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  • Yun ZHOU

    Equity Partner / Shanghai

  • Tel +86-21-6061-3666

    Email zhouyun@zhonglun.com

  • Practices

    Cross-border Investment/M&A, Private Equity & Investment Funds, Taxation & Wealth Planning

  • Industries

    Real Estate, Media-Sports & Entertainment

CV

Yun ZHOU

Mr. Yun Zhou specializes in cross-border M&A, foreign direct investment, corporate financing, capital markets and real estate M&A and financing. Mr. Zhou has represented a number of Fortune 500 multinational companies in a series of cross-border transactions, as well as scores of Chinese companies in their outbound transactions. His services include designing cross-border M&A transaction structures, analyzing business models, negotiating core terms, advising on implementation of transactions, etc. Mr. Zhou is also adept in tax planning and structural design for real estate transactions, and is highly capable of negotiating and implementing transactions, especially cross-border real estate transactions. Mr. Zhou excels in helping clients achieve reasonable tax savings through the design of investment and financing structures. With extensive experience in global identity planning and wealth inheritance for entrepreneurs, he has provided a full range of wealth inheritance planning for many entrepreneurs.

Representative Matters

  • Represented Kersia Group, a well-known French group in the biosecurity and food safety industry, in its acquisition of a majority share in Klenzan Co., Limited at a price of about RMB 200 million

  • Represented Bank of China Group Investment Limited in its acquisition of Kailong Jinling Building, a Hong Kong project company of Matsunichi Dingsheng Building, Xingguangyao Office Building, Jinqiao Wanchuang Center, Central Xiexin Tiandi Office Building, etc.

  • Represented DHL Logistics (China) Co., Ltd.in its acquisition of Wuhan Shunluo Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd. and the logistics estate of DHL Logistics Park

  • Represented publicly-listed Tianqi Lithium in its joint purchase with strategic investor CIC of a 100% equity stake in Australia’s Talison Co., which is currently the world’s largest owner and supplier of lithium, and provided strategic consulting and domestic and international legal services (including advising on domestic and international equity and debt financing and overseeing Australian and Canadian counsels) throughout the course of the transaction, whose total value exceeded RMB 4 billion

  • Represented Ansaldo Energia S.P.A., Italy’s largest electric resource company, and its controlling shareholder, Fondo Strategico Italiano, throughout the course of their strategic cooperation with Shanghai Electric, a leading Chinese electric company listed on both the Shanghai and Hong Kong stock exchanges and provided legal services for Shanghai Electric’s acquisition of a 40% equity stake in Ansaldo Energia from Fondo Strategico Italiano, the establishment of two joint ventures by Shanhai Electric and Ansaldo Energia for the production of gas turbines and gas turbine components, as well as the development of new gas turbine technologies. This transaction is a milestone collaboration in the global resource design and development industry

  • Advised 3i Group plc (3i), a well-known British investment manager, on its sale of Hilite International, a leading global supplier of automotive components, to AVIC Electromechanical Systems Co., Ltd. (AVICEM), a subsidiary of Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), one of the largest industrial conglomerates in China. The value of the target in this transaction is approximately EUR 473 million

  • Represented the shareholders of Punch Powertrain, a full system supplier of fuel efficient powertrains, in selling all shares in Punch Powertrain with a total value amounting to approximately EUR 1 billion to Yinyi Group

Honors and Awards

For Individual

Distinguished recommendations in the fields of corporate and M&A, Chambers and Partners, 2008-2020

China Leading Business Lawyer, Who’s Who Legal, 2020

Notable Practitioner, IFLR1000, 2018-2021

Asia Leading Lawyer, Asia Legal Business, 2007-2017

Recommended real estate lawyer in the PRC, Practical Law Company, 2009-2012

Top 10 Young Lawyers in Pudong New Area, 2011

Memberships & Affiliations

Committee Member, IBA Corporate and M&A Law Committee

Certified Dealmaker, China Mergers & Acquisitions Association

Vice Chairman, Beilun Branch of Ningbo Chamber of Commerce

Vice Chairman, China Venture Capital Promotion Association

Off-campus Instructor, NYU Law Alumni Shanghai Association

Adjunct Professor, East China University of Politics and Law

Related

  • Bar Admissions/Professional Qualifications

    PRC Bar
    New York State Bar

  • Education

    EMBA, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, 2015
    LL.M., New York University School of Law, 2001
    LL.B. in International Economic Law, East China University of Political Science & Law, 1999

  • Professional Experience

    Partner, Zhong Lun Law Firm, 2004 to Present
    Associate, Morrison & Foerster LLP Shanghai Office, 2001-2004
    Visiting Counsel, Greater China, GE Silicones
    Associate, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Shanghai Office

  • Languages

    Chinese
    English