Chao Gao
Greater China Region Guide 2024
Up and Coming : Private Equity: Buyouts & Venture Capital Investment (PRC Firms)
Up and Coming
About
Provided by Chao Gao
Practice Areas
Private equity and venture capital, Mergers and acquisitions, Foreign direct investment, Capital markets, Investment fund formation and operation
Career
Mr. Gao has extensive experience in a variety of fields and industries. His major practice areas include mergers and acquisitions, formation and deployment of private equity funds, securities offerings, and corporate restructurings. Mr. Gao has been legal counsel to numerous leading investment institutions, multinational companies, and unicorn companies, for their various cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and financing projects in industries covering internet, computer software, entertainment media, education and training, consumer and retail, and healthcare services. Over the years, Mr. Gao has been actively involved in structuring and establishing onshore and offshore China-focused private equity funds for both foreign and domestic fund sponsors and investors, and has represented many well-known institutional investors and industrial investors in various private equity investments and M&A transactions. Mr. Gao has also advised issuers as well as underwriters in several high-profile overseas IPOs involving Chinese companies or operations.
Professional Memberships
Member of the PRC Bar
Languages Spoken
Chinese, English
Education
Shanghai University of International Business and Economics
LL.B.
Awards
Recommended Lawyer in Private equity
Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2021-2024
Recommended Lawyer in TMT
Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2021, 2023-2024
Highly Regarded Lawyer in Private Equity
IFLR1000, 2022-2023
Highly Regarded Lawyer in Private Equity
IFLR1000 China
2023
Commended External Counsel of the Year
In-House Community, 2022-2023
2021 China Top 15 Lawyers – Consumer and Retail
Legalband
2021
Recommended Lawyer in Corporate and M&A
Legal 500 Asia Pacific
2020
Recommended Lawyer in Healthcare and life sciences
Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2018-2019
Recommended Lawyer in Investment funds
Legal 500 Asia Pacific
2019
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Key Sectors
Provided by Han Kun Law Offices
Education
Financial Investors
Health and Life Sciences
Retail and Consumer
Technology, Media and Telecoms (TMT)