Our private equity and investment fund team has extensive experience, strong practice capability and a deep understanding of the business side of the investment funds market. Moreover, working in collaboration with Chance Bridge’s capital markets and cross-border investment and financing teams, our private equity team is able to provide the full range of legal services in respect of the design of domestic and offshore fund structures and the establishment, funding and operation of FOF/PE/VC/buyout funds/offshore funds and other types of funds. 

Our clients include:

• Founding shareholders
• Investors/funds
• Target companies
• Financial institutions

Our services cover:

• Establishment and registration of fund managers
• Establishment, raising and filing of fund products
• Greenfield investment and M&A projects, including legal due diligence, investment structure design, drafting and negotiation of transaction documents, government approvals (including anti-trust approvals and outbound investment approvals), transaction closing management, etc.
• Corporate financing at various stages
• Operation and exit of fund

Our M&A and investment practice covers domestic transactions for both Chinese companies and foreign-invested enterprises, inbound M&A and investment projects for foreign multi-national companies, and outbound M&A and investment projects for Chinese enterprises, including as part of the "One Belt, One Road" initiative.

Members of the team have graduated from top law schools in China and abroad and can draw upon extensive practice experience in leading Chinese and international law firms.  The firm also has access to comprehensive bilingual corporate/commercial legal know-how resources and has established close working relationships with major international law firms and independent law firms in more than 100 countries and territories around the world. As such, the Chance Bridge team is able take the lead in complex domestic and cross-border corporate and commercial transactions and work seamlessly with our foreign law firm counterparts for all of the offshore aspects of cross-border deals. 

Our team is able to work at a professional standard in Chinese, English, German, Japanese, French, Spanish,etc. This allows us to work effectively with both Chinese and foreign clients and counterparties to provide the highest quality cross-border legal services in the most efficient and cost-effective manner.    

Our clients include:

• Multinational companies
• State-owned enterprises
• Private enterprises
• Domestic and foreign investors/funds
• Government entities
• Commercial banks
• International financial institutions

Our services cover:

• Establishment of foreign investment entities overseas by PRC enterprises
• Acquisition of equity interests or assets by PRC enterprises outside China
• Establishment of foreign-invested entities in PRC by foreign investors
• Acquisitions of domestic listed or unlisted companies by foreign investors
• Long-term legal services for foreign-invested enterprises on a standing retainer basis
• Cross-border M&A financing and overseas securities issuance

The Chance Bridge team provides the full range of legal services in respect of the establishment of new legal entities, joint ventures and partnerships.  Our team is able to leverage the firm’s knowledge and practical experience in various areas of corporate transactions and related advisory services, including in respect of capital markets, investment funds, labor and employment, intellectual property and compliance to provide our clients with one-stop full-service legal solutions.

Our services cover:

• Establishment of legal entities, joint ventures, and partnerships
• Change of company registrations and articles of association
• Divestitures and business restructurings
• Mergers and spin-offs
• Entity liquidation and dissolution

Corporate compliance is one of the fastest growing and most important practice areas of the firm, and members of our compliance team have extensive experience both as senior in-house counsel in leading Chinese and foreign MNCs responsible for compliance management matters and as outside legal advisors in major Chinese and international law firms.

The Chance Bridge compliance team has an in-depth understanding of the current situation and operational difficulties of our domestic and foreign-invested clients in China, and provides our clients with risk assessments of compliance and practical rectification plans based on our PRC law enforcement and judicial practice. The Chance Bridge team also assists our clients to set up compliance management systems, assists clients in handling compliance related administrative investigations, and provides professional and comprehensive legal support. The Chance Bridge team is widely recognized as market leaders in this important area of legal practice.

In addition, as more Chinese enterprises expand their overseas operations by means of outbound M&A and investment as well as through cross-border trade activities, they face increasing compliance risks outside of China.  The Chance Bridge compliance team has participated in the formulation of numerous cross-border compliance programs, including in respect of U.S. export controls and direct and secondary sanctions compliance, sanctions compliance imposed by multilateral financial institutions (such as the World Bank), anti-money laundering compliance, data privacy compliance, ESG, investment restrictions/bans, etc.

Our team leverages our experience in providing practical and appropriate solutions to our clients both locally and internationally, as well as our global network of partner law firms, to provide our clients with one-stop legal services.

Our clients include:

Companies in the following industry sectors: banking, insurance, securities, funds, telecommunications, internet, e-commerce, fintech, social media, artificial intelligence, big data, online education, online games, bio-pharmaceuticals, advertising, engineering, machinery, aviation, food, and other industry sectors.

Our services cover:

• Formulation of comprehensive corporate compliance systems
• Advising on compliance with market access qualifications and license requirements
• Advising on compliance with network security and data protection rules
• Advising on compliance with anti-trust and anti-unfair competition laws
• Anti-corruption and anti-commercial bribery compliance advice
• Production safety and food and drug compliance advisory services
• Advising on product quality and recall matters
• Advertising and marketing compliance advice
• Labor and employment law compliance advisory services
• Advice in respect of e-commerce operation compliance
• Import/export and customs compliance advisory services
• Participation in investigations of cases of non-compliance by employees and related advisory services

One of the areas in which Chance Bridge has traditionally been strong is providing outsourced drafting and review of commercial contracts for our domestic and foreign-invested corporate clients on a standing retainer basis.

Our team is able to provide high-quality cost-efficient legal services in respect of a diverse range of commercial transaction categories, covering products and services sales and procurement, business cooperation, licensing, franchising, sales agency and distribution, as well as business development and strategic planning.

Our team is able to provide practical legal solutions for our clients, drawing on best practices for similar commercial contracts from a legal and transaction management perspective to more effectively help our clients prevent and manage legal risks in their core commercial activities.

Moreover, because of the international background of our team, we are able to provide these services in respect of domestic and cross-border contracts in both Chinese and English.  We also have comprehensive contract review checklists and templates to ensure that we can deliver the highest standard of quality in a cost-effective manner.

Our services cover:

• Contract drafting, review and amendment
• Contract risk management
• Contract management
• Enterprise operation and management compliance
• Legal risk assessment and prevention
• Commercial contract negotiation
• Commercial contract dispute resolution

Corporate governance is another important area of expertise for the Chance Bridge corporate team with respect to which we have extensive experience. Our corporate governance team is well versed in relevant law and practice and, thanks to its depth and breadth of sector knowledge, is well positioned to provide the best practical solutions based on each client’s specific needs.  Again, given the international skill sets of our team members, we are well equipped to provide such services for domestic companies and foreign-invested companies in China and for Chinese companies overseas subsidiairies, and can do so in both Chinese and English.

Our corporate governance services include:

• Corporate governance general advisory services
• Establishment of corporate governance systems
• Appointment/nomination and removal/replacement of officers and directors
• Advice in respect of shareholder/board/supervisors meeting notices, voting procedures, resolutions and meeting minutes
• Advising on management remuneration, equity incentives and employee stock incentive plans
• Information disclosure consultation and advice
• Regulatory compliance advisory services and related investigations

An appropriate equity incentive scheme is of great importance to motivate the management and staff and to attract and retain talent. Chance Bridge has a team of lawyers specializing in the area of equity incentive plans. We are able to provide customized and professional legal services to enterprises in different stages of development, in different industry sectors, and with different incentive needs and objectives, including in respect of the design and establishment of equity incentive plans and employee stock ownership plans, drafting related documentation for supporting internal systems and agreements, advice in respect of the practical implementation and adjustment of plans, etc.

The scope of Chance Bridge’s equity incentive services cover:

• Information collection
• Due diligence investigation
• Design and establishment of equity incentive plan
• Drafting supporting rules and agreements
• Implementation of equity incentive plan
• Issuance of legal opinions
• Management and staff training and related advisory services in respect of equity incentive plans
• Providing whole-process counseling and consultation in connection with equity incentive plans
• Dynamic adjustment of equity incentive plans
• Exits from equity incentive plans

Labor and employment legal services is another area of traditional strength of the Chance Bridge corporate/commercial team.

We have a team of experienced labor and employment lawyers who possess an in-depth understanding of PRC labor laws, regulations and industry-focused practices. Chance Bridge has advised numerous corporate clients and individuals on matters relating to employment law, labor and employment risk management, labor dispute resolution and negotiation, labor dispute arbitration and litigation, and other related litigation and non-litigation services. Our team regularly assists clients in participating in labor contract negotiations, facilitating clients’ in communications with labor unions or other employees, advising on employee termination matters, and representing clients in connection with labor disputes cases, etc.  Our team is able to provide domestic and foreign-invested clients with accurate, practical and efficient labor law services in both Chinese and English and in respect of labor relations matter both inside and outside of China.

Our services cover:

• Providing legal advice on employment matters to corporate clients and individuals
• Providing daily support services for the human resources department of companies
• The formulation, implementation and improvement of various rules and regulations on labor and personnel management
• Drafting or review of employment contracts
• Compliance review and amendment of employment agreements/notices
• Protection of trade secret and non-compete restriction
• Investigation and handling of employee violations/incidents
• Employee incentive plans and related dispute resolution
• Settlement and redundancy of employees in M&A, restructuring and liquidation transactions
• Employment of foreigners in China
• Representation of clients in respect of labor dispute arbitration/litigation cases
• Specialized training on labor law matters

In the area of bankruptcy and restructuring, our team of professionals is able to provide legal advice and legal services to creditors, debtors and other interested parties in bankruptcy and restructuring proceedings.

Our services cover:

• Analyzing the risk of bankruptcy and liquidation
• Restructuring plans
• Enterprise trusteeship arrangements
• Applications for bankruptcy/liquidation
• Performing the duties of a bankruptcy administrator
• Public announcements and notices
• Daily affairs management in relation to bankruptcy and restructuring
• Audit of creditor’s rights and debts
• Property liquidation, employee resettlement, and property disposal
• Other matters relating to bankruptcy, liquidation and restructuring

Chance Bridge has a dedicated team of lawyers focused on technology, media and telecommunications legal services. Our team advises clients in the areas of basic telecommunications, internet, e-commerce, fintech, artificial intelligence, big idata, cloud computing, IoT (internet of things), semiconductors, applications software, biomedicine and healthcare, media, advertising, culture and entertainment, education, and other areas. Chance Bridge’s TMT practice is an integral part of Chance Bridge’s broader cross-border investment, financing and capital markets practice. In addition to technology, media and telecommunications enterprises, we also represent private equity funds and institutional investors that are active in this dynamic space.

With our international team and our global network of partner law firms around the world, we are able to provide practical legal support for PRC technology, media and telecommunications enterprises in connection with their overseas investment and cross-border trade transactions, as well as in connection with data privacy and other international compliance matters and also in respect of their overseas financing and IPO transactions, covering the U.S., E.U., APAC and other regions.

Our services cover:

• Equity and debt financing
• M&A and restructuring
• Domestic and overseas listing
• Equity investment projects
• Corporate governance
• Corporate compliance
• Cyber security and data protection
• Anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition
• Contract management and commercial transaction negotiations
• Intellectual property protection
• Labor and employment matters
• Dispute resolution

Our cybersecurity and data privacy practice is an important adjunct to our TMT and compliance practices.  We assist our clients on related complex legal compliance matters within China and, utilizing our global network of leading data privacy and cybersecurity legal experts, around the world. 

Our services cover:

• Cyber security compliance system design and establishment
• Information security and information infrustructure protection legal advisory services
• Classified and hierarchical management and protection of data legal advice
• Data collection, use, provision and cross-border transmission legal consulting
• Data transaction negotiations
• Personal information protection
• Handling of network security and data security emergencies advisory services
• Cybersecurity and data security regulatory case response and legal risk managment
• Cybersecurity compliance training
• European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance advice
• Advice on compliance with U.S. Foreign Corporate Accountability Act, California Consumer Privacy Act and other similar legal regimes at the federal and state levels

Chance Bridge has provided legal services to investors and developers in the real estate, construction and property management sectors from the founding of the firm, acting on projects involving infrastructure projects, urban complexes, commercial property developments, residential buildings, and affordable housing projects.

Our services cover:

Land Development, Acquisition and Utilization

Related legal services include:

• Conducting pre-stage investigation on expropriation and comprehensive analysis of legal risks
• Assisting with administrative approval procedures for project planning and land use procedures
• Providing assistance in designing the primary development scheme of the land
• Assisting in establishing and reviewing plan on compensation and resettlement for demolition and relocation
• Identifying demolition risks and resolving related disputes
• Drafting, reviewing and approving legal documents relating to land transfer and allocation and assisting with relevant procedures

Real Estate Investment and Financing

Related legal services include:

• Assisting in project acquisition, transfer and cooperative development
• Establishing and reviewing project investment and financing plans
• Assessment of investment and financing risks and conduct due diligence
• Drafting and approval of legal documents for investment and financing
• Participating in related discussions and negotiations, drafting of guarantee documentation and completing related procedures

Real Estate Development

Related legal services include:

• Assisting with establishment of the project company
• Identify the legal issues in connection with the establishment, planning, acquisition of land, construction and ownership confirmation of the project and in drafting and reviewing legal documents
• Asessment of major risks in the process of development, design of mitigation strategy and provision of assistance with resolution of related disputes

Construction Project Management

Related legal services include:

• Assisting the project owner and construction entity in the formulation and implementation of the bid invitation and bidding schemes
• Examining the bid invitation and bidding documents
• Drafting and examining related design, construction and supervision contracts and other relevant legal documents
• Building a risk assessment system for contract performance
• Drafting and sending out relevant correspondence during contract performance, curbing relevant risks and preserving relevant evidence, and resolving related disputes

Real Estate Transactions 

Related legal services include:

• Examining the legality of real estate transaction arrangements
• Confirmation of relevant legal issues involved in real estate sales, leasing and operation and identification of relevant risks
• Drafting and approval of real estate sales and lease contracts and other related legal documents
• Assisting with handover of premises and confirmation of property rights
• Assisting with other real estate transfer and second-hand housing transactions and with resolution of related disputes

Property Management

Related legal services include:

• Providing legal support to property management service providers in connection with their daily operations
• Assisting property management service providers in connection with bidding process for projects and transfer of related legal documents upon being selected as winning bidder
• Assisting community property owners in setting up property committees and related activities
• Providing assistance to grass-roots government authorities in coordinating property service relationships
• Conducting collective negotiations or arbitration for particular issues in connection with property management arrangements

PPP and Infrastructure Construction Projects

Related legal services include:

• Providing legal services for entire process of TOT, BT, BOT and PPP projects, including planning, risk control, negotiation assistance, document drafting and review, and other related legal services

Chance Bridge has a team of lawyers specializing in the infrastructure, energy and natural resources sectors. Infrastructure projects include road, bridge, high-speed rail and subway projects, while energy and natural resources projects include projects involving thermal power, hydropower, photovoltaic, wind power, oil, natural gas and mining projects.

With the continued development of outbound investments by PRC enterprises, including as part of the "One Belt, One Road" initiative, the Chance Bridge infrastructure, energy and natural resources teams have been involved in numerous related overseas investment, construction and financing projects in Southeast Asia, Africa and South America, etc.

Our team is also able to work closely with our global network of partner law firms around the world to provide seamless integrated legal services to our clients for these projects. 

Our clients include:

• Project sponsors
• Investors/investment funds
• Contractors
• Government entities
• Commercial banks
• Export credit institutions
• International financial institutions

Our services cover:

• Project development
• Tendering, bidding and government procurement
• Concession arrangements (PPP, BOT, etc.)
• Project investment
• Transaction structure design
• Project due diligence
• Drafting, review and negotiation of project contracts
• Project establishment and construction (EPC general contracting)
• Corporate governance
• Project financing
• Project acquisition
• Restructuring, listing, bond issuance and capital market transactions
• Establishment, raising and management exit of the fund
• Antitrust notification and review
• Compliance, sanctions and government supervision
• Related dispute resolution

The Chance Bridge corporate team has extensive experience in connection with a wide range of projects in the biopharma and healthcare industries. We are able to bring together our substantial industry knowledge, our practical understanding of our clients’ business needs together with our in-depth understanding of relevant policy and regulatory considerations in the context of the life science and healthcare sector to provide the highest quality legal services to our clients.

Supported by the "Healthcare PRC 2030" and other government policies, the biopharma and healthcare industry has been growing rapidly in recent years. The Chance Bridge team have accumulated rich experience and an outstanding track record in the areas of pharmaceutical, biopharma and "internet + biopharma and health" services sectors.

Our clients include:

• Pharmaceutical companies
• Innovative pharmaceutical companies
• Biomedical equipment companies
• Biomedical institutions
• Investors/investment funds focused on biomedical and health industry

Our services cover:

• Project development
• Corporate compliance review and related for daily operation
• Corporate governance
• Transaction structure design and arrangement
• Project financing
• Project acquisition
• Project restructuring and listing
• Antitrust notification and review
• Intellectual property protection
• Dispute resolution

The mixed ownership reform of state-owned enterprises is one of the important elements in the ongoing restructuring of state-owned enterprises in China. In 2013, the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee determined that the development of mixed ownership is an important direction for deepening the reform of state-owned enterprises. In 2020, the relevant authorities from SASAC reaffirmed that, in the ensuing three-year period, all relevant parties should continue to actively promote the program of SOE mixed ownership reform, and strengthen the cooperation with private enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises. In the three-year period, more attention is to be paid to the state-owned capital investment companies, the enterprises invested by operating companies and commercial enterprises.

Drawing on the firm’s extensive experience in the field of corporate legal services, Chance Bridge has established a team to provide services for the mixed ownership reform of state-owned enterprises. The team members are familiar with relevant laws, regulations and policies on mixed ownership reform.  Moreover, Chance Bridge senior lawyers participated in the formulation of the rules concerning the mixed ownership reform of state-owned enterprises at the Beijing Equity Exchange, and as a result they have a thorough understanding of both the legislative history, government policy objective and practical aspects of the mixed ownership reform initiative.

The team’s professional competence and professional skills have won wide acclaim from our clients and industry colleagues. Our lawyers can provide top-shelf legal services to the full range of enterprises participating in mixed ownership reform projects.

Our services cover:

Acting as Special Legal Counsel to the Restructuring Party

Related legal services include:

• Formulating reform operation process and plans
• Assisting the company in designing restructuring plan, answering the company’s inquiries about restructuring plan, issuing relevant memoranda and issuing a legal opinion in respect of the compliance of the restructuring plan
• Assisting the company in designing employee stock ownership plan, establishing employee stock ownership platform, answering the company’s inquiries about employee stock ownership plan, issuing relevant memoranda and issuing a legal opinion in respect of the compliance of employee stock ownership plan
• Conducting legal due diligence on the potential investor and issuing due diligence report (if required)
• Assisting the company in accomodating the potential investor’s due diligence on the company (if required)
• Assisting the company in designing the post-restructuring shareholding structure
• Drafting relevant transaction documents in connection with the restructuring
• Revising the company’s corporate governance structure and ensuring the interests of the original shareholders
• Assisting the company in completing the post-restructuring industrial and commercial change procedures
• Providing legal advice in respect of compliance of the restructuring project throughout the whole process, including but not limited to matters involved in the restructuring of state-owned enterprises such as the holding of workers’ congress, listing of stock exchange, introduction of venture investment, employee stock ownership, closing, change in industrial and commercial registration, and issuing relevant memorandums and other legal documents required for the restructuring based on the needs of the Company

Acting as Special Legal Counsel to the Investors

Related legal services include:

• Assisting the investors in conducting due diligence on the target company
• Assisting the investors in accomodating the target company’s reverse due diligence (if required)
• Assisting the Company investors in drafting and reviewing relevant internal decision-making documents for participation in the restructuring of the target company
• Assisting the investors in designing the post-restructuring shareholding structure
• Drafting and reviewing relevant transaction documents in connection with the restructuring
• Revising the post-restructuring corporate governance structure of the target company and ensuring the interests of the investors as the new shareholders
• Assisting the investors in completing the post-restructuring industrial and commercial registration change procedures
• Providing legal advice in respect of legal issues involved in the entire process of the restructuring project and issuing relevant memoranda based on the needs of the investors