East Asia - China

Guantao Law Firm

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Guantao Law Firm’s private equity team handles a steady stream of work concerning government-guided funds, major offshore funds, start-up financing and cross-border investment projects. With extensive experience in the new energy, AI, healthcare and high-end manufacturing sectors, Beijing-based practice head Yang Wang provides advice across the entire fund life-cycle from formation and financing to liquidation and exit.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘This is a highly-professional team. Lawyers are very efficient, and we can communicate with them easily. The team has a global thinking mindset. In order to solve our legal problems, they can allocate resources within the law firm, coordinate lawyers with rich experience in related fields, and comprehensively use different ways to form progressive and diverse solutions.’

  • ‘Guantao law firm broke the traditional mode of single partner as the core and limited cooperation with other partners to deliver the legal services to their clients, which is a widely adopted pattern in China's legal areas at present, and adopted the corporate operation mode of unified arrangement and unified management of the whole business by the partner management committee.’
  • ‘The firm is able to deploy its resources according to the specific circumstances of each project and match experienced lawyers in various fields, which ensures that they can provide more reasonable and more economical problem solving solutions and implementation methods, saving our cost and time.’
  • ‘With their solid professional skills and rich experience accumulated over the years, they have provided us with comprehensive professional legal services and comprehensive solutions in the field of government guided funds/equity investment funds. They are good at communicating with clients, always finding potential problems, considering problems from the perspective of clients and proposing practical solutions.’

Key clients

  • China Insurance Investment (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
  • General Technology High End Equipment Industry Equity Investment (Tongxiang) Partnership(L.P.)
  • Henan Modern Service Industry Fund Management Co., Ltd.
  • Guizhou Fengchuang Technology Co., Ltd.
  • SDIC Unity Capital Co., Ltd.
  • CITIC (Shenzhen) Innovation Equity Investment Management Co., Ltd.
  • Shenzhen eVat Master Technology Co., Ltd.
  • CC.AI
  • Beijing Find Technology Co., Ltd.
  • AirCode Inc.

Work highlights

  • Assisted China Insurance Investment with the raising of a new private fund with a target at up to ¥10bn, focused on the construction of rail transit in Tianjin.
  • Assisting General Technology High End Equipment Industry Equity Investment (Tongxiang) Partnership (L.P.) with its acquisition of Kunlun Core (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. spun off from Baidu.
  • Advising Henan Modern Service Fund Management Co., Ltd. on establishing a special fund to invest in the mixed-reform project of Luoyang LYC Bearing Co.,LTD.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Yang Wang