Jia Yuan Law Offices

Chairman: Yu Yan
Managing Partner: Yu Yan, Wen Zhang, Guozhe Yan, ZHenjian SHI, Yuan Wang, Liangjuan Wen
Number of partners: 56
Number of lawyers: 189 (PRC qualified)
Languages: Chinese, English, French, Italian

Firm Overview:
Jia Yuan is renowned for providing solution-oriented legal services to China’s securities and financial market. It has won worldwide reputation for its efficient and outstanding work.

Jia Yuan has extensive experience and profound knowledge of PRC laws and international practices. It has been recognised as a leading law firm in China by several well-known international legal publications. The firm is operating under an integrated management system, which enables it to allocate expertise and resources firm wide to help clients to manage risks, pursue opportunities and meet their diversified needs.

Main Areas of Practice:

Capital Markets, Debt & Equity:
Corporate restructuring, IPO and refinancing is Jia Yuan’s core business. Acting as advisor of either the issuer or the underwriter, Jia Yuan has advised hundreds of enterprises in domestic and overseas IPOs and refinancing projects, many of which are large-scale, sophisticated and milestone projects. Jia Yuan is recognised as the prestigious firm for handling large-scale and giant-scale projects.
Key Clients: CCCC, AVIC, CREC, MCC
Contact: Guobao Huang, Wen Zhang
Tel: +86 10 6649 3371, +86 10 6649 3372
Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Corporate/M&A:
Jia Yuan has extensive experience in the acquisition and restructuring of companies, and is capable of designing the best transaction structure taking into consideration of all the related elements such as legal, financial, taxation and other matters. Jia Yuan is particularly good at assisting clients in avoiding/mitigating risks and solving problems in the context of complicated and constantly changing legal and regulatory environment.
Key Clients: CNBM, SAIC, MINMETALS
Contact: Zhenjian Shi
Tel: +86 10 6649 3375
Email: [email protected]

Banking & Finance:
In order to cope with the special features of the banking business, Jia Yuan established a specialised team that focuses on the incorporation, reform and reorganisation of financial institutions, structured finance and innovated financial products. The banking and finance team of Jia Yuan advises a number of banks, securities companies, trust companies and other financial institutions and provides legal supports for their daily operations.
Key Clients: JPMorgan Chase & Co., CITIC Securities, CICC
Contact: Yingchuan Yang
Tel: +86 10 6649 3386
Email: [email protected]

Private Equity-Buyouts:
Jia Yuan has a long history of advising well-known PE investment funds and venture capitals and has gained extensive experiences in such field. Jia Yuan is capable of offering advice and transaction structures tailored to the specific needs of clients, and has successfully created innovative solutions for clients, specifically adapted to the unique legal context of Chinese laws and regulations.
Key Clients: Hony Capital, Sequoia, Qiming Venture
Contact: Yuan Wang
Tel: +86 21 6137 3461
Email: [email protected]

Dispute Resolution:
Jia Yuan’s dispute resolution practice group consists of lawyers with deep knowledge, rich experience and strong capability in litigation, arbitration, enforcement, and handling of emergency matters. Its team are able to deal with litigation and arbitration cases from a macro and broader perspective for both domestic and international clients.
Contact: Weiping He
Tel: +86 10 6649 3369
Email: [email protected]

International Work:
Based on its strong expertise and its good friends cooperation with the most prestigious firms all over the world, Jia Yuan is highly recognised for its high quality and efficient one stop services for in-bound investment and out-bound investment. Over the past few years, Jia Yuan has dealt with, on average, over 20 in-bound and outbound investment/ M&A projects each year. Some of the more influential projects over recent years include Midea Group’s acquisition of KUKA GmbH, Shenyang Blue Silver’s acquisition of Durr Group’s ecoclean business and CECEP Valiant’s acquisition of MP Biomedicals.

Contact: Yue Liu
Tel: +86 10 6649 3382
Email: [email protected]

PRACTICE AREAS
Capital Markets: Debt & Equity
Corporate/M&A
Foreign Direct Investment
Out-bound Investment
Project Finance & Construction
Banking & Finance
Private Equity- Buyouts