Yongqiang Yu

Practice Areas

Prior to joining JunHe in 2002, Mr. Yu practiced at another leading PRC law firm from 1999 to 2002. Between 2005 and 2006, Mr. Yu worked as a secondee at Slaughter and May, in Hong Kong and her London headquarters.

Since joining JunHe, Mr. Yu has been significantly involved in a number of securities and M&A transactions. For example, in 2014, Mr. Yu assisted ICBC with the issuance of RMB34.55 billion offshore preference shares to be sold in the US to qualified institutional buyers, and also assisted BofCom with the issuance of $1.2bn and €500m tier 2 capital bonds. In 2016, Mr. Yu represented Vanke to prevent a hostile takeover, which garnered huge market interest, and represented Goldman Sachs in SF Express’s backdoor listing and represented UBS Securities in YT Express’s backdoor listing. In 2021, Mr. Yu advised Goldman Sachs in BeiGene’s A-Share IPO on the SSE STAR Market and assisted BeiGene becoming the First Biotechnology Company to be Listed in Shanghai, Hong Kong and New York.

Mr. Yu is also regarded as an expert in GDR deals, which include China Yangtze Power’s GDR, Mingyang Smart Energy Group Corporation’s GDR and Lepu Medical’s GDR and in Panda Bond deals, which include National Bank of Canada’s panda bond, New Development Bank’s panda bond, Egypt’s panda bond and Air Liquide’s panda bond, etc.

Career

Expert Member of the Registration Meeting of NAFMII

Legal Expert of the Legal Committee of NAFMII

Part-time Professor of China University of Political Science and Law

Graduate Tutor of Law School of Renmin University of China

Professional Memberships

Member of the All-China Lawyers Association

the Beijing Lawyers Association and the Hong Kong Law Society

Personal

Sports (Tennis, Badminton and Guandan, etc.) and Hiking.

Clients

UnionPay, Goldman Sachs, CICC, Ali Cloud, etc.

Industry Sector Expertise

HK IPO, US IPO and Panda Bonds

Languages Spoken

Mandarin and English

Publications

A Guide to Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions / Compilation of Policies and Regulations on the Issuance of Foreign Debts by Enterprises/ China Legal Review - April 2009《Where Innovation Thrives, Growth Takes Root; Where Risks Lurk, Opportunities Beckon》/ China Forex – The Second Half Issue in November 2017《"Bond Connect" Marks the New Era of "Panda Bonds"》/ China Forex – The First Half Issue in August 2022《Open a New Chapter for the Offshore RMB Bond Market》/ Fifteen Years of NAFMII: Collected Works from 2007 to 2022《Boost the Real Economy with the Innovative Debt Financing Instruments》

Education

Awards