Yuan’s practice focuses on representing global and domestic fund sponsors in structuring and forming private investment funds, including private equity and venture capital funds, mezzanine funds, buyout funds, real estate funds, securities funds, funds of funds and special purpose funds. Yuan specializes in structuring flexible and efficient solutions for funds in a complex and fast-changing market environment under increasingly complicated regulatory requirements.
Yuan has represented a significant number of leading international and domestic private fund sponsors, and has become a long-term partner to many of her clients throughout their fundraising cycle. She is frequently involved in the negotiations on behalf of fund sponsors with investors including SSF (National Council for Social Security Fund), insurance companies, government guidance funds, funds of funds, corporate investors and other institutional investors. Out of the 46 funds SSF invested in as the end of 2020, Yuan represented a quarter of the fund sponsors in these investments, with over a third of SSF’s RMB 65.2 billion total commitment amount.
Yuan has broad experience in representing institutional investors in their fund investments. She has represented a wide variety of fund investors investing in many well-recognized private fund sponsors in China.
Yuan’s practice also includes advising private fund managers on matters of compliance, internal control, upper-level structuring and team incentive plans.
2019 till now, Global Law Office, Beijing
2005 – 2019, Dentons, Beijing
2002 – 2005, Anli Partners, Beijing
Admitted in the PRC (2005)
1998 – 2002 LL.B, Peking University
- Listing lawyer, Investment Fund, Chambers and Partners Asia Pacific, 2016 - 2019
- Potential lawyer, Investment Fund, Chambers and Partners Asia Pacific, 2013 - 2015
- Leading individual, Investment Fund, Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2019
- Listing as recommended lawyer, Capital Markets, Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2016 - 2017
- Listing lawyer in tier 2, Investment Fund China Lawyer Ranking, LEGALBAND, 2016 – 2019
- Listing lawyer in tier 3, Investment Fund China Lawyer Ranking, LEGALBAND, 2015
