Practice areas

Capital markets; Private equity, venture capital & funds

Introduction

Qiao Zhaoshu graduated from China University of Political Science and Law and Central University of Finance and Economics. Her practice, spanning more than 10 years, has focused on PE investment funds, finance and capital markets, securities and bond issuance, and compliance governance of state-owned enterprises and central enterprises. She has hosted and successfully completed many influential projects in the field of private equity funds, including one that won the “Annual Outstanding Transaction Award” project of 2020 Commercial Law. She also provides a full range of legal services for large private equity/securities investment institutions, domestic well-known industrial funds, family funds, and non-profit organisation funds.

Furthermore, she has many years’ experience as a legal consultant for state-owned enterprises, foundations, large private enterprises and private funds. She led the team to develop perennial legal centres, legal service product lines and service manuals, provided asset structure optimisation services to state-owned enterprises, set up new product service systems, and expanded the service product lines across various industries.

Qiao has received many industry awards, including the Outstanding Lawyer of Beijing Chaoyang District 2015-2018, the Outstanding Transaction of the Year Award, Commercial Law in 2020, the The A-List of China Business Law Journal, and the IFLR Asia-Pacific Legal Award in 2022.

As a leader in professional research, Qiao has participated in the writing of many professional books on the PE industry, including the “Chinese-style Limited Partnership PE“, “Legal Perspective on Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions“, “A Look Inside the New Third Board“, and “Legal Research on Chinese-style Private Equity LP“.

In 2022, Qiao founded the WeChat public account of “Way of PE”, simultaneously launching its video account. The public account contains four sections: PE report, PE dynamic, PE research and PE training. The account continuously shares high-quality content on all working days, publishes a large number of in-depth original articles and launches the quarterly PE industry legal observation reports across chapters on legislation, judicial, regulation and markets, which has received a large number of followers and won widespread praise and attention from the PE community.

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