Hong (Cathryn) Jin

Ms. Jin is a partner in JunHe’s Beijing office and specializes in mergers and acquisitions, PE fund investments, cross-border M&A, foreign direct investments and general corporate. She has extensive experience in complex in-bound and out-bound M&A and PE fund investments and exits.
Ms. Jin joined JunHe in 2006. From 2011 to 2016 she worked in the Beijing office of Davis Polk & Wardwell. She joined Fangda Partners in 2016 and became a partner there. Ms. Jin re-joined JunHe in August 2018.
In about twenty years of legal practice, Ms. Jin has represented many PE funds in their investments, including IDG, L Catterton, CPE, Hillhouse, Temasek, Warburg Pincus, and TPG. She has also represented corporate clients including Wumart, Galaxy, Alluxio, mobike, Dmall and iQiyi, in their financings. Ms. Jin, as the deal counsel, represented Meituan in its merger with Dianping and represented mobike in its merger with Meituan. She also provided legal services to Beijing Universal Studio and other high-profile foreign direct investment projects.

Ms. Jin has been continuously recommended by IFLR 1000 as highly regarded lawyers in private equity investments and by Legal 500 as recommended lawyers in private equity investments.

• Represented CPE in its investment in JD Property (Deal of the Year of 2022 by China Business Law Journal)
• Represented a global semiconductor company in the proposed divestment of its China business
• Represented Wumei in its acquisition of Metro China Business (Best Consumer Industry Deal of 2020 of Mergermarket)
• Represented Alluxio in its equity financing (including red-chip structure set-up and US business restructuring) (Alluxio is listed on Venture50 of 2021)
• Represented Galaxy in its equity financing from Shunwei, Legend Capital and other investors

• Private equity
• M&A

• Consumer goods and services
• Food and beverage
• Technology and telecommunications

• LL.M (Vanderbilt Scholar), New York University School of Law, 2011
• LL.M., Renmin University of China, School of Law, 2004
• LL.B., Renmin University of China, School of Law, 2002

• PRC Bar, 2006
• New York Bar, 2011