JunHe

Capital Market / Corporate and M&A / Private Equity/Venture Capital

Partner

Prior to joining JunHe in 2002, Mr. Yu practiced at another leading PRC law firm from 1999 to 2002. Between 2005 and 2006, Mr. Yu worked as a secondee at Slaughter and May, in Hong Kong and her London headquarters.

Since joining JunHe, Mr. Yu has been significantly involved in a number of securities and M&A transactions. For example, in 2014, Mr. Yu assisted ICBC with the issuance of RMB34.55 billion offshore preference shares to be sold in the US to qualified institutional buyers, and also assisted BofCom with the issuance of $1.2bn and €500m tier 2 capital bonds. In 2016, Mr. Yu represented Vanke to prevent a hostile takeover, which garnered huge market interest, and represented Goldman Sachs in SF Express’s backdoor listing and represented UBS Securities in YT Express’s backdoor listing. Mr. Yu is also regarded as an expert in cross-border bond issuances. Since 2011, Mr. Yu was involved in a number of offshore bond deals issued by PRC corporates and financial institutions, including Canada National Bank’s panda bond, New Development Bank’s panda bond, Egypt’s panda bond and Air Liquide’s panda bond, etc.

Mr. Yu was awarded as the “Dealmaker of The Year” by the “Asian Legal Business Award” in 2015 and the “China Law & Practice Award” in 2016 respectively.

Mr. Yu was listed as “The Leading PRC Lawyer” by Chambers, Legal 500, Asialaw Profile and IFLR respectively in consecutive years.

Mandarin and English

Member of the All-China Lawyers Association and the Beijing Lawyers Association.

Expert Member of the Registration Meeting of NAFMII

Legal Expert of the Legal Committee of NAFMII

Part-time Professor of China University of Political Science and Law

Graduate Tutor of Law School of Renmin University of China

LL.M., Indiana University School of Law, 2005

LL.M., Wuhan University School of Law, 2004

LL.B., Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, 1998