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  • William QIU

    Equity Partner / Beijing

  • Tel +86-10-5957-2288

    Email qiujian@zhonglun.com

  • Practices

    Private Equity & Investment Funds, Cross-border Investment/M&A, Chinese Mainland Capital Markets

  • Industries

    Telecommunications & Internet, Information & Intelligence Technology, Media-Sports & Entertainment, Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences

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William QIU

With focus on private equity and investment funds, cross-border investment/M&A, and Chinese mainland capital markets, Mr. William Qiu boasts extensive experience in telecommunications and internet, information and intelligence technology, healthcare, biotech, media and entertainment, etc. He has advised many onshore/offshore funds on their RMB and USD investment, assisted numerous start-ups in their equity financings through a red-chip structure or RMB structure, and also represented many large state-owned enterprises, private-sector enterprises, and A-share listed companies in their onshore/offshore investment, mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, re-financings, ESOP, etc.
Mr. Qiu has been distinguished by IFLR1000, ALB China, Who’s WHO Legal, The Legal 500, LEGALBAND, and other reputable rating agencies for many times.
A number of transactions led by Mr. Qiu have won deal awards or special awards from many authoritative legal media, such as China Business Law Journal, China Law & Practice, Asian-MENA Counsel, asialaw Profiles, Financial Times, Finance Asia, etc.

Representative Matters

Private Equity & Investment Funds

  • Advised Enflame, an AI chip design company, on its establishment and financing from seed stage through subsequent rounds

  • Advised Jaguar Microsystems, a DPU chip design company, on its establishment and financing from angel round through subsequent rounds

  • Advised Yibu Seimiconductor, a chip packaging company, on its establishment and financing from angel round through subsequent rounds

  • Advised Arcomicro, a millimeter wave chip design company, on its establishment and financing from seed stage through subsequent rounds

  • Advised YSEMI, a server CPU chip design company, on its establishment and financing from seed stage through subsequent rounds

  • Advised SineuGene, a biopharmaceutical company, on its establishment and financing from seed stage through subsequent rounds

  • Advised on the joint establishment of JLQ Technologies, a cell phone chip design company, by Qualcomm, Datang Telecom, JAC, and Wise Road Capital

  • Advised Magene, an intelligent cycling equipment solution provider, on obtaining Decathlon's cross-border investment

  • Advised Snowball on its USD 120 million Series E financing

  • Advised Shunwei Capital on its investment in CloudWalk, Flagchip, Radrock, SOUTHCHIP, etc.

  • Advised Jadestone Capital on its investment in SiFli Technologies, Moli Semiconductor, Elevoc, Ancsonic, General Power Microelectronics, Shihu Technology, RFONE, PetaIO, etc.

  • Advised Redhill Capital on its investment in Cofoe Medical Technologies, Gnosis Healthineer, TopEye, Leading Micros, enCureGen, etc.

  • Advised CTC Capital on its investment in PetaIO and Neuron Basic

  • Advised China Mobile on its investment in Unity China, Motorcomm, Suirui, etc.

  • Advised Co-Stone on its investment in CIP UNITED, an MIP company

  • Advised Oriza Hua Capital, China Fortune-Tech Capital, and Zhongjin Pucheng Capital on their investment in Bluetrum, a Bluetooth chip design company

  • Advised Hua Capital and Wise Road Capital on their investment in Huaqin Co., Ltd., a smart products ODM company

Mr. Qiu has also advised enterprises across various industries (including internet, high-tech, telecom, health, life sciences, etc.) in different development stages with different shareholder backgrounds on their ESOPs, including designing ESOPs, preparing ESOP related documents, giving ESOP presentations to employees, and completing forex registrations for ESOPs.


Cross-border Investment - M&A

  • Advised Galanz on its tender offer for Whirlpool (600983.SH)

  • Advised BEOKA on its public offerings of stocks to unspecific qualified investors and listing on Beijing Stock Exchange

  • Advised China Greatwall (000066.SZ) on its non-public offering of shares

  • Advised Guoxin Micro (002049.SZ) on its public offering of convertible corporate bonds

  • Advised Unisplendour (000938.SZ) on its acquisition of Unicloud

  • Advised Integrated Silicon Solution, Inc. on its material asset restructuring with Beijing Ingenic (300223.SZ) and its related ESOP arrangement

  • Advised Tsinghua Unigroup Co., Ltd. on its cross-border acquisition of Linxens, a French micro-connector manufacturer

  • Advised NAURA (002371.SZ) on its acquisition of assets of Akrion Systems LLC, a U.S. company

  • Advised Beijing Unigroup Autonomous Vehicle Technologies Co., Ltd. on the establishment of a Sino-foreign equity joint venture with Mobileye

  • Advised Tibet Unigroup State Microelectronics Investment Co., Ltd. on its acquisition of Unimos Microelectronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of ChipMOS (8150.TW) and the establishment of a Sino-foreign equity joint venture

  • Advised Unisplendour Corporation Limited (000938.SZ) on its cross-border acquisition of H3C from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and its private placement

  • Advised Tsinghua Unigroup Co., Ltd. on its cross-border take-private acquisition of RDA Microelectronics, Inc. (NASDAQ: RDA) and its related financing matters

  • Advised a Chinese consortium composed of HUA Capital, CITIC Capital and Goldstone on their cross-border take-private acquisition of OmniVision Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: OVTI) and related financing matters

  • Advised Unigroup Spreadtrum & RDA on their CNY 9 billion cross-border equity financing from Intel

  • Advised Unisplendour Technology on its sale of 67.82% equity interests in Unis Holdings (00365.HK)

  • Advised China Mobile on its co-investment with China Eastern Airlines and Bank of China in a point reward platform established by Fortunet (01039.HK), CCB International and China UMS

  • Advised Zhaohua Investment on its sale of all equity interests in Zhaohua Pioneer to Fujian Longzhou Transportation Co., Ltd. (002682.SZ) for shares and cash

  • Advised China Mobile (00941.HK) and its affiliates on their equity investment in China Tower

  • Advised China State-owned Capital VC Fund Co., Ltd. on its subscription for shares offered by private placement by Sun.King Power Electronics Group Limited (00580.HK)

  • Advised Zhejiang Henglin Chair Industry Co., Ltd. (603661.SH) on its cross-border acquisition of 100% equity interests in FFL Holding AG in Switzerland

  • Advised Atlas Holdings LLC on its acquisition of EQI Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries

  • Advised Integrated Silicon Solution, Inc. on its contemplated material asset restructuring with Giga Device Semiconductor (Beijing) Inc. (603986.SH) and its related ESOP arrangement

  • Advised BCCF on its subscription for iQiyi’s offshore convertible notes, together with Baidu, Hillhouse Capital, Boyu Capital, IDG Capital, Everbright-IDG Industrial Fund, Sequoia Capital, etc.

  • Advised IDG on its leveraged buy-out of Sichuan Shuangma Cement Co., Ltd. (000935.SZ) and related financing matters

  • Advised BlueFocus Communication Group (300058.SZ) on its cross-border acquisition of Domob Group, a mobile advertising platform

  • Advised China Mobile Capital on its investment in Suirui (NEEQ: 835990) by private placement and share transfer

  • Advised an affiliate of SDIC Fund Management Company Ltd. on its joint establishment of Dizal Pharma with AstraZeneca and the management team, and counseled on designing and implementation of an ESOP

  • Advised Ansteel Group on its acquisition of several PRC-based foreign-invested enterprises from ThyssenKrupp

  • Advised Ansteel Group on its establishment of a Sino-foreign equity joint venture with Kobelco

Honors and Awards

For Individual

Notable Practitioner, International Financial Law Review (IFLR1000), 2019-2023

Top 15 TMT Lawyers, ALB China, 2021

China’s Leading Commercial Lawyer of the Year -Capital Market, Who’s WHO Legal, 2020-2021

China Top Lawyer Chart - Corporate/M&A Band 1, LEGALBAND, 2018-2021

Specially Recommended, The Legal 500 (Asia Pacific), 2019

China Top 15 Rising Lawyers, ALB China, 2017

Leading Lawyer, LEGALBAND China Guide, 2015-2018

Asia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers: Legal Expertise, Protecting & Unlocking Value (Asia-Pacific headquartered), Standout Award, Financial Times, 2017

For Deal

Impact Deal and Case Awards - Galanz Group’s merger filing and antitrust compliance to acquire Whirlpool in China, asialaw Profiles, 2022

Deal of the Year - Galanz Group’s merger filing and antitrust compliance to acquire Whirlpool in China, China Business Law Journal, 2021

Deal of the Year - NAURA Technology acquires Akrion Systems, China Business Law Journal, 2017

Deal of the Year – Unisplendour-H3C Acquisition, Asian-MENA Counsel, 2016

M&A Deal of the Year – HP and Tsinghua’s $2.5 billion Partnership, China Law & Practice, 2016

Best China Deal – Hewlett-Packard’s $2.3 billion sale of 51% of H3C to Tsinghua Unisplendour, Finance Asia, 2016

Deal of the Year – China Consortium’s Acquisition of OmniVision Technologies, China Business Law Journal, 2016

Deal of the Year – Tsinghua Unisplendour’s Acquisition of RDA, China Business Law Journal, 2014

Related

  • Bar Admissions/Professional Qualifications

    PRC Bar
    New York State Bar

  • Education

    LL.M., Southern Methodist University
    LL.M., Tsinghua University School of Law
    B.A., Tsinghua University

  • Professional Experience

    Partner, Zhong Lun Law Firm, June 2012 to present
    Before joining Zhong Lun, William had practiced at U.S. law firms for many years

  • Languages

    Chinese
    English