- Language
- Chinese, English
- Contact
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010-57763888lilaixiang@tylaw.com.cn
Mr. Laixiang (Joseph) Li’s expertise centers on a number of areas, including capital markets, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), private equity investments, and general corporate matters. Mr. Li joined the firm’s Shenzhen Office as a partner in 2023. Prior to that, he practiced law over 10 years at other top law firms in China.
Mr. Li regularly acts as counsel assisting issuers and underwriters with domestic and international IPOs. In the meantime, he has represented numerous investment funds or start-ups completing hundreds of PE/VC deals, involving company structures such as VIE structures, sino-foreign joint venture structures and domestic structure. .
Mr. Li has designed various deal structures in cross-border investment transactions and provided to his clients a full range of legal services including compliance advice, legal due diligence, drafting documents and negotiating.
In terms of industry and sector experience, Mr. Li has long-term collaborations with clients in high-tech or emerging industries such as life sciences, advanced manufacturing, and TMT, providing consulting advices for well-known professors and enterprises on equity structure design, industry-university-research transformation, license in/out, equity incentives, compliance, foreign exchange, and other aspects, providing a streamline of comprehensive legal support to founders from Day One to M&A or IPO exits.
Mr. Li also provides advice on non-profit organization-related advisory services, including the establishment of overseas NGO representative offices, international schools, foundations, charitable donations, charitable trusts and daily compliance of NGOs.
Capital Markets
- Kelun Biotech (06990.HK)’s Hong Kong IPO
- Keep Inc. (03650.HK)’s Hong Kong IPO
- Tencent Music Entertainment Group (NYSE: TME)’s US IPO and bond issuance
- DouYu (NYSE: DOYU)’s US IPO
- Sunlands Technology Group (NYSE: STG)’s US IPO
- Aurora Mobile (NASDAQ: JG)’s US IPO
- Borqs Technologies (NASDAQ: BRQS)’s SPAC listing
- Bona Film Group’s U.S. privatization
- Lauder Dynamics (002765)’s issuance of shares to purchase assets
Mergers & Acquisitions
- Jiaman Dress’s acquisition of Hush Puppies-related IP assets in certain territories
- QQ Music and China Music Corporation’s US$7 billion merger of equals
- Tencent Music Entertainment’s acquisition of 100% shares in Lazy Audio
- Tencent Music Entertainment’s acquisition of Ultimate
- Bona Group’s acquisition of dozens of local Chinese movie theatres
- Uxin’s sale of salvage-value used cars business to Boche
- Uxin’s sale of used-car auction business to 58.com
- Merge between Baidu Music and Taihe Music
- 58.com’s acquisition of Ganji.com
- 58.com’s acquisition of Anjuke
- Lianjia’s purchase of Mantanghong and multiple real-estate agency institutions
- Plum’s trade sale
- Vectoring Pharmatech’s trade sale
Private Equity Investments
- Analytical BioSciences’s multiple rounds of overseas financing
- Edge Medical’s multiple rounds of domestic financing
- Bone’s Technology’s multiple rounds of overseas financing of over 10 million dollars
- VibroniX’s multiple rounds of domestic and overseas financing
- BayOmics’s series A financing
- Easy-Logic’s series A financing
- IDG Capital’s RMB 900 million Pre-IPO investment in Growatt
- IDG Capital’s series B investment in Huihe Healthcare
- IDG Capital’s series B investment in SocialMED
- IDG Capital’s series C investment in Xiaoxiandun
- IDG Capital’s series A investment in Supreium
- IDG Capital’s series A investment in FlowUs
- IDG Capital’s series A investment in Future Robotics
- IDG Capital’s series A investment in EarlyDiagnostics
- IDG Capital’s series A investment in Seer Group
- IDG Capital’s series A investment in Nikegen
- IDG Capital’s series A investment in Corestar
- IDG Capital’s series A investment in Start Bioservices (Yunxinzhili)
- IDG Capital’s series A investment in Taichu Biotechnology
- IDG Capital’s series C investment in WakeData
- Hidden Hill Capital’s investment in Didi Freight
- CITIC Goldstone Fund’s investment in Zhenshiming
- Huatai Innovation Investment (Huatai Securities’ direct investment platform)’s series B strategic investment in Authine (A Low-code Platform)
- Huatai Innovation Investment’s series B strategic investment in Cluster
- Xiamen Jianfa’s Pre-IPO investment in Aeolon Wind Energy
- Education
- Renmin University of China, Master of Law (2012)
- Xiangtan University, Bachelor of Literature (2010)
