Practice areas

Capital markets; Foreign direct investment; M&A; Private equity, venture capital & funds

Introduction

Ryan Ren has extensive experience in the areas of capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital investment, foreign direct investment, securities and corporate governance. With his pioneering legal thinking, Ren specialises in representing clients in complex domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, the acquisition of listed companies, joint ventures and cross-border restructurings.

Ren has provided legal services to many issuers and sponsors in securities offerings and subsequent financing in mainland China, Hong Kong and the US. He has also provided legal services to domestic and cross-border transactions of top multinational companies, Fortune Global 500 companies and well-known internet technology enterprises. He has extensively and actively represented domestic and foreign investment funds in minority equity transactions, and has accompanied numerous founders as well as their startups in equity financing, restructuring and subsequent IPOs.

Relying on Haiwen’s advantages in integrated services, Ren is able to provide comprehensive and one-stop legal services in the areas of dispute resolution, antitrust, taxation, labour and employment, compliance, wealth management and other areas during the course of serving clients.

Ren has advised on a number of representative deals including: Unifrax’s acquisition of shares in Luyang, which won the Cross-border Deal of the Year of 2022 by China Business Law Journal; Diageo’s acquisition of shares in Swellfun which won the M&A Deal of the Year of 2019 by both China Law & Practice and the International Financial Law Review; and Wanda Film’s material assets restructuring transaction, which has won the M&A Deal of the Year of 2019 by China Business Law Journal.

Ren received his LLB degree from the University of International Business and Economics in 2011.

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