Ye Sun
Partner
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Sun Ye represents issuers and underwriters in the Hong Kong IPO market, particularly in the healthcare sector. He also represents issuers and underwriters in U.S. IPOs and U.S.-Hong Kong dual listings, and advises large corporations, private equity funds, and financial advisors on M&A and general corporate matters. In the past year alone, Ye has served as lead lawyer on more than a half-dozen completed IPOs and approximately twenty ongoing IPO projects. Ye is fluent in both Mandarin and English.
Languages
- English
- Mandarin
Admissions
- New York
Education
- Cornell Law School, J.D., 2011
- Renmin University of China Law School, LL.B., 2008
Capital Markets
- Shanghai Bio-heart Biological Technology Co., Ltd. in its US$65.3 million IPO and listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
- Yonghe Medical Group Co., Ltd. in its US$192 million IPO and listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
- Acotec Scientific Holdings Limited in its US$210 million IPO and listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
- Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C. and China International Capital Corporation Hong Kong Securities Limited and other underwriters in the US$145 million IPO and listing of Shanghai HeartCare Medical Technology Corporation Limited on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
- Fortune Financial Capital as sole sponsor, Fortune Securities, CICC as joint global coordinators and other underwriters in the US$56.8 million primary listing of Zero2IPO Holdings Inc. on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
- J.P. Morgan, BofA Securities, CICC and Haitong International as joint sponsors and other underwriters in the approximately US$1.67 billion secondary listing of GDS Holdings Limited on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
- Honliv Healthcare Management Group Company Limited in its US$41.3 million IPO and listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
- Yeahka Limited in its US$212 million IPO and listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
- Peijia Medical Limited in its US$343 million IPO and listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
- Guotai Junan Capital as sole sponsor and Guotai Junan Securities (Hong Kong) as main underwriter, and other underwriters in the US$65 million IPO and listing of Zhongguancun Science-Tech Leasing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
- First Shanghai Capital as sole sponsor and First Shanghai Securities as sole global coordinator, and other underwriters in the US$71 Million IPO and listing of Chen Lin Education Group on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
- Aesthetic Medical International Holdings in its US$34.5 million IPO on the Nasdaq
- Inke Limited in its HK$1.05 billion IPO and listing of shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
- Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and Citigroup as representatives of the underwriters in the US$44 million IPO and listing of American Depositary Shares on NASDAQ by Pintec Technology Holdings Limited
- China International Capital Corporation, ICBC International and Macquarie as representatives of the underwriters in the HK$272 million IPO and listing of shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange by Wanka Online Inc.
- Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan and China Renaissance as representatives of the underwriters in the US$180 million IPO and listing of American Depositary Shares on NASDAQ by Jianpu Technology Inc.
- 3SBio Inc. in its HK$5.5 billion IPO of shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
- Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, BofA Merrill Lynch and Jefferies as representatives of the underwriters in the US$362 million SEC-registered follow-on offering of common stock by China Biologic Products, Inc.
- Zhaopin Limited in its US$75.7 million IPO and listing of its American Depositary Shares on the NYSE
- Yirendai Limited in its US$75.0 million IPO and listing of its American Depositary Shares on NASDAQ
- China Petrochemical Corporation in the $4.8 billion and €1.5 billion senior notes offering by one of its affiliates
- China Petrochemical Corporation in the $6.0 billion senior notes offering by one of its affiliates
- China Petrochemical Corporation in the $2.75 billion and €550 million senior notes offering by one of its affiliates
- Tsinghua Unigroup Ltd. and its affiliates in their investments in a number of companies listed on the NYSE, NASDAQ, the HKEx or the LSE
- Various companies including China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Company Limited, Huaneng Power International Inc., BitAuto Holdings Limited, Ozner Water International Holding Ltd, China Logistics Property Holdings Co., Ltd., and Inke Limited, in their US and/or Hong Kong securities law compliance work
- More than ten companies in their ongoing or attempted IPOs and listings of shares on the NYSE, NASDAQ, or the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
M&A and PE Transactions
- Musical.ly and its founders in the US$1.0 billion sale of musical.ly to Bytedance Ltd.
- The NYSE-listed Bitauto Holdings Limited, in the US$1.6 billion investments by JD.com, Inc. and Tencent Holdings Limited in Bitauto
- Founders of Zhenai.com in the US$310 million sale of shares of Zhenai.com to a private equity fund
- Represented Carlyle Group in the US$700 million investment in SouFun Holdings Limited by Carlyle Group, IDG Capital Partners and the management of SouFun Holdings Limited
- Particle Inc. in its Series D financing and strategic collaboration with OPPO, Phoenix New Media, Xiaomi and Shunwei
- The buyer consortiums in the going-private transactions of the NASDAQ-listed Zhongpin Inc., the NASDAQ-listed Yongye International Inc., the NASDAQ-listed JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd., the NYSE-listed Noah Education Holdings Ltd., the NYSE-listed Camelot Information Systems Inc., the NYSE-listed Mindray Medical International Limited, the NYSE-listed Xueda Education Group and the OTCBB-quoted Sino Gas International Holdings, Inc.
- Members of the buyer consortiums in the going-private transactions of the NASDAQ-listed AsiaInfo-Linkage, Inc., the NASDAQ-listed 3SBio Inc., the NASDAQ-listed Le Gaga Holdings Limited, and the NASDAQ-listed MEMSIC, Inc.
- The special committee of the board of directors in the going-private transaction of the NASDAQ-listed Sungy Mobile Limited
- Leyou, Inc. in its share repurchase transactions with shareholders including investment funds managed by Carlyle Group and AsiaVest Partners
- Eldorado Gold Corporation in its US$600 million sale of gold mines to an affiliate of Yintai Resources Co. Ltd., and in its US$300 million sale of a gold mine to an affiliate of China National Gold Group
- China Logistics Property Holdings Co., Ltd. in its establishment of a joint ventures with investment funds managed by Jones Lang LaSalle Inc.
- Ozner Water International Holding Limited in its various offshore acquisition transactions as well as its attempted strategic cooperation with a multinational conglomerate company
- Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia in its investments in Noah Education Holdings Ltd.
- Lattice Power Corporation in its Series D financing and its acquisition by the Hong Kong-listed Shunfeng International Clean Energy Limited
- Beijing Automotive Group in its investment in Atieva, Inc., a US electric car company
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