Mr Cao Yu > Haiwen & Partners > Beijing, China > Lawyer Profile
Haiwen & Partners Offices
20/F FORTUNE FINANCIAL CENTER
5 DONG SAN HUAN CENTRAL ROAD
CHAOYANG DISTRICT
100020
China
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Mr Cao Yu
Work Department
Private Equity, Intellectual Property, Entertainment & Media
Position
Partner
Career
Mr. Cao is a partner resident at the firm’s Beijing office. Mr. Cao’s practice focuses on entertainment and media industry matters. He is extensively involved in transactions including development of film and television projects, Sino-foreign co-productions, production financing (including debt financing and slate financing matters), establishment of production and financing vehicles, large theme park projects, music industry contracts, personal management, as well as advertising and new media. Mr. Cao is also richly experienced in general corporate and finance transactions, such as IPO and M&A matters, which helps him structure complicated transactions in the entertainment and media industries.
Mr. Cao first joined Haiwen in 1996. Mr. Cao worked at a top tier U.S.-headquartered law firm at its Century City office from 2001 to 2002 and as an in-house counsel at Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. from 2005 to 2006. From 2008 to 2011, Mr. Cao was a senior counsel at the Beijing office of another top tier U.S.-headquartered law firm. From 2011 to 2014, Mr. Cao served in the capacity of Managing Director of the Office of the Board of Directors and Executive Assistant to the President at China Investment Corporation (CIC), China’s sovereign wealth fund. Mr. Cao returned to Haiwen in the beginning of January 2015.
Languages
Mr. Cao is a native speaker of Mandarin. He is proficient in English and fluent in Japanese.
Education
Mr. Cao received his LLB and LLM from the University of International Business and Economics in 1994 and 1997, respectively. He received his LLM and JD from Columbia University School of Law in 2001 and 2005, respectively. Mr. Cao also studied at the Law School of Waseda University in Tokyo as an exchange student from Columbia Law School in 2003.
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Haiwen & Partners‘ IP practice is experienced in a range of IP work, including patents, trade marks, copyright (including software), and trade and domain names. The team also comprises experts in trade secrets, integrated circuit layout designs, and IP-related antitrust and competition issues. IP law specialists Qiang Ma and Hanguo Zhang co-lead the practice, which includes veteran entertainment and media law sector practitioner, Cao Yu; TMT sector-focused Fu Peng; pharmaceutical and chemistry sector expert Yingqi Li, who is experienced in patent portfolio work, and administrative and infringement litigation; and Yolanda Jia, who is licensed to practice in both China and California.
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