Zhi-Ying James (Jim) Fang

Jim Fang has more than 25 years of experience in China-related international business transactions. He structures, documents and negotiates strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate restructuring, asset-based financing and equipment leasing for U.S. and international manufacturing and private equity clients. Jim assists clients in an array of industries, including the financial, insurance, automobile, retail, chemical, semiconductor, clean energy, machinery, computer and pharmaceutical industries. He regularly provides advice in intellectual property protection strategies and in handling troubled business workouts in China. Jim also represents China-based companies doing business in the U.S. Jim is a founder of the firm's Shanghai Office.

Jim's clients include: Bank of China, China Eastern Airlines, Genencor International, W.L Gore & Associates, The Timken Company and WPMI LLC, a WellPoint company.

Practice Highlights

• Representing a leading Midwest machinery manufacturer in negotiation and documentation for a strategic joint-venture investment project in Hunan Province
• Advising leading health care insurance providers on China regulatory matters and on corporate acquisition in pursuing China market entry
• Assisting U.S. manufacturers in merger and acquisition transactions of various types, including asset purchase and equity acquisition, particularly in equity acquisition by subscribing capital increase and partner buyout/sellout, in both the state-owned and private sectors
• Counseling on the structure and exit strategies of a private-equity investment green-energy project
• Helping U.S. biotech and manufacturing clients with complex corporate restructuring projects in China, featuring simultaneous closing of three interdependent transactions: buyout, sales of existing facilities to the government and relocation, and tax planning
• Representing a leading U.S. energy company in a complicated customs proceeding involving the seizure of inventory, resulting in inventory return
• Instructor for various training programs of clients on business ethics, anti-trust law and business concepts