East Asia - China

Merits & Tree Law Offices

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Representing high-level investment funds, start-ups and strategic investors, Merits & Tree Law Offices provides private equity and venture capital counsel across a broad range of key economic sectors, from TMT and life sciences to new energy and consumer goods and retail. The practice is jointly led from Beijing by Qinghong Cai and Youyuan Jin, with the former bringing vast experience of advising funds and their managers in setting up and raising funds, fund disputes, registration of fund managers and filing of fund products.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘The team can provide one-stop legal services related to private equity funds, including but not limited to the establishment and filing of private equity funds. In the process of providing legal services for our company, I feel that the team has excellent legal skills and has a deep understanding of the industry in which our company is located.’

  • ‘Any request could be responded in the shortest time. In addition, when faced with many difficult problems, they were able to ensure legal compliance. Flexible processing to speed up the delivery of the deal.’

  • ‘High professional level, in addition to legal knowledge and skills, also has a deep understanding of the industry.’

  • ‘Very professional, and its legal professional ability can better match our business needs as a client.’

  • ‘The team covers a wide range of businesses. It has been deeply involved in private equity and venture capital for many years. It can combine various project stages with reasonable team members to provide clients with legal services from investment to management, IPO, and exit.’

  • ‘The lawyers are serious and responsible in their work, with strong learning ability and solid professional foundation. They are able to balance the workload well, understand clients' appeals, quickly respond to clients' problems, and have good business thinking. They are able to study and judge legal risks from multiple perspectives, and have good communication skills and resource integration skills.’

  • ‘The firm's investment and financing merger and acquisition department has rich experience and solid professional skills in the fields of chip semiconductor, medical health, consumption, aerospace, intelligent manufacturing, TMT and other industries. All kinds of enterprises in the IPO stage provide efficient and high-quality services.’

Key clients

  • Sequoia Capital China
  • Huahui Health (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
  • Genfleet Pharmaceutical(Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
  • IDG Capital IDG
  • Sinovation Ventures
  • V Fund Capital
  • Zhencheng Fund
  • XVC
  • Asia Green Fund
  • Ponghu Group Holdings Limited
  • Loyal Valley Capital
  • Nanshan Capital
  • Newport Beach (Xiamen) Management Consulting Partnership (Limited partnership)
  • Telstra Pacific Business Solutions
  • Beijing Ace Playing Technology Co. Ltd.
  • ClinsChain (Shanghai) Clinical Services Co., Ltd.
  • AutoFlightX Inc.
  • Lean Cloud|Lean Cloud
  • China Youzan Limited
  • Beijing Ke Yi Hong Yuan photoelectric technology Co., Ltd.
  • D5 Inc. “D5”
  • GrepTime Inc. GrepTime
  • Hunan Hua Chuang Technology Development Co., Ltd.
  • Insight Lifetech Co., Ltd.
  • Nebula Bay (S) PTE. Ltd
  • Sequoia Capital
  • Xiaomi
  • Alibaba Group
  • ByteDance
  • Gaorong Capital
  • ZhenFund
  • Loyal Valley Capital
  • Fosun Capital
  • Xiamen Lianhe Equity Investment Fund Management Co., Ltd (Lanhor Capital)
  • Nuo Capital
  • Optics Valley Industrial Investment
  • Plum Ventures Capital
  • Zhencheng Fund
  • Huagai Capital
  • Bojiang Capital
  • Harvest Investments
  • Nanshan Capital
  • MiraclePlus
  • Genfleet Therapeutics (Shanghai) Inc.
  • Hubei Science and Technology Investment Group Co.
  • SIBIONICS CO., LTD.(“SIBIONICS”)
  • Shanghai Rennuo Medical Management Group Co., Ltd.
  • INFINITE BRAIN TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
  • XtalPi Investment Inc.
  • Beijing PhaBuilder Biotechnology Co., Ltd.
  • Tibet Aim Pharm. INC.
  • Junhai Captial
  • DeepMirror
  • Sironax
  • Nanshan Capital
  • Newport Beach (Xiamen) Management Consulting Partnership (Limited partnership)
  • Telstra Pacific Business Solutions
  • Beijing Ace Playing Technology Co. Ltd.
  • ClinsChain (Shanghai) Clinical Services Co., Ltd.
  • Tibet Aim Pharm. INC.

Work highlights

  • Advised Sequoia Capital China on its Series C, D, D1, D2 and D+ investments in Dongguan Hairou Intelligent Technology Ltd.
  • Advised V Fund Capital on its Series C investments in Honji Cyclone.
  • Advised XVC on its Series C and Series D investment in YOOZ.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Youyuan Jin, Qinghong Cai

Other key lawyers

Xiaoxing Guo, Jenny Li, Songsong Gao