB100 billions (or its equivalency in other currencies). In addition, as long term outside counsel to his clients, he has successfully dealt with many legal issues in connection with the corporate restructuring and liquidation, compliance, commercial agreements and employment matters. Notably, Dr. Zhang represented GLP in its landmark agreement with China Merchants Group which allowed GLP to acquire 50% of China Merchants Group’s private equity arm China Merchants Capital.  This strategic project was awarded “Deal of the Year (Asia) 2019” by Private Equity Real Estate (“PERE”).

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Mr. Li is well versed in conducting investigations in connection with anti-corruption (Chinese criminal and administrative law & US FCPA), anti-trust, white collar crimes (embezzlement, financial fraud, insider trading, infringement of trade secret, etc.), data & cyber security from both Chinese and foreign law perspectives, helping multi-national and state-owned enterprises to identify potential wrong-doers, assessing parameters of potential liability, and interacting with multi-jurisdiction government authorities. Mr. Li routinely advises clients regarding operational risk assessments and the establishment of internal control and compliance mechanisms. Mr. Li has not only represented 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. 

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.

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For cross-border merger and acquisition projects, Mr. Liu has advised clients in many aspects throughout all phases of transactions, including transaction structure design, due diligence exercises, drafting / reviewing transaction documents, negotiations, providing relevant legal opinions and deal closings.  Mr. Liu has provided the aforementioned legal services to many Fortune 500 multi-national companies and Chinese companies.  Mr. Liu's clients cover a wide range of industries, including without limitation to manufacturing, automobile, aerospace, insurance, energy, pharmaceutical, agriculture, retail, TMT, and consulting.  Meanwhile, Mr. Liu also assists Chinese companies in their outbound investment projects and has provided legal services to Chinese companies investing or acquiring targets in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific regions.

In respect of banking, the major clients of Mr. Chen include China Development Bank, Hua Xia Bank, Postal Savings Bank of China, China Everbright Bank, China Bohai Bank, Agricultural Bank of China, China Construction Bank, Bank of China, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Bank of Beijing, China CITIC Bank, Bank of Communications, Korea Exchange Bank, Bangkok Bank, etc. In respect of trust, the major clients of Mr. Chen include CITIC Trust Co. Ltd., China Jingu International Trust Co., Ltd., Daye Trust Co., Ltd., National Trust Co. Ltd., Minmetals International Trust Co. Ltd. and Anxin Trust & Investment Co., ltd. etc. In addition, other major clients of Mr. Chen include China Cinda Asset Management Co., Ltd., Toyota Motor Finance (China) Co., Ltd., COSCO Finance Co., Ltd., ChemChina Finance Corporation, Chinapack International Leasing Co., Ltd,. Everbright Financial Leasing Co., Ltd., Beijing Capital Tourism Co., Ltd., China National Chemical Corporation, China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec Group), China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation and other financial institutions and enterprises.   Mr. Chen provides the following legal services to the above clients: general and specific legal consultation services, syndicated loans, disposal of non-performing assets, credit assets transfer, trust projects, mergers and acquisitions, assets restructuring, private equity investment and venture capital, structured financing, issuance of corporate bonds, issuance of debt financing instruments of non-financial enterprises, asset securitization, specific subjects research, litigation and arbitration etc.   Further, Mr. Chen worked as the lawyer in the project team of real estate investment trusts (REITs) led by China Banking Regulatory Commission, the People’s bank of China and China Securities Regulatory Commission, providing comprehensive legal services in the development and design of REITs projects (including inter-bank market products and stock exchange market products) and drafting of relevant regulations.

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.

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.

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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 LI has assisted a number of issuers or underwriters in many successful IPOs on both domestic and oversea stock exchanges. In the area of M&A, Jun LI has provided legal services and supports for dozens of famous listed companies and enterprise groups in connection with their acquisitions in the PRC. Jun LI has successfully provided the overall Chinese legal services in the first red chip company listed in Hong Kong acquiring controlling interest in an A share company listed in China with the consideration of the issuance of new shares according to the Provisions on the Acquiring of Domestic Enterprises by Foreign Inverstors issued by MOFCOM（“Rule No. 10”）. Jun LI is also specialized in the area of IPR. Jun LI has successfully provided legal services in IPR for IBM, Yahoo! Inc., Alibaba, Yahoo China, Focus Media, TVB and other well-known domestic and foreign companies. Jun LI joined in Global Law Office in 2003 as a partner. Before joining in Global Law Office, he acted as the General Counsel of a famous enterprise group.

Mr. Lawrence Lin is partner who specialized in foreign investment, mergers & acquisitions, acquisition finance, project finance, international syndication, aircraft and shipping finance, structured finance, general banking and securities issuance.

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 in 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, CMAC, HKIAC and SIMC (Singapore International Mediation Centre) and other institutes and was appointed as the presiding arbitrator/sole arbitrator/co-arbitrator in more than 300 arbitration cases.

  In the area of banking and finance, Ms. Zhu has represented most of the major PRC and international banks, including providing legal services in syndicated loans, project financing, structured trade financing, vessel and aircraft financing, export credit loans and financial derivatives. She has acted for a number of financing projects which are awarded by authoritative industrial journals as the annual deals (such as the financing work in ChemChina's acquisition of Syngenta, privatisation financing of Feihe Dairy) and has been awarded by The Legal 500 as recommended lawyers in 2018 and 2019 in the area of banking and finance.   Ms. Zhu assisted a lot of PRC and international issuers in their issuance of bonds in the PRC (including panda bonds, inter-bank market bonds and exchange-traded bonds) and outside of the PRC (including in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, London and Frankfurt). These include a number of “first deals” in the relevant area (including the first Dim Sum Bonds issued by PRC companies in HK, and the Panda Bonds issued by Daimler, HSBC, Republic of Korea, Province of British Columbia, IBRD, etc.).   In the area of corporate investment and acquisitions, Ms. Zhu has provided legal supports to a number of offshore listed company and investment fund’s greenfield projects and acquisitions in the PRC. Ms. Zhu also provides legal services to Chinese SOEs, banks and investment funds for their overseas investment and financing projects in Asia, Europe and Africa.

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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 is one of the very few Chinese lawyers admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court, the first Chinese lawyer becoming an arbitrator of the World Intellectual Property Organization, and the first Chinese lawyer attending IP lawsuits in the US as an expert witness of Chinese IP laws. Meph was accredited as an IP Expert by the IP Precedent Guiding and Analysis Center of the Supreme Court of China (“Center”), and chairs the Center’s Overseas Precedent Committee.   Meph was invited by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China as an IP expert to make expert appraisal on State sponsored national technology projects, and recognized by the National Overseas Intellectual Property Dispute Response and Guidance Center as an expert. He was also recognized as an IP lawyer in the Foreign-Related Lawyer's Talent Pool established by the Ministry of Justice. As an IP Expert accredited by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China, he is one of the very few lawyer-experts invited by the Supreme People's Court and the Ministry of Commerce of China to provide IP opinions on legislation. Meph is an adjunct lecturer of Peking University Law School, Renmin University of China, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Fudan University and Communication University of China. He is also a domain name expert of Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre and China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission. Meph currently serves as the Chair of the China IP Issue Committee of American Bar Association (“ABA”) and the Vice Chair of ABA's China Committee and a Standing Committee Member of the China Intellectual Property Law Association.

Michael was a key member of the Shanghai Disneyland Project acting as counsel for the Shanghai Government.  Michael represented Shiji Huatong (002602) in its acquisition of Shanda Games, a game industry tycoon in PRC market.  Michael also helped clients such as Geely Auto (00175.HK), Baosteel (600019), Masteel (600808), China Shipping (00651.HK), China Chem (600500), China Resources Power (00836.HK), China Power (00002.HK), Longfor (00960.HK), SOHO (00410.HK) and United Asia Finance in their multiple debt issuances in HK and Singapore.  In addition, Michael helped the IPO of Longfor(00960.HK), Golden Wheel (01232.HK)and Yincheng International (01902.HK) in HKSE, and ZTO (biggest PRC company IPO in the US in 2016), VIOT’s IPO in the United States’ capital market.

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Mr. Zhang has provided services to a wide range of well-known multinationals and Chinese clients, including those of Fortune 500 and SMEs in such industries as manufacturing, real estate, retail and energy. Most of his clients are leaders of their businesses in China or international markets. Mr. Zhang successfully counseled on many investment projects (such as FDI and M&A), merger control filings, and the issuing of corporate bonds. In addition, as long term outside counsel to his clients, he has successfully dealt with many legal issues in connection with the corporate restructuring and liquidation, compliance, commercial agreements and employment matters. Notably, Mr. Zhang represented GLP in its landmark agreement with China Merchants Group which allowed GLP to acquire 50% of China Merchants Group’s private equity arm China Merchants Capital.  This strategic project was awarded “Deal of the Year (Asia) 2019” by Private Equity Real Estate (“PERE”).

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.

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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.

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Mr. Lu has extensive experience on the above-mentioned areas. He has participated in the IPO of China Resources Microelectronics on the SSE STAR Market (the first red-chip company to get listed on domestic capital market, 688396), the backdoor listing of Skyworth Digital (the first red-chip company spinning off its asset to get listed on domestic capital market, 000810), and other IPOs, resumption of listing, backdoor listing and restructuring matters for numerous clients, including Nantong Metalforming (300280), Shanghai Worth Garden (300483), Jiangsu Shenlong (600401). Mr. Lu has led the Refinancing projects, M&A transactions, Restructuring and equity changes for many listed companies, including Skyworth Digital (000810), Jiangsu Jiuding New Material (002201), Sunlight (002473) and Yangguang (000608), Laobaixing Pharmacy (603883), Zhejiang Jinke CultureIndustry (300459). In addition, Mr. Lu has advised a number of companies on public transfer on NEEQ, including Mountain & Sea (833036), Baizhou Interactive Entertainment (839102), Hangzhou Mopote (839111), Suzhou Yuewu HR (839359) and Shanghai Pukka Technology (839674). Mr. Lu is now representing firms including Shanghai Hajime Advanced Material Technology, an air-defense facility company, a chemical company, a dairy company and an automation equipment company in their IPOs. Mr. Lu has also advised on a broad range of debt financing projects, including the first medium-term notes project (RMB500 million) and the first short-term financing bond project (RMB1 billion) for Kunshan Chuangye Holdings in 2014, the public issuance of corporate bonds project (no more than RMB8 billion) for Tsinghua Holdings in 2016 and the first non-public directional debt financing instruments for Yuyao High-speed Railway Station Construction Investment Co., Ltd. in 2016 (RMB1.5 billion). Mr. Lu has represented and advised private equity funds such as Primavera Capital Group, ICBC International, Mega Expo(1360.HK), Zheshang fund, Newmargin Capital, DT Capital Partners on the investments in various companies, including Hangzhou Keli, Nantong Metalforming, Xinjiang Shenhong, Shanghai Ailang, Yunnan Douyue, Guixi Baojia Mining Industry, Beijing Skyscom, Shenzhen Baomingtang and Quanzhou Xinhe Paint. Moreover, as permanent/special legal counsel for various listed companies such as China Resources Microelectronics (688396), Skyworth Digital (000810), Leysen Jewellery (603900), Shanghai KingWing General Aviation (871099), Shanghai Pukka Technology (839674), Mountain & Sea (833036), Mr. Lu: advised Skyworth Digital on the acquisition of Skyworth LCD Technology and Shenzhen Chuangwei Qunxin Security Defence Technology; advised Skyworth Digital on its stock incentive plan and its issuance of convertible corporate bonds; advised Shanghai Pukka Technology and Shanghai KingWing General Aviation on their private placements; advised Leysen Jewellery on its stock incentive plan.

In addition to providing comprehensive legal services with respect to foreign investment, mergers & acquisitions, labor, foreign exchange, international trade, dispute resolution & litigation, etc. for Japanese enterprises in China and Chinese enterprises in Japan over ten years, Ms. 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 the pharmaceutical industry, TMT, automobile and spare parts, finance, commercial operation, real estate, maritime transportation, chemicals, food, consumables. Recent Representative Matters and Cases Represented three Japanese leading shipping companies on the Chinese merger control aspect of the integration of their container business and also provided to them legal services related to general corporate matters for the integration of their business in China. Represented a number of port-operating companies on the investigation by the China National Development and Reform Commission (“NDRC”) into the abuse of dominance by port operators and provided to them compliance legal services. Assisted a foreign machinery manufacturer with its internal investigation into business fraud in China. Provided to a multinational telecommunication company legal services for its restructuring of its business in China and compliance, including equity contribution, equity transfer, increase or reduction of capital, reform to convert SOEs into stockholding corporations, listing in National Equities Exchange and Quotations, network security, user privacy protection, etc. Represented a Japanese shipping company in successfully defending the investigation by the NDRC, which was the first company applied to leniency in this investigation and was completely exempted from penalty. Provided legal services to a foreign storage battery manufacturer for its global acquisition of storage battery business from another international manufacturer, including equity acquisition, antitrust, environmental protection, labor and other legal services with respect to its daily business operation. Provided to a well-known semiconductor supplier legal services for the restructuring of a joint venture established with a Chinese SOE and exit from this joint venture, including equity transfer, dissolution and liquidation, land, environmental protection and labor. Provided to a large real estate developer legal services for its operation of office buildings in China, including Chinese merger control aspect, equity transfer, lease contract, labor. Provided to a Japanese trading house legal services for the restructuring of its automobile sales business in China, equity transfer of more than ten of its subsidiaries, dissolution and liquidation and development of new stores. Provided legal services to the largest electric appliance retailer in Japan for its store development, acquisition of real estate and business operation in China. Provided to a large shopping mall operator legal services for its development and operation of more than ten shopping malls in China. Provided the compliance-related consulting and training services on antitrust, anti-commercial bribery, and China's latest regulatory status to multinational companies across various industries such as pharmaceutical industry, automobile, TMT, food, cosmetics and maritime transportation.

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.

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On dispute resolution, Tim represents clients in litigations and arbitrations/mediation, both China seated and cross-border, in various capacities such as legal counsel advocating for client’s interest, or neutral professional assessing a case before formal proceedings, or as arbitrator, mediator or expert as appointed by the parties or nominated by the institutions.Recent Representative Cases Represented a defendant / supplier, a Chinese company in a foreign litigation, to structure a parallel litigation under China’s jurisdiction where it switches its position as plaintiff. These parallel litigations may contradict to each other nevertheless it would be in the interests of the client to certain extent Represented a defendant argued the issue about whether crypto currency would be a legitimate consideration of delivering certain on-job services and employment relationship under China’s legal regime Represented a defendant / land developer argued an over-limit inappropriate assets preservation order granted by a Chinese court pursuant to the petition by a claimant / contractor in a China seated arbitration Represented a defendant / supplier, as co-counsel with foreign counsels, to defend a case where the issue was about the validity of a letter of award and liabilities over an abandoned cross border equipment supply contract under a foreign governing law Represented a Chinese plaintiff / buyer against two foreign defendants / sellers with domiciles from different foreign jurisdictions in a Chinese court in absence of a written international supply contract Represented a claimant / plaintiff in a case started as arbitration but then leave for litigation in the Middle East; the disputes arose from construction steel structure international supply and erection contracts Represented a foreign plaintiff to claim remedies after a failure of a cross-border investment (criminal settlement, civil litigation, and domestic arbitration) Represented a plaintiff to claim remedies against a private investment fund manager, trustee bank (entrusted investment, negligence of the fund manager and trustee bank, warehouse receipt pledge) Assisted a client (an Internet of Things supplier to smart power grid) to optimize its corporate governance and alignment of interests among investors after the target company’s private equity financing Assisted foreign and Chinese partners to set up a joint venture in digital technology in China Assisted to mediate a data leak incident among a data controller, data processor and their ultimate client Arbitrated travel related disputes under the 1996 UK Arbitration Act

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Tracy Wang has served companies in the industries of banking, e-commerce, real estate, auto and components manufacture, etc. In the area of banking, she advises international banks like HSBC, Hang Seng, DBS, ICBC (Asia) in connection with their lending activities involving China. In the area of PE/VC, Tracy Wang represents Fortune Venture, Co-Bridge Capital, Captain Bank, Visino Investment in connection with their investment projects. In the area of mergers and acquisitions, Tracy Wang not only works for multinational companies such as Visteon Corporation, Treasury Holdings and UTC and its affiliates (like Pratt & Whitney, Carrier) in connection with their acquisitions in China, she also assists certain WOFE in connection with their offshore acquisitions. In the area of foreign direct investment, she represents Visteon Corporation and its affiliates in connection with their joint ventures with many Chinese auto giants like Dongfeng, Changan, etc. In the area of real estate, she advises companies like Treasury Holdings in connection with their acquisitions of local real properties.

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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. 

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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.

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.

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In the field of bank financing, Mr. Jin has been working on various types of syndicated loans, real estate development loans, operating property loans, trade financing, cross-border loans and guarantees on behalf of a wide range of banks and financial institutions active in the market including CDB, IFC, ADB, Sinosure, CCB, DBS, HSBC, UOB, SCB and WLBank, as well as various onshore/offshore borrowers including Gaw Capital, D&J Capital, CHDHK and China Universal etc. In the field of capital markets, Mr. Jin has advised over 50 debt offerings on both domestic and overseas capital markets (PRC exchanges, Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Singapore Exchange and London Exchange). Mr. Jin is particularly dedicated at structural designing of innovative products, and has advised a number of first-list products, including China's first commercial bank-led ABS product, first green asset-backed ABS product listed at Shanghai Exchange, and first apartment industry asset-backed securitization product, etc. Mr. Jin has also served as long term legal counsel for several large enterprises, rendering legal advice on daily business, major contracts, domestic and overseas investment projects, corporate governance, and litigation and arbitration etc. Participated in a number of projects promoted as the “Annual’s Best” by the industry authoritative magazine, Mr. Jin has been awarded as the Rising Star in PRC Capital Markets by Asia Legal 500.

As a partner advising foreign and Chinese clients for transactions and disputes 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.

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.

Mr. Mao represents major investment banks, private equity funds, commercial banks and Fortune 500 multi-national companies in their China related transactions. His clients include Blackstone, Warburg Pincus, Primavera Capital, CINDAT Capital, Alibaba, Schneider, UBS, Standard Chartered, e-Shang Group and ZHJ Capital, etc.  Mr. Mao has handled a variety of transactions of debt and equity investment and cross-border M&A with rich experience in domestic and cross border investments.

Ms. Zhang provided legal services to many renowned investment institutions and financial institutions in the areas including but not limited to private equity fund formation, structured financing, investment, mergers and acquisitions, and asset securitization, and she also assisted various institutions in investing and financing real estate, information technology, finance, new infrastructure and other industries. In addition, Ms. Zhang also provided legal services to many financial institutions on compliance and corporate governance matters.

Mr. Yifeng Gao is a partner of Global Law Office. His practice areas include International Trade, Commercial Contracts, Shipping, Transportation and logistics, Insurance, Real Estate Matters, FDI and Corporate Matters, Litigation and Arbitration, etc.

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In addition to the traditional manufacturing and real estate industries, Zhibin Li has also served companies in the industries of telecommunications, internet, automobile, construction industry, architectural design, entertainment, factory management, hospitality, hotel management, education, language testing etc. Mr. Li represents major investment banks, private equity funds, commercial banks and Fortune 500 multi-national companies in their China related transactions. His clients include Blackstone, Warburg Pincus, Alibaba, Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse, Deutche Bank, JPMorgan, Standard Chartered, GE, Thomson Reuters, Primavera-capital, Related, D&J Group, e-Shang Group, etc. Mr. Li has handled lots of transactions of debt and equity investment relating to China, especially in the real estate industry.

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.

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