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China: Corporate and M&A
Corporate and M&A: foreign firms
Corporate and M&A: foreign firms - ranked: tier 3
Shearman & Sterling LLP
Shearman & Sterling LLP is highly rated for going-private transactions for US-listed Chinese companies. Examples include the team's advice to the board of directors of NYSE-listed Zhaopin on its sale to SEEK International Investments Pty, Zhaopin’s controlling shareholder, and Hillhouse Capital Group and Fountain Vest Partners. Lee Edwards is a senior M&A partner; Xiaogang (Sean) Wang regularly acts in high-profile M&A work in the energy sector; Li Chen divides her time between Hong Kong and Beijing. Hong Kong's Stephanie Tang and Paul Strecker are also highly regarded.
Leading individuals
Lee Edwards - Shearman & Sterling LLP
China: Dispute resolution
Dispute resolution: foreign firms
Dispute resolution: foreign firms - ranked: tier 5
Shearman & Sterling LLP
Shearman & Sterling LLP has a significant sector focus on energy, construction, infrastructure and telecoms, as well as disputes arising from M&A deals or other forms of business combinations. Asia international  arbitration head Nils Eliasson divides his time between the Hong Kong and Beijing offices.
China: Investment funds
Investment funds: foreign firms
Investment funds: foreign firms - ranked: tier 2
Shearman & Sterling LLP
'With expert knowledge of the China market and its link to US dollar investment funds', Shearman & Sterling LLP's 'team is very timely and diligent; it is also very knowledgeable about the region and able to anticipate needs and problems ahead of schedule'. The practice includes advising private equity, hedge and real estate funds as well as investment management firms on regulatory matters, new fund product designs and offerings of interests in private funds. Greater China head Lorna Xin Chen also leads the Asia asset management and investments funds practice and 'can always be relied on to get the job done'.
China: Private equity/venture capital
Private equity/venture capital: foreign firms
Private equity/venture capital: foreign firms - ranked: tier 3
Shearman & Sterling LLP
Shearman & Sterling LLP's recent highlights include advising Primavera Capital Group on its investment in Cainiao Smart Logistics Network, the logistics arm of Alibaba Group. Within the team, Lee Edwards is particularly experienced in advising Chinese and international corporations on going-private deals, tender offers, stock and asset purchase transactions, and venture capital and private equity transactions.
Leading individuals
Lee Edwards - Shearman & Sterling LLP
China: Projects and energy
Projects and energy: foreign firms
Projects and energy: foreign firms - ranked: tier 3
Shearman & Sterling LLP
Shearman & Sterling LLP has strong relationships with a number of SOEs and domestic lenders and has thus been involved in high-priority projects, including One Belt One Road projects, throughout Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America. On the sponsor side, Sean Wang is advising Shanghai Electric Power Generation Group on the development of a $2bn mine mouth power project along the China Pakistan Economic Corridor. On the bank side, Wang is acting for a consortium of lenders including China Development Bank in relation to the $2bn financing of Vinh Tan 3 project in Vietnam. Claude Jiang, who is an active associate in the Shanghai office, acted alongside the firm's Singapore-based team in the financing of a key project in China's One Belt One Road initiative.
China: Regulatory/compliance
Regulatory/compliance: foreign firms
Regulatory/compliance: foreign firms - ranked: tier 3
Shearman & Sterling LLP
Shearman & Sterling LLP has a strong reputation for handling corporate investigations, anti-corruption and FCPA enforcement issues throughout Greater China, irrespective of industry sector. Working across the firm's Shanghai and New York offices, Brian Burke leads the Asia litigation and investigations practice and has acted for clients such as GlaxoSmithKlein in some of the region's most significant anti-corruption investigations. Burke's China-focused investigations group has also handled various multijurisdictional anti-corruption investigations for clients including Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy, RELX Group and Medtronic. In addition to it's large-scale investigations mandates, the team is retained by clients such as the Valeo Group to advise on ongoing anti-corruption compliance concerns.
Further information on Shearman & Sterling LLP
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United Arab Emirates
Offices in Abu Dhabi and Dubai
- Banking and finance
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Construction
- Dispute resolution : Arbitration and international litigation
- Energy and infrastructure
Angola
Belgium
Offices in Brussels
China
Offices in Beijing and Shanghai
- Corporate and M&A : Corporate and M&A: foreign firms
- Dispute resolution : Dispute resolution: foreign firms
- Investment funds : Investment funds: foreign firms
- Private equity/venture capital : Private equity/venture capital: foreign firms
- Projects and energy : Projects and energy: foreign firms
- Regulatory/compliance : Regulatory/compliance: foreign firms
Germany
Offices in Frankfurt
- Banking and finance : Lending and borrowing
- Corporate and M&A : M&A: mid-sized international deals (€100m-€500m)
- Restructuring and insolvency : Restructuring
Algeria
France
Offices in Paris
- Banking and finance : Transactional work
- Capital markets : Equity
- Dispute resolution : International arbitration
- Insolvency
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Tax
Hong Kong
Offices in Hong Kong
- Capital markets : Capital markets (debt)
- Capital markets : Capital markets (equity)
- Corporate (including M&A)
- Dispute resolution : Dispute resolution: international arbitration
- Investment funds
- Private equity
- Regulatory: anti-corruption and compliance
Indonesia
Latin America: International firms
India
Italy
Japan
Offices in Tokyo
- Antitrust and competition : Antitrust and competition – International firms and joint ventures
- Banking and finance : Banking and finance – International firms and joint ventures
- Capital markets : Capital markets – International firms and joint ventures
- Corporate and M&A : Corporate and M&A – International firms and joint ventures
- Projects and energy : Projects and energy – International firms and joint ventures
London
Offices in London
- Corporate and commercial : Corporate tax
- Corporate and commercial : Equity capital markets
- Corporate and commercial : EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial : Financial services
- Corporate and commercial : M&A: upper mid-market and premium deals, ÂŁ250m+
- Corporate and commercial : Private equity: transactions
- Dispute resolution : Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Dispute resolution : Commercial litigation
- Dispute resolution : International arbitration
- Finance : Acquisition finance
- Finance : Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Finance : Commodities: derivatives
- Finance : Corporate restructuring and insolvency
- Finance : Debt capital markets
- Finance : Derivatives and structured products
- Finance : Emerging markets
- Finance : High yield
- Finance : Islamic finance
- Human resources : Employee share schemes
- Insurance : Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- Investment fund formation and management : Hedge funds
- Projects, energy and natural resources : Mining and minerals
- Projects, energy and natural resources : Oil and gas
- Projects, energy and natural resources : Power (including electricity and renewables)
Malaysia
Mozambique
Philippines
Qatar
Asia Pacific: Regional International Arbitration
Singapore
Offices in Singapore
- Capital markets : Capital markets – Foreign firms
- Corporate and M&A : Corporate and M&A – Foreign firms
- Energy : Energy – Foreign firms
- International arbitration
- Projects and energy : Projects and energy – Foreign firms
South Korea
Saudi Arabia
Offices in Riyadh, Al-Khobar, and Jeddah
United States
Offices in Washington DC, New York, San Francisco, Menlo Park, and Austin
- Antitrust : Cartel
- Antitrust : Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Antitrust : Merger control
- Dispute resolution : Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Dispute resolution : Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution : General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution : International arbitration
- Dispute resolution : International litigation
- Dispute resolution : M&A litigation: defense
- Dispute resolution : Securities litigation: defense
- Finance : Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance : Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance : Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance : Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance : Commercial lending
- Finance : Financial services regulation
- Finance : Project finance
- Finance : Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Industry focus : Energy: renewable/alternative
- Industry focus : Energy transactions: conventional power
- Industry focus : Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Investment fund formation and management : Alternative/hedge funds
- Investment fund formation and management : Mutual/registered/ exchange-traded funds
- Investment fund formation and management : Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Labor and employment : Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- M&A/corporate and commercial : M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Real estate
- Tax : Financial products
- Tax : International tax
- Tax : US taxes: contentious
- Tax : US taxes: non-contentious