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Sol Zhang

Counsel
Practice Areas
Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions New Energy Private Equity and Venture Capital
Qualifications
New York State,the USA；Passed China Bar Exam
Languages
Mandarin English

Profiles

Mr. Sol Zhang was graduated from East China University of Political Science and Law, and then obtained his Juris Doctor degree from University of Iowa College of Law.

Mr. Zhang is mainly focused on the practices of cross border transactions, while his practice also covers domestic mergers and acquisitions, foreign direct investment and private equity and venture capital investments. He has been constantly advising public companies, investment funds and large state-owned enterprises and private companies in their mergers and acquisitions and other investments abroad, which covers the business sectors of renewable energy, hi-tech and manufacturing, retailing, agriculture and pharmaceutical, among which, Mr. Zhang has advised on numerous renowned mergers and acquisition projects in the mining sector relating in the renewable energy supply chain. Mr. Zhang has also advised multinational companies, large state-owned enterprises and private companies in their domestic investments in a number of industries.

In addition to the mergers and acquisition area, Mr. Zhang has advised various private equity and venture capital funds (including leading U.S. funds) in their equity investment under different structures of VIE, red chip and domestic joint venture, where such projects cover the phases from angel investments to the Pre-IPO phase (including investments by a leading U.S. funds into a leading ESN company for its various series of equity financing).

Mr. Zhang also advised renowned foreign universities in their Sino-foreign joint education projects in China. Also, Mr. Zhang has provided general advisory services to various multinational companies in medical equipment, hi-tech and manufacturing and other industries, and advised on issues in their daily operation (such as dispute relating to its joint venture).

Mr. Zhang has won the lFLR 1000 Rising Star Award for M&A in 2023 and 2024. 

Achievements

Experience

  • Represented CATL and its subsidiaries in several overseas investments: (1) taking a stake in Neo Lithium, a Canadian listed lithium company, and subsequently advising CATL further when CATL and other shareholders sold the company in its entirety to Zijin Mining; (2) investing in Montana Technologies, a US innovative enterprise engaged in energy-saving technology R&D, and advising CATL during its SPAC listing; (3) bidding for the acquisition of Millennial Lithium, a Canadian listed lithium company; (4) the acquisition by Brunp Times of a stake in the Weda Bay nickel mine in Indonesia; and (5) the acquisition by Brunp Times of a large ferronickel smelter in Indonesia

  • Represented CATL in reaching a strategic cooperation with BMW

  • Represented a large state-owned enterprise in Shanghai in the complete acquisition and subsequent capital increase of a large coal field project in Pakistan (the world's seventh largest coal field)

  • Represented a listed company in acquiring a large tin-tungsten mine in a Central Asian country

  • Represented Food Wise in acquiring all of the equity interests in Yinlu Foods Group from Nestle

  • Represented a large domestic state-owned listed company in concluding long-term sales agreements with a well-known European shipping company and a leading domestic port operator for green methanol fuel (the first successfully commercialized project in China)

  • Represented Capital Today in multiple rounds of equity investment in Xingsheng Youxuan, a leading community e-commerce company

  • Represented a well-known domestic company in purchasing several business jets, including the purchase of a green aircraft from Airbus and the subsequent fitting-out and related financing

  • Represented several UK universities and schools in Sino-foreign joint education projects in China, including the establishment of a joint medical school by King's College London and the Southern University of Science and Technology

Intelligence

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