ALB DECEMBER 2023 (ASIA EDITION)

29 ASIAN LEGAL BUSINESS – DECEMBER 2023 WWW.LEGALBUSINESSONLINE.COM With twenty years of experience, Yu Piao, the senior partner of Tian Yuan Law Firm, is well versed in the field of law services in China’s capital market, displaying extensive knowledge in comprehensive services for private financing, direct investment, M&A, restructuring, compliance, and securities issuance,. She focuses on industries such as production and living services, high-tech, TMT, education, new energy etc., completing dozens of full-process projects. Since the issuance of the Cybersecurity Review Measures and the Trial Administrative Measures of Overseas Securities Offering and Listing by Domestic Companies, Yu has led her team to actively assist clients in carrying out pioneering work, maintaining communication with the reviewers, accumulating practical experience under regulatory changes, and becoming one of the teams who have been active in the Hong Kong and U.S. stock capital markets for a long term. In a year marked by extremely uncertain, thanks to her years of accumulated professional experience and seamless cooperation with other experts, Yu led her team to assist clients in completing multiple transactions. Serving as the buy-side counsel, she assisted A-share listed company, Jia Man Apparel, in the acquisition of IP assets held by Wolverine Worldwide’s Hush Puppies brand in Greater China and the legal work related to the postmerger integration. Jia Man Apparel has expanded its operation including “Water Child” among other high-end children’s brands from design development, promotion, to supply chain management and sales, etc. Through this IP asset acquisition, Yu along with her team assisted Jia Man Apparel to expand its own brand camp helping it to achieve differentiated development strategies and multichannel market layouts. Also serving as the buy-side counsel for a property asset management group of companies, Yu led her team in the acquisition of the entire equity and debt of CapitalRetail Beijing Shuangjing Real Estate and CapitalMall Shuangjing, which were held by CapitaLand China Trust, a Singapore-listed REIT. CapitaMall Shuangjing is a shopping mall with more than four retail levels located near the most prosperous location in the East Third Ring Road in Beijing. Yu also acted as a sell-side counsel assisting a leading company in a niche market being sold entirety to a large new home service platform with the transaction scale over $200 million. In these cross-border or timeconsuming complex transactions, Yu along with her team provided comprehensive legal services including legal due diligence investigations, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property, taxation, foreign exchange compliance, and anti-monopoly, etc. Under the combination of various factors such as the three-year epidemic, some enterprises are struggling to fulfill their commitment regarding the listing timetable, while some investment institutions are facing pressure on fund maturity and potential disputes with portfolio companies. Yu chooses to bring in Tian Yuan’s dispute resolution team at the appropriate time for clients to seek advice and assists the clients in reaching their negotiation goals. Moreover, Yu continues serving Fortune 500 companies and multiple listed companies providing prudent compliance reviews, transaction processing, and postinvestment management related legal support for their industrial investment. Yu is one among lead figures in Tian Yuan providing Chinese law services concerning overseas listing. Her subjectmatter expertise in both corporate M&A, high-tech, new economy and varies other industries, has led her to formal recognition as one of the best lawyers in the capital market for long term period. She was named ALB’s Top 15 M&A Lawyers in year 2018. She was named Recommended individual by Chambers Asia Pacific and Chambers Global from 2019 to 2023. She was also nominated as the Dealmakers of the Year at the ALB China Law Awards 2023. As a lawyer who has been practicing law for more than 20 years, Yu has a rare sensitivity and interest in learning about the emerging market and is willing to continue to forge ahead with her team. She is driven by her curiosity about new things and the sense of accomplishment and satisfaction she can get when she uses her expertise, knowledge and information to achieve success for her clients. Yu Piao Senior Partner, Tian Yuan Law Firm China Tel: (86) 13911791657 E-mail: yupiao@tylaw.com.cn Website: www.tylaw.com.cn

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