Su Liu

Practice Areas

Mr. Liu is a partner at Haiwen & Partners. Mr. Liu has worked as a full time licensed lawyer for over 20 years and has been widely regarded by the clients and in the legal service industry. His practice focuses on securities offering and listing, merger and acquisition, private equity investment and general corporate matters.

Career

Mr. Liu joined Haiwen in 1997 and became a partner in 2002. Before joining Haiwen, Mr. Liu worked at the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation of the PRC from 1995 to 1997. After joining Haiwen, he was ever sent to Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, a US law firm, and worked at its Hong Kong office for half a year in 2001.

Work Highlights

In the area of securities transactions, Mr. Liu has long-term and comprehensive professional experience, extensively serves issuers, sponsors, underwriters and investors at home and abroad, and maintains long-term cooperation with well-known domestic and international investment banks and securities companies. The representative securities offering and listing transactions that Mr. Liu advised on include:

(1) A Shares: China World Trade Center, KONKA Group, China Merchants Bank, Shangdong Infrastructure, CSCEC, CNOOC Tech & Services, CICC, Wanda Film;

(2) H Shares: Sichuan Expressway, Beijing Capital International Airport, China Telecom, China Shenhua Energy, Agricultural Bank of China, China Cinda AMC, China Huarong AMC, China Reinsurance, Bank of Jiujiang, CICC, Postal Savings Bank of China;

(3) HK or US listings of offshore companies involving onshore business (including “Red-Chip” companies): China Mobile, China Unicom, China Netcom, SINA, Tencent, Hurray!, Baidu, Kingsoft, Alibaba.com, Solarfun Power, New Oriental Education, ChinaEdu, TAL Education, Terena Education, Maple Leaf Education, Wisdom Education, Chunlai Education, China Education Group, China Mass Media, Youku, BONA Film Group, Weibo, Leju, Qunar, Chow Tai Fook Jewellery, IMAX China, BEST Inc., Jianpu Technology, Aurora Mobile, China Renaissance, 36Kr, Yincheng Life Service, ChinData Group.

Mr. Liu also participated in and advised on various listed-company-involved material restructuring and strategic investment transactions, as well as a number of private equity investment and acquisition transactions in education, media, Internet, telecommunications, energy and resource, financial industries.