Hui Zhou

Practice Areas

Mr. Zhou is a partner of JunHe LLP, member of managing committee of Shanghai office. He has extensive experience in banking and finance, private equity investments and mergers and acquisitions of listed companies. He has actively represented a number of international companies and banks in structuring, negotiation, and documentation in many finance and investment projects. In recent years, he has acted for international and domestic financial institutions and private equity investors on many going-private transactions of US listed companies, and also advised Chinese companies on their outbound investment and financing projects.

The representative transactions advised by Mr. Zhou include:

/Financing/

1. Bank of China’s USD 10 billion loan to China Chem to finance its acquisition of Syngenta;

2. China Citic Bank’s senior term loan advanced to Tianqi Lithium on its acquisition fo Chile SQM, the biggest lithium ore operator in the world;

3. Shanghai Pudong Development Bank’s senior term facility advanced to Ningbo Jingfeng for its acquisition of the Germany based Grammer AG;

4. Take-private financing of 58.com extended by a syndicate led by Shanghai Pudong Development Bank to a consortium led by Warburg Pincus and General Atlantic;

5. Acquisition facility extended by China Merchant Bank to Blackstone Group to finance its acquisition of a RMB 7 billion worth logistic park owned by R&F Group;

6. Acquisition facility extended by HSBC to KKR Real Estate Partner to finance its acquisition of commercial property in Shanghai;

7. Standard Charter Bank’s secured term loan to BlackRock to finance its office building acquisition in Shanghai;

8. BNPP Paribas’ secured term loan to Aier Group, the leading ophthalmologic hospital group in China, to finance its acquisition of a Spain ophthalmologic hospital group;

/Private Equity/

1. Strategic investment by Hillhouse Group in Gree Electronics;

2. Strategic investment by Carlyle Group in A-share listed textile manufacturer LuoLai Group;

3. Carlyle Group’s buy-out of a leading beauty packaging company HCP Group;

4. Investment by Goldman Sachs in the leading logistic platform New Ease Group;

5. Investment by Blackstone Group in logistic properties in Guangdong and Jiangsu;

He has been ranked as a leading lawyer in the Banking & Finance area by Chambers & Partners from 2012 to 2022. He was awarded as “Asian Deal Makers” by Asia Legal Business in 2021.

Career

Mr. Zhou is a member of the All-China Bar Association and the Shanghai Bar Association.

Languages Spoken

Mandarin and English

Education