Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP's private equity clients notably benefit from the firm’s experience in strategic and financial sponsor-led M&A, including related antitrust, capital markets and regulatory issues. The team routinely acts for international private equity houses on strategic and pre-IPO investments. It also assists Chinese companies with going-private transactions that frequently involve private equity houses. Working across the Shanghai and Hong Kong offices, Haiping Li's track record encompasses private equity firms’ pre-IPO investments; while Beijing office leader Peter Huang, Yuting Wu in Shanghai, and Beijing’s Kai Sun and Yilin Xu all handle high-profile private equity transactions. Flora Lu also advises on cross-border and domestic private equity deals from Shanghai.
Key clients
- NIO
- Gravitas Education
Work highlights
- Advised NIO on its approximately $3bn investment by CYVN Holdings.
- Advised the special committee of the board of directors of Gravitas Education Holdings on its merger with eLMTree.