Wei Chen

Practice Areas

Joined JunHe in 2004, Ms. Chen Wei has rich experience in the areas of M&A, PE/VC investment and capital market. Ms. Chen also has extensive industry knowledge in the sectors of TMT (especially ICT and communication infrastructure such as datacenter, cloud services and satellite services), energy, financial services and life science.

Ms. Chen has represented many multinational companies, PE and buy-out funds and SOEs in a variety of industries including telecom/Internet, energy, real estate, financial services, pharmaceutical, medical device, aviation, mining, automobile and manufacturing.

Ms. Chen has handled a great deal of high-profile and complex projects. Ms. Chen’s structure design and drafting strength as well as good business sense make her services valuable to her clients.

Ms. Chen has established herself as an innovative attorney while serving clients in challenging projects. She was creative and diligent in guiding a multinational company to smoothly and successfully close a share deal in China in RMB currency in mid-2011, when the relevant regulations were confused as they had only been recently established.

In recent years, Ms. Chen has represented various clients to invest in, buy out or operate communication infrastructure projects and energy projects. By providing full service covering aspects of investment, acquisition, financing, construction and operation in these areas, she has been recognized as a leading legal profession in the communication infrastructure and energy sectors.

Ms. Chen was awarded the 2020-2022 Thomson Reuters “Stand-out Lawyers”.

Ms. Chen has been consecutively ranked as the “A-List Lawyers” (China’s 100 Elite Lawyers) by China Business Law Journal in 2021, 2022 and 2023.

Ms. Chen has been listed as a recommended M&A lawyer by Chambers Greater China Region Legal Guide 2024 and Chambers Global Legal Guide 2024.

An M&A project between INEOS and Sinopec led by Ms.Chen has been recognized as one of the 2023 “Deals of the Year” by China Business Law Journal and 2023 “M&A Deals of the Year” by ALB.

Career

Member of the All-China Bar Association

Languages Spoken

Mandarin, English

Education