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  • Yuanyuan TAO

    Equity Partner / Beijing

  • Tel +86-10-5957-2165

    Email taoyuanyuan@zhonglun.com

  • Practices

    Private Equity & Investment Funds, Cross-border Investment/M&A, Hong Kong & Overseas Capital Markets

  • Industries

    Telecommunications & Internet, Information & Intelligence Technology, Media-Sports & Entertainment

CV

Yuanyuan TAO

Ms. Tao Yuanyuan's main practice areas include private equity & investment funds, cross-border investment-M&A, Hong Kong & overseas capital markets, and she has rich experience in the fields of telecommunications & internet, information & intelligence technology, media and entertainment, especially in the industries of integrated circuit, semiconductor and chip and surveying and mapping. Ms. Tao has advised many onshore/offshore funds in their RMB and USD investments, assisted many start-ups in their equity financings in red-chip structure and 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, reorganizations, re-financings, ESOP, etc.

Representative Matters

Private Equity & Investment Funds

  • Advised Enflame, an AI chip design company, in its establishment and the consummation of series of financing since seed round

  • Advised Jaguar Microsystems, a DPU chip design company, in its establishment and the consummation of series of financing since angel round

  • Advised Arcomicro, a millimeter wave chip design company, in its establishment and the consummation of series of financing since seed round

  • Advised YSEMI, a server CPU chip design company, in its establishment and the consummation of series of financing since seed round

  • Advised 8H, a household enterprise, in the equity financings since Series Angel round to Pre-IPO round

  • Advised Magene Intelligence, an intelligent cycling equipment solution provider, in its obtaining of Decathlon’s cross-border investment

  • Advised Snowball in its Series E of financing of USD 120 million

  • Advised China Mobile Equity Fund in its investment in Sino-foreign joint venture Unity China together with Alibaba, G-Bits, miHoYo, OPPO, PCI, and Douyin Group, with a post-money valuation

    for Unity China of USD 1 Billion

  • Advised China Mobile Equity Fund in its investments of Motorcomm

  • Advised China Mobile Equity Fund in its Pre-IPO investment in 4-paradigm

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

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

  • Advised Spreadtrum in the offshore equity financing of Altek Semiconductor (Cayman) Co., Ltd., an affiliate of Altek Corporation (TW: 3059), together with Shanghai Guohe Capital and Delta Capital

  • Advised Wanda Investment in its Series A investment in Le Sport

  • Advised IDG Capital and New Horizon Capital in the Series A financing of Leoao, an O2O fitness enterprise

  • Advised IDG Capital in its investment of Hansight, a big data security analytic solution provider

  • Advised IDG Capital in the Series A investment of Komanic, an e-commerce platform of shoes and advised Komanic in its acquisition of another domestic shoe company

  • Advised IDG Capital in the Series A investment of a domestic video platform

  • Advised IDG Capital in the Series A investment of Youth Media, a new media marketing plan company

  • Advised IDG Capital in the Series B investment of in 273.com, a domestic leasing platform of used-car, together with 58.com and other investors

  • Advised PICC in the Pre-IPO investment of Boqii, an e-commerce platform of pets

  • Advised Everbright ADV l in real estate fintech solutions provider

  • Advised ADV Capital in its Series D and Series D-1 investments of Boqii, an e-commerce platform of pets

  • Advised ADV Capital in the Series B investment of Wanka Online, a leading Android mobile ads service provider, together with NLVC, KIP etc.

  • Advised Linde China in its investment in several joint ventures.

  • Advised Xingguangwuyu, a service provider of enterprise inside purchasing platform, in its onshore and offshore RMB and USD financings


Cross-border Investment - M&A and Capital Markets

  • Advised Galanz in its tender offer for Whirlpool (SSE:600983)

  • Advised Tsinghua Unigroup in its cross-border acquisition of Linxens, a French micro-connector manufacturer

  • Advised Unisplendour Corporation (SZSE: 000938) in its cross-border acquisition of H3C from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and its private placement

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

  • Advised UNISOC in its cross-border equity financing with an amount of RMB 9 billion from Intel

  • Advised Unisplendour Technology in the sale of 67.82% equity interest in Unis Holdings (00365.HK)

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

  • Advised China Mobile in the establishment of a Sino-foreign equity joint venture enterprise engaging in operation of internet of vehicles with Deutsche Telekom

  • Advised Qualcomm in the establishment of JLQ Technologies, a smart devices and mobile communications chip design company, together with Datang Telecom, JAC and Wise Road Capital

  • Advised Unisplendour Corporation (SZSE: 000938) in its contemplated cross-border acquisition of Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC)

  • Advised Tsinghua Unigroup in its acquisition of shares of 500.com, an Internet lottery operation platform (NYSE:WBAI)

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

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

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

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

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

  • Advised IDG in the leveraged buy-out of Sichuan Shuangma Cement Co., Ltd. (SZSE: 000935) and related financing matters

  • Advised BlueFocus Communication Group (SZSE: 300058) in its cross-border acquisition of Domob Group, a mobile advertising platform

  • Advised CAGR, a portfolio company of Warburg Pincus, in its acquisition of a Chinese gas company and related debt restructuring

  • Advised Plastic Capital in its acquisition of Shengli Weiye, printing machinery company


Yuanyuan Tao has also advised enterprises from various industries (including internet, high-tech, telecom, health and life sciences, etc.) in different development stages with different shareholder backgrounds in their ESOP, including design and implementation of ESOP plan, preparation of ESOP related documents and the host of relevant presentation sessions regarding ESOP to employees

Honors and Awards

For Individual

Legalband China 30 Under 30, LEGALBAND, 2017

  • Bar Admissions/Professional Qualifications

    PRC Bar

  • Education

    LL.M. (Master of Civil and Commercial Law), China University of Political Science and Law, September, 2009 - July, 2012
    LL.M, (Master of European Law and International Law), University of Hamburg, September, 2010 - February, 2012

  • Professional Experience

    Partner, Non-equity Partner, Associate, Zhong Lun Law Firm, July, 2012 to present

  • Languages

    Chinese
    English