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Yixing（Sophie）Ma
Ma Yixing Senior Partner
Dispute Resolution
Corporate and M&A
Compliance and Risk Management
Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Insolvency
Detailed introduction
Sophie is an excellent lawyer specializing in dispute resolution of investment and financing and in corporate and mergers and acquisitions. Sophie has over 20 years working experience of providing legal services for various enterprises in corporate and mergers and acquisitions, investment and financing, and dispute resolution. Sophie specializes in various kinds of dispute resolution of investment and financing including disputes among the shareholders, both sides set, compensation recovery, financial loan, stock transferring and securing, especially those major and complicated cases requiring multiple diversities to jointly acquire the best results. Simultaneously, Sophie has long-term corporation experience working with overseas facilities and large-scale state-owned enterprises. Sophie has an international perspective of handling issues and is innovative of an application of legal instruments of different jurisdictions to secure an advantageous status for domestic clients in litigations. Sophie has a good reputation and is highly appreciated among her clients.
(1) Providing legal services for Shanghai Administration for Market Regulation as an external legal advisor, including proposing opinions and suggestions on system construction for the study of major issues concerning the construction of the rule of law in market supervision, and proposing legal argumentation and review opinions for the study of major administrative decisions.
(2) As a lawyer of China CITIC Financial Asset Management Co., Ltd, providing clients with all-round legal services in pre-investment project due diligence, project landing, handling of all kinds of legal matters during the investment, and settlement of all kinds of post-investment disputes.
(3) As the legal advisor of SPH Health Commerce Co., Ltd,, participating in a number of major investment projects of the company including pharmaceutical data enterprises, circulation enterprises, and DTP pharmacy enterprises, etc.
(4) Providing legal services for Dingli Capital, Bayland Capital, Xiamen ITG Group Corp., Ltd., Ronseal Capital and other investment institutions in a number of equity investment and venture capital projects in the fields of biomedicine (including various types of pharmaceutical data enterprises, pharmaceutical system development enterprises, pharmaceutical marketing enterprises), clean energy, vehicles and parts, and ocean engineering, etc.
(5) As a lawyer of Shanghai Investment & Asset Management Co., Ltd., providing due diligence investigation and legal opinion on trading of state-owned property rights, compliance review, transaction text and other legal services. providing dispute resolution solutions in case of disputes over equity, debts and management rights in post-investment projects.
(6) As a lawyer of China Cinda Asset Management Co., Ltd., providing project legal services including project due diligence, programme design and document drafting.
(7) As the perennial legal advisor of Shanghai Shengtai Investment Management Co., Ltd founded by Shanghai Charity Foundation, handling a number of difficult and complex cases and matters, and obtaining high recognition from the client.
(8) As a lawyer of Hwabao Trust, Huaao Trust, Lujiazui International Trust Corporation Co., Ltd.and Wanxiang Trust, providing special legal services for clients in setting up single-fund trusts, pooled-fund trusts and property rights trusts with active management/transaction management.
(9) As a lawyer of Shanghai Re Guarantee Co., Ltd. ,assisting in dealing with a number of major difficult and complex recovery cases.
(10) Handling difficult disputes with third parties as a project lawyer of SHCIF.
(11) Representing the founders and the actual controllers of a number of companies in dealing with equity repurchase, guarantee liability, controlling rights disputes, private lending disputes, etc., especially involving the disposal and realisation of collaterals, which helped the clients to obtain huge economic benefits.
(12) Providing legal services for many famous internet finance companies and banks in the areas of non-performing assets disposal, judicial confirmation, enforcement and other litigations; legal researches on legal compliance of products; analysis of criminal liability and representation in Crime of illegally taking in deposits from the general public and fraud cases; handling of collective redemption events and related litigation, etc.
(13) Providing legal services for other start-up enterprises in compliance operation, equity structure, financing and other legal affairs, and escorting the development of enterprises. Mainly focus on new energy and pharmaceutical fields.
Sophie graduated from East China University of Political Science andLaw with a Master's degree in Law. After that, she went to the IllinoisInstitute of Technology, Chicago-Kent College of Law, and received a Master'sdegree in law.
Sophie worked as a lawyer and became a partner in Shanghai HaoyingLaw Firm, and then worked as a lawyer and senior partner in AllBright LawOffices. For now, she joins Dentons Shanghai Office as a lawyer and seniorpartner.
Lawyer Ma Yixing currently serves as an external legal advisor for the Shanghai Municipal Market Supervision Administration; he is also a specially invited mediator at the Pudong New Area Professional People's Mediation Center.
Sophie recently serves as the external legal advisor of ShanghaiAdministration for Market Regulation and the special mediator of Pudong NewArea Professional People's mediation center.
- [Participating in the compilation of The Pathway for Domestic and Overseas Listing on Health Care Enterprises, Law Press·China, June 2023]
- [Key Elements of Due Diligence under the Perspective of New Medicinal Product Administration Law, Official Website of ALLBRIGHT Law Offices, July 2021]
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