Practice areas

M&A; Cross-border investment; Energy & natural resources; Infrastructure

Introduction

Yao Jian is a partner at Jingtian & Gongcheng’s Beijing headquarters. He has been engaged in legal services for more than 15 years. He focuses on cross-border transactions, multinational M&A, infrastructure investments, mine, energy and resources investment, real-estate investment, capital markets and renewable energy. He has worked in prestigious international firms and domestic firms.

Yao has provided professional services for many large state-owned enterprises and private enterprises in cross-border investment, M&A and project financing. His ability to propose innovative project structure solutions from both legal and commercial perspectives has also been widely recognised by the industry and well-received by clients.

As one of the most active partners in Jingtian & Gongcheng, his career experience has been enriched by the boom in Chinese outbound investments, with clients in Europe, Africa, North America, Australia, South Asia and Central Asia across energy and natural resources, infrastructure construction, entertainment industry and agriculture sectors. Yao is also one of the leading lawyers to provide carbon trade (CEA, CCER) related services in China.

Yao has been selected as the member of the “National Talent Pool of Lawyers Specialising on Foreign Affairs” of the Ministry of Justice, ranked as “Highly Recommended Lawyer in Project and Energy “by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2021, “China Top 15 Rising Lawyers” by 2019 Asian Legal Business, lauded as the “Most Satisfied Lawyer of the Client” by 2019 Asialaw Leading Lawyers, and named a “Notable Practitioner in Corporate and Mergers & Acquisitions” by 2020 Asialaw Profiles.

Yao was admitted to the PRC Bar and New York Bar. He works in both English and Chinese.

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