Yimin Chen Partner
Shanghai
- Practice: Investments and M&A, Capital Markets, Private Equity and Venture Capital
- Languages: Mandarin, English
- Tel: （86-21）5404-9930
- Email: chen.yimin@jingtian.com
- Practice: Private Equity and Venture Capital, Capital Markets, Investments and M&A
- Languages: Mandarin, English
- Tel: （86-21）5404-9930
- Email: chen.yimin@jingtian.com
Mr. Chen graduated from Shanghai University and Tongji University, and has over 25 years of practice experience. Before joining Jingtian & Gongcheng, Mr. Chen served as a partner of a famous domestic law firm and a senior counsel of a well-known Singapore law firm.
Mr. Chen is currently the executive director of Jingtian & Gongcheng Shanghai Office, responsible for the daily affairs management of the office. He is also the legal advisor of the Xuhui District People’s Government. Meanwhile, he is an independent director of Livit Life Insurance Company Limited and an A-share listed company.
Mr. Chen specializes in capital market, M & A, investment and financing. In recent years, with his practice mainly focused on the consumer industry, Mr. Chen’s clients have been involved in a wide range of consumer and retail industries, including offline leisure and entertainment, outdoor sports and equipment, domestic cosmetics, pop toys and animation, which include Pop Mart (pop toys), Judydoll Makeup (domestic cosmetics), Mei KTV (chain brand of Internet KTV), MR. X (script entertainment), Snow 51 (ski training), Man Wah Holdings (Recliner Sofa manufacturer), etc. The Hong Kong listing project of Pop Mart completed by Mr. Chen's team as the issuer's PRC legal advisor won the “Tianxin List-The Most Representative IPO Cases of Startups of 2020”.
Mr. Chen’s countless years of practice experience has given him a keen insight into the market. Some transactions of him have earned a high degree of attention in the industry. Mr. Chen’s comprehensive professional capabilities are also highly recognized by clients and domestic and foreign professional parties such as underwriters.
Mr. Chen’s representative practice cases are as follows:
◆ Acting as the issuer's PRC legal advisor in the IPO of Pop Mart on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, this project is the first IPO case in China’s Pop toy industry;
◆ Acting as the issuer’s PRC legal advisor in the IPO of Huazhong Holdings Company Limited on the Hongkong Stock Exchange. The company was the then third largest manufacturer of automobile plastic body parts among independent domestic manufacturers in the PRC;
◆ Acting as the issuer’s PRC legal advisor in the IPO of OTO Holdings Limited on the Hongkong Stock Exchange. The company ranked first in the Hong Kong relaxation equipment market in terms of units sold, and its proprietary “OTO” brand ranked second in terms of Top of Mind Brand Awareness of partial body massage equipments in Hong Kong;
◆ Acting as the issuer’s PRC legal advisor in the IPO of Global Dairy Holdings Limited on the Hongkong Stock Exchange. The company was then one of the top ten local brand milk powder companies in the PRC market in terms of sales value;
◆ Acting as the issuer’s PRC legal advisor in the IPO of Man Wah Holdings Limited on the Hongkong Stock Exchange. The company was then the leading Recliner Sofa manufacturer, with its flagship brand, Cheers, accounting for the largest share of the PRC Recliner Sofa market in terms of revenue;
◆ Acting as the issuer’s PRC legal advisor in the IPO of XinRen Aluminum Holdings Limited on the Singapore Exchange, which was the only metal commodity concept stock listed and the second largest dragon chip stock in terms of trading scale in that year;
◆ Acting as the issuer’s PRC legal advisor of Yangzijiang Shipbuilding (Holdings) Ltd. in its public offering on the Singapore Exchange and TDR offering on the Taiwan Stock Exchange, which was the first listing of a private shipbuilding company of China and the first listing in Taiwan Province by a mainland company.
Mr. Chen was named by LEGALBAND as the 2021 China Top 15 Lawyers List in the field of Consumer & Retail, and was also recommended in Dawkins Client’s Guide of Capital Market: Top Ranked Law Firms in the field of consumer industry.
Mr. Chen has obtained the PRC lawyer's qualification, qualification of independent director of insurance companies and listed companies, and membership of internal verification committee of securities company.
Mr. Chen is fluent in both Mandarin and English.
