With lawyers based in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, Baker McKenzie's ‘highly efficient’ private equity team adeptly navigates the full selection of private equity-related instructions, from share acquisitions to venture capital investments and equity financings, crossing numerous borders and involving a wide range of industries. Veteran private equity advisor Derek Poon and expert in China inbound and outbound investments Hong Zhang jointly lead the team, which also includes Xinxing Chen, a lawyer well-acquainted with control deals, leveraged buyouts, divestitures, and other cross-border private equity transactions.
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Testimonials
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‘The Baker McKenzie team we worked with have been consistently highly efficient and responsive, are able to align different views and requests across different parties, and have the commercial sense to prioritise more important terms and matters.’
‘I worked with Derek Poon and Xinxing Chen, PE M&A partners based in Hong Kong office of Baker McKenzie. They are very hands-on in daily work and communications, highly creative and commercial. In this situation, it was not easy to balance every party’s request, but they did a great job.’
Key clients
- AGIC
- APG
- Aztiq
- Bain Capital
- BGO
- CBC Group
- CDPQ
- Celadon Partners
- CMC Capital
- Coatue Management
- Cognita
- CPPIB
Work highlights
Advising UBS as a joint financial advisor to DCP Capital on the acquisition of approximately 78.7% of Hong Kong-listed Chinese hypermart Sun Art Retail's issued share capital from Alibaba Group Holding Limited for USD1.6bn, with the intention of privatising Sun Art.
Advising HongShan Capital Group on its definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in Marshall Group.
Acting for Hasten Biopharmaceutical Co., Ltd. in its acquisition of commercial rights to 14 branded products from Korean biopharmaceutical company Celltrion in the Pan-Asia-Pacific region and multiple countries and regions.
Practice head
Derek Poon; Hong Zhang
Other key lawyers
Xinxing Chen