植德律师事务所

Investment Funds

Providing legal services for public mutual fund companies such as ICBC Credit Suisse and East Wu Fund, including their public funds, private asset management products, corporate annuity and pension products, or other affairs;
Offering legal services for fund management subsidiaries such as Minsheng JiaYin, Bosera Capital, and Huaxia Capital, including their private asset management products or other affairs;
Serving as legal counsel for private fund managers such as Freshwater Springs, Jiukun, Xing Shi Investment, Yunzhou Capital, and KaiFeng Investment, regarding their private funds or other affairs;
Representing institutions such as Hang Seng Bank, Industrial Bank, and Zhonghang Trust in the establishment of public fund companies and fund subsidiaries, providing legal services;
Assisting foreign private equity firms such as Aberdeen Standard Investments, Allianz, Amundi, Income Partners, Invesco, Mirae Assets, and Nomura with their private fund manager registration or significant change projects;
Supporting domestic private equity firms such as Fushun, Mingcheng, Chengyuan, Xinguoxing, and Ruihua Asset Management with their private fund manager registration or significant change projects;
Offering legal services for Nomura and others regarding their QFLP fund-related business;
Providing legal services for domestic and foreign institutions such as Aberdeen Standard Investments, Allianz, Amundi, Invesco, Mirae Asset, Nomura, Value Partners, Taikang Asset Management, Hongtai Fund, Lushen Venture Capital, Huashan Rui Lian, and Chenyi Fund in applying for QDLP business qualifications and quotas, QDLP fund manager registration, and/or QDLP fund issuance in cities like Shanghai, Beijing, Qingdao, and Hainan;
Representing financial institutions such as Huaxia Capital, Bosera Capital, Nanfang Capital, Penghua Asset, Merchants Wealth, and Prime Glory in applying for QDIE business qualifications, quotas, and/or issuing QDIE products;
Assisting foreign asset management institutions such as Amundi in applying to the China Securities Regulatory Commission for the registration of Mutual Recognition of Funds between Mainland and Hong Kong (MRF) and/or their sales within the mainland.

Banking and Finance

Representing well-known domestic and foreign institutions in the establishment of joint venture securities companies and their application for licenses, providing legal services;
Offering legal services for commercial banks and their wealth management subsidiaries such as CITIC Bank and China Postal Savings Bank on their wealth management products or other affairs;
Serving insurance companies and insurance asset management companies such as Taiping Asset Management, Ping An Asset Management, and Qianhai Reinsurance on their insurance fund utilization, insurance asset management, or other affairs;
Providing legal services for securities companies and securities asset management companies such as CICC, Xingye Asset Management, and CITIC Securities on their private asset management products or other affairs;
Representing trust companies such as Xiamen Trust on their asset management trusts, offering legal services;
Assisting foreign asset management institutions such as Aberdeen Standard Investments, Amundi, Allianz, BNP Paribas, E Fund, and Value Partners in applying for the qualification of overseas trustee for insurance fund entrusted overseas investment (insurance QDII), reviewing insurance fund overseas entrustment management agreements, or other affairs, providing legal services;
Offering legal services for well-known foreign financial institutions such as BlackRock, UBS, and Mirae Asset on their QFII/RQFII business;
Representing banks such as HSBC on their QFII/RQFII custody business, global custody business of QDII funds, and other affairs;
Providing legal services for Invesco on the closure of its Beijing representative office (representative office of overseas securities institutions in China).

PE/VC, M&A

Representing the renowned British asset management firm Schroders in providing due diligence, legal, and compliance consulting services for the domestic part of its acquisition of Adveq, a well-known fund of funds manager headquartered in Switzerland.
Offering due diligence, legal, and compliance consulting services for a well-known foreign financial institution in its planned acquisition of the domestic part of a global asset management firm.
Serving a national-level fund by providing due diligence, transaction document review, and legal compliance consulting services for its intended acquisition of minority stakes held by foreign shareholders in a well-known joint venture financial institution.
Representing the National Social Security Fund in providing due diligence and agreement review services for its strategic investment in the H-share private placement of a certain securities company.
Offering due diligence, legal opinion services for Qianhai Reinsurance in its investment in several collective trust funds with underlying investments in debt instruments.