Finance Monthly Deal Maker Awards 2019 Edition

www.finance-monthly.com 48 FINANCE MONTHLY DEAL MAKER AWARDS 2019 MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS MR. LI YA Equity Partner of Zhong Lun Law Firm ABOUT MR. LI YA Mr. LI Ya is an equity partner of Zhong Lun Law Firm. He has been practicing for over 16 years in the areas of (cross-border) investment, M&A, financing, restructuring as well as corporate compliance and public offering, and has abundant experience and knowledge in industries of private equity, manufacturing, real estate and hospitality, TMT and entertainment, and medical and health. Mr. LI Ya has been working at Zhong Lun Law Firm for over 13 years, and has completed more than many deals in his practice area for international clients like Maersk, Accor, Suzlon, Hitachi and Samsung, for Chinese state-owned enterprise clients like ChemChina, CAMC Engineering, Jinmao Capital, China Post Life and Beijing CIG, for other enterprise clients like Tianhua Institute (listed in China), ENN (listed in HK) and Hony Capital (leading PE). The typical deal completed recently by Mr. LI Ya is ChemChina’s acquisition of 100% shares of Krauss Maffei Group (the total transaction value is € 925 million) and ChemChina’s following restructuring of Tian Hua Institute (listed in China) by cross-border share swap with Krauss Maffei Group and other Chinese companies. In addition to corporate clients, Mr. LI Ya was also invited to advise the legislations and projects of National Health and Family Planning Commission and Ministry of Commerce and give lectures at Aarhus University (a top 100 university around the world) and Southwestern University of Finance and Economics. Mr. LI Ya is commented as “an experienced and energetic legal expert” and “an attorney with excellent business thinking and work skills” by his peers and clients. TRANSACTION REPORT Qingdao Tianhua Institute Chemical Engineering Company Limited (“Tianhua Institute”, a Shanghai Stock Exchange listing company) issued shares to acquire the core assets of KraussMaffei Group, a subsidiary of China National Chemical Corporation and two rubber machinery companies in China. The total value of the assets merged therein is over RMB 15 billion. The transaction is currently unconditionally approved by the Listed Company Mergers and Acquisitions Review Committee of China Securities Regulatory Commission(“CSRC”), which is the second cross-border share swap transaction of listed company with central enterprise background approved by CSRC . Via this acquisition, Tianhua Institute will realize the synergy of technology, capacity, sales and management domestic and overseas, and will be built into an international platform of chemical equipment industry. After the completion of this transaction, Tianhua Institute will continue acquiring international excellent enterprises in the industry chain via KraussMaffei Group as an overseas platform and keep a global leading advantage under the tide of Industry 4.0. Zhong Lun has provided full legal services for this transaction as Tianhua Institute’s legal counsel, including designing the whole structure of the transaction, advising on the selection of target assets, issuing the legal opinions for the transaction, drafting the transactional documents, advising on the application for MOFCOM’s approval of strategic investment, etc. Awarded for his involvement in the following transaction: Inbound and Outbound Assets Acquisition of Tianhua Institute CONTACT 33F, SK Tower, 6A Jianguomenwai Avenue, Chao Yang District, Beijing, P.R.China Zip Code: 100022 Fax: +86 10 6568 1022/ 1838 Direct: +86 10 5957 2158 Email: liya@zhonglun.com Web:www.zhonglun.com FIRM PROFILE Founded in 1993, Zhong Lun was one of the first law firms approved by China’s Ministry of Justice. After years of rapid and steady growth, Zhong Lun has become one of the largest full-service law firms in China. With nearly 300 partners and 2000 professionals who are always at the forefront of their fields, Zhong Lun is capable of providing clients ranging from Fortune Global 500 multinational enterprises and large state-owned enterprises to growth enterprises with high-quality legal services in more than 20 countries and regions across a wide range of industries and sectors. Zhong Lun and its lawyers are consistently recommended by prominent industry watchers, such as Chambers & Partners, International Financial Law Review, The Lawyer, The Legal 500, Asian Legal Business and China Law & Practice, etc.