LIN, Xixiang | Partner
林熙翔
Anti-trust & Competition, Private Equity, Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Basic Information

    Xixiang is a partner in the firm’s Beijing office.  He has extensive experience in the areas of antitrust and competition, M&A corporate.

  • Professional History

    Xixiang joined the firm in 2013.

  • Experience Highlights

    In the area of antitrust and competition, Xixiang advises multinational and Chinese clients on the full range of competition law issues (including merger control, unilateral and joint conducts), foreign investment control/national security review matters.  Xixiang constantly conducts preliminary multi-jurisdictional merger control/foreign investment control analysis for his clients in cross board transactions.

    His notable matters include acting for:

    Advent International on its acquisition of Nielsen Global Connect Business, and Serta Mattress business

    Bain Capital on its acquisition of TI Automotive, ASATSU-DK, Mash Style, its significant investment in Maxford, Citiustech, VXI, EcoCeres, its sales of Uniview, Asimico

    Temasek on its joint ventures with Vanke, with Applied Materials, and with Sungent

    Warburg Pincus on its acquisition of Leyou, its joint venture with Wensheng AMC

    Hillhouse Capital on its acquisition of Philips home appliance division, Serta, King Koil mattress business, its joint venture with Astrazeneca

    Comcast/NBCUniversal on the Beijing Universal Studio Theme Park with Beijing Shouhuan

    Thyssenkrupp on its joint ventures with Ansteel, GAC Auto, with Kongsberg and ATLAS

    Addecco on its joint ventures with FESCO

    Sinochem and ChemChina on their strategic merger

    China Telecom on its joint venture with China Eastern Airlines;

    China Life Insurance on its acquisition of China Guangfa Bank

    AirChina on its acquisition of Shangdong Airlines

    Baidu on its joint ventures with COSCO Shipping, with Gree Group, and with TXYJ

    Special committee of the board of directors of Hollysy in the ACP going-private acquisition

     

    In the area of M&A corporate, Xixiang represents multinational companies, China SOEs, PE investors in merger & acquisition, joint venture and private equity investment transactions, providing legal due diligence, transaction documentation drafting and negotiation and other regulatory advises related to A-share market.

    His notable matters include acting for:

    Excelitas Technologies on its acquisition of Heraeus Noblelight

    Platinum Equity on its acquisition of Ingram Micro Inc. from HNA Technology (600751.SH)

    Baidu on its investments in Hand (300170.SZ) and Yusys Tech (300674.SZ)

    Daimler on its investment in Bluepark (600733.SH), a back-door listing of Beijing Electric Vehicle Co., Ltd

    Whirlpool on its strategic investment in Hefei Sanyo (600983.SH), and on its sale of home appliance assets to Whirlpool (600983.SH) and Hisense Kelon (000921.SZ)

    Goldman Sachs on MAI’s partial tender offer of Sanonda (200553.SZ), on Unifrax’s acquisition of LUYANG (002088.SZ) and on Sanonda (200553.SZ)’s acquisition of ADAMA

    CICC on the material asset restructuring (“MAR”) of Kingray New Materials (600390.SH), on the MAR of JINAN DIESEL (000617.SZ), both back-door listing deals of the financial institution assets of China Minmetals and CNPC respectively

    Easyhome on its pre-IPO financing, introducing Alibaba, Taikang Asset, Sequoia Capital and other investors

    ThyssenKrupp on its several joint venture and acquisition projects in China

    Baidu, Inc., Hillhouse Investment, CICC Capital, National Integrated Circuit Fund, China SOE Mixed Ownership Reform Fund on a series of private equity or venture capital investments, acquisitions and spin-off transactions

  • Accolades

    Xixiang has been recommended by The Legal 500 (Asia Pacific) for the area of antitrust/competition (2022-2024), and M&A corporate (2024) respectively.

  • Publications

    Co-author, “Merger Control – China Chapter”, Lexology In-Depth, 2024

    Co-author, “Digital Governance: The Development and Governance of Generative Artificial Intelligence”, China Industrial and Commercial Publishing House, 2024

    Co-author, “Toward an Era of Autonomous Driving: An Overview of Global Autonomous Driving Regulations”, UIBE Press, 2023

  • Education

    Xixiang received his LLB. degree and LLM. degree, B.A. (Dual Degree) in Psychology from Peking University.

  • Language

    His native language is Mandarin, Cantonese and he speaks English fluently.

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