DaHui Lawyers has extensive experience in capital markets transactions and has served as PRC counsel for issuers and underwriters in both equity and debt offerings in the US and Hong Kong, handling IPOs, secondary offerings, bond offerings and private placements. Managing partner of DaHui Lawyers, Richard Ma, has more than 20 years of experience in representing companies in capital markets, M&A, investments and compliance matters. His industry strengths are in media and entertainment, and technology and telecommunications. The firm hired a number of new partners in the last 12 months: Yun Chen from Baker McKenzie FenXun, Reking Chen from DLA Piper, Jiawen Gong from Jia Yuan Law Offices, and Yi Dai from Wang Jing & Co.
Work highlights
Advised Sands Talk Capital in investing in a new, large-scale coffee shop chain in southeast Asia.
Assisted Hillhouse in its investment in an inspiring new software company.
Work highlights
Successfully represented China Securities in the first public judgment regarding claims of false statements in non-public directional debt financing instruments by non-financial enterprises in the interbank bond market. This case is the first of its kind in China.
Representing Hewlett Packard in an appeal against an order to pay several million Renminbi.
Representing a large, state-owned comprehensive credit management service provider in the retrial of a securities-related dispute worth over a billion Renminbi.
Key clients
Runfeng Caifu, SAIF Partners, Transtech International.
Work highlights
Advised on Reed Exhibitions’ largest reorganisation since the business’s entry into the China market two decades ago.
Assisting a giant state-owned Chinese corporation in its acquisition of a Hong Kong company in a highly regulated industry.
Key clients
Airbnb, Elsevier, FBA Capital Management, Ideanomics.
Work highlights
Advised Prenetics on PRC-related issues to merge with a Spac listed on Nasdaq and become a public company post-merger.
Assisted a Chinese state-owned conglomerate in the issuance of guaranteed bonds.
Work highlights
Serving as Nvidia’s monitoring trustee for antitrust compliance.
Serving as the antitrust “monitoring trustee” to the NYSE-listed Illinois Tool Works.
Key clients
BYD, Modern Dairy, Musashi.
Work highlights
Advising Elsevier, a Netherlands-based publishing company specialising in scientific, technical and medical content, on regulatory matters related to its market entry, cooperation and business growth in China.
Advising The Economist on optimising the structure of its local operations.
Acted for CBS on regulatory matters in relation to its sale of an entity with rare operating licences.
Key clients
Comcast, Peterson Control Union, Reed Exhibitions.
