Dan ZHANG Partner

Email: zhangdan@anjielaw.com

Tel: +86 10 8567 2916

Fax: +86 10 8567 5900

Language: Chinese,English

Practice Areas: General Corporate and Commercial, Private Equity & Venture Capital, Cross-border Investment & M&A, Capital Market & Securities

Office: BEIJING

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Representative Cases
Honors & Recognition
Professional Association
Publications
Working Experience
Education Background
Qualifications

Ms. ZHANG Dan is a PRC qualified lawyer. With over 20 years’ experience, she focuses her practice on areas of contracts, general corporate, corporate governance, corporate finance, M&A, capital market, fund formation, liquidation, dissolution & Bankruptcy, FDI & ODI, data protection, as well as commercial dispute resolution. She has represented many foreign and domestic clients, from giant groups to start-up companies, covering industries of manufacturing, wholesale & retail, health care, sports, education, logistics, movie & entertainment, information technology, real estate, as well as banking & finance.

ZHANG Dan is a native speaker of Mandarin Chinese, and fluent in English.


Representative Cases

Fund Formation & Other Fund Services

  • Providing legal services to Ping’An Ventures for setting up a special directed investment fund in Cayman Island.
  • Providing legal services for the establishment of some special directed investment funds for China Insurance Investment Fund.
  • Providing services to Shanghe Capital for its several funds’ formation.
  • Providing legal services to ICBC International for setting up special directed investment funds in PRC.
  • Providing liquidation services to funds managed by ICBC International.
  • Providing legal services to Cash Capital for its exit from invested portfolio companies.
  • Acting as retaining legal counsel to ICBC International, China Resources Asset Management, Sunshine Insurance Asset Management, Shanghe Capital, China Cultural Industry Investment Fund, Guokejiahe Capital, Runhui Capital, and other equity investment funds.

Private Equity & Venture Capital Investment

  • Providing legal services to 58 Investment Holding Co. for its investments to some portfolio companies.
  • Providing legal services to ICBC International for its investments to some portfolio companies and sub-funds.
  • Providing legal services to Riverhill Fund for its investments to some portfolio companies.
  • Providing legal services to China Insurance Investment Fund for its investment (30 billions) to China National Building Material Co., Ltd.
  • Providing legal services to Sunshine Insurance Asset Management for its investments to some portfolio companies.
  • Providing legal services to Shanghe Capital for its investments in several portfolio companies.
  • Providing legal services to Maimai, a leading Chinese workplace social networking platform, for its private equity Series C financing (US$ 70 million) and Series D financing (US$ 0.2 billion) from DST, IDG, and DCM.
  • Providing legal services to Panda Select, a noted share kitchen platform, for its private equity Series C financing (US$ 50 million) from Tiger and DCM.
  • Providing legal services to GAGO, a leading satellite data services provider, for its private equity Series B financing (US$ 20 million) from Telstra, DCM and PAC.
  • Providing legal services to Little Happiness, a leading online sports services provider, for its private equity Series Pre-A financing (US$ 5 million) from Zheng Fund.
  • Providing legal services to Blue Rhino, a leading platform providing online logistics services, for its private equity financing of Series B from Baidu Investment.
  • Providing legal services to Wuxi Muchuang, a company specialized in integrated circuit and chip development, for its private equity financing from several famous Chinese investors including Alipay.

M&A & Capital Market

  • Providing legal services to China Huaneng Group for its acquisition of several photovoltaic power stations.
  • Providing legal services to Runhui Capital (a fund established by China Resources) for its investment projects.
  • Acting as Chinese counsel of TAG Holdings for its being acquired by AGBA Acquisition Limited, a NASDAQ listed company.
  • Acting as Chinese counsel of Mr. Leung for his shares in a HK company being acquired by a Chinese company in Dongguan, Guangdong Province.
  • Providing legal services to a leading agricultural enterprise in Henan province for its being reverse merged by an American OCTQB listed company.
  • Providing legal services to a domestic internet company (invested by Alibaba) for its US IPO (to be listed in NASDAQ).
  • Providing legal services to a well-known education company consolidated with another education company (VIE Structure).
  • Providing legal services to Gansu Yansheng Industrial (Group) Co. Ltd (a Chinese listed company) and US Yasheng Group (a US company listed in OTCQB) for its stock and assets re-organization project.
  • Providing legal services to Zhejiang Xiaobuding Culture and Animation Co., Ltd for its being listed in Chinese New Third Board (now Beijing Stock Exchange).
  • Providing legal services to Love Sports Technology Company for its acquisitions of several companies.
  • Providing legal services to Little Hornet Fund for its acquisition of another fund management company.

Data and Personal Information Protection Compliance

  • Providing compliance service to Advanced Healthcare Clinic, Gago Big Data, Data Wave and other data analysis companies for their data and personal information compliance involved in daily business.
  • Providing compliance service to a Hong Kong company on its cross-border data transfer transactions.

Commercial Dispute Resolution

  • Representing Ningxia Mingdu Group (“Mingdu”) as its counsel in the case of Mingdu v Heyuan Capital (an investment dispute arbitrated in China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission ( “CIETAC”), RMB170 million), and wining in full.
  • Representing New Studio Company as its counsel in the case of New Studio v Letv Network (a copyright dispute litigated in Beijing Chaoyang District Court, RMB 50 million), and wining in full.
  • Representing China Cultural Industry Investment Fund as its counsel in the case of China Cultural Industry Investment Fund v Zeus Entertainment (a Chines A share listed Company, with the code of 002354) (an investment dispute later altered to bankruptcy reorganization in Dalian Intermediate Court, the disputing amount being RMB 35 million), winning in full and successfully completing the bankruptcy reorganization.
  • Representing Shanghe Capital in several cases arbitrated in CIETAC and wining in full.
  • Representing Humanbrain in several cases litigated in Beijing & Nanjing court, as well as arbitrated in CIETAC and wining.
  • Providing dispute resolution services to Light House Capital, a leading boutique investment bank.
  • Providing dispute resolution services to Guokejiahe Fund, a PE fund initiated by Chinese Academy of Sciences.

General Corporate & Corporate Governance

  • Acting as retaining legal counsel and providing legal advices to companies e.g. Taiping Insurance Group, ICBC International, Kuaishou, Maimai, Advanced Healthcare Clinic, Xieche.com (870834), Ciming Health, Lovesports Technology, New Studio (834630), Gago Big Data, Lovely Baby Education, 4kgarden Internet, Data Wave, Little Happiness Sports etc.


Honors & Recognition

  • Legal 500: Recommended TMT Attorney


Professional Association

  • Member of One Belt and One Road Professional Committee of Beijing Lawyers Association


Publications

  • Lexis Nexis China, Hot Issues: “Comments on the Right of Residence under the Chinese Civil Code”.
  • Lexis Nexis China, Hot Issues: “Further opening and creating more fair and convenient foreign investment environment – the comment on ‘Circular of the State Council on measures to expand opening and actively utilize foreign capital’”.
  • Lexis Nexis China, Latest Laws Express: “The independency of corporate Legal Personality and protection of shareholders’ interests – comment on ‘The Forth Judicial Interpretation of Company Law’”.
  • Lexis Nexis China, Latest Laws Express: “The independency of corporate Legal Personality and protection of shareholders’ interests – comment on ‘The Forth Judicial Interpretation of Company Law’”.
  • Commercial Law, Anjie Column: “Issues related to copyright protection of film and television works”.
  • Anjie WeChat Official Accounts: “Questions Regarding the Protection of Copyrights of Cinematographic Works”.
  • Anjie WeChat Official Accounts: “comment on new regulations to P2P online lending platform –‘Interim Measures for the Management of Business Activities of Online Lending Information Platforms’.
  • Anjie WeChat Official Accounts: “A Quick Glance at the Impact on Private Equity Fund by the Proposed Uniform Asset Management Regulating Policies”.


Working Experience

  • AnJie Broad Law Firm, Equity Partner
  • Bejing King & Capital Law Firm, Senior Associate, Corporate Finance Group



Education Background

  • Northwestern University, Master of Laws (Horner) & MBA Certificate USA
  • University of Sussex, Bachelor of Laws (Horner), UK
  • Southeast University, Master of Laws, China
  • China University of Political Science and Law, Bachelor of Laws, China


Qualifications

  • Chinese Bar Qualification