Professional Experience

Youyuan Jin is a partner at Merits & Tree. Prior to establishing Merits & Tree, Mr. Jin was a partner at the Commerce and Finance Law Offices and Zhonglun Wende Law Firm. He also has worked at King&Wood for many years.

Mr. Jin has rich experience in private equity investment and financing, corporate M&A, cross-border transactions, listings at home and abroad, private equity fund establishment and compliance: representing investment institutions or financing companies to invest hundreds of projects about investment, financing and M&A of different stages and rounds, The industry covers TMT, biomedicine and health, education and training, high-end manufacturing, military industry, retail and consumption, entertainment and sports, etc; assisting more than a dozen enterprises to successfully list or apply for listing in the domestic and foreign capital markets. The place of listing include Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, the United States and the United Kingdom; in the field of investment funds, Mr. Jin has provided services to dozens of funds or their managers in setting up and raising funds, fund disputes, registration of fund managers, filing of fund products, perennial legal counsel, and so on; assisting the government to guide funds, market-oriented mother funds to invest in venture capital funds, listed companies M & A funds, cross-border M & A funds and other types of sub-funds.

Honors & Awards

Youyuan Jin has been listed on Chambers, ALB, China Business Law Journal, IFLR1000, LEGALBAND and other prestigious lists for many years. Including the following lists：

1. 2019-2022 Chambers - Practice Area Awards: Private Equity and Venture Capital

2. 2020 ALB China Top 15 TMT Lawyers

3. 2019 China Business Law Awards - The A List - China's Top 100 Lawyers

4. 2022 IFLR1000 - Practice Area Awards: Private Equity

5. 2017-2022 Top Ranked Lawyers - Private Equity And Venture Captial rewarded by LEGALBAND

6. 2018-2022 Top Ranked Lawyers - Investment Funds rewarded by LEGALBAND

Education

LL.B., NingBo University

LL.M., University of International Business and Economics

Qualifications

Mr. Jin has been admitted to practice in the People's Republic of China.

Working Language

Chinese and English