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Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)

Rainbow has extensive experience in providing legal services to both multinationals investing in China and to domestic companies receiving investments from their foreign peers. We have worked on many high profile projects in a wide range of industries. We assist our clients over each individual stage of their projects as well as throughout the entire investment process.

 

Additionally, we draft, review and comment on transactional documents, negotiate all terms of these documents on our client’s behalf, and monitor the complete investment or divestment process for our clients in order to safeguard against possible pitfalls. Our experience enables us to help clients effortlessly navigate through the often complicated project process.

 

Our Expertise

Establishment of Foreign Invested Enterprises (FIEs)

We assist foreign clients in establishing and expanding their presence in China through establishing foreign invested enterprises (FIEs). These can take a wide variety of legal forms depending on the client's needs, such as equity joint ventures, contractual joint ventures, wholly-foreign-owned enterprises or as sino-foreign or wholly-foreign-invested joint stock companies.

 

Joint Ventures

We provide services to international and domestic clients throughout the life cycle of their investment projects in China. The services we provide include legal due diligence, design of project structure, establishment of various forms of foreign invested enterprises, asset or share purchases, tax advice, the drafting of project documents, and assistance in negotiations and approval processes.

 

Ongoing Legal Advice to FIEs

We have been acting on an ongoing, long-term basis as legal counsel for many clients in connection to their FIE matters. We provide daily legal support to clients in their operational activities, and also keep them abreast of new legal developments that relate to their business and industry. We assist clients with respect to complying with their obligations pertaining to taxes, foreign exchange, labor, environmental concerns, and customs. We pride ourselves on a practical, problem-solving approach to our work. For many clients we are no longer simply "the lawyers" but are valued members of their team. Our lawyers are regularly invited to serve as directors or company secretaries to FIEs in China.

 

Private Equity Investments

Our services include fund establishment; structuring investment vehicles and advising on exit strategies. We also serve private equity and investment firms, providing the same comprehensive range of services that we do in general representations of large public companies, but with a focus on the special issues arising in the private equity business. We stress a coordinated approach to our engagements, which integrates the many legal disciplines involved into practical advice that assists our private equity clients in achieving their business objectives. We believe that our private equity clients benefit in a number of ways from the scope and scale of our firm’s practice as a whole.

 

Company Secretarial Services

Our team draws on its wealth of corporate and commercial expertise to provide a comprehensive range of company secretarial services to our clients, including advising on and managing regulatory compliance and corporate governance obligations on an ongoing basis. We provide effective and efficient solutions to address the needs of the complete range of client firms from large multinational corporations and institutional investors to small start-ups and special purpose vehicles.

Our Expertise

Management of the approval and registration procedures for establishing legal entities;

Completing post-establishment registration procedures;

Maintaining company registrations and filings;

Renewal or change of licenses;

Preparation of board resolutions and minutes; and

Assisting in annual inspections

 

Energy & Mining

Our lawyers have a wealth of experience in energy and mining areas and have not only practiced relevant legal services, but also have extensive business experience in these areas, enabling us to provide clients with practical business-orientated solutions.

Our Expertise

Energy & Mining Development

Our attorneys frequently draft and negotiate all types of commercial contracts and provide legal advices on ownership, exploration, development and construction, fuel supply and transportation, and operations and maintenance matters.

 

Energy & Mining Project Finance and Acquisition Finance

We have represented clients in several of the major portfolio energy and mining project financings and acquisition financings in the market. In all these types of financings, we provide clients with overall services including the preparation of financing and security documents, participation in negotiations, assistance in obtaining government approvals, and the issuance of legal opinions.

 

Energy & Mining Investment, M&A, Disposals and Restructuring

We assist in the drafting and negotiation of transaction documents, and also assist clients in obtaining all permits and regulatory approvals. In addition, in these transactions, we draw on the support of the Firm's extensive merger and acquisition, antitrust, tax, real estate, environmental, labour, employee benefits, litigation and alternative dispute resolution practices. King & Wood Mallesons also represents sponsors, lenders, borrowers, equity investors and other interested parties in restructuring companies or projects where the company, the project or one or more of its major project participants becomes financially impaired.

 

Energy & Mining Compliance and Legislation Advice

Rainbow has increasingly been providing legal advice and assistance on compliance and legislation to both domestic and foreign energy and mining enterprises and to relevant government authorities, which has experience to be eligible to offer such services.