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  • Yuxing YE

    Senior Counsel / Beijing

  • Tel +86-10-5957-2039/18610131090

    Email yeyuxing@zhonglun.com

  • Practices

    Cross-border Investment/M&A, Investment/M&A & Corporate Governance, Trade Compliance & Trade Remedies

  • Industries

    Energy & Power, Mining & Natural Resources, Information & Intelligence Technology, Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences

CV

Yuxing YE

Yuxing is a cross-border M&A and projects specialist with over 17 years of experience. He supports clients across a wide range of industries, including energy and infrastructure, agribusiness, and manufacturing.

Yuxing frequently represents international clients investing in China and domestic clients investing globally in jurisdictions across Europe, North and South America, Southeast Asia, Australia, the Middle East, and Africa. His clients include major global and domestic energy developers, well-known Chinese state-owned enterprises, private equity funds, and leading manufacturers of all sizes.

In his M&A practice, Yuxing advises his clients on complex cross-border legal issues and assists them in achieving their business goals by navigating them through the process of making strategic acquisitions or divestitures, negotiating and establishing joint ventures, and entering new markets. Yuxing's expertise extends to regulatory compliance, due diligence, and risk management, ensuring that transactions are seamless and strategically aligned with business objectives.

In the energy and power sector, Yuxing has helped sponsors and developers steer through all stages of a project, from planning and structuring to development, financing, and construction. He has extensive experience in drafting and negotiating a variety of commercial and project agreements, including joint venture agreements, concession agreements, power purchase agreements, as well as share purchase and sale agreements, and shareholder agreements. His deep understanding of regulatory frameworks and market dynamics enables him to provide strategic advice that anticipates industry trends and regulatory changes, optimizing outcomes for his clients.

Representative Matters

Retainer-based Counsel

  • Acted as retainer-basis legal counsel to the Ministry of Natural Resources (formerly the Ministry of Land and Resources)


Energy & Resources

  • Advised China Power International Holding Ltd. on its acquisition of utility-scale solar and wind projects in Brazil, Georgia, Hungary, and Romania

  • Advised SPIC Huanghe Hydropower Development Co., Ltd. on forming a consortium with ACWA Power, a Saudi Arabia based developer and operator of power projects, and on their successful joint bids of multiple projects in the region, including the Red Sea Project, a megaproject forming part of the Saudi Vision 2030 program

  • Advised China Power International Holding Ltd. on its acquisition of utility-scale solar and wind projects in Brazil, Georgia, Hungary, and Romania

  • Advised SUMEC Group Corporation on its acquisition of three distributed solar projects in Turkey

  • Advised China Southern Power Grid International (HK) Co., Limited on its proposed acquisition of a portfolio of 2,400 km of operational transmission lines in Brazil from Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management

  • Advised China Nuclear Industry 23 Construction Co., Ltd. on forming of a joint venture with KNM International Sdn Bhd, a Malaysian oil, gas, and petrochemical engineering conglomerate, to provide BOT services for petrochemical and renewable energy in Malaysia and the broader Southeast Asia

  • Advised China National Machinery Imp. & Exp Corp on forming a joint venture with Malaysia based energy company THB Power, which has been awarded tender by Malaysian government, to develop a gas-fired powered power plant located in Kedah, Malaysia (with a total capacity of 1,200 MW)

  • Advised PowerChina Resources Limited on its proposed acquisition of majority stake in Amu Power Company Limited, which was awarded a tender by the Government of Kenya to develop a 981.5 MW coal-fired power plant in Kenya, the largest in East Africa

  • Advised Daqing Oilfield Company Limited on its acquisition from KunLun Energy Company Limited, an HKEX listed company, of a portfolio of oil and gas assets located in Oman, Thailand, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Peru

  • Advised SPIC Yuanda Environmental Protection Engineering Co., Ltd. on forming a joint venture with GCL Renewable Energy and joint development of a utility-scale solar project in Serbia

  • Advised Apple Operation (a subsidiary of Apple Inc.) on its acquisition of minority interests in several utility-scale solar and wind power projects owned and operated by Goldwind Science & Technology Co., Ltd., including full interest in the associated environmental attributes

  • Advised ENGIE China on its acquisition of over a dozen utility-scale solar projects, distributed solar projects, biomass power projects, LNG manufacturer, and transporter located in various provinces of China

  • Advised Veolia China on its acquisition of minority stake in an oil field drilling service provider in China

  • Advised World Fuel Services on its proposed bid at China Beijing Equity Exchange for 49% equity interest in China National Aviation Fuel Supply Co., Ltd., a Beijing-based aviation fuel service provider and subsidiary of China National Aviation Fuel Group

  • Advised Zhejiang Jindi Group on negotiation and signing of joint operation agreements, convention agreements, transportation agreements, pooling agreements, and natural gas and crude oil sales and purchase agreements

  • Advised China Hongqiao Group on its acquisition of a majority stake in Allian Mining Commodities Guinee SA, the holding company of a major bauxite project in Guinea, Africa and on the negotiation of the mining convention with the government of Guinea

  • Advised Shandong Steel Group on its acquisition of a stake in African Minerals' Tonkolili iron ore project in Sierra Leone, Africa

  • Advised Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets on its CNY 1.6 billion acquisition of water treatment business from InterChina Water Treatment Co., Ltd.


Manufacturing & Others

  • Advised Jianguang Asset Management Co., Ltd. on its acquisition of RF power business of NXP Semiconductors N.V. from Philips, which was comprised of a series of equity, assets, and IP acquisition transactions in PRC and multiple jurisdictions in Europe (named Deals of the Year in 2015 by China Business Law Journal)

  • Advised Jiangsu Dewei Advanced Materials Co., Ltd. on its proposed bid for Germany-based Carcoustics International GmbH, a major manufacturer of noise-reduction material used on automobiles, and its international subsidiaries in the US, Belgium, France, Mexico, Slovak, Italy, China, and Spain

  • Advised Northeast Industries Group Co. Ltd. on its acquisition from Delphi Automotive of its mechatronics business located in Spain, Poland, Mexico, Brazil, and China

  • Advised Yantai Moon Group on its acquisition of Dunham-Bush Industries Sdn Bhd, a leading international manufacturer of commercial and industrial cooling equipment with business in US, Europe, Middle East, and China

  • Advised Hasten Biopharmaceutic Co., Ltd. on its acquisition of five cardiovascular and metabolism drugs from Takeda Group, a series of equity, assets, and IP acquisition in PRC and multiple jurisdictions in Europe

  • Advised Shandong Yuhuang Chemical Co., Ltd. on forming a joint venture with US-based Koch Industries to develop a methanol manufacturing complex in St. James Parish of Louisiana, US with a total investment USD 1.85 billion and capacity of 4,950 ton/per day

  • Advised Yinniu Micro-Electronics (Wuxi) Co., Ltd. on its acquisition of Inuitive Inc., an Israel-based developer of multi-core processors designed for use in virtual reality head-mounted displays, smart glasses, drones and robots, with services including structuring of international ESOPs

  • Advised Chongqing Water & Environment Holdings Group Ltd. on its proposed acquisition of a majority stake in Australia-based Suez Australia Holding Pty Ltd., a major drinking water, wastewater treatment, biosolids management, and by-products recovery services provider

  • Advised Mengniu Group on its acquisition of majority stake in AICE Group, one of the largest food companies in Southeast Asia operating in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Vietnam

  • Advised Hisense Group on its acquisition of Archcom Technology Inc., a US-based active optical component manufacturer and its structuring of post-acquisition integration and international ESOPs; its acquisition of majority stake in Jamdeo Ltd., a smart TV operating system provider based in Ontario, Canada; its forming of a joint venture company in Hong Kong with Flex Inc. (formerly Flextronics Inc.) to develop open source and standards for smart televisions and related consumer electronic devices

  • Advised ING on vendor due diligence and sale of its minority stakes in China Merchants Fund Management Co., Ltd. and ING-BOB Life Insurance Co., Ltd.

  • Advised OPay Inc. on vendor due diligence relating to its mobile payment business located in Singapore, Egypt, Nigeria, the UK, and China, among other locations

  • Advised Qingdao Sino-German Ecopark on its public take-over of German Brokers AG, a Frankfurt Stock Exchange listed company in Germany

  • Advised Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. on its acquisition of minority stake in a number of upstream suppliers including North Ocean Photonics

  • Advised Global Drilling System Group on forming a joint venture with a major PRC mining company Jinding Mining Machinery Co., Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Shanxi Jincheng Anthracite Mining Group

  • Advised Milk Specialties Global on forming a joint venture with a Heilongjiang-based animal nutrition supplier Rongyao Feed Biotechnology Development Co. Ltd.

  • Advised Imperial Tobacco Group on forming a joint venture with China Tobacco Chuanyu Industrial Co., Ltd, a major state-owned tobacco Company

Honors and Awards

For Deal

Jianguang Asset Management Co., Ltd.: acquisition of RF power business of NXP Semiconductors N.V. from Philips, which is comprised of a series of equity, assets, and IP acquisition transactions in the PRC and multiple jurisdictions in Europe, Deals of the Year, China Business Law Journal, 2015

Publications

"China Mining Law Review" (deputy editor in chief), China Land Press, 2022

Related

  • Bar Admissions/Professional Qualifications

    New York State Bar

  • Education

    J.D., Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
    M.S. in Computer Science, University of Bridgeport
    B.A in International Trade, Chongqing Technology and Business University

  • Professional Experience

    Senior counsel, Zhong Lun Law Firm
    Partner, of counsel, and senior associate, King & Wood Mallesons
    US-based associate, Allen & Overy
    Legal counsel, The Bank of Nova Scotia Asia Limited
    Legal counsel, Bank of China, New York Branch

  • Languages

    Chinese
    English