Overseas Investment
As the first of its kind in China, our overseas investment team consists of attorneys with education backgrounds in France, USA, UK or Australia. They also have been admitted to practice in relevant foreign jurisdictions. The team has extensive experience in overseas investments, particularly in the Republic of Congo (Congo Brazzaville), the Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo Kinshasa), Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Niger, the Central African Republic, Guinea, Liberia and Mali as well as such countries with abundant petroleum and mineral resources as Australia, Georgia, Mongolia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, Peru and Canada. Our clients include investors, financial lenders, investment banks, and governments.
Scope of Services:
Scope of Services:
- Due diligence investigations on the legal environment of the invested regions
- Due diligence investigations on the overseas investment projects and mining rights
- Structuring and tax planning
- Negotiation and documentation
- Assisting in approval and filing procedures
- Coordination with the agencies of the invested regions
- Legal trainings on laws and regulations of the invested regions
- Dispute resolution
Representative Cases
- Advising a large Chinese state-owned enterprise on its 400 million Canadian dollars acquisition of a listed Canadian company holding a potash mine located in the Republic of Congo(2009)
- Advising an investment group led by Export-import Bank of China, China Railway Group Limited, and Sinohydro Corporation, on a US$7 billion investment in mining and infrastructure projects in Democratic Republic of Congo(2009)
- Advising a Chinese fund on a US$2 billion investment in an iron ore project in Liberia(2009)
- Advising a Chinese fund on investment in a mining project in Zimbabwe(2009)
- Advising China Railway Group Limited on a large project in Venezuela(2009)
- Assets restructuring project by Xuzhou Construction Machinery Science & Technology Co., Ltd. to acquire parent company via issuance of non-public issuance of stocks (2009)
