Carl Li

Practice Areas

Cross-border Investment/M&A, Compliance & Investigation, Litigation & Arbitration

Professional Memberships

Legal Expert for Legislation of the Judicial Bureau of Pudong New District

Master Mentor (Part Time) of Laws of East China University of Political Science and Law

Personal

Mr. Carl LI has more than 20 years of intensive experiences in the fields of mergers and acquisitions, investment and financing, and corporate compliance. Mr. Li has provided comprehensive legal support for a number of well-known transnational corporations in their global reorganizations, spin-offs and mergers/acquisitions involving Chinese businesses. He has assisted foreign invested enterprises, public listed companies and state-owned enterprises in participating in major mergers/acquisitions and restructuring projects. Mr. Li also represents reputable institutional investors or start-ups to provide full legal services in their investment or financing projects. In particular, he has been assisting many state-owned enterprises, private enterprises and public listed companies in their investments and acquisitions in Europe, North and South America, Africa, Southeast Asia and other “Belt and Road” countries, and regularly advises and provides creative solutions to clients on specific matters related to cross-border investments.

"Mr. Li's legal expertise and keen business sense helped to provide unique solutions to difficult problems the clients encountered in the projects."

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Work Highlights

M&A and Restructuring

• Volvo Trucks acquires Jiangling Heavy-Duty Truck project

• A series of mergers and acquisitions projects in China for a reputable international food and beverage group

• A listed port group acquires part of the equity interests in African container terminals

• US listed company Hillenbrand Group sells its TerraSource BU project

• A series of joint venture and acquisition projects in China by a well-known global materials technology group

• A state-owned fund's acquisition of equity interests in a Korean automotive chip company

• A Chinese company acquired the LED technology and asset project of a subsidiary of South Korea's LG Group

• Lingce Electronics' acquisition of TEV Company in Boston, USA

• A Chinese listed company's acquisition of equity interests in a Brazilian company

• Cross-border restructuring project between Dana Corporation and Taiwan Yulon Group/China Automotive

• The business assets and equity transfer project in China between Dana Corporation and Italian La Leonessa Company

• Linamar Group regional headquarters establishment and special restructuring project

• Regal Rexnord's joint venture equity and commercial operations restructuring project in China

• Agility Group sells a logistics asset project in Shanghai to CITIC Capital

• LOGOS Real Estate Fund acquires Likun's logistics asset project

• Wuxi Jianfa acquires controlling right in Kangxin New Materials (600076)

• Yongfeng Group and Ningbo Taihong acquire controlling right in Fulin Transportation Industry (002357)

Investments and Financing

• Danish sovereign fund's multiple investment projects in China

• Ineos invests over one billion US dollars in building Ningbo ABS production base project

• Hillhouse Capital invests over US$300 million in and restructures ATLATL

• African bauxite cargo terminal and supporting infrastructure investment project for a well-known listed port group

• Chenyue Damei Theme Fund participated in the New Meida (Meituan Dianping) overseas pre-IPO investment project

• Xishen Capital invests in Zerun Biological Project, a subsidiary controlled by Watson Biotech (300142)

• Chengdu Miaoji invests in Gracell Biotech's US$85 million Series B financing

• Bollhoff Group's production expansion project in China

• Changfeng Pharmaceutical's C/D/E round financing project (exceeding one billion yuan)

• Recovery Plus' A/B/C Series Financing and Red Chip Restructuring Project

• Accurate Capital and Hefei Industrial Investment leading Series A investment in Yinniu Microelectronics and its Israeli subsidiary Inuitive's over RMB 500 million

Languages Spoken

Chinese

English

Experience

Equity Partner, Zhong Lun Law Firm

Senior Partner, AllBright Law Offices

Founding Partner, K-Bright Law Firm

Associate, Richard Wang & Co.

In-house Counsel, Guangdong Branch of General Administration of Customs/Gongbei Customs

Expert in these Jurisdictions

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