Overseeing a broad range of complex acquisitions, dispositions, and joint ventures, the Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton practice has an extensive track record of acting on behalf of major multinational companies and Chinese corporates. Denise Shiu heads the Beijing-based team, specialising in strategic collaborations, minority investments, and cross-border M&A transactions, while Wei Fang regularly acts for private equity investors, hedge funds, primarily in pre-IPO investments and financings.
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Testimonials
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- 'The team is s capable, professional, and full of business awareness. They provide creative solutions to solve problems from the customer's perspective.'
- 'Denise Shiu is one of the most outstanding M&A lawyers for foreign law firms in the Chinese market. She is very knowledgeable about every project she is responsible for and devotes a lot of time and energy to it. Denise also manages project costs very rigorously, allowing Cleary's team to provide quality services at very competitive prices.
Key clients
- Brookfield Asset Management
- DCP Capital
- Hillhouse
- L Catterton
- Lenovo
- Morgan Stanley Private Equity
- Mubadala
- PAG Asia
- Silk Road Fund
- Temasek Holdings
Work highlights
- Acted as French and international counsel to BNP Paribas Asset Management in its agreement with ABC Wealth Management to launch a new wealth management joint venture, “BNP Paribas ABC Wealth.”
- Acted for Lenovo in its strategic collaboration with Alat in the Middle East and Africa region and its proposed issuance of $2 billion zero coupon convertible bonds to Alat, a subsidiary of the Public Investment Fund (PIF), the sovereign wealth fund of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- Advised the special committee of the board of directors of iClick Interactive Asia Group Limited in a proposed take private transaction.
Lawyers
Practice head
Denise Shiu
Other key lawyers
Wei Fang