In the area of antitrust and competition, Xixiang advises multinational and Chinese clients on the full range of competition law issues (including merger control, unilateral and joint conducts), foreign investment control/national security review matters. Xixiang constantly conducts preliminary multi-jurisdictional merger control/foreign investment control analysis for his clients in cross board transactions.
His notable matters include acting for:
● Comcast/NBCUniversal on the Beijing Universal Studio Theme Park with Beijing Shouhuan
● thyssenkrupp on its joint ventures with Ansteel, GAC Auto, with Kongsberg and ATLAS
● Sinochem and ChemChina on their strategic merger
● Sinopec on its joint venture with Saudi Aramco and Fujian Refining & Petrochemical
● China Telecom on its joint venture with China Eastern Airlines
● Guotai Junan Securities and Haitong Securities on their merger
● Baiyin Nonferrous on its acquisition of acquisition of the Serrote copper-gold mine in Brazil
● DSBJ on its acquisition of Source Photonics, MFLEX, Flex
● AirChina on its acquisition of Shangdong Airlines
● Baidu on its joint ventures with COSCO Shipping, with Gree Group, and with TXYJ
● Hollysy in the ACP going-private acquisition
● Advent International, Bain Capital, Centurium, DCP Capital, Hillhouse Investment, PAG, Temasek, Trustar Capital, Warburg Pincus on their respective series of transactions in China involving controlling stake acquisitions, strategic investments, joint ventures and privatizations
In the area of M&A corporate, Xixiang represents multinational companies, China SOEs, PE investors in merger & acquisition, joint venture and private equity investment transactions, providing legal due diligence, transaction documentation drafting and negotiation and other regulatory advises related to A-share market.
His notable matters include acting for:
● Excelitas Technologies on its acquisition of Heraeus Noblelight
● Platinum Equity on its acquisition of Ingram Micro Inc. from HNA Technology (600751.SH)
● Baidu on its investments in Hand (300170.SZ) and Yusys Tech (300674.SZ)
● Daimler on its investment in Bluepark (600733.SH), a back-door listing of Beijing Electric Vehicle Co., Ltd
● Whirlpool on its strategic investment in Hefei Sanyo (600983.SH), and on its sale of home appliance assets to Whirlpool (600983.SH) and Hisense Kelon (000921.SZ)
● Goldman Sachs on MAI’s partial tender offer of Sanonda (200553.SZ), on Unifrax’s acquisition of LUYANG (002088.SZ) and on Sanonda (200553.SZ)’s acquisition of ADAMA
● CICC on the material asset restructuring (“MAR”) of Kingray New Materials (600390.SH), on the MAR of JINAN DIESEL (000617.SZ), both back-door listing deals of the financial institution assets of China Minmetals and CNPC respectively
● ThyssenKrupp on its several joint venture and acquisition projects in China
● Baidu, Inc., Hillhouse Investment, CICC Capital, National Integrated Circuit Fund, China SOE Mixed Ownership Reform Fund on a series of private equity or venture capital investments, acquisitions and spin-off transactions
