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STEPHEN LIU
Counsel·Beijing
PROFILE REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS AND CASES OTHER INFORMATION Further Reading
Mr. Liu’s primary practice areas include M&A, private equity and venture capital financing, and general corporate and commercial matters.
Education
University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Master of Laws (LL.M.)
Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.)
Professional Qualification
Qualified in the PRC (non-practicing)
Work Language
Mandarin (Native)
English (Fluent)
Professional Background
Prior to joining Fangda Partners, Mr. Liu was an associate at another leading PRC law firm.
PROFILE
REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS AND CASES
- Represented VNET Group in its acquisition of TenxCloud
- Represented a buyout fund in its proposed acquisition of Yinlu Food from Nestle
- Represented Belle in its acquisition of 73 Hours
- Represented Warburg Pincus in its acquisition of Leyou
- Represented Jingyou Century in its sale of its controlling stake in Genilex to LexisNexis
- Represented Hillhouse in its acquisition of Pfizer’s equity interest in a Sino-US pharmaceutical JV
- Represented Hillhouse in its acquisition of a pharmaceutical company focusing on the R&D and production of anti-tumor drugs
- Represented a Chinese drug producer in a technology licensing transaction with Pfizer
- Represented investors in connection with the acquisition of Baidu Waimai by Eleme
- Represented investors in connection with the merger of HCB and YMM
- Represented an investor consortium in its proposed acquisition of a leading Australia medical group ICON
- Represented CPE on its equity investment in Kindstar
- Represented CPE on its equity investment in Geekplus+
- Represented CPE on its equity investment in DiDi Freight
- Represented Affinity Equity Partners on its equity investment in Aland
- Represented L Catterton Asia on its equity investment in Nebula Brands
- Represented L Catterton Asia in the restructuring and refinancing of US$175,000,000 in principal amount of convertible notes due 2021 issued by Secoo Holding Limited
- Represented CDH on its equity investment in Delta Medical
- Represented CDH on its equity investment in Innovative Cellular Therapeutics
- Represented CDH in its equity investment in Rootpath
- Represented CDH on its equity investment in Threatbook
- Represented Chengxin in its spin-off from Didi and its over US$4.2 billion series A financing
- Represented Hillhouse on its equity investments in Miniso and in its later on red-chip restructuring
- Represented Sequoia on its equity investment in Dingdong
- Represented Sequoia on its equity investment in Holomatic
- Represented Sequoia on its equity investment in Shuhai Supply Chain Solutions
- Represented Gaorong on its equity investment in Pupumall
- Represented Gaorong on its equity investment in PDD
- Represented CEC CICC on its equity investment in Nreal
- Represented Z-Park Fund on its investment in Tuanche
- Represented CICFH on its investment in We Doctor
- Represented investors on their proposed investment in Bytedance
- Represented investors on their proposed investment in Nio
- Represented investors on their investment in 100Credi
- Represented Pony AI in its collaboration with Toyota Motor Corporation and in its US$400 million Series C financing in which Toyota was the lead investor
- Represented SDIC on its investment in CanSino Bio
- Represented Alibaba on its investment in a film and TV production company
- Represented Warburg Pincus, TPG, IDG, Zhen Fund, Asia Green Fund, Lenovo Capital, China Life, CICC Capital and various other venture capital and private equity funds on their several equity investments in China
- Represented Carebridge, Kaiyun Mortor, KNX, Miotech, Matrix Finance and other enterprises in their equity financings
- Advised Affinity Equity Partners, Kaiyun Mortors, Pony AI, Miotech, Matrix Finance, Yixia Tech, China NetUnion, Razer Singapore and other clients on general corporate work
- Advised Kaiyun Mortors, Car Inc., Zhaopin, Vibe Ince, a Macau based investment fund and other clients on their employee incentive schemes
