Shaun Gao

Practice Areas

Private Equity & Investment Funds, Hong Kong & Overseas Capital Markets, Cross-border Investment/M&A

Publications

"When the only certainty is uncertainty - An analysis on VC invetment structure and terms design on pharmaceuticals sector"， Zhong Lun Research Center, 2018

Personal

Shaun specializes in private equity and venture capital, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring and offshore capital markets. Since 2005, Shaun worked in the Shanghai Office of two US based international law firms for more than ten years. Working across life sciences and healthcare, IT and telecoms, advertising and broadcasting, clean and renewable energy, education, new media, retailing and franchising, and traditional manufacturing sectors.

Especially, Shaun is one of the “early birds” in PE/VC investment and financing in life sciences and healthcare sector. He led the design of multi-jurisdiction holding structure. He has advised on a number of eye-catching deals, including Innovent, CStone, Hua Medicine, I-Mab, Ocumension, Everest Medicines, GraCell, Transcenta, Abbisko, Genesis MedTech, Zylox-Tonbridge, Edge Medical, InSilico, New Horizen, etc.