We advise clients across the full lifecycle of investment and financing transactions—from deal structuring and regulatory review to contract negotiation and implementation. Our clients include multinational corporations, listed companies, financial institutions, industrial investors, state-owned enterprises, family offices, and high-growth companies.
Financing Structures and Transaction Design
We help clients tailor financing structures that align with risk appetite, capital needs, and regulatory requirements. Our services include:
Multi-layered capital design: Structuring equity, debt, convertible instruments, preferred shares, and mezzanine financing.
Complex capital arrangements: Designing governance and investment frameworks for multi-round and parallel financings involving diverse investor types.
Deal pathways and structuring: Recommending viable investment paths (e.g., direct equity, fund structures) based on regulatory policy, market practice, and client positioning.
Investor Protection and Transaction Support
We ensure investor rights are protected and deals are implemented with balanced legal and commercial terms.
Protective mechanisms: Drafting and reviewing redemption rights, performance-linked clauses, liquidation preferences, board seat allocation, and information rights.
Legal documentation: Preparing and reviewing key instruments including investment agreements, shareholders’ agreements, partnership contracts, and capital increase documents.
Negotiation support: Participating in negotiations to align interests, resolve impasses, and control legal exposure.
Cross-border Investment and Financing
We assist clients in navigating complex cross-border structures and regulatory filings, including:
Structuring and implementation: Designing and setting up red-chip, VIE, QFLP, QDIE, ODI and other outbound/inbound investment frameworks with attention to compliance and tax efficiency.
Regulatory compliance: Advising on foreign investment approval, M&A review, filing and forex registration.
Cross-border financing: Supporting syndicated loans, offshore deal structuring, and legal risk management in outbound M&A.
Sector-Specific Investment Services
We deliver tailored legal solutions across key industries:
Digital tech and AI: Advising on valuation, shareholder structuring, data compliance, and core IP ownership.
Healthcare and biotech: Addressing regulatory approvals, licensing collaborations, and clinical-stage investments.
Family enterprises and high-net-worth clients: Providing structured, forward-looking investment solutions for private capital.
SOEs and government platforms: Assisting SOEs and state-owned investment entities in designing market-based investment structures, implementing control and governance mechanisms for mixed-ownership reform, and establishing or improving investment authorization systems, internal control frameworks, and orderly exit mechanisms.
Emerging industries and ESG financing: Supporting green finance, carbon asset trading, and SDG-linked investment instruments; advising innovative enterprises through Series A to Pre-IPO stages.
