Private Equity and Venture Capital
represent domestic and foreign general partners and institutional investors in the formation of all types of private equity funds, including: buyout funds, real estate funds, mezzanine funds, foreign funds, venture capital funds, and fund-of-funds. For PE investment and PE financing, our services run the full gamut of stages from start-ups to IPOs.
We are particularly experienced in cross-border transactions. Drawing on our local resources and many of our lawyers’ international experience, we have acted as coordinator of legal services in many transactions spanning several jurisdictions. As increasing number of transactions adopt onshore structure, we work creatively to best protect our clients. Our world-class services have won us great acclaims from our clients. Chambers Asia Guide 2009 praised Zhong Lun as one of the few Chinese law firms that may handle relevant issues independently and lauded us for our “strong commerciality and proximity to market developments”. A number of our lawyers have been consecutively awarded by Asia Law & Practice as Asialaw Leading Lawyers.
Scope of Services:
We are particularly experienced in cross-border transactions. Drawing on our local resources and many of our lawyers’ international experience, we have acted as coordinator of legal services in many transactions spanning several jurisdictions. As increasing number of transactions adopt onshore structure, we work creatively to best protect our clients. Our world-class services have won us great acclaims from our clients. Chambers Asia Guide 2009 praised Zhong Lun as one of the few Chinese law firms that may handle relevant issues independently and lauded us for our “strong commerciality and proximity to market developments”. A number of our lawyers have been consecutively awarded by Asia Law & Practice as Asialaw Leading Lawyers.
Scope of Services:
- Formation of private equity funds and venture capital funds
- Investment of private equity funds and venture capital in portfolio companies
- Exit of private equity funds and venture capital from portfolio companies
- Private equity financing
Honors & Awards
- Zhong Lun’s private equity practice was ranked in Band 1 of Chambers Asia Guide 2009.
Representative Cases
- Advising Phoenix New Media (ifeng.com) on US$25 million financing from Morningside, Intel Capital and Bertelsmann (2009)
- Advising Shenzhen Fortune Venture Capital Co., Ltd. on RMB150 million investments in three companies, namely, Chinese B2B e-commerce platform for large-scale trading 315. com.cn, Zhuhai GpcSoft Technology Co., Ltd. and Sunbird Yacht Co., Ltd. (2009)
- Advising Touchmedia on Series C financing led by CDIB Capital in the amount of RMB100 million (2009)
- Advising SIG and Sequoia Capital on their joint investments in Shaanxi Bicon, a leading traditional Chinese medicine and chemical medicine producer (2009)
- Advising International Finance Corporation and Softbank China on their joint investments in an energy saving project in China (2009)
- Advising Duowan, a Guangdong-based online game provider, on its Series C financing (2009)
