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Yilin HUANG
Equity Partner / Shanghai
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Tel +86-21-6061-3666
Email huangyilin@zhonglun.com
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Practices
Cross-border Investment/M&A, Financing, Litigation & Arbitration
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Industries
Real Estate, Transportation & Logistics
Yilin HUANG
Mr. Yilin Huang is a 15+ years corporate and M&A lawyer. Before joining Zhong Lun as a partner, he worked at the international law firms including Clifford Chance and Herbert Smith Freehills for a decade. He has been advising clients on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital financings, equity and cooperative joint ventures, and complex commercial arrangements. Mr. Huang specializes in market sectors including advanced manufacturing, TMT, healthcare, real estate and infrastructure. Until very recently, with the growing popularity of cybersecurity and data security in PRC, Mr. Huang has also shifted a portion of his practice to this newly developed sector.
Mr. Huang's clients are primarily MNCs, USD funds and financial institutions such as CPPIB, Temasek, Warburg Pincus, Sequoia, Morgan Stanley, Keppel Capital, Gaw Capital, Boyu, CapitaLand, Mapletree, Albemarle, Arkema, Aptar, United Technologies Corporation, Prologis, Associated British Food.
Representative Matters
Advised Cainiao on forming a joint venture to operate a high-end logistics center in Hong Kong International Airport
Advised Trafigura on selling the precious metals warehouse in Shanghai Free Trade Zone
Advised CITIC Group on selling office buildings (under construction) in Shanghai
Advised PAG on various real estate projects in China
M&A and Investment
Advised a well-known European consumer goods fund on acquiring a majority stake in a PRC-based membership gym
Advised Ping An Good Doctor on a pre-IPO investment of USD 500 million by Softbank Vision Fund
Advised a Shenzhen-based online game company (backed by Tencent) on completing onshore and offshore restructure and a pre-IPO investment
Advised Temasek on investing USD 40 million in an IoT (Internet of Things) startup
Advised Tencent and Alibaba on various investment projects in China
Advised on a few investment projects by Ctrip outside China
Advised Metso on acquiring assets from a local manufacturing factory with a transaction value of over CNY 300 million
Advised United Technologies on various acquisition and joint venture projects in sectors of aerospace, elevator, fire prevention, and enterprise security in China
Advised AB Sugar (under Associated British Foods) on sale of its sugar business in southern China and restructuring of its sugar business in northern China
Advised on Hines'first logistics venture in China
Advised Thai Businessman on acquiring Fortune Magazine
Related
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Deals Related
Zhong Lun Advises on Hines’ First Logistics Venture in China
Zhong Lun represented Hines in this transaction and provided a full spectrum of cross-border legal services from legal due diligence, review, negotiation and finalization of the transaction documents, financing documents and closing of the transaction.
2020-11-26
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Bar Admissions/Professional Qualifications
PRC Bar, 2009
New York State Bar, 2008 -
Education
LL.M., Chicago-Kent College of Law, IIT, USA, 2007
LL.B., East China University of Politics and Law, China, 2006 -
Professional Experience
Equity partner and non-equity partner, Zhong Lun Law Firm
Senior associate, Clifford Chance LLP, Shanghai
Senior associate, Herbert Smith Freehills LLP, Shanghai
Associate, Jun He Law Firm
Associate, Troutman Sanders LLP Shanghai -
Languages
Chinese
English