Bio
Yifei Huang is an Associate in the Corporate department of Appleby’s Shanghai office.
Yifei is a licensed attorney in the PRC. He specialises in mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, private equity and venture capital investments, as well as the restructuring and insolvency matters. His clients include multinational enterprises, state-owned enterprises, foreign-invested enterprises, investment management, financial services companies and leading PE/VC investors.
Prior to joining Appleby, Yifei worked in several leading Chinese law firms. Native in Mandarin and Shanghainese, and fluent in English, Yifei is able to work closely with our wider global team and provide advice on Cayman Islands, BVI and Bermuda law matters in the Asia time zone.
Bio
Yifei Huang is an Associate in the Corporate department of Appleby’s Shanghai office.
Yifei is a licensed attorney in the PRC. He specialises in mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, private equity and venture capital investments, as well as the restructuring and insolvency matters. His clients include multinational enterprises, state-owned enterprises, foreign-invested enterprises, investment management, financial services companies and leading PE/VC investors.
Prior to joining Appleby, Yifei worked in several leading Chinese law firms. Native in Mandarin and Shanghainese, and fluent in English, Yifei is able to work closely with our wider global team and provide advice on Cayman Islands, BVI and Bermuda law matters in the Asia time zone.
Work Highlights
Some of Yifei’s major cases include*:
- Advised the global leading automotive seating company, Adient, on an RMB 10 billion demerger of a large joint venture which including multiple equity transfers and complicated IP and commercial transactions
- Advised the global leading water business company, SUEZ, on its reorganization and disposal of part of its water and waste treatment business in the context of Veolia’s takeover of SUEZ
- Advised renowned enterprises on their multiple transactional projects in areas including education, retailing, energy, AI, and real estate (e.g., Shanghai Guosheng Group’s cornerstone investment to SenseTime, and Tencent’s investment in Minimax’s series A financing)
- Advised Huatai, Citibank, CMBI, and DBS in Horizon C&D’s (9930.HK) IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
*Includes transactions completed by the lawyer prior to joining Appleby
Some of Yifei’s major cases include*:
- Advised the global leading automotive seating company, Adient, on an RMB 10 billion demerger of a large joint venture which including multiple equity transfers and complicated IP and commercial transactions
- Advised the global leading water business company, SUEZ, on its reorganization and disposal of part of its water and waste treatment business in the context of Veolia’s takeover of SUEZ
- Advised renowned enterprises on their multiple transactional projects in areas including education, retailing, energy, AI, and real estate (e.g., Shanghai Guosheng Group’s cornerstone investment to SenseTime, and Tencent’s investment in Minimax’s series A financing)
- Advised Huatai, Citibank, CMBI, and DBS in Horizon C&D’s (9930.HK) IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
*Includes transactions completed by the lawyer prior to joining Appleby
Qualifications & Education
- PRC Bar
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University Koguan Law School (LL.B. and LL.M.)
- PRC Bar
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University Koguan Law School (LL.B. and LL.M.)
