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  • Lawrence Wang

    Senior Counsel / Hangzhou

  • Tel +86-571-5662-3969

    Email Lawrencewang@zhonglun.com

  • Practices

    Hong Kong & Overseas Capital Markets, Investment/M&A & Corporate Governance, Private Equity & Investment Funds

CV

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

  • 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