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Mr Joseph He Jun

Work Department

Corporate Group; China Practice; Mergers & Acquisitions Practice.

Position

Partner – China; Mergers & Acquisitions Practice.

Career

His main practice areas are corporate finance, equity capital markets, foreign investment, mergers and acquisitions and property development in the People’s Republic of China (“PRC”).

Work Highlights

Significant transactions in which Joseph has been involved in include acting/advising for the following:

• Raffles Education Corporation Limited for the proposed disposal of the group’s entire stake in Langfang Development Zone Oriental University City Sino-Singapore Education Investment Co., Ltd.
• Surbana International Consultants Holdings Pte. Ltd., an international urbanisation consultant, in its acquisition of Sinosun Architects & Engineering Co. Ltd., a PRC-based multi-disciplinary local design institute.
• Hebei Oriental Zhuyun Property Development Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Raffles Education Corporation Limited, in the divestment of four land parcels in the Langfang Development Zone, Hebei Province, PRC, to Langfang Fenghe International Golf Club Co., Ltd. for a total consideration of RMB1.047 billion.
• Singapore-Sichuan Investment Holdings Pte. Ltd. in its development of Singapore-Sichuan Hi-Tech Innovation Park located in the Chengdu Hi-Tech Zone’s south park within the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Zone in the PRC with a total estimated investment of RMB20 billion.
• Keppel Telecommunications & Transport Ltd. in a joint venture agreement with the Jilin City government to jointly develop and operate the Sino-Singapore Jilin Food Zone International Logistics Park to serve the Sino-Singapore Jilin Food Zone.
• Optima Investment & Development Pte. Ltd. to develop a residential project in the Sino-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City located in Guangzhou, PRC (a landmark project with support from the Guangdong and Singapore governments).

Awards & Accolades 

Joseph is recommended as a foreign expert based abroad in Singapore with expertise in the PRC by Chambers Global – The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business since 2012, with clients giving feedback that “he is excellent in Singapore and China”.

He has been listed as a leading lawyer in Singapore by Expert Guides – Guide to the World’s Leading Practitioners: China, in the area of corporate/M&A. He was also recommended by Chambers Asia Pacific – Asia Pacific’s Leading Lawyers for Business and The Legal 500: Asia Pacific – The Client’s Guide to the Asia Pacific Legal Profession for real estate work in the PRC.

Joseph is recognised by Best Lawyers as a leading lawyer in Singapore in the areas of corporate law and capital markets, and in the PRC by China Law & Practice’s Annual Review 2015 in the areas of capital markets and corporate/M&A. Joseph is also recommended as a leading corporate/M&A lawyer in the PRC by Asialaw Leading Lawyers – The Guide to Asia-Pacific’s Leading Lawyers and Asialaw Profiles – The Guide to Asia-Pacific’s Leading Domestic Law Firms since 2014. A client praised him for being “very responsive and efficient, he answers directly to the point and provides specific and full responses to the issues raised”.

Publications

• China Law & Practice – China Outbound Investment Guide, Singapore Chapter – 2016 and 2017 editions.

 

Languages

English, Mandarin.

Memberships

Member, Business China; Member, The Law Society of Singapore’s Inquiry Panel; Advisory Committee, China-Ready Programme.

Education

Admitted, 1994, PRC; Yunnan University (B.A.); China University of Politics and Law (LL.M.); McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific (LL.M.).