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Jacqueline Z. Cai

Jacqueline Z. Cai
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Shanghai
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Jacqueline Z. Cai is a partner of MWE China Law Offices based in Shanghai. 

Jacqueline focuses her practice on a wide range of venture financing, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, overseas investment, antitrust and competition, finance and banking, derivatives, regulatory compliance, corporate governance and foreign direct investment.

Jacqueline has extensive experience in the area of venture financing.  She has assisted Chinese and foreign venture capital institutions in designing investment structures, establishing vehicles (incubators), finding investment targets, and in resolving and settling risks in their investments.  She has also represented many target companies in their obtaining of investments from foreign venture capital institutions.

With deep experience in the legal issues surrounding the establishment, operation and management, financing, and foreign exchange control of foreign investment enterprises in China, Jacqueline has provided several well-known international law firms with legal opinions on some of the most challenging aspects of foreign investment in China.

In addition, Ms. Cai has provided legal services to reputable multinational companies and Chinese and foreign-invested banks regarding syndicated loans, corporate financing, financial products design, foreign exchange and foreign debts as well as services regarding regulatory compliance for foreign-invested banks. 

Representative Transactions

  • Successfully represented one of the world’s leading manufacturers of chemicals, fertilizers, plastics and metals in clearing its antitrust filing in China regarding its acquisitions in Europe
  • Successfully provided legal services and regulatory compliance advice to one of the most successful retailers in the world in its nationwide acquisition of a retailer in China
  • Successfully represented a leading multinational machinery manufacturer in its acquisition of a major Chinese state-owned company
  • Successfully provided legal services to a multinational technology, media and financial services giant regarding its health care policy design
  • Successfully represented an automobile manufacturer in its RMB 8 billion syndicated loan financing
  • Successfully represented several reputable foreign funds in their US$56 million restructuring and trade sale transaction
  • Successfully provided legal services to a reputable multinational company in designing financing policies and rules
  • Successfully provided legal services to a reputable American bank in designing a financing plan and related documents
  • Successfully provided general legal services to a major UK bank
  • Successfully represented a major sate-owned company engaging in development and construction of Yangshan deep water port in its RMBi 5 billion corporate financing
  • Successfully represented a major Chinese semiconductor company in its RMB 1.4 billion corporate financing
  • Successfully provided legal advice to a reputable UK investment bank and its affiliated companies in their OTC commodity derivatives trading
  • Successfully represented a state-owned venture capital company in its investments and recapitalization of various portfolio companies
Education
  • Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, LL.M.
  • Fudan University, LL.B.
Languages
  • English
  • Mandarin