Representative Matters

Equity Capital Markets — Completed Matters

• Agricultural Technology Company IPO. Advised an agricultural technology company on its corporate restructuring and IPO, including share reform, corporate governance restructuring and related PRC legal matters.
• Energy Holding Group IPO and Follow-on Offering. Advised an energy investment holding group on its corporate restructuring, IPO and subsequent follow-on equity offerings, including transaction documentation and regulatory compliance.
• Hospitality Industry IPO. Advised a hospitality group on its corporate restructuring and IPO, including share reform and related PRC legal matters.
• Eye Hospital Chain IPO. Advised a private eye-hospital chain on its corporate restructuring and IPO, including corporate governance restructuring and regulatory compliance.
• Pharmacy Retail IPO. Advised a pharmacy retail chain on its corporate restructuring and IPO, including transaction documentation and regulatory compliance.
• Optoelectronic Technology IPO. Advised an optoelectronic display component manufacturer on its corporate restructuring and IPO, including related PRC legal matters.
• Electronic Components IPO. Advised an electronic components manufacturer on its corporate restructuring and IPO, including transaction documentation.
• Listed Company Capital Markets Transactions. Advised listed companies on continuing capital markets transactions, including acquisitions, private placements and material asset restructurings, and related PRC legal matters.
• Corporate Governance of Listed Companies. Advised listed companies on corporate governance, shareholder matters and regulatory compliance.

Equity Capital Markets — Current Engagements

• Consumer Sector IPOs. Currently advising companies in the restaurant, pharmacy retail and cultural industries on proposed domestic IPOs, including corporate restructuring and related PRC legal matters.
• Emerging Growth Company Exchange Listings. Currently advising companies in the environmental services, advanced manufacturing and life sciences sectors on NEEQ listings and subsequent exchange listing preparations.

Debt Capital Markets

• Continuing Debt Capital Markets Practice. Regularly advising financial institutions, state-owned enterprises, local government financing vehicles, investment platforms and other institutional issuers on a broad range of debt capital markets transactions, including medium-term notes, commercial paper, corporate and enterprise bonds, asset-backed securities and other debt financing instruments.
• Provincial and Municipal Financing Platforms. Regularly advising provincial investment groups, municipal financing platforms and other major state-owned enterprises across Hunan Province on their financing programmes, including bond issuance and related regulatory compliance.

State-owned Enterprise Transactions

• Advising state-owned enterprises and their affiliated financial institutions on capital transactions across the ownership lifecycle, including equity transfers, strategic acquisitions, corporate restructuring, financing and equity incentive schemes.

Corporate Governance & Ownership Transitions

• Governance and Shareholder Arrangements. Regularly advising companies, founders, controlling shareholders and management teams on corporate governance, shareholder arrangements, ownership structures and transaction execution.
• Ownership Transitions and Business Continuity. Advising businesses undergoing significant organisational change, including management succession, ownership transitions, corporate reorganisations and strategic corporate transactions.

• Debt-relief Bond Financing. Advised issuers under financial distress on debt-relief bond financing, including transaction structuring and regulatory compliance.
• Fund Structures and Investment Institutions. Advising investment institutions on fund structures, financing arrangements, investment transactions and related regulatory matters.

• Securities Financing Disputes Portfolio. Represented a securities institution in a portfolio of margin-trading and securities-financing disputes arising from client defaults following forced liquidation, spanning first-instance, appellate, enforcement and property-preservation proceedings.
• Trust Investment Disputes Portfolio. Represented an institutional client in a portfolio of collective trust plan investment disputes arising from underlying asset defaults, including litigation strategy, evidentiary preparation and negotiated settlements.
• Investment Product Disputes. Represented individual investors in contract and trust disputes against an investment holding company, arising from underlying investment product defaults, across multiple jurisdictions.
• Stock Pledge Repurchase Disputes. Represented financial institution clients in stock pledge repurchase disputes, including litigation strategy and evidentiary preparation.
• Private Fund Contract Disputes. Represented investors in private fund contract disputes, including litigation strategy and negotiated settlement.
• Shareholder and Corporate Control Disputes. Representing clients in complex commercial disputes arising from investment transactions, financing arrangements and corporate control, including shareholder rights disputes.

• Inbound Investment. Advised a European agricultural group on its acquisition of a controlling stake in a PRC-listed agricultural technology company, including transaction structuring, legal due diligence and related PRC legal matters.
• Cross-border Acquisition. Advised a European private equity fund on its acquisition of a PRC chain enterprise, including transaction structuring, legal due diligence and regulatory compliance.
• Cross-border Financial Institutions. Advised on the regulatory opening-up of China's financial services sector to foreign institutions, including a securities brokerage license granted to a foreign securities institution and the establishment of one of the earliest Sino-foreign securities joint ventures following China's WTO accession, covering regulatory approval and joint-venture structuring.
• PRC Counsel to Overseas Law Firms and Foreign Investors. Regularly supporting overseas law firms, multinational businesses and foreign investors on PRC legal issues arising from investments and commercial activities involving Chinese companies.