USD dollar denominated fund formation

Mr. Zhang represents Asia's top private equity funds, asset managers, multinational groups, financial institutions, state-owned enterprises and listed companies, as well as family offices and startups, for the formation of and investment in more than 100 investment funds.

Leveraged buyout transactions

Acting for CIC to acquire a number of real estate assets from the Blackstone Group Inc

• Acting for SCPG to acquire all commercial properties of Wal-Mart located in China by acquiring a number of Hong Kong holding companies

• Acting for a Warburg Pincus to acquire a logistics park located in Shanghai through complex arrangements

• Acting for a MBK Fund to provide financing for a commercial property located in Beijing

• Acting for one of Fortune Global 500 headquartered in Taiwan to sell its commercial properties located in Shanghai

• Acting for Huatai to provide mezzanine financing for a theme park and residential real estate project located in Shandong through the establishment of a USD-denominated real estate fund

• Acting for ABC International to set up a USD denominated fund to provide mezzanine financing for a leading real estate company’s residential development project in Lantau Island, Hong Kong

• Acting for a PE Fund to acquire four commercial properties located in Shanghai by acquiring BVI holding companies

• Acting for a real estate company to acquire hotels located in Sanya by acquiring BVI holding companies

• Acting for a real estate company to acquire hotels located in Beijing by acquiring Hong Kong holding companies

• Acting for a state-owned enterprise to indirectly transfer the controlling rights of a commercial complex located in Beijing through the formation of an AB share structure with a BVI holding company (a special tax-saving scheme)

• Acting for China Merchants Group to acquire many docks and logistics assets located in Guangdong Province by acquiring Hong Kong holding companies

• Acting for OCT group to set up a number of USD-denominated real estate funds

• Acting for Poly Group to set up a number of USD denominated real estate funds

• Acting for China Everbright Group to set up a USD denominated fund mainly investing in overseas infrastructure

• Acting for Keppel and CICC to set up a USD denominated fund mainly investing in Chinses commercial properties

• Acting for several financial institutions to set up a number of stand-alone USD denominated funds (involving contributions from orphan SPV and real estate project divestments (mainly in connection with residential or tourism real estate projects))

• Acting for Ping An Insurance to participate in the acquiring consortium to invest in Prosi privatization project (the largest private equity M&A in Asian history)

• Acting for a state-owned enterprise to invest in a USD denominated real estate fund established by HOPU

• Acting for China Life to invest in the Blackstone Real Estate Fund

• Acting for Blackstone Real Estate Fund to raise fund in China

• Acting for an insurance asset management company of Hong Kong to invest in a Chongqing real estate project developed by a central enterprise by acquiring a BVI company

• Acting for Orient Asset (Hong Kong) Limited to carry out domestic asset mezzanine finance

• Acting for Great-Wall International and a Hong Kong listed company to incorporate a USD denominated fund to invest in the then largest land development project of Singapore

• Acting for a Hong Kong listed company to incorporate a USD denominated fund to invest in a Hong Kong project of real estate development

• Acting for ABC International to incorporate a real estate investment fund

• Providing financing for a Hong Kong listed real estate company

• Acting for Longfor Property to consummate many overseas real estate financing project

Other cross-Border M&A and Corporate Finance Transactions

• Advising Zhengzhou Coal Mining Machinery Group Co., Ltd. (A-share stock code: 601717; H-share stock code: 00564) on conjunction with other equity investors and overseas syndicates to acquire Bosch Group; setting up offshore fund structure, and assisting in offshore syndicated loan transactions

• Advising Cinda on the corporate finance transactions in connection with HNA Group’s acquiring the Gategroup for a consideration of more than RMB 10 billion

• Advising Boda Group on the acquisition of multiple data center assets, setting the record for the largest domestic IDC asset and business transaction (non-equity transaction) in China

• Advising an investor on a USD 100 million investment in a private equity fund managed by the controlling shareholder of a listed company, to participate in the privatization transaction of United Family Healthcare (New Frontier Health Corporation)

• Advising Hopson on their indirect acquisition of certain interests in several TMT projects through investment in a certain fund

• Advising Chongqing Yufu Group on the disposal of their overseas non-performing assets

• Advising several international private equity funds on investing in pre-IPO projects in Hong Kong and the United States

• Advising a high-tech company based in Beijing on issuing Series A, Series A-1, Series B preference shares to international investors

• Advising a high-tech company on issuing certain convertible bonds to a US private equity fund

• Advising a UK listed company on the acquisition of a Singapore company for USD 100 million, for the purpose of indirect acquisition of two Chinese companies

• Advising a well-known company in Shenzhen and a multinational company on cross-border financing and M&A transactions over CNY 4 billion

• Advising China Orient Asset Management Co., Ltd. on providing an CNY 240 million cross-border financing project to a domestic listed company

• Advising China Merchants Bank Hong Kong on providing pre-IPO financing for a Chinese Internet company (red chip structure)

• Advising Chongqing Caixin Enterprise Group Co., Ltd. on the privatization of a listed company in Australia

• Advising a famous Chinese family on the acquisition of an offshore holding vehicle for the purpose of indirectly acquiring a real estate project in Sanya (with a valuation of RMB 2 billion)

• Advising a famous family office on the corporate finance transactions with the Carlyle Group for the purpose of acquiring a unified lubricant project under Shell Oil

• Advising CCB International on investing in a Singapore real estate project fund

• Advising China Duty Free Group (CDF) and a French duty-free company on establishing a joint venture company in Hong Kong, and subsequently successfully won the bidding of the Hong Kong Airport Duty Free Shop franchise

• Advising Jiayuan Tech on the acquisition of a Hong Kong company’s shares for the purpose of indirect acquisition of Unifull’s billion-dollar listed shares

• Advising chinaDRTV on the sale of the Ozing Group project by selling a Hong Kong holding company

• Advising client on the investment and exit in relation to a wind power project in Portugal

• Advising JP Morgan and Merrill Lynch on issuing USD 600 million senior loan to Want Want

• Acting as the underwriter’s (Korea Daewoo Securities and Silver Asia) counsel in the issuance of an SBLC-guaranteed USD 100 million three-year annual interest rate 3% bond by Guangxi Construction Engineering Group in the European Interbank Market (the second icebreaking bond issuance project of the same type in history)