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, hightech, 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 post-merger 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 multi-channel 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 time-consuming 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 post-investment 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 subject-matter 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.
朴昱律师执业20年，是中国资本市场法律服务领域难得的多面手，谙熟企业私募融资、投资与并购、重组、合规、证券发行的全流程综合法律服务，聚焦在生产生活服务、高新技术、TMT、教育、新能源等行业，先后完成了数十个资本市场全流程项目。
2023年极度不平稳的市场环境下，凭借多年积累的专业经验、创新高效解决问题的能力、与外部服务商的无缝合作，朴昱律师带领团队协助客户完成了多项交易。朴昱律师作为收购方律师，协助A股上市公司嘉曼服饰完成了对Wolverine World Wide集团持有的暇步士(Hush Puppies)品牌在大中华区IP资产的收购。嘉曼服饰开拓了包括”水孩儿”在内的童装中高端品牌从设计研发、推广、供应链管理到销售等各个核心环节的运营。Wolverine集团已有140多年的历史，是世界领先的品牌鞋类、服装和配饰的设计商、营销商和授权商之一。朴昱律师和团队通过此项IP资产的收购，协助嘉曼服饰扩充了自有品牌阵营，助力其实现差异化发展战略和多元化全渠道市场布局。
朴昱律师还作为出售方律师，协助某细分市场头部的互联网家装企业整体出售给一家大型新家居服务平台上市公司，交易规模近二十亿人民币。在这些涉及跨境或耗时的复杂交易中，朴昱律师和团队提供了并购、知识产权、税务、外汇合规、反垄断等全方位的法律服务。此外，朴昱律师还继续服务于世界500强企业、多家上市公司，为其产业投资提供审慎的合规审查、交易处理、投后管理相关的法律支持。同时，一些企业近年为响应监管要求或者地缘政治变化而考虑开拓新的业务领域、拓展供应链、业务出海及落地经营等新的营运模式时，朴昱律师也客户提供合规及具有前瞻视角的法律服务。
朴昱律师是公司境外上市中国法律服务带头人之一，她在公司并购及高新技术、新经济和多行业的服务专长，使得她成为长期以来资本市场最好的律师之一。朴昱律师曾于2018年获评ALB (A sia Legal Business) Top15并购律师、钱伯斯(Chambers & Partners)亚太法律指南和全球法律指南2019-2023多次的境外资本市场推荐律师个人，以及ALB 2022年度境内交易律师提名。
朴昱律师说她的工作动力来源于对法律服务的敬畏，以及当自己运用专业、知识和信息为客户成就了他们的交易目的，自己也能获得成就感和满足。
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