Cooley

Cooley LLP is an international law firm representing clients in a wide range of industries from our offices in Asia, Europe and the United States. With more than 1100 lawyers, Cooley has the range and expertise to serve clients of all sizes to seize opportunities in today's global marketplace.

Our dedication to China's fund industry is unparalleled and unrivaled by any other law firm. Cooley has been advising on China-related matters over three decades, dating back to 1989, when the firm advised on the formation of the first institutional venture capital fund investing in China. Today, we are counsel to more than 500 private investment fund organizations worldwide, including more than 80 fund managers with their primary operations in China and numerous other managers outside of the PRC making investments in portfolio companies in China. We form considerably more dollar-denominated China venture capital and growth equity funds in dollar terms than any other law firm worldwide. We have a team of more than 40 specialist fund formation lawyers and dozens of other practitioners dedicated to serving our clients headquartered and doing business in China. Multiple members of our team are Mandarin-speaking, Chinese native fund formation specialists who assist our China funds clients and their investors in both USD and RMB fund formation matters. In Asia, Cooley has offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore, and works closely with Cooley’s United States and European offices to serve fund clients worldwide.

As a full service global law firm, we regularly assist our China fund clients and their portfolio companies with complex mergers, acquisitions and disposition transactions, a wide variety of private financing and capital markets transactions, public company disclosure issues, share distributions, local and cross-border intellectual property issues, licensing transactions, joint ventures, as well as supply and distribution arrangements, among other matters.

美国科律律师事务所是一家国际性律师事务所，在亚洲、欧洲和美国设有办事处，代理的客户遍布各行各业。科律共拥有1,100多位律师，具备为不同规模的客户提供服务的人才储备和专业知识，能助力客户把握当今全球市场中的各种机遇。

我们对中国基金行业所作的贡献是独一无二的，也是任何其他律师事务所无法比拟的。早在1989年，科律就为首家对华投资的机构型风险投资基金的设立提供法律建议。自此以后，我们就中国相关事宜提供法律咨询已有30年的历史。目前，我们为全球范围内超过500家私人投资基金机构担任法律顾问，其中有超过80家主要在中国运营的基金管理机构，以及大批投资中国境内公司的境外基金管理机构。我们设立了为数众多以美元计价的中国风险投资基金和成长型股权基金，所涉金额在全球范围内远远超过任何其他律师事务所。我们拥有一支专门致力于为总部设在中国和在中国开展业务的客户提供服务的工作团队，由超过40位基金设立方面的专家律师和数十位其他领域执业律师组成。服务团队中的多位成员是母语为普通话的基金设立专家，他们协助我们的中国基金客户及其投资人处理美元和人民币基金设立事宜。在亚洲，科律目前在北京、上海、香港和新加坡设有办事处，与美国本土及欧洲的各个办事处紧密合作，为全球基金客户提供全面服务。

作为一家提供全方位服务的全球性律师事务所，我们还经常协助中国基金客户及其所投资的公司处理复杂的兼并、收购和处置交易、各类私募融资和资本市场交易、上市公司披露事宜、股份分配、地方和跨境知识产权事宜、许可交易、合资事宜以及供应和经销安排等。

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