Profile
Mr. SHA has been practicing for over 25 years, as a foreign-related lawyer under the Thousand-Talent Program of the Ministry of Justice, member of Guangdong Provincial Leading Talents Pool of Foreign-related Lawyers, member of the Qualification Pool of External Directors of Enterprises Supervised by Guangzhou SASAC, and independent director and supervisor of State-owned listed companies. He is the arbitrator of the Hainan International Arbitration Court, and arbitrator of Zhaoqing Arbitration Commission. He also serves as a member of several professional committees of the Guangdong Lawyers Association and the Guangzhou Lawyers Association. He was a former Counselor of the Policy Research Office of Guangzhou Municipal People's Government, associate professor of Wuhan University of Technology, and deputy chief engineer of large state-owned enterprises.
With outstanding educational background at home and abroad, he can use skillfully Chinese, English and French at the same time to provide legal services for domestic and foreign clients. Focusing on corporate law and securities law business, He is especially proficient in corporate compliance, capital markets such as IPO, SEO, RTO, asset-backed securitization (ABS); bonds, funds and trusts; private equity; mergers and acquisition. As well as State-owned assets management, restructuring and mixed reform; corporate compliance program, BOT and bidding, etc., and other legal businesses. His customers or their projects, including large state-owned enterprises, world-renowned investment funds, listed companies, securities companies, fund companies, futures companies, trust companies, commercial banks, are all over China, the United States, France, India, Thailand and Africa. His academic papers and works have been published in Chinese Lawyers and other journals over the years.
Practice Areas
Corporate Compliance, Capital Markets, Merger and Acquisition, Funds and Trusts, Reforming and Disposal of State-owned Assets.
Related achievements
IPO(A-shares): provided restructuring and IPO services for a state-owned enterprise; providing IPO services for a Hi-Tech company (on the Science and Technology Innovation Board of SSE).
Advised on several public share transfers on NEEQ, including a science and technology manufacturing holding company in Guangdong and an art enterprise.
Acquisition of listed companies (domestic): assisted a private enterprise in its acquisition of a state-owned listed company.
Acquisition of listed companies (overseas): acquisition of a shell (NASDAQ OTCBB).
Supervision of listed companies: advised on lifting the administrative supervision measures over an A-share listed company to remove the restriction on the voting rights of the company’s actual controller (a foreign party) and drafted the implementation plan.
Advised on a major debt restructuring of a domestic company listed in Singapore.
Acquisition fund: compliance advice on the implementation of an acquisition project involving RMB 26.1 billion via a trust collective fund plan.
A number of private equities, such as a mobile internet start-up enterprise (angel round); A round (Tencent) and B round (Alibaba + Tencent); overseas financing of USD42.8 million (VIE structure) by a domestic enterprise; a domestic enterprise raised USD30 million through round-trip investment of a special purpose vehicle established by a domestic resident.
Cross-border investment and Financing: major onshore and offshore financing (preferred shares, Euro convertible bonds); provided legal services for a railway company regarding an ODI project in one of The Belt and Road countries.
Advised several private investment fund managers and fund investments.
Company acquisition: legal due diligence and legal opinions on the acquisition of a futures company.
Non-typical capital business: notarization of stock-pledged repurchase; arbitration of commercial factoring disputes.
Management and compliance of state-owned assets: restructuring of a state-owned company in Guangzhou; restructuring, free transfer of assets and equity bidding, auction and listing of a state-owned company in Foshan; whole process of mixed-ownership reform, restructuring and listing of a wholly state-owned enterprise in Beijing.
Administrative approval by CBRC: advised on investor’s eligibility and compliance for investing a nonlocal city commercial bank.
Administrative approval by CSRC: advised on securities companies’ capital increase and share expansion; capital increase (by foreign investment) and equity acquisition of a fund company.
Government procurement: assisted in dealing with disputes over procurement compliance in a large-scale international project.
Intellectual property compliance: compliance solution for an online game adapted from a movie works.
Corporate compliance: acted as regular legal counsel for an enterprise for 20 consecutive years, which becomes a model in routine corporate compliance services.
Memberships
Member of the Qualification Pool of External Directors of Enterprises Supervised by Guangzhou SASAC
Independent director and supervisor of State-owned listed companies
Arbitrator and Mediator of the Hainan International Arbitration Court
Arbitrator of Zhaoqing Arbitration Commission
Arbitrator of Maoming Arbitration Commission
Mediator of Guangzhou International Commercial Mediation Center
Member of Belt and Road Foreign Affairs Committee of Guangdong Lawyers Association
Cross-border Investment Legal Committee of Guangdong Lawyers Association
Foreign-related Committee of Guangzhou Lawyers Association
Honors & Awards
Outstanding professional member award of Guangzhou Lawyers Association (financial and Securities Commission)
Outstanding professional member award of Guangzhou Lawyers Association (Securities Commission)
Awards for excellent theoretical achievements / papers