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Kevin Y. Qian
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Kevin Y. Qian is a founding partner of MWE China Law Offices based in Shanghai. Kevin focuses his practice on corporate and commercial law, international syndicate loans, equipment leasing, project financing, establishment and financing for high-tech companies, information technology licensing and international arbitration. He also has significant experience in venture capital and private equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and other commercial business transactions.
In addition to 23 years of legal practice, Kevin’s experience has included roles as:
- A faculty member of the East China University of Political Science and Law and a lawyer at a prominent Shanghai-based law firm, where he focused his practice on financial, commercial and intellectual property law.
- A partner of the largest law firm in Shanghai from 2001 to 2006 and served as a key director of its Executive Committee.
- Senior legal counsel of Philips Electronics in Asia, where he was responsible for legal matters concerning Philips's 30 wholly owned and joint venture enterprises throughout the region.
- Deputy General Manager and Legal Counsel for PepsiCo Investment China Co., Ltd., where he managed more than 40 wholly owned and joint venture enterprises in the beverage, restaurant, and snack food industries.
- Head of the Asia Pacific and China Practice Group in the law firm of Popham Haik.
- Member of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Committee of All China Lawyers Association in 2002.
- Vice President of the Foreign Affairs & WTO Committee of the All China Lawyers Association since 2007.
- Recognised as one of Asia’s Leading Business Lawyers by Asian Legal Business (ALB) for his outstanding corporate practice, specifically capital markets, corporate finance, and M&A from 2002 to 2008.
- The first Chinese lawyer to be elected as Chairman of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA) International Trade Committee in 2004.
- Recognition as one of the Hot 30 Lawyers as well as one of Asia Pacific’s Hot 100 in China by Asian Legal Business (ALB) magazine in 2004 and 2005.
- One of the World’s Leading Practitioners by the International Who’s Who of Corporate Governance Lawyers 2006.
- Director of the IPBA Project Coordination Committee since 2009
Kevin is a member of the American Bar Association, the Minnesota State Bar Association and the All China Lawyers Association.
Representative Transactions
- Represented a joint venture formed by a U.S. fund and an Asia-based commodities firm to invest in one of China’s largest mining companies. This was the first instance in which a foreign PE fund successfully exited from a Chinese domestic company through a Chinese stock market.
- Successfully represented the world’s largest harbor, Yanshan Deep Water Harbor, to issue corporate bonds in aggregate value of 8 billion RMB from 2007 to 2009.
- Successfully represented the second largest steel maker in China in its strategic alliance with ThyssenKrupp of Germany.
- Successfully represented a fortune 500 automobile manufacturer in its negotiation and documentation of an 8 billion RMB syndicated loan with several banks.
- Assisted a U.S. venture capital firm in its derivative product development in China.
- Successfully represented a global asset management company and a leading private fund in their scalable acquisition of a Lucent division in China.
- Successfully represented a U.S. venture capital firm in its negotiation of investment cooperation and devised the legal framework of Parallel Funding, a model often adopted for Sino-foreign cooperation investment.
- Successfully represented a semiconductor device company in its capital increase by the U.S. company Jazz Semiconductor in a joint venture, the first successful case of a capital increase through contribution of a sensitive technology by a foreign company.
- Acting as the perennial legal counsel of an international industry association and its wholly owned subsidiary in Shanghai.
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