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Ying Li
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Ying Li is a Partner in the Corporate Department, resident in our Hong Kong, Beijing and New York offices. Having been based in China and Hong Kong for over 18 years at leading international law firms, Ying’s practice focuses on China related cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity, overseas public and private financing and outbound investments of PRC enterprises. He covers a wide variety of industries, such as banking and finance, IT, telecommunications, media, entertainment, sports, hospitality, infrastructure, natural resources, energy and clean technology.

Ying regularly counsels multinational companies and financial institutions on entering into the China market, structures complex and innovative investments and acquisitions in China involving joint ventures, wholly foreign-owned enterprises, holding companies, partnerships, licensing and other creative vehicles, and advises them on regulatory, compliance, foreign exchange, financial, labor and employment issues. Additionally, Ying frequently advises international GPs and LPs on setting up PRC focused investment funds (including PRC-domiciled RMB funds) and their fund investments in China. He also represents PRC based founders and emerging companies in their incorporation, onshore and offshore restructuring, and cross-border financing through private equity. His recent experience includes representing:

NBA in its negotiations to set up a joint venture with the Shanghai Oriental Pearl Group to manage the Shanghai World Expo Performing Arts Center, which is an 18,000 seat state-of-the-art venue being built as part of the Shanghai World Expo
Votorantim Novos Negócios Ltda., the private equity arm of the Brazilian financial and industrial conglomerate Grupo Votorantim, in its $390 million sale of an iron ore mining, pipeline and port project in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil to Honbridge Holdings Limited, a Hong Kong listed company
A top-tier international financial services group in its formation of a QFLP RMB fund with a size of multi-billion US dollars in China, one of the first of this type under the QFLP pilot program
A group of international companies in disposing of their interests in a Shanghai-based property development company with landmark shopping malls, office buildings, condominiums and service apartments in Shanghai valued at approximately $750 million, one of the largest private equity real estate deals in Shanghai
Fairmont, Four Seasons, Jumeirah, Starwood Hotels and other first-tier international hotel groups in connection with their joint ventures, hotel management agreements and regulatory issues in China, including the landmark Peace Hotel project in Shanghai
NeoPhotonics Corporation on all aspects of labor-related issues for its China subsidiaries in Shenzhen

Formerly a law professor at a leading law school in Beijing and a Ford Foundation visiting scholar at Harvard Law School, Ying is a frequent speaker on legal and regulatory developments related to mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and private equity (including RMB funds) in China and is quoted extensively by the Chinese press.

Other Key Representations:

General Corporate

GreatPoint Energy, Inc., a leading US-based coal-gasification technology developer, in setting up a joint venture with an affiliate of Datang Power to jointly develop and commercialize a several-hundred-million-dollar coal gasification project in China
A U.S-based solar energy equipment producer in setting up a Chinese-foreign joint venture with a major PRC state-owned energy corporation with a total investment of $60 million
A NASDAQ-listed company in a significant investment in satellite broadcasting and telecommunications in China
A US-based sport ticketing service provider to set up a Chinese-foreign joint venture with a PRC National Sport Bureau-affiliated company in Beijing to conduct online and traditional ticketing business in China
A California-based medical device company in its investment and business structure, IP protection and regulatory issues in China

Mergers & Acquisitions

Arsenal Capital, a US-based private equity firm, in acquiring the worldwide fine chemical business of Ferro (including a substantial business in Suzhou, China) valued at $80 million
H&Q, a leading private equity firm, in connection with a sale to Starbucks of its controlling interest in an operator of over 60 Starbucks retail stores in Beijing and Tianjin
Huaxia Bank, a PRC-listed commercial bank, in introducing Deutsche Bank as the strategic investor by way of private bidding
A Canadian-based private equity firm in acquiring a PRC real estate development company holding a shopping centre development project in Shanghai valued at approximately $540 million

Private Investment Funds

An Asian bank in setting up one of the first groups of foreign RMB investment funds focusing on investments in high-tech industries in China (FIVCIE)
A large U.S. based investment management firm in its formation of an Asia focused fund and setting up management companies in Hong Kong and China
A number of top-tier international financial services groups in providing offshore investment management and advisory services to National Social Security Fund (NSSF)
A PRC-based IT group in setting up an offshore fund in Cayman Islands focusing on equity investments in and buyouts of operating companies in the Greater China region

Private and Public Financing

China Finance Online, a PRC-based, NASDAQ-listed financial service company, in its U.S. and Hong Kong corporate, regulatory and compliance matters
Peak International, a Hong Kong-based, U.S.-listed manufacturer of packaging products for electronic components, in its corporate, regulatory and compliance matters
Net Power Technology, a PRC-based start-up company dedicated to developing massive electricity storage systems for renewable energy such as solar energy and wind power, in its restructuring and financing
A PRC-based plastic manufacturer in going public in the U.S. by way of reverse takeover
Shanghai-based 2DuNet.com, an Internet resource for buying and selling second-hand cars in China, in its incorporation, offshore restructuring, Series A and Series B financing by Qiming Venture Partners and IDG Ventures

Labor & Employment

Houlihan Lokey, Inc., a U.S.-based global investment bank, on all aspects of labor issues for its PRC subsidiary in Beijing
Creative Artists Agency, one of Hollywood’s top talent agencies, on all aspects of labor issues for its PRC subsidiary in Beijing
SL Power Electronics Corporation, a U.S.-based supplier of high-reliability power conversion products, on all aspects of labor issues for its PRC subsidiaries in Xianghe and Shanghai
Church & Dwight Co. Inc., a U.S.-based consumer packaged goods company, on relevant labor issues for its PRC subsidiary
Conservation International, a U.S.-based non-government organization, on relevant labor issues for its PRC office

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