Practice areas

M&A; Private equity, venture capital & funds; Real estate; Foreign direct investment

Introduction

Catherine Shen is a partner at Commerce & Finance Law Offices. She has more than 18 years’ experience advising clients on large scale and complex cross-border M&A and private equity transactions.

Catherine primarily handles private equity matters, cross border M&A transactions for top-tier private equity firms and leading multinational corporations. Besides traditional industries such as auto, real estate, healthcare and manufacturing, she is also experienced with M&A transactions in cutting-edge high technology industries such as AI, big data and autonomous driving.

Catherine has a particular expertise advising on cross-border transactions in the real estate sector covering a full spectrum of real estate assets such as logistics and warehouses, internet data centres, life sciences and other industrial parks, residential properties, shopping malls, hotels and other mixed-used commercial real estate properties. Catherine has served as the leading counsel for a number of complicated cross-border investment transactions in China’s new infrastructure sector, and was instrumental in their structuring, negotiation and implementation.

Catherine advised GIC RE in its acquisition of multiple modern logistics and warehouse facilities from JD Group at an asset value of RMB10.9 billion, which was recognised as a PRC Deal of the Year by China Business Law Journal in 2019. In addition, Catherine was rated as one of the Top 15 Female Lawyers by Legalband 2021.

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