Haiwen & Partners

Managing Partner: Jiping Zhang

Number of partners: 89

Number of lawyers: 400+

Languages: Chinese, English, Japanese

Firm Overview:

Founded in May 1992, Haiwen & Partners is one of the leading law firms in China. Haiwen has developed unrivaled expertise in a broad range of practice areas. With its creativity and professionalism demonstrated in numerous large-scale, complex and cross-border transactions, the firm is one of the most sought-after PRC law firms in many areas including securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, fund formation, compliance, entertainment and media, employment, tax, ABS, banking and finance, bankruptcy and reorganisation, anti-trust and competition law, intellectual property and commercial dispute resolutions.

Currently, more than 400 lawyers and paralegals work at Haiwen’s Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Chengdu and Haikou offices. Lawyers at Haiwen are graduates of prestigious law schools in China and abroad, and many have worked at some of the most respected international law firms. The depth of the firm's expertise, the breadth of its experience, and the excellence of the team spirit enables the firm to provide a full range of high-quality services to its clients.

The firm's professional services have been widely recognised by its clients, as well as the international legal and financial community. The firm has received numerous awards, such as "Best Law Firm of the Year", “Best Deal of the Year” and “Best Team of the Year”, from professional ranking publications and institutions.

Practice Areas:

■ Capital Markets

■ Mergers & Acquisitions

■ Private Equity

■ Fund Formation

■ Assets Management

■ Asset Securitisation

■ Banking & Finance

■ Antitrust & Competition

■ Intellectual Property

■ Tax

■ Dispute Resolution

■ Shipping & Trade

■ Bankruptcy & Reorganisation

■ Entertainment & Media

■ Real Estate

■ Employment & Labour

■ Anti-corruption & Compliance

■ Data Compliance & Cyber Security

■ Export Controls and Sanctions

■ Life Science & Healthcare

■ Private Wealth

■ Distressed Assets & NPL

■ General Corporate

Main Areas of Practice:

Capital Markets:

Haiwen is the first law firm in China to focus on capital market transactions by Chinese enterprises and have assisted many clients in their share capital restructuring and domestic and domestic and international securities offer-ings.

Haiwen is widely recognised as a pioneer PRC law firm in the area of securities offerings, and has led in substantially all first-of-a-kind innovative trans-actions involving Chinese issuers. The firm works for top-tier international and domestic investment banking firms or issuers in numerous overseas and domestic securities offering transactions, including initial public offerings (IPOs), follow-on equity offerings, and various types of debt offering.

Mergers & Acquisitions:

Haiwen is one of China's preeminent law firms in the M&A field. The firm's M&A lawyers are regularly involved in large scale, complex and innovative domestic and cross-border M&A transactions. The firm represents buyers, sellers, lenders, and financial advisors and provides legal advice from different perspectives. Its clients include Chinese and foreign companies, investment banks, venture capital funds, private equity funds, commercial banks, insurance companies, end etc.

The firm's dedicated M&A lawyers provide sophisticated advice to effectively and efficiently structure and execute the most complex transactions. It also draws upon its broad resources in dispute resolution, securities, banking and financing, antitrust, employment, tax, intellectual property, real estate, and other specialty areas to provide integrated services to its M&A clients.

Private Equity:

Private equity is Haiwen's traditional area of strength, where it has maintained a leading position and is widely recognised. Haiwen serves a wide range of private equity funds, start-up and other market players of all types, and provides legal solutions to complex and groundbreaking investment projects. Leveraging on the firm's extensive experience in a broad range of industries and with the support from first-class teams in capital markets, intellectual property, tax, compliance and anti-monopoly, the firm provides its clients with holistic and tailor-made, accurate advice to help them achieve their business goals efficiently.

For more practice areas, please visit the Haiwen & Partners website at: www.haiwen-law.com