Mr. Gao is a Partner of Haiwen & Partners, resident in the Beijing office. Mr. Gao's practice focuses on securities offering, merger & acquisition and general corporate matters.
Mr. Gao is a Partner of Haiwen & Partners, resident in the Beijing office. Mr. Gao's practice focuses on securities offering, merger & acquisition and general corporate matters.
Mr. Gao joined Haiwen in 2002 and became a partner in 2011.
In the area of capital markets transactions, Mr. Gao has represented both issuers and underwriters in numerous equity and bond offerings on the SSE, the SZSE and the HKSE. Representative transactions include the A share IPO of a company engaged in China Mobile Limited,Air China Cargo Co., CICC, Huaneng Lancang River Hydropower, CNOOC Energy Technology & Services，Westen Securities, Ningbo Bank, Huadian Power, Nexchip Semiconductor (STAR Market), Pioneer Pharma (STAR Market), QingCloud Technology (STAR Market), LUSTER LightTech (STAR Market), BMC Medical (ChiNext), and Boxun Medical (BSE), etc.; the H share IPO of a company engaged in Geek+, CICC, Biocytogen, ZGC Science-Tech Leasing, China Building Materials, Air China, PICC, ASMC, etc.; the follow on equity offering by Sinopec, Huaneng Lancang River Hydropower, Easyhome, Tangshan Jidong Cement, GigaDevice, Sinopec SSC, Huadian Power, etc.; the restructuring of large and medium-sized enterprises, such as Sinopec Marketing Co., Ltd, China Postal Express & Logistics Company Limited, etc.
In the area of M&A transactions, Mr. Gao's recent experience includes advising: Easyhome (000785.SZ) in connection with its back door listing on SZSE; Wangfujing（600859.SH）in connection with its merge with Beijing Capital Retailing Group (600723.SH); CICC (as financial adviser) in connection with the merger between CSR Corporation Limited (601766.SH, 01766.HK) and China CNR Corporation Limited (601299.SH, 06199.HK); Easyhome in connection with its private placement of RMB13 billion in shares to 21 investors; Tangshan Jidong Cement （000401.SZ）in connection with its major asset restructuring of its setting up JV With BBMG Corp; CICC in connection with its acquisition of 100% equity interest in China Investment Securities Company Limited; Besttone Holding (600640.SH) in connection with its substantial acquisition of China Telecom's media & entertainment assets for approximately RMB 4 billion; CICC (as financial adviser) in connection with the substantial acquisition of China Minmetals Corporation's financial assets for approximately RMB 18.5 billion by Kingray New Materials (600390.SH); Sinopec Marketing Co., Ltd. in connection with its private placement of RMB100 billion in shares to 25 investors; China Telecom in connection with its sale of transmission tower assets to China Tower for approximately RMB 34 billion; Sinopec SSC (600871.SH, 01033.HK) in connection with its major asset restructuring; China Meheco (600056.SH) in connection with its merge with Topfond Pharmaceutical (600253.SH) , etc.
Mr. Gao has been ranked by Chambers Asia-Pacific and Chambers Global in the “Capital Markets: Debt & Equity” category for many consecutive years. He has also been listed for consecutive years by IFLR1000 as a “Highly Regarded” lawyer in the “Capital Markets: Equity” category. He was named one of the “Dealmakers of Asia 2023” by Asian Legal Business (ALB), a Thomson Reuters publication, and was recognized by IFLR1000 as the “Capital Markets Lawyer of the Year (Beijing)” at its IFLR1000 China Awards 2023. Furthermore, he was named one of the “China Top 15 Capital Markets Lawyers” in 2022 by ALB and was included in “The A-List” of elite lawyers by China Business Law Journal for both 2022 and 2024.
Mr. Gao received his LL.B. degree in 2002 from Peking University.
Mr. Gao's native language is Chinese and he is fluent in English.
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