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Lawrence Wang
Senior Counsel / Hangzhou
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Practices
Hong Kong & Overseas Capital Markets, Investment/M&A & Corporate Governance, Private Equity & Investment Funds
Lawrence Wang
Lawrence has over 20 years of extensive experience in Hong Kong capital markets, with expertise covering continuing compliance, securities offering and issuance, cross-border M&A and investments, and other general corporate work. His clients include leading state-owned/private companies and financial institutions. Lawrence has an in-depth understanding of the nuances that distinguish various commercial cultures and therefore is equipped with a unique ability to seamlessly align clients' business needs with legal contexts and provide tailor-made solution to each client. Under his guidance, his team devised ground-breaking transactional structures and successfully navigate these deals to their completion. Further, Lawrence has established a particularly prominent market profile advising HK-listed companies. Notably, he has acted as annual retainer counsel for many blue chip listed companies (e.g., China Everbright Bank, Huaneng International, Great Wall Motor, Vanke Group, Tong Ren Tang, Huadian International, and China Nonferrous Mining) as well as provided transactional advice to many HK-listed companies (e.g., TCL, China Life, CSSC, Nanjing Panda, and Beijing Gas Bluesky). Apart from Mandarin, Lawrence is also fluent in English and Cantonese as working language.
Representative Matters
Annual Retainer for HK-listed Companies
Acting as retainer counsel for Great Wall Motor Co., Ltd.
Acting as retainer counsel for China Everbright Bank Co., Ltd.
Acting as retainer counsel for Huadian Power International Corporation Limited
Acting as retainer counsel for Tong Ren Tang Technologies Co., Ltd.
Acting as retainer counsel for China Nonferrous Mining Corporation Limited
Acting as retainer counsel for Huaneng Power International, Inc.
Acting as retainer counsel for Huadian Fuxin Energy Corporation Limited
Acting as retainer counsel for China Vanke Co., Ltd.
Acting as retainer counsel for Zhejiang Cangnan Instruments Group Co., Ltd.
Acting as retainer counsel for Datang Environment Industry Group Co., Ltd.
Acting as retainer counsel for YCIH Green High-Performance Concrete Company Limited
Acting as retainer counsel for Guangzhou Rural and Commercial Bank
Acting as retainer counsel for 7Road Holdings
Acting as retainer counsel for Xinda Investment Holdings Limited
Acting as retainer counsel for Honghua Group
Acting as retainer counsel for China Merchants Bank Co., Ltd.
Acting as retainer counsel for Sinofert Holdings Limited
Initial Public Offering
Represented joint sponsors and joint global coordinators CICC and HSBC in the spin-off listing of Jinmao Properties Services
Represented Zhejiang Cangnan Instruments Group Co., Ltd. in its initial public offering and listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Represented UBS, Morgan Stanley, and BOCI as joint sponsors in the intended spin-off listing of certain business units of an infrastructure state-owned company
Represented Tonly Electronics Holdings Limited in its spin-off listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Represented CCBI and BOCI as joint sponsors in the initial public offering and listing of Bolina Holdings Co., Ltd. on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Represented Goldman Sachs as sole sponsor and sole global coordinator in the initial public offering and listing of a leading automobile equipment company on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Represented China Merchants Bank Co., Ltd. in its initial public offering and listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Represented Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in its initial public offering and listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Represented Chongqing Rural and Commercial Bank in its initial public offering and listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Represented Greentown China in its initial public offering and listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Transactions Relating to HK-listed Companies
Advised Zhejiang Cangnan Instruments Group Co., Ltd. on its privatization from Hong Kong Stock Exchange by way of share repurchase. This is the first-ever privatization deal by way of share repurchase in Hong Kong and it was awarded as "Deal of the Year" by IFLR1000
Represented Great Wall Motor in its joint venture cooperation with BMW auto and exemption of shareholders meeting
Represented Great Wall Motor in its refreshment of repurchase general mandate, and this is the first-ever such H share refreshment in Hong Kong
Represented Great Wall Motor in a series of its share incentive schemes
Represented Beijing Energy Group in its subscription of new shares issued by Panda Green Energy Group
Represented Huadian Fuxin in its privatization from Hong Kong Stock Exchange by way of merger by absorption
Represented TCL Multimedia in its rights offer
Represented TCL Multimedia in designing and handling its non-competition matters
Represented TCL Multimedia in its issue of 20% new shares to LeTV
Represented TCL Multimedia in its strategic business cooperation with Tencent
Represented TCL Multimedia in its acquisition of TCL Commercial Information Technology (Huizhou) Co., Ltd.
Represented China Everbright Bank in its issue of new H shares to China Everbright Group and OCT
Represented China Everbright Bank in a series of its issues of preference shares
Represented Deutsche Bank in the new share issue by Sinotrans Limited
Represented China Life in its subscription of new shares issued by Sino-ocean Land Holdings Limited
Represented China Merchants Bank in its A+H dual rights offer
Represented AUX International in the injection of properties services assets
Represented Huaneng International in the injection of power generation assets in Shandong, Jilin, Heilongjiang, and Henan provinces by Huaneng Group in 2016
Represented Huaneng International in the injection of power generation assets in several provinces by Huaneng Group in 2014
Represented Zhejiang Southeast Electric Power in its delisting from London Stock Exchange
Represented China Nonferrous Mining in its joint venture cooperation with Yunnan Copper Group in Africa
Represented CNOOC in its USD 2 billion global offering of senior unsecured fixed rate notes
Represented Beijing Gas Bluesky in handling its suspension of trading for management-related matters
Represented a leading real estate developer in handling regulatory investigation by Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Cross-border M&A and Private Equity Investment
Represented Youngor Group in its acquisition of Xin Ma Apparel International and Smart Apparel Group from Kellwood, a leading apparel and textile products retailer in the US
Represented Sinopec in its acquisition of certain gas station assets in HK from China Resources
Represented a leading state-owned energy company in its intended acquisition of certain wind power assets in the Europe
Represented a state-owned bank in its intended bid for certain bank in Southeast Asia
Represented a leading real estate developer in the intended investment by Warburg Pincus and its pre-IPO restructuring
Represented a leading dairy products company in the intended investment by Actis Investment
Memberships & Affiliations
Former member, Mainland Technical Consultation Group, The Hong Kong Chartered Governance Institute (HKCGI)
Former Deputy Director, Center of International Financing and M&A, Zhejiang University
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Bar Admissions/Professional Qualifications
New York State Bar
PRC Bar (non-practicing) -
Education
LL.B., Zhejiang University
LL.M., London School of Economics and Political Science
LL.M., New York University -
Professional Experience
Zhong Lun Law Firm
Fangda Partners
Herbert Smith Freehills -
Languages
Chinese
English