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Jelly CAO
Non-equity Partner / Shanghai
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Tel +86-21-6061-3519
Email caoyanling@zhonglun.com
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Practices

Cross-border Investment/M&A, Financial Products & Trusts, Private Equity & Investment Funds
Jelly CAO
Ms. Cao has more than 10 years' professional experience working as in-house legal consultant and lawyer. Her expertise mainly covers real estate merger and acquisition, real estate financing, real estate development and operation, foreign direct investment, private equity, and investment funds. Ms. Cao has provided legal services to many real estate developers and investment banks and funds, contributing to client's success. In these sectors she practices, her vast client base includes without limitation, CapitaLand, Keppel Land, CITIC Group, DNE, Morgan Stanley, Carlyle Group, and Kailong Group. With such extensive background, Ms. Cao boast abundant hands-on experience in real estate legal services.
Representative Matters
Represented CapitaLand Retail in its sales of 20 shopping malls located across different PRC cities to SCPG and Vanke
Represented CapitaLand China Trust in acquisitions of a number of high-end warehouse and logistic projects
Represented Morgan Stanley in acquisitions of properties in China's mainland
Represented CBRE Global Investor in its cooperation with First Priority Group warehousing projects located in core regions in China's mainland
Represented Link REIT in its acquisition of warehousing and logistics portfolio from Dongbai Group
Represented Ping’an Real Estate in strategic investment in and acquisition of warehousing and logistics projects in Kunshan, Changsha, and other PRC cities
Represented Kailong Group in various acquisitions of office and commercial projects
Represented CITIC Pacific in its acquisition of Wuhan Shuion Tiandi office buildings
Represented Keppel Land China in its sale of Wuxi residential project
Represented China Resources Land in its cooperation with OCT to co-acquire land plot and co-develop the Shanghai Jingan project
Related
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Deals Related
Zhong Lun Advises Link on Acquisition of 50% Equity Interest in Shanghai Qibao Vanke Plaza
Zhong Lun acted as the PRC legal advisor to Link in this transaction, providing full-range legal services for transaction structuring, due diligence, compliance analysis, documentation and negotiation, issuance of the PRC legal opinions, and closing.
2024-03-21
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Bar Admissions/Professional Qualifications
PRC Bar, 2014
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Education
LL.B., Sichuan University, 2008
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Professional Experience
Non-equity partner and associate, Zhong Lun Law Firm, December 2015 to present
Legal Manager, SOCAM, September 2008 – December 2015 -
Languages
Chinese
English