Recent representative cases of Johnson Zhu in the area of Capital Market and M&A include:

• Advised NAURA (SZSE: 002371) in its acquisition of the assets of Akrion Systems LLC, a U.S. company (the first acquisition by a PRC acquiror in the US as approved by CIFUS under the Trump administration)

• Advised Unisplendour Technology in the sale of 67.82% equity interest in Unis Holdings (00365.HK)

• Advised Tsinghua Unigroup Co., Ltd. in its cross-border acquisition of France Linxens Group

• Advised Tsinghua Unigroup Co., Ltd. in its acquisition of certain equity of Siliconware Technology (Suzhou) Co., Ltd., a mainland subsidiary of SPIL (TW: 2325) in Suzhou, and the establishment of a Sino-foreign equity joint venture enterprise

• Advised Tsinghua Unigroup Co., Ltd. in its acquisition of certain equity of Suzhou Asen Semiconductors Co., Ltd., a mainland subsidiary of ASE (TW: 2311) in Suzhou, and the establishment of a Sino-foreign equity joint venture enterprise

• Advised Tibet Unigroup State Microelectronics Investment Co., Ltd. in its acquisition of Unimos Microelectronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of ChipMOS (TW: 8150) in Shanghai and the establishment of a Sino-foreign equity joint venture enterprise

• Advised Zhaohua Investment in the sale of Zhaohua Pioneer to Fujian Longzhou Transportation Co., Ltd. (SZSE: 002682) by means of share exchange and cash

• Advised Unisplendour Corporation Limited (SZSE: 000938) in its cross-border acquisition of H3C from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and its private placement

• Advised the consortium of HUA Capital, CITIC Capital and Goldstone Investment in the take-private of OmniVision Technologies (NASDAQ: OVTI) and related financing (approx. 2 billion USD)

• First A2A case: Advised Xiamen Insight Investment Co., Ltd. (Shenzhen: 000526.SZ) in its direct cross-border take-private acquisition of Xueda Education Group (NYSE: XUE) and its private placement (about 400 million USD)

• Advised China Mobile（Hong Kong: 00941.HK）and its affiliated parties in the investment in China Tower (about hundreds of billion RMB)

• Advised Unigroup Spreadtrum & RDA in their cross-border equity financing with an amount of RMB 9 billion from Intel

• Advised China State-owned Capital VC Fund Co., Ltd. in the private placement of Sun.King Power Electronics Group Limited (HK: 00580)

• Advised BlueFocus Communication Group (Shenzhen: 300058.SZ) in its domestic and overseas equity acquisition of a mobile advertising platform Domob (over 1.8 billion RMB)

• Advised Ansteel Group in the establishment of a Sino-foreign equity joint venture enterprise with Kobelco

Recent representative cases in relation to merger control/anti-trust filings in which Johnson Zhu acted for clients include: 

• Advised Private Theory in its AML filing regarding the concentration of undertakings due to its acquisition of Arc Holdings

• Advised a HK listed company in its potential AML investigation regarding the concentration of undertakings due to its acquisition of a PRC company

• Advised Guoxin Micro in its AML filing regarding the concentration of undertakings due to its cross-border acquisition of French Linxens Group

• Advised Unisplendour Corporation Limited (SZSE: 000938) in its AML filing regarding the concentration of undertakings due to its contemplated cross-border acquisition of Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC)

• Advised Tsinghua Unigroup Co., Ltd. in its AML investigation regarding the concentration of undertakings due to its cross-border take-private acquisition of RDA Microelectronics, Inc. (NASDAQ: RDA)

• Advised a chip design company in its proposed investigation in unfair competition to SAIC

• Advised Bombardier on anti-trust compliance legal issues in relation to its establishment of a JV and related merger filing

• Merger filings for Ansteel Corporation Limited’s acquisition of two subsidiaries of ThyssenKrupp

• Merger filing for Unisplendour Corporation Limited’s cross-border acquisition of H3C

• Merger filing for the consortium of HUA Capital, CITIC Capital and Goldstone Investment in its take-private of OmniVision Technologies (NASDAQ: OVTI)

• Advised an SOE on anti-trust compliance legal issues in relation to its potential acquisition of an oversea IT enterprise

Johnson ZHU has also advised Shunwei, Hua Capital, Vivo Capital, Wise Road Capita, Warburg Pincus, SAIF, Wanda Investment, Heju PE, etc. in their USD and RMB investments; he also advised offshore/onshore funds in their fund manager registrations with AMAC, fund raisings and filing.  Additionally, Johnson ZHU has also assisted many start-ups in their USD and RMB financings, including the establishment and removal of VIE structure.