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