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  • Evan ZHANG

    Equity Partner / Beijing

  • Tel +86-10-5957-2007

    Email pingzhang@zhonglun.com

  • Practices

    Private Equity & Investment Funds, Investment/M&A & Corporate Governance, Litigation & Arbitration

  • Industries

    Telecommunications & Internet, Information & Intelligence Technology, Healthcare

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Evan ZHANG

Mr. Evan Zhang excels in advising on domestic and offshore private investment funds in respect of structure design, fundraising, operations and management, internal system design, project exit, dissolution, and liquidation. He is one of the first PRC lawyers practicing in this area and has accumulated more than ten years of practice experience. He has represented many well-known Chinese and foreign clients in forming more than one thousand private investment funds of various types.

Mr. Zhang has nearly twenty years of experience in the area of VC/PE equity investment and has provided numerous well-known private investment funds, insurance institutions, listed companies, and other types of investment entities with services such as designing appropriate transaction structures, conducting legal due diligence, drafting transaction documents, issuing legal opinions, and engaging in commercial negotiations in respect of their domestic and offshore equity investments and M&A projects.

He has also provided professional legal advice to scores of well-known enterprises in the areas of domestic and offshore private equity financing, M&A, restructuring for IPO structure, ESOP design and daily operations, and has accumulated substantial experience as a corporate lawyer.

Representative Matters

RMB/USD Fund

Assisted many well-known Chinese and foreign clients in forming over one thousand private investment funds of various types, including private equity investment funds, private venture capital investment funds, private securities investment funds, contractual private equity investment funds, corporate-form private equity funds, funds of funds (FOF), parallel funds, umbrella funds, QFLP funds, real estate funds, insurance funds, M&A funds, securities trader direct investment funds, secondary funds, etc., as well as offshore funds, including corporate- and partnership-form USD Funds and offshore FOFs, most notably for clients with roles as general partners of private equity funds, including but not limited to Qiming Venture Partners, Shunwei Capital, Northernlight Capital, Innovation Works, CICC Capital, AlphaX Partners, 6 Dimensions Capital, CBC Capital, Sinopharm Capital, 3E Bioventure, Yahui Medical Fund, In Capital, Gobi Partners, Vlight Capital,Soul Capital, Qingsong Fund, Koala Fund, China Reform Fund, etc., and those as limited partners of private equity funds include Yangtze River Industry Fund, Newerli Capital, GLP Capital, Shengjing 360, Kaiyuan Guochuang Capital, Yuanhe Capital, Suzhou Equity Investment Fund, China Culture FOF, Daxing FOF, E-Town Capital, Sino-US United MetLife Insurance Company Limited, Taikang Asset, Ping An Insurance Group, China Reinsurance Group, CAS Holdings, SDIC, Baidu, Tencent, JD.com, and Netease


VC/PE Investment

Provided legal services to many prominent private investment funds, listed companies, major industrial and other types of investment entities, including designing appropriate transaction structures, conducting legal due diligence, drafting transaction documents, issuing legal opinions and engaging in commercial negotiations in respect of their domestic and offshore equity investments, debt investments, and mezzanine investments for domestic and overseas venture capital project clients, including Sequoia Capital, IDG, Qiming Venture Partners, CBC Capital, Legend Capital, SAIF, Fidelity Capital, SIG Capital, Shunwei Funds, New Enterprise Capital, Genesis Capital, Shining Capital, Goldstone-investment, CAS Capital, Sinopharm Capital, In Capital, Yahui Precision Medical Fund, Northernlight Capital, AlphaX Partners, Koala Fund, NewQuest Capital, E-Town Capital, General Venture Capital, Tsing Capital, Gobi Partners, Vlight Capital, Panda Capital, CCB Capital, Sino-Ocean Capital, Value Capital, SDIC Gaoxin, SDIC Innovation, SDIC Venture Capital, CDB-CDC, Sunshine Insurance Group, BlueFocus, AK Group, Qingsong Fund, Legend Holdings, New World Strategic Investment, Shengjing, and  360


Corporate Financing, Reorganization, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), and General Corporate Matters

Represented clients in domestic and overseas equity VC, red chip structure construction/removal, employee option system design, listing structure construction, and restructuring & mergers & acquisitions (M&A), most notably for clients including but not limited to Lakala, Arrail Dental, SECOO, Hangzhou Sky-Mobi, Shanghai Touchpal, Longwill (quick care), Shouguang Vegetable Industry Holding Group, Immotors, Chinaso, Internet Based Engineering, Zhizhangyi, Hongyun Group, Cre8ive Group, Jiuyi Finance, Flymi, Lan-mi, SENSORO, OneAPM, Moseeker, ID5, RTMAP, Reach Surgical, Kidsmile, ETComm,Bondent, Werfen, VR Medical, GSTZY, YinYueTai, and HITBOT

Honors and Awards

For Individual

National Thousand Foreign-related Lawyers, the Ministry of Justice of China, 2018

Leading Lawyer in Investment Funds in Asia-Pacific Area, Chambers Asia-Pacific, 2016-2023

China Top 15 Rising Lawyers, Asian Legal Business, 2015

Asian Leading Lawyer, asialaw Profiles, 2015-2023

Recommended Lawyer of China in Investment Funds, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2019-2022

Leading Lawyer in Investment Funds in China, LEGALBAND, 2016-2023

Highly Regarded Lawyer in Investment Funds, IFLR1000, 2022-2023

Leading Lawyer of Private Equity in China, Who's Who Legal, 2020

Memberships & Affiliations

Investment and Financing Training Consultant of the National Science and Technology Innovation Talents, Science and Technology Talents Center of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, 2014-2023

External Expert, Fund Investment Decision Committee, E-town Capital, 2018-2023

External Expert, Master Fund Investment Decision Committee, Beijing Daxing Investment Group Co., Ltd., 2019-2023

External Expert, Master Fund Investment Decision Committee, Beijing Shijingshan District Modern Innovation Industry Development Fund Co., Ltd., 2021-2023

Practical Tutor of LL.M., Law School of Renmin University of China

Publications

"The Global Practice Guide on Investment Funds (First Edition)" (China chapter), Chambers & Partners, 2019 (as the publication's only Chinese contributor)

"Global Private Equity (2019 Edition)" (China chapter), Law Business Research (London-based), 2020 (as the publication's only Chinese contributor)

"Private Equity Fund Legal Practice Manual", 2022

Related

  • Bar Admissions/Professional Qualifications

    PRC Bar
    Qualification of Private Fund Practitioners

  • Education

    EMBA, China Europe International Business School
    Master's degree., Renmin University of China
    Bachelor's degree Dalian University of Foreign Languages

  • Professional Experience

    Partner, Zhong Lun Law Firm, Beijing office, March 2020 to present
    Partner and associate, Han Kun Law Offices, Beijing office, June 2005 - March 2020 (From November 2010 to July 2011, Mr. Zhang was on secondment at Hunter Taubman Fischer & Li LLC in New York)
    Staff member, Ministry of Commerce of China, July 2004 - May 2005

  • Languages

    Chinese
    English