Overview

Experience

Benran has extensive experience in advising international and Chinese private equity funds, sovereign wealth funds, other financial sponsors and tech companies in growth capital and co-investment transactions, exits as well as complex cross-border mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures across multiple sectors, including in TMT, healthcare, advanced manufacturing, energy and finance.  


Benran is recognised as a “Rising Star” in the TMT practice in China by Legal 500 in 2023.

His experience includes advising:

  • IDG Capital on its several buyout transactions in the advanced manufacturing sector and consumer sector

  • CITICS on its various equity investment transactions in the consumer sector and healthcare sector, including its investment in Aihuihui and Dmall, and its participation in the privatization of China Biologic Products

  • Sofina Group on its investment in Petkit as the lead Series D preferred investor and its investment in Qingzhu as the co-lead Series B preferred investor

  • A sovereign wealth fund  on its investment in Oricell Therapeutics as a co-lead Series B-1 preferred investor and several other equity investment transactions in the healthcare sector and consumer sector

  • Several Chinese sovereign wealth funds on various of their respective cross-border investments in mining sector, energy sector and infrastructure sector

  • Productive Technologies Company Limited (HKEX listed) on the acquisition of the China solar business from RENA Technologies GmbH

  • JSG (SSE listed) on its proposed establishment of joint venture with Applied Materials focusing on photovoltaic manufacturing equipment and solutions

  • An international investor on its investment in Suning Sports as the lead Series A preferred investor, its investment in OneSmart Education as the lead Series A+ preferred investor and several other equity investment transactions in the healthcare sector, real estate sector and TMT sector

  • Nestlé on its pre-IPO convertible note investment in New Ruipeng Pet Group

  • ByteDance on its investment in a Middle East based last-mile delivery company as a Series A+ investor

Education

2011 - 2012               London School of Economics and Political Science, LL.M

2007 - 2011               China University of Political Science and Law, LL.B

Languages

Mandarin, English