Jingtian & Gongcheng has hired Lai Jianglin and her team members Hu Yizhou and Guo Zhongyong as partners for its Guangzhou office. All three partners left King & Wood’s Guangzhou office.
Lai has more than 26 years of legal experience, including 16-plus years at King & Wood. Before joining the firm, she spent a decade as a founding partner of the former Xinyang Law Firm (now Goldsun Law Firm). Her principal practice areas include securities, mergers and acquisitions, fund formation and investment, securities compliance and corporate crisis management.
She has led or participated in the restructuring, corporate reorganisation, domestic and overseas IPOs and M&A transactions of more than 100 companies. Her clients have included state-owned, privately owned and foreign-invested enterprises across sectors such as precision manufacturing, technology, media and telecommunications, biotechnology and healthcare, consumer goods, energy and power, education and real estate. She has also led fund formations and investments by financial institutions involving tens of billions of RMB.
Lai has advised Senior Technology Material, Guangzhou Restaurant, Bestore and Unionman Technology on their listings. In financing and investment matters, she advised on HSG’s lead investment in BYD Semiconductor and acted as legal counsel to the sponsor for China Southern Airlines’ RMB16 billion convertible bond issuance.
Hu spent 16 years at King & Wood and was promoted to partner in 2018. Qualified to practise in China and New York state, she focuses on domestic and overseas IPOs, refinancing and regulatory compliance, and has extensive knowledge of the rules and practices governing the A-share and Hong Kong stock markets.
In private equity and investment matters, Hu has advised clients including HSG, Cathay Capital, SFund, Guangzhou Pharmaceutical Capital and Skycus Capital. Her M&A clients have included Gotion High-tech, Meilan Airport, Dongpeng Holdings and DragonPass.
Guo spent 15 years at King & Wood and was promoted to partner in 2021. Her principal practice areas are securities and M&A. She has led or participated in the listings of JOVO Energy, Guangzhou Restaurant, Unionman Technology, Haoyang Electronic, Wahlap Technology and Senior Technology Material.
Guo has also advised Guangdong Construction Engineering, Lingnan Group Holdings and Hainan Rubber on major asset restructurings, refinancing transactions and cross-border acquisitions. In investment and acquisition matters, she has represented private equity funds and large industrial groups in sectors including semiconductors, new energy, high-end intelligent and precision manufacturing, healthcare and consumer goods.
