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William QIU
Equity Partner / Beijing
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Tel +86-10-5957-2288
Email qiujian@zhonglun.com
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Practices
Private Equity & Investment Funds, Cross-border Investment/M&A, Chinese Mainland Capital Markets
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Industries
Telecommunications & Internet, Information & Intelligence Technology, Media-Sports & Entertainment, Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences
William QIU
Mr. William Qiu focuses his practice in the areas of private equity & investment funds, cross-border investment/M&A and Chinese mainland capital markets, and has rich experience in telecommunications & internet, information & intelligence technology, healthcare, biotech, media & entertainment, etc. He has advised many onshore/offshore funds on their RMB and USD investments, assisted numerous start-ups in their equity financings through a red-chip structure or RMB structure, and also assisted many large State-owned enterprises, private enterprises and A-share listed companies in their onshore/offshore investments, mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, re-financings, ESOP, etc.
William Qiu has been listed in IFLR1000, ALB China, Who's WHO Legal, The Legal 500, LEGALBAND and other awards for many times.
A number of transactions led by William 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 series of financing since seed round
Advised Jaguar Microsystems, a DPU chip design company, on its establishment and series of financing since angel round
Advised Yibu Seimiconductor, a chip packaging company, on its establishment and series of financing since angel round
Advised Arcomicro, a millimeter wave chip design company, on its establishment and series of financing since seed round
Advised YSEMI, a server CPU chip design company, on its establishment and series of financing since seed round
Advised SineuGene, a biopharmaceutical company, on its establishment and series of financing since seed round
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 its obtaining of Decathlon’s cross-border investment
Advised Snowball on its Series E financing of USD 120 million
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 companyAdvised Hua Capital and Wise Road Capital on their investment in Huaqin Co., Ltd., a smart products ODM company
William 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 making 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 cross-border equity financing with an amount of RMB 9 billion 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), 5 consecutive years from 2019 to 2023
Top 15 TMT Lawyers, ALB China 2021
China’s Leading Commercial Lawyer of the Year -Capital Market, Who’s WHO Legal, 2 consecutive years from 2020 to 2021
China Top Lawyer Chart - Corporate/M&A Band 1, LEGALBAND, 4 consecutive years from 2018 to 2021
Specially recommended, The Legal 500 (Asia Pacific), 2019
China Top 15 Rising Lawyers, ALB China, 2017
Leading Lawyer, LEGALBAND China Guide, 4 consecutive years from 2015 to 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
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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