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Weifeng GUO

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Locations:Beijing
Title:Partner, Director of Wealth Management Business Center, General Executive Committee of Financial Professional Committee
Tel:+86 10 5268 2888
Fax:+86 10 5268 2999
Email:guoweifeng@dehenglaw.com
Working Language: Chinese/ English
Mr. Guo has practiced law for more than 22 years, Hong Kong registered non-local lawyers, senior professional titles, civil construction members.

As one of the earliest batch of private fund lawyers, GUO has participated in several industry milestone projects, participated in private fund industry legislation, industry self-regulation, textbook compilation, project research and other work, and committed to promoting the development of private fund industry;

In 2014, through its family fund business, it began to Provided comprehensive legal services for the preparation and operation of the country's top single family office (SFO) and has experience in providing comprehensive legal services for wealth management to clients.

Long term legal support for listed companies, private equity funds, family funds/offices, private banks and charities.

Based on his outstanding achievements in wealth management, private equity and other fields, Guo has been selected as one of the recommended lawyers in the legal media.
Representative Matters
  • Wealth Management /Private Client
  • Provision of legal services for the preparation of a top single family office (SFO) project (2014)
  • Provision of legal services for a United Family Office (MFO) licence application project in Hong Kong
  • Provision of legal counsel or special legal services for private banking departments such as Construction Bank and China Merchants Bank
  • Provided annual or special legal services for wealth management for trust institutions such as CITIC Trust and CITIC Taikang
  • Provided legal services for the preparation and operation of a cutting-edge joint family office (MFO)
  • Provided legal services for the planning project of inter generational inheritance of family wealth in a listed company
  • Provided legal services for a client's home-enterprise risk isolation project
  • Provided legal services for the family trust establishment project of the founder of a traditional manufacturing enterprise
  • Provision of legal services to the Singapore Family Office (SFO), founder of a property group
  • Provided legal services for a family of Chinese art asset management and financing projects
  • Provision of legal services for preparation of establishment of family office of actual controllers of several listed companies
  • Provision of legal services for multiple family and family business governance structures/family charter projects
  • Provision of legal services for the establishment and day-to-day operations of several charitable foundations
  • Investment Fund
  • Provided legal services for the preparation, routine and special work of the first batch of domestic government guidance funds -Tianjin venture capital guidance funds (2001)
  • Provided legal services for the preparation, investment and liquidation of Tianjin Chengxin Venture Capital Co., Ltd. (2001)
  • Provided daily and special legal services for the first batch of domestic professional venture capital institutions - TEDA Investment (central enterprises are relatively holding companies, local venture capital TOP50) (since 2000)
  • Provided legal services for the daily and special activities of the first batch of venture capital institutions at the provincial level at home
  • Provided legal services for the preparation and special projects of the first Sino-foreign cooperative venture capital fund and management institution for the growth of Saifu (2005)
  • Participating in the Preparation of the First Batch of National Pilot Industrial Investment Funds - Bohai Industrial Investment Funds (Scale of 20 billion) (2005)
  • Participate in the preparation of the third batch of national pilot industry investment funds-ship industry investment fund (scale of 20 billion, the first ship investment fund in China) (2006)
  • Provided legal services for the preparation of the China Academy of Sciences' investment funds (2007)
  • Provision of legal services for preparation, routine and special operations of the Binhai New Area Guidance Fund (2 billion) (2008)
  • Provided legal services for the preparation of Guizhou's first industrial investment fund (1 billion) and management institution (2014)
  • Provision of legal services to the HT family fund of funds (2014)
  • Provision of legal services for day-to-day and special venture capital guidance funds for small and medium enterprises in Beijing (2016)
  • Provided legal services for well-known fund management institution ShengShi to invest in several special businesses (2017)
  • Provided legal services for the State Science Holding - Linked Innovative Industry Mother Fund (scale of 50 billion) and the preparation of management institutions (2018)
  • Provision of daily legal services for Galaxy investment (original Galaxy Securities, private equity, equity and asset allocation licenses) (2019);
  • Provision of legal services for preparation of establishment of several sub-funds of Tianjin Haihe Industrial Fund (2019)
  • Provided daily and special legal services for Zhongguancun Capital, Zhongguancun Venture Capital and Management Fund
  • Provided day-to-day and special legal services for Yizhuang Investment and Management Fund
  • Provided daily and special legal services for Nortel's investment and management fund business
  • Provided daily and special legal services for the Guiding Fund business in Daxing District, Beijing
  • Provided daily and special legal services for Shunxi, Shunlong and other investment institutions under Beijing State-owned Assets Management Corporation
  • Provided special legal services for many central enterprises and subordinate investment institutions, such as the State Telecom, China Huarong, Arms Group, etc.
  • Provision of legal services for selection and due diligence of fund management agencies of guiding funds of several provinces and municipalities
  • Foreign currency or RMB funds managed by Carlyle Capital, C Ventures, Sequoia Capital, CDH Investments, IDG, BioVeda, DT Capital, Danhua Capital, Gopher Asset, Legend Capital, CPE, Sinovation Ventures, ZhenFund, China Equity, Fortune Capital, ZGC, Xian Feng (K2VC) on behalf of LP clients
  • Representing fund clients to participate in investment in Mo Mo, Didi, Weilai Automobile, Today's Headlines, Himalayan FM, Zhangru, Hengda Property, Baidu Finance, Grail, Dajiang UAV, Qilekang, Magic Leap and other enterprises
  • M&A ; Asset Restructuring and IPO
  • Provided legal services for the merger and acquisition of listed company Yunda Science and Technology (2003)
  • Provision of legal services for mergers and acquisitions of Jingxi Tourism (2003)
  • Provision of legal services for the merger and acquisition of Huanghe Aluminum Power Group (one of the top ten domestic mergers and acquisitions in 2004)
  • Provision of legal services for merger and acquisition of Qinghai gelatin (2004)
  • Provided legal services for listed companies' M&A of Qinghai gelatin series
  • Provision of legal services for private offering of Qinghai gelatin by listed companies (2009)
  • Provided legal services for M&A of CICC Gold Series
  • Provided legal services for M&A of listed company Stepping Pharmacy
  • Provided legal services for listed companies to smoothly handle a series of mergers and acquisitions
  • Provided legal services for the listing and transfer of Dadai New Third Board (2016)
  • Provided legal services for the listing and transfer of the Creative Planet New Third Board (2016)
  • Provision of legal services for listing and transfer of new third board of Raytheon Technology (2017)
  • Provision of legal services for major asset restructuring of listed companies in Yiqiao, Shenzhou (2017)
  • Provision of legal services for financing, listing and transfer of new third board of Raytheon Technology (2017)
  • Provided legal services for the merger and acquisition of well-known daily chemical enterprise - Yu Meijing Group (2018)
  • Provided legal services for the CBIM mixed ownership reform of the China Architectural Design Institute, a key project of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (2018)
  • Provided legal services for the mixed ownership reform of enterprises affiliated to Xiangyu Group, the pilot unit of "double hundred enterprises" in the reform of state-owned enterprises (the first ESOP of Xiamen State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission) (2018)
  • Provision of legal services for merger and acquisition of Tiehan Ecology (2019)
  • Provision of legal services for a large asset restructuring/receiving project involving hundreds of projects in five provinces (2019)
  • Provided legal services for the private placement of Tiehan Ecological (2020)
  • Provision of legal services for the IPO of Raytheon Technology Northern Stock Exchange (2022)
Education Background
  • Doctor of Management, Nankai University
  • Hong Kong University of Science and Technology EMBA
  • Master of International Economic Law, Nankai University
  • Bachelor of Laws, Tianjin University
Professional Qualifications
  • Bar admission in the PRC
  • A Foreign Lawyer of the Law Society of Hong Kong
  • Independent Directors of Listed Companies
Recognitions and Affiliations
  • "Financial Lawyer of the Year" (Top Ten Lawyers in 2013 of the Law of the Circle)
  • Chambers "Corporate/Business Law First Class Lawyer" (2015 -)
  • LEGALBAND "Family Wealth Management" China Lawyers Specially Recommended Top 15 (2010- 2022)
  • LEGALBAND China Lawyers List Recommendation (Wealth Management, 2021 -)
  • IFLR1000 (International Financial Law Review) List of recommended Chinese lawyers (investment funds, 2022)
  • The Legal500 (Top 500 Laws) Recommended by Chinese lawyers list (private equity, private wealth, 2022)
  • CLP (China Legal Business) Annual Private Client Lawyer Nomination (2022)
  • AMAC external experts
  • Deputy Director of the Venture Capital Professional Committee of the China Investment Association
  • Multiple national and local government investment fund consultancy/review experts
  • External Experts Engaged by Beijing SME Service Center
  • Members of Tianjin Municipal Council for Science and Technology Venture Capital Funds
  • Directors of Tianjin Venture Capital Association
  • Directors of Tianjin Private Equity Fund Association
  • Member, Family Tradition and Charitable Trust Committee, China Charity Federation
  • Financial Street Innovation Services Think Tank Expert
  • Huiyu Global Family Think Tank
  • Caijing experts from Ruijia Think Tank
  • Arbitrators (Tianjin, Qingdao, Kunming, etc.)
Selected Publications
  • Journals
  • Interpretation and Implementation of the Key Points of the Association's New Private Equity Rules. China Venture Capital, 2023 (06)
  • How Family Offices Do a Good Job in "Single Project Fund" Investment Risk Control. Shang Xin · Family Office, 2022 (08)
  • An Indispensable "Concern" for Family Art Financing. Shang Xin · Family Office, 2021 (12)
  • Deduction and construction of family fund functions from the perspective of Chinese law”. China Venture Capital, 2017(12), pp. 52-56
  • Establishing a criteria system for green production. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part B Journal of Engineering Manufacture, 2014. 229. (SCI)
  • “Research on the impact of corporate M&A experience and board characteristics on M&A strategic decision-making”. Modern Management Science, 2015(7): pp. 94-96
  • Research on the impact of the strategic decision-making mechanism of the GEM private enterprises on corporate performance. Journal of Management Sciences, 2014 (2), pp. 1-14
  • “The end of PE regulation”. China Entrepreneur, 2013(12): p. 32
  • “On the improvement of the external governance mechanism of the PE/VC industry through the regulatory game”. China Venture Capital, 2013 (01)
  • “Discussion on the legal issues of urbanization investment funds”. China Venture Capital, 2013 (01)
  • “Reflections on the PE partner tax collection system”. The Property Guide, 2012 (11)
  • Obstacles and Countermeasures for Private Capital to Enter the Equity Investment Fund Industry. Introduction to Property Rights, 2010 (10)
  • Dilemma and Countermeasures of Limited Partnership PE. Property Rights Guide, 2009 (10)
  • Books
  • Co-author, Legal Practice on Corporate Reform and Issuance and Listing (Revised Edition), Law Press, April 2008
  • Co-author, Research on Legal Issues of Non-Securities Investment Funds, China Finance Press, February 2011
  • Co-author, Legal Practice Guidelines for Equity and Venture Capital in China, China Economic Publishing House, January 2013
  • Co-author, Compilation of Basic Knowledge Base of Equity Investment Funds and Laws and Regulations ,China Financial Publishing House, August 2016
  • Co-author, Equity Investment Fund, China Financial Publishing House, September 2017;
  • Author, Research on Internal Governance Issues of Limited Partnership Private Equity Funds, Economic Daily Press, June 2017
  • Top Level Structure of Family Governance Inheritance (co-authored), Zhejiang University Press, May 2023
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