Huang Peng

Introduction

Huang Peng is a seasoned partner at East & Concord Partners concentrating on investment and M&A, with a focus on cross-border transactions and international business. Chambers and Partners noted that Huang “is proficient in domestic listings and related investment matters” and “contributed outstanding abilities to law firms in various non-controversial areas such as private equity financing, mergers and acquisitions”. Legalband commented that Huang “excelled in grasping key points accurately to assist clients in breaking through bottlenecks and solving problems in different transactions”. The Legal 500 recognises Huang as “one of the few M&A lawyers in Hangzhou or even Zhejiang province who has extensive international experience and can work fluently in English”.

Huang has won awards from many world-renowned institutions, including being named among the A-List of China’s top 100 lawyers by China Business Law Journal for 2022 and 2023; awarded Asia Pacific “Corporate/Commercial: East Coast: Zhejiang：Band 2 Lawyer” by Chambers and Partners in 2020, 2021 and 2022; listed as a Recommended Lawyer by the Legal 500 in two areas of “Regional Coverage: Hangzhou City of Zhejiang Province” and “Private Equity” in 2020 and 2022; named in the “Power List: Top 15 Innovative Lawyers” by Legalband in 2022; included in the “Power List: Top 15 Transaction Lawyers” by Legalband in 2021; and awarded the Best Mergers and Acquisitions Lawyer of the Year by the China Mergers & Acquisitions Association in 2020. Huang led Suning Sports’ series A financing as well as represented American Superconductor in disputes with Sinovel Wind Group, both recognised as Deals of the Year in 2018 by China Business Law Journal.

In addition, Huang is an independent director at Tanac Automation, a practice supervisor at Zhejiang University Guanghua Law School, a practice supervisor at “The Belt and Road” Foreign-related Legal Talent Innovation Experimental Class of Zhejiang International Studies University, a distinguished lawyer at the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade Huzhou branch, and the director of the Foreign-related Legal Service Research Centre of the Gongshu Branch of the Hangzhou Lawyers Association.