Lawyers in China

Yunxi ZHONG

Partner

Hylands Law Firm

Yupeng (Yves HU) HU

Partner

JunHe

Yuqing ZHANG

Partner

JunHe

Yuru Zuo

Zhong Lun Law Firm

Yusheng Ye

Partner

Jingtian & Gongcheng

Yuting Dong

Partner

Tian Yuan Law Firm

Yuting HE

Partner

JunHe

Yuting Xue

Partner

Beijing Grandway Law Offices

Yuval Tal

Yuval Tal is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department where he co-heads our internationally recognized Real Assets and Hospitality, Gaming & Leisure groups. Yuval also heads our Asia practice. Yuval is a general corporate and securities lawyer with diverse experience in cross-border mergers & acquisitions (public and private, debt and equity), long-term joint ventures, real assets and corporate and real estate finance. He advises clients on the full range of their activities including any form of financing, operational matters and commercial transactions. He advises sponsors and funds on the structuring, execution, entering into, restructuring and exiting of investments. Yuval has decades of experience representing clients on complex, first in kind transactions. His strength is providing original, workable and practical solutions that get the deal done. Qualified in New York, Hong Kong and Israel, Yuval has negotiated transactions in six continents and has experience representing clients on cross border transactions, including inbound to or outbound from Asia. Yuval regularly works with clients in various industries including real estate, hospitality, entertainment, sports, financial services, technology and life sciences. As an international M&A lawyer, Yuval has many years of experience dealing with complicated, non-customary transactions involving parties from different countries, cultures and legal systems. He has represented private equity and private credit funds, family offices, corporations and individuals in structuring, restructuring, managing and disposing of investments in Asia, Europe and the United States. He is typically called upon to strategize and structure complex transactions that do not follow a prescribed form or pattern. Yuval’s experience enables him to foresee future issues and clients have commented on his “ability to think seven moves ahead of the competition”. Yuval is also well known for his ability to broker deals between opposing parties in order to get the deal done, irrespective of the legal, business or practical obstacles. His efforts have earned him recognition by Legal 500, Chambers Asia Pacific and IFLR1000, where clients have referred to his “ability to play the honest broker to all parties involved, and to bridge the different cultures, legal systems and language barriers and to continually solve the unsolvable, is what allowed us to get this difficult deal done” and another stated “he was completely invested in the deal in a way lawyers seldom are, and his creativity and efforts allowed us to bridge considerable gaps between the parties and find common ground”. Yuval has worked in industries ranging from banking, real estate and industrials to fintech, biotech and hi-tech. As co-head of our Real Assets group, Yuval works with a team of over 75 lawyers from across the firm advising on real estate and in particular operating real estate related transactions. Yuval has worked on virtually any kind of transaction in the hospitality space, including mixed-use development and construction, acquisition and sale, restructuring and public offerings of real estate, hotel and casino companies. His experience covers traditional and more bespoke hospitality products such as hotels, casinos, branded residences, private clubs, nightclubs, restaurants and theme parks, as well as coin operated slot machines businesses. He has completed numerous high profile transactions involving the buying, selling and combining hotel operating companies and brands, including AccorHotels’ [EPA:AC] US$2.9 billion acquisition of Fairmont, Raffles and Swissôtel brands, its acquisition of Tribe, Australia’s first integrated modular hotel brand, Accor’s long-term alliance with Huazhu Hotels Group (also known as China Lodging Group [Nasdaq: HTHT]) and its strategic partnership with Singapore-based Banyan Tree Holdings [SGX:B58]. He also advised Formosa International Hotels’ sale and resulting joint venture with Intercontinental Hotels Group with respect to the Regent brand. Recent transactions include the acquisition of sbe and subsequent formation of Ennismore, a worldwide hospitality lifestyle platform which currently owns 14 brands and operates over 100 properties, and the subsequent sale of a 10.8% interest to a Qatari based consortium; a strategic agreement for the development of the Faena brand, the sale of the Mexico-based Hoteles City Express brand to Marriott for $100 million, the sale of interest and creation of a joint venture for the Delano and Auberge brands, the reorganization of the Sydell brand and Accor’s sale and long term license concerning the Accor Vacation Club. Yuval’s broader Real Assets experience includes working on specialty real estate such as the acquisition by Mori Building, a leading Japanese real estate company, of 11% of iconic One Vanderbilt office building; The Recording Academy’s (The Grammys) deal to develop Grammy Museums in China, a public/private deal to finance an office building in Delhi, India; acquisitions of hotels in Bangkok by a large Japanese institutional investor and a joint venture between a Hong Kong developer and an Asian based private equity fund for the acquisition and redevelopment of a property in Kowloon into a mixed use property including co-living and co-working properties. Yuval is a member of the Hospitality Development Council of ULI in both the United States and Asia and was a member of the Steering Committee of the Asian council; he was also a member of the Law 360 2020 Hospitality Editorial Board. He is a regular speaker at real estate and hospitality related conferences such as the Hotel Investment Conference Asia-Pacific in Hong Kong. Prior to rejoining Proskauer in 1999, Yuval practiced law in Israel, representing Israeli clients in transactions in Europe and the United States and European and U.S.-based clients in transactions in Israel. He handled transactions and other matters for major publicly traded Israeli companies such as Clal (Israel) Ltd., LifeWatch, Kitan Consolidated Ltd., Orckit Communications Ltd., ECI Telecom Ltd., Scitex Corporation Ltd., El-Al, Zim and Tecnomatix Technologies Ltd. Since joining Proskauer, Yuval has continued to represent Israeli clients on a wide range of Real Assets, corporate and securities matters.

Proskauer Rose LLP

Yuwei CHEN

Partner

JunHe

Yuxiang Liu

Partner

Haiwen & Partners

Yuxin Wu

Yuxin Wu is the counsel of Global Law Office (Shenzhen) and specialized in M&A, FDI, ODI and PE/VC investment. Yuxin Wu has advised both Chinese and international companies on a number of cross-border M&A transactions, including, inter alia, the acquisition of the Canadian listed company First Quantum Minerals Ltd. shares by A-share and H-share listed company Jiangxi Copper Company Limited with a consideration exceeding USD 1.1 billion, the acquisition of the Turkey Istanbul Third Bosphorus Bridge and the Northern Marmara Motorway by six-party consortium including Merchants Expressway, the acquisition of 100% shares Taiwanese listed company Wistron’s wholly owned subsidiaries by A-share listed company Luxshare Precision Industry Co., Ltd. and its controlling shareholder, the acquisition of 62.67% shares of Hong Kong listed company Cowell by an affiliate of A-share listed company Luxshare Precision Industry Co., Ltd., the acquisition of 70.95% shares of Hong Kong listed company TIME Interconnect by a subsidiary of A-share listed company Luxshare Precision Industry Co., Ltd., the disposition of Fengwang Express by A-share listed company SF to J&T Express and the acquisition of four Chinese expressway of Hong Kong listed company Road King by Merchants Expressway. The PE/VC investment deals Yuxin Wu has participated include Oceanpine Capital’s investment in Chipone Technology, Wise Road Capital’s investment in Juneway Electronic, Source Code Capital’s investment in Hongyu Technology. Yuxin Wu also represented Xiaomi in numerous investment projects in its supply and ecological chain, including RoboSense, DataStory, Chipone Technology, ACC Optics, HKC and many other renowned companies.

Global Law Office

Yuxing LIN

Senior Partner

Kangda Law Firm

Yuxuan Liu

Managing Partner

Tiger Partners

Yuyan Dong

Partner

Dehehantong Law Offices

Yuying Mao

Partner

Dehehantong Law Offices

Yuying Wang

Yuying Wang specializes in private investment fund formation and regulatory affairs. She has successfully advised numerous leading global asset managers on their entry into the Chinese market through QFI, QDLP, QFLP/QDIE, and PFM regimes. Her experience also includes assisting prominent global fund managers in launching securities investment funds and private equity funds in China, as well as providing compliance advice during fund operations. For domestic managers venturing into the global market, Yuying has enabled PRC asset managers to launch investment funds offshore, carry out group restructuring, and manage fund interest secondary transactions.

Simmons & Simmons

Yvonne Wang

Counsel

Chang Tsi & Partners

Zaiguang Lu

Partner

Han Kun Law Offices

Zaizai Huang

Partner

Tian Yuan Law Firm

Ze Wang

Partner

Tian Yuan Law Firm

Zha Zhigang

Corporate Law, Contract Law

Beijing DHH Law Firm

Zhang Jie

Partner

Dehehantong Law Offices

Zhang Jingsheng

Corporate Law, Capital Markets and Securities, Banking and Finance, Real Estate and Construction, Labor Law, Civil and Commercial Litigation, Criminal Defense

Beijing DHH Law Firm