Wayne Chen

Practice Areas

Capital Markets / Corporate Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions, Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy, Private Equity / Venture Capital / Commercialization of scientific and technological achievements.

Career

Dedicated to providing professional advice to international and domestic leading companies and investment institutions, Wayne offers legal services on securities offerings, high profile mergers and acquisitions, anti-trust and equity investment. Wayne is also a prominent figure within TMT, healthcare and consumer markets.

Personal

Mr. Wayne Chen received his LL.B. from East China University of Political Science and Law while majoring in International Economic Law, his Bachelor of Science from Fudan University while majoring in Information Management and his MBA from the CEIBS EMBA Course. Mr. Chen used to serve in the legal department of a financial institute and joined Llinks Law Offices in 2000.

Mr. Chen is frequently recommended as the leading lawyer in capital market and M&A by, Chambers Global Leading Business Lawyers (2013-2024), Chambers Asia Leading Business Lawyers (2013-2023), International Financial Law Review 1000 (2013-2024); Mr. Chen was awarded the ALB 2013 Top 15 Rising Lawyers in China and 2024 ALB Dealmaker of Asia. Also, he was awarded as IPO Star Lawyer in the A-Share market by New Fortune for the number of successful IPO projects he handled across the year.

Professional Memberships

From October 2017 to January 2019,Mr Chen served as a full-time member of the 17th Issuance Review Committee of China Securities Regulatory Commission (the first issue Review Committee after the merger of the Main Board Issuance Review Committee and the Growth Enterprise Board Issuance Review Committee); From April 2019 to February 2023, Mr.Chen served as a member of the First Science and Technology Innovation Board Listing Committee of Shanghai Stock Exchange.

Work Highlights

In the Securities field, Mr. Chen has provided a full range of legal services for numerous industry leaders, innovative companies and financial institutions regarding their IPOs, listing in the Over-The-Counter Market, issuance of bond/debt financing instruments, issuance of equity warrants, private placements, right offerings/seasoned equity offerings, acquisition/major assets restructurings of the listed companies, overall listing of enterprises groups, etc.

Mr. Chen practices in the fields of PE/VC, M&A/reorganization, commercialization of scientific and technological achievements, providing professional advice for domestic and foreign industry leaders, innovative companies and renowned institutional investors, as well as leading scientific research teams. He has further provided legal services for well-known investment, M&A, reorganization and commercialization of scientific and technological achievements cases.

Thanks to years of dedication to the above businesses, Mr. Chen is skilled in offering valuable advice in complicated transactions integrated with the above fields, and has completed numerous projects that have created industry ‘firsts’.

Languages Spoken

Mandarin and English.