Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP — China

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- Asia-Pacific - Chairman, Executive Committee: Alden Millard - Administrative Partners: Alexandra Kaplan, Jonathan Karen - Co-Heads of Asia Practice: Ian Ho, Adam Furber - Head of China Practice: Christopher Wong - Asia Pacific Offices: Beijing, Hong Kong, Tokyo International Offices: Boston, Brussels, Houston, London, Los Angeles, New York, Palo Alto, São Paulo and Washington, DC ### Firm Overview Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP is widely recognised as one of the preeminent law firms in the world. Named “Best Law Firm” in Asia at FinanceAsia’s 2021 Achievement Awards, the firm devotes to its clients the legal talent and skill of approximately 1,500 lawyers with a commitment to hard work, excellence and integrity. The firm has a strong track record in representing leading Asian and global companies, financial institutions and investment firms on significant and complex capital markets, banking and cross-border M&A transactions involving Greater China, Japan, South Korea, India, Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand and around the globe. The Asian investment funds team reflects the strength of the firm’s preeminent private funds practice globally. Through its Asia litigation practice group, the firm provides its Asia-based clients with a comprehensive offering of litigation services, including antitrust, IP, international arbitration, securities and government and internal investigation matters. The firm advises on Hong Kong local law in addition to US and English law. Many attorneys in Asia are native speakers of Mandarin Chinese, Japanese or Korean and have considerable transaction experience throughout the region. ### Main Areas of Practice - ■ Capital Markets - ■ M&A & Private Equity - ■ Banking & Credit - ■ Real Estate - ■ Investment Funds - ■ Litigation ### Capital Markets Simpson Thacher is a leader in capital markets transactions worldwide. With a uniquely balanced practice, representing both issuers and underwriters, the firm enjoys a premier standing in advising on IPOs and other equity capital markets transactions, as well as high yield debt, convertible debt and investment grade offerings. Clients rely on Simpson Thacher’s mastery of intricate deal structuring and its experience across the full spectrum of products and industries. The firm was named a "Capital Markets Practice Group of the Year" by Law360 in eight of the past nine years. ### M&A & Private Equity Simpson Thacher has been repeatedly recognized as one of the leading M&A practices in Asia with premier expertise and experience in a variety of public and private M&A transactions, including acquisitions, minority investments, mergers, take-private transactions, PIPEs, leveraged buy-outs, and joint ventures. Simpson Thacher is also the world’s leading legal advisor in the private equity sector. Since the earliest days of private equity, clients have sought Simpson Thacher’s advice across the spectrum of private equity activity and the firm continues to be the firm of choice for many of the world’s most sophisticated private equity firms. Simpson Thacher’s scale and depth give it insight into the needs of every participant in private equity transactions: private equity sponsors, senior bank lenders, subordinated and bridge lenders, management and financial investors and underwriters. The firm was named "M&A Practice Group of the Year" by Law360 in 2022 and has been named a "Private Equity Practice Group of the Year" by Law360 for twelve consecutive years. ### Banking & Credit Named “Banking and Finance Firm of the Year” in Asia at Law.com International’s 2023 Asia Legal Awards, Simpson Thacher counsels clients on their most sophisticated credit transactions and financial instruments at all levels of the corporate capital structure. The firm’s banking & credit practices focus on many areas of the bank and syndicated lending market, including: leveraged finance, acquisition finance, including bridge financing, investment grade finance, fund finance and project and energy finance. The team also excel in structuring and executing innovative and complex direct lending solutions. ### Real Estate Simpson Thacher’s real estate practice spans all areas of the real estate industry, including sophisticated real estate finance, sales and acquisitions, restructurings, real estate development, joint ventures, co-investments and partnerships. The firm’s synthesis of real estate experience with its leading corporate practices — M&A, capital markets, banking and restructuring — allows the firm to offer institutional real estate investors a single source of advice for their most complex real estate matters. ### Investment Funds Simpson Thacher has one of the world’s pre-eminent private funds practices. The practice is global in scope and covers funds with a wide variety of investment criteria, including buyout, hedge, real estate, energy/infrastructure, credit, secondary, growth, venture capital, fund-of-funds and other types of funds pursuing ‘alternative investment’ strategies. The team provides comprehensive advice to many of the world’s best-known institutional alternative asset managers, as well as smaller first-time funds and independent boutiques. The firm was named “Investment Funds Firm of the Year” by Law.com International’s Asia Legal Awards in 2022. ### Litigation Clients seek the advice of our Asia litigation practice for competition litigation, government and internal investigations, intellectual property litigation, international arbitration and securities litigation. The firm offers a substantial bench of talent, including many who are fluent in Chinese, Japanese or Korean, to resolve a wide array of legal issues. Clients rely on our ability to obtain successful, cost-effective outcomes, and appreciate our understanding of the interplay of economic, legal and cultural issues arising in litigation, arbitration and investigation matters.

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Jie Min

Jie Min is a Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Corporate Department, where she focuses on mergers and acquisitions and private equity. She regularly advises corporate clients and private equity funds in connection with a variety of public and private M&A, leveraged buyouts, minority and strategic investments, and other corporate matters across a broad range of industries. · Mergers and Acquisitions

Toby Chun

Co-Head of the Firm’s Environmental Practice, Toby Chun has served as lead environmental counsel for many of his clients’ most environmentally challenging transactions. Toby’s practice focuses on managing the environmental aspects of a wide variety of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, capital markets offerings, acquisition financing, and real estate transactions. Drawing upon his experience working on numerous transactions spanning a diverse range of businesses and industries in the United States and around the world, Toby helps his clients achieve their business objectives by evaluating the environmental risks and liabilities associated with target companies and properties, working with environmental consultants to assess and appropriately contextualize known and potential liabilities, negotiating transaction documents on environmental terms consistent with his client’s goals, helping to optimize environmental insurance coverage, managing the resolution of environmental issues, and keeping abreast of the latest developments for emerging contaminants and other environmental topics. · Environmental Law

Yang Wang

Yang Wang is a Partner in the Beijing office of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and a leading practitioner in private equity and M&A transactions in Asia, with a strong focus on Greater China. He represents private equity funds and corporate clients on complex cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, corporate finance transactions and other general corporate matters. Yang has advised Apax, Blackstone, Hillhouse, KKR, Macquarie, PAG, Primavera, Warburg Pincus and their respective portfolio companies in leveraged buy-outs and private equity investments of over US$40 billion in the aggregate, Alibaba Group, Ant Group and participants in their ecosystem in strategic investment and corporate finance transactions of over US$40 billion in the aggregate, various China state-owned enterprises in outbound investment transactions of over US$30 billion in the aggregate, and many other major investment and strategic transactions involving Greater China. He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and English, and used to be fluent in C++ and Java from his previous career as a computer programmer. Yang has been recognized as a “Band 1” practitioner in Corporate/M&A (China-based International Firms) by Chambers, rated as “Highly Regarded” by IFLR1000, and credited with at least one “Deal of the Year” every year in the past decade by various publications and agencies. He was also named “Private Equity: Foreign Firms Lawyer of the Year” by the Legal 500 China awards in both 2024 and 2025. · Private Equity