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Cathy ChangBeijingMember of PRC Bar
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Partner
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Practices:Cross-border investment and financing, M&A, Corporate
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Tel:+86 10 8587 0068
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Fax:+86 10 8587 0079
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Email:zheng.chang@chancebridge.com
Areas of Practice
- Cathy has been focusing on mergers and acquisitions, financing, foreign direct investment, Chinese outbound investment, and corporate compliance/governance for over 12 years. She has extensive experience in large and complex cross-border transactions, Sino-foreign joint ventures, and corporate advisory services. Cathy provides full-life-cycle legal services for investors from the U.S., Germany, France, the U.K., Singapore, Australia, Malaysia, Greece, Israel, and China Hong Kong in their investments in China. In outbound investment and international trade, she offers comprehensive legal solutions for enterprises venturing out, with full-process services for SOEs and private companies, including due diligence, setting up overseas investment platforms, designing investment and M&A structures, negotiating, drafting transaction documents, and reviewing related contracts.
- During her work in Hong Kong and Chinese Mainland, she handled several complicated cross-border dispute resolution cases and has practical experience in international arbitration and Hong Kong litigation. In recent years, Cathy has also been engaged in personal privacy protection, data compliance, and data assetization legal services.
- Cathy is a member of the Beijing Lawyer Association’s talent pool of foreign-related lawyers and a member of "Belt and Road Lawyer” talent pool of Chaoyang District, Beijing. Cathy holds PRC Lawyer Qualification, Fund Practitioner Qualification, Data Asset Planner Certification, and Enterprise Data Asset Management Certification.
Education Background
The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Master of Laws |
Ocean University of China | Bachelor of Laws |
Taiwan Yishou University | Exchange Program |
Work Experience
- Before joining Chance Bridge Law Firm, Cathy worked at Grandall Law Firm (Beijing) as an associate and worked at Beijing Dingshi Law Firm as a partner.
- Cathy also has work experience in Hong Kong, having been employed at a well-known Hong Kong law firm and a pension investment company.
Language
- Chinese, English
Foreign Investment
- Assisted Weiqiao Group (among the world's top 500 enterprises) in the transaction on introducingadvanced German industrial technology intellectual property rights into China with services including due diligence, transaction negotiation, and preparation of legal documents
- Hong Kong listed company Swire Properties and Sino-Ocean Group' joint investment in Indigo II Project (with a total investment of approximately RMB23 billion, the largest foreign-invested real estate project in Beijing in 2020), and the syndicated loan for the project (the largest single financing project in the national real estate project financing market in 2021), as well as the subsequent adjustment to the interest in the project
- Swire Properties' acquisition of 40% equity interest in the two project companies of the Yangjing site and Lot 21 in Pudong New Area, Shanghai from Lujiazui Group (acquisition amount approximately RMB9.7 billion in total)
- Acquisition of 50% interest in Taikoo Li Chengdu (acquisition amount approximately RMB5.55 billion)
- A joint venture project - Taikoo Li Qiantan in Shanghai (total investment of approximately RMB4.6 billion, a landmark commercial complex project in Shanghai's Pudong New Area)
- Taikoo Li Sanlitun West Project (an extension of Taikoo Li Sanlitun)
- Shanghai Zhang Yuan Historical Building Conservation and Development Project (a key project in Shanghai Jing'an District)
- A joint venture project of an American publisher and CITIC Publication
- Acquisition of equity in the German food machinery manufacturing company Frando Mado in Beijing
- Swire Properties and Lujiazui Group’s cooperation of Pudong Art Museum
Foreign Assets Disposal Projects in China
- Provided comprehensive legal services for the inventory investigation, risk identification and management, asset revitalization and disposal of over 30 real estate projects invested by Decathlon Group in China, and provided legal services such as design of deal structure, preparation of legal documents, negotiation, and assistance in the settlement of disposal transactions of some of the aforesaid projects
- Intel financial leasing legal consultancy project
- Asset acquisition of a Hangzhou office building project by Blackstone Fund
- Beijing Happy Village foreign assets disposal project
- Beijing Liuyin Park foreign assets disposal project
- Beijing Core Area courtyard foreign asset disposal project
- Huapu International Building foreign asset disposal project
Outbound Investment
- Acquisition of overseas automotive semiconductor chip production lines of a reputable international chip company by a state-owned listed telecommunications enterprise
- Acquisition of controlling stake in an Australian wind power company project by Hebei provincial SOE Xintian Energy
- Acquisition of majority stake in a Turkish gas-steam cycle power generation company by a provincial energy SOE
- Acquisition of a New Zealand wind power company by an SOE
- Acquisition of a PV Project in Malasia by a central company
Cross-border Compliance
- Project on data compliance and personal information protection impact assessment for the distribution partnership between a top Chinese tier-one education group and a leading UK university press
International Trade
- Review and revise bilingual (Chinese-English) commercial contracts for cross-border trade and international engineering and construction projects involving state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and reputable private enterprises
Overseas Structures
- Formation of a VIE structure by a domestic vocational education institution, its USD financing and the proposed removal of the VIE structure
- Shareholding structure design, equity incentive plan, financing and capital increase of an Internet enterprise
- Representation of Meituan in Series B+ RMB financing of Yijiupi, a well-known online liquor distribution platform
- Setting up and financing of a technology start-up company
- Representation of Meituan in the RMB financing of Shenzhen Flightroutes Information Services Co., Ltd.
- Equity acquisition of Beijing Zhiyunda Technology Co. Ltd.
Ongoing Corporate Advisory
Serve as ongoing corporate advisory (external legal counsel) for large and medium-sized state-owned enterprises, foreign-invested enterprises and private enterprises listed companies and private enterprises (listed companies included) such as:
- Swire Properties’ PRC subsidiaries
- China First Heavy Industries (CFHI)
- China Heavy Machinery Corporation (CHMC)
- Sino-Ocean Group
- Boshi Group
- Hong Kong Land’s PRC subsidiary
- Shimao Real Estate
- New World Group’s PRC subsidiary
- China Vocational North Education Technology Co., Ltd.
- the Beijing News
- CITIC Publication
Recognition
- 2023 Grandall Group "Classic Non-Litigation Project" Award
- 2020 Grandall Law Firm (Beijing) Outstanding Employee
- 2016 Grandall Law Firm (Beijing) Outstanding Employee
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