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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

  • Bar Admissions/Professional Qualifications

    PRC Bar, 2014

  • Education

    LL.B., Sichuan University, 2008

  • 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