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Finance

Mr. Zhao has abundant experience in providing financing-related legal services for financial institutions as well as finance departments of enterprises. He has advised a member of KfW Banking Group (DEG) on its lending business in China for years, advised on new products development of BTMU, a Japanese bank, and has acted as the legal signatory for all insurance products of a Sino-foreign insurance company for years, for the environment projects financed by the World Bank loans, and for the conversion of RMB loans into USD loans for an international cargo joint venture.

Foreign Direct Investment

Mr. Zhao is engaged in a number of FDI projects. His practice covers: assisting overseas investors to establish representative offices, equity joint ventures, contractual joint ventures and wholly foreign owned enterprises in China, as well as providing advice and solutions from a legal prospective with regard to land, premises construction, equipment purchase, technology import, tax, foreign exchange, product export, domestic distribution of products, intellectual property protection, labour issues, and M&A during the establishment and running of enterprises.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Mr. Zhao has been engaged in a number of domestic and cross-border M&A deals. He has accumulated extensive experience in representing sellers or buyers in those deals and hence knows the needs, mentality and key legal points of the M&A deals from both sides. In recent years, he successfully represented a number of China listed companies in their acquisition of foreign companies.

-    represented Fosun Pharma in its acquisition of an Indian pharmaceutical company (Gland Pharma Limited)
-    represented a China listed company, Ningbo Tech-Bank, in its acquisition of 100% China business of a U.S. company, Agfeed
-    represented Ningbo Tech-Bank Company in its acquisition of 40% shares of a French company, Choice Genetics
-    represented a China listed company, Zhejiang DunAn Environmental in its acquisition of a US company and a European company
-    advised DEG, a subsidiary of KfW, on its investment in Dalian Shide
-    advised a leading China cleaning company on its sale of 100% shares to a well-known European facility service company
-    advised ISS China on its acquisition of a domestic catering company and a security company
-    advised a China safety product company on its sale of 100% shares to a famous U.S. company
-    advised a China major equipment manufacturing company on its acquisition by a French company
-    advised a well-known European decorative products company on its acquisition of a Chinese competitor
-    advised a well-known German heating production company on its acquisition of a Chinese competitor 
-    advised a well-known German electricity company on its business restructuring 
 

•    LL.B, Fudan University Law Department
•    LL.M, Fudan Law School
•    EMBA, China Europe International Business School
 

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