Shen Cheng

Introduction

Shen Cheng is a senior partner at AllBright Law Offices, mainly based in Shanghai. Shen obtained his LLB from Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, and his LLM from Emory University.

Shen won the “New Star Award” in the 8th Top 10 Outstanding Young Lawyers in Pudong New Area and has been successively recommended as among the leading capital market lawyers in the Greater China area by international legal rating organisations such as Chambers and Partners, and International Financial Legal Review (IFLR1000). He has also been voted “Asian Dealmaker of the Year” in 2022 by Asian Legal Business (ALB).

Shen’s main practice areas include capital markets, M&A and PE. Relying on years of experience in serving top domestic and foreign clients and participating in numerous large-scale projects, Shen is particularly skilled in providing constructive advice to clients in projects involving complex transaction structures, multiple regulatory authorities, and different jurisdictional areas. In his more than 18 years of practice, Shen has led and completed a number of innovative and widely influential projects, such as the first overseas-listed red chip enterprise’s IPO in the A-share market (Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation), the first H-share enterprise to go public on the Star board (Haohai Biological Technology), the largest A-share IPO project in China’s energy industry in the past decade (China National Offshore Oil Corporation), the first red-chip enterprise to refinance on the Star board (China Resources Microelectronics), representing Qingdao Doublestar to acquire South Korean-listed company Kumho Tire (with a transaction amount of approximately KRW955 billion or USD715.2 million), representing Zhongmin Jiaye to acquire Hong Kong-listed company Shangzhi Group (with a transaction amount of approximately HKD1.25bn or USD160m), representing FoutainVest and other investors to sell Key Safety Systems to A-share listed company Joyson Electronics (with a transaction amount of approximately USD1.1bn).