About

The Russia-China Investment Fund (RCIF) is a private equity fund that was established in June 2012 by two government-backed investment entities – the Russian Direct Investment Fund and China Investment Corporation (CIC). The legal team has been tasked with leading the company through a number of integral deals and transactions as RCIF regularly seeks to invest in major bilateral, cooperative, trade and infrastructure projects focusing on the improvement of quality of the two countries’ economies. The company’s involvement in these cross-border transactions covers a wide range of industries, such as agriculture, mining, telecom, healthcare, oil and gas, and more. RCIF’s client highlights include listed Russian multinationals, such as Magnit, the nation’s pioneer of food-retail industry as well as the Chinese conglomerate, Didi Chuxing – recognised as the major Chinese ride-sharing and autonomous technology company. RCIF’s first investment into Didi was in 2014, and subsequently Didi acquired its competitor China Kuaidi in February 2015 and then Uber China. ‘The excellent legal team has smoothly navigated the company throughout these complex deals in which Lin Zhen played an essential role of effectively monitoring and engaging with different parties on making the optimal legal decisions’, says a nominator.