Mo Xu

Mr. Xu has extensive experience in advising global and regional private equity and corporate clients on a wide range of strategically important transactions, including domestic and overseas offerings and listings, venture capital investments and formation of private equity funds, buyouts, divestitures, foreign direct investments and other cross-border transactions, particularly those with a China nexus.

With professional knowledge of the legal regimes of the PRC and the U.S., he is skilled at delivering pragmatic, legally sound and commercially focused advice to help clients successfully structure and execute their most complex equity transactions. Mr. Xu has acted as lead counsel in clients’ major deals, guiding clients at all stages of the investment cycle, many of which were subject to stringent governmental approvals and complicated cross-border structures.

Mr. Xu represents clients in a wide range of sectors ranging from private funds, investment bank, high-tech, gaming, healthcare, automobile, sports and leisure, food and beverage, hospitality, theme parks, real estate, logistics, energy, chemicals and to diverse manufacturing activities.

• Mr. Xu acted as Brookfield's PRC counsel in its acquisition of the Trimco Group, a leading global provider of brand identity products to a wide range of international fashion and sports brands. This buy-out transaction marks the landing step of Brookfield’s establishment of a strong PE business in China. Mr Xu's team was highly recognized for its professional efforts and expertise delivered in the process of due diligence and transaction negotiation.
  
  
• Mr. Xu represented CICC Capital on its RMB400 million investment in Star Charge, which was then one of the largest financing activity in the PRC NEV charging industry. As a Pre-IPO venture capital investment, Mr. Xu’s team has successfully assisted CICC in navigating nuances of RPC listing regulations and NEV charging industry in complex within the capital investment transaction, including a thorough compliance analysis under the listing review framework.
  
  
• Mr. Xu counselled CDH on its RMB440 million investment in SVOLT Energy, which was valued up to RMB40 billion. The investment will build on SVOLT's strong momentum disrupting the highly competitive new energy industry to further accelerate product innovation and commercial expansion in the global NEV energy supply market.
  
  
• Mr. Xu advised Poly Platinum, an affiliated growth fund of Great Bay Area Homeland Capital, on its investment in Zhuanzhuan Group, a leading pre-owned consumer electronics transactions and services platform in China, which was then the largest-in-scale financing activity in the industry. The investment was contemplated to expand Zhuanzhuan’s market-leading position, enhance electronics quality examination solutions and embed new intelligent quality inspection capabilities.

• Capital markets: Equity
• Investment funds
• M&A
• Private equity funds

• Automotive
• Energy
• Gaming
• Pharma and life sciences
• Tech and telecoms

• PRC

• PRC Bar Association

• Information Technology Committee of Shanghai Bar Association (上海市律师协会信息化专业委员会)