Linklaters

Linklaters' China practice covers the full life cycle of private equity matters, including acquisition financing, public M&A, restructurings, capital markets, antitrust, and foreign investment. The team also fields sector experts in real estate, energy, infrastructure, technology, and life sciences; and has notable experience in facilitating Middle Eastern private equity investments in China. In Hong Kong, Betty Yap has longstanding experience in advising private equity funds and other financial sponsors in buyout, growth capital and co-investment transactions, structured investments and exits, and cross-border M&A, divestments and joint ventures; and Xiaoxi Lin focuses on control buyouts, growth capital investments and public takeovers. Working across Shanghai and Hong Kong, John Xu handles cross-border M&A transactions into and out of China.