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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

  • Industries

    Telecommunications & Internet, Information & Intelligence Technology, Healthcare

CV

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 batch of PRC lawyers practicing in this area and has accumulated more than ten years of practice experience. Mr. Zhang 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 rich experience as a corporate lawyer.

Representative Matters

  • RMB/USD Fund. Mr. Zhang has 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. The many notable clients he has advised for their roles as general partners of private equity funds include 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, Netease, etc.

  • VC/PE Investment. Mr. Zhang has 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. He has represented both 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 360, etc.

  • Corporate Financing, Reorganization, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), and Daily Operations. Mr. Zhang has 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). Some of his notable clients in this area include 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, HITBOT, etc.

Honors and Awards

For Individual

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

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

China Top 15 Rising Lawyers, Asian Legal Business

Asian Leading Lawyer, asialaw Profiles

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

Leading Lawyer in Investment Funds in China, LEGALBAND

Highly Regarded Lawyer in Investment Funds, IFLR1000

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

Memberships & Affiliations

Investment and Financing Training Consultant, National Science and Technology Innovation Talents (the Science and Technology Talents Center of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China)

External Expert, the Fund Investment Decision Committee (E-town capital)

External Expert, the Master Fund Investment Decision Committee (Beijing Daxing Investment Group Co., Ltd)

External Expert, the Master Fund Investment Decision Committee (Beijing Shijingshan District Modern Innovation Industry Development Fund Co., Ltd.)

Law School of Renmin University of China "Practical Tutor of LLM"

Publications

As the only invited Chinese lawyer, Mr. Zhang has written the China Chapter of The Global Practice Guide on Investment Funds (First Edition) published by Chambers & Partners (2019)

As the only invited Chinese lawyer, Mr. Zhang has written the China Chapter of Global Private Equity (2019 Edition) published by London-based Law Business Research (2020)

"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, March 2020 to present
    Partner, Associate, Han Kun Law Offices, Beijing office, March 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 -March 2005

  • Languages

    Chinese
    English