Biography
Mr. Gao has focused on M&A and foreign direct investment for over ten years. He has advised clients in various sectors, including food and beverage, automotive, refrigeration, motion control, chemicals, building materials, and toys.
Representative Legal Matters
- Advising an Asian investment fund in the demerger and disposal of its PRC livestock farming business.
- Advising a US multinational company in spin-off of its automotive business, including restructuring over 30 PRC manufacturing joint venture companies.
- Advising a European client in investing and forming a joint venture with a major state-owned company in the automotive industry.
- Advising a European toy company in a greenfield project worth millions of RMB for its Asia manufacturing base, representing the client in site selection, government negotiation, land bidding etc.
- Advising a European building material company in the acquisition of a Chinese cement company.
- Advising a US tooling company in the acquisition of a PRC target.
- Advising a European cruise company regarding China regulatory matters in expanding its PRC cruise business.
- Advising a leading Danish manufacturing company in assessing over ten target companies in China, representing the client in the acquisition of these desired Chinese companies.
- Advising a leading Danish building material company in assessing over five target companies in China and acquiring satisfactory targets.
- Advising a US beverage company in regulatory compliance in sales and marketing activities, representing the client in dealing with government investigations.
Admission
PRC (2004)Education
Shanghai International Studies University (BA) (2002)
Law School of East China University of Politics and Law (LLB) (2005)
Languages
English
Mandarin