Speaker

Yao Yuexi
Managing Partner, Lead Partner of International Investment & M&A Practice Committee, Vice Dean of Hylands Research Institute
HYLANDS LAW FIRM SHANGHAI OFFICE
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New Trends and Risk Mitigation in the Global Expansion of China's Manufacturing Sector


【Presentation Outline】

  1. Strategic Opportunities for Chinese Manufacturing Going Global

  2. The Latest Trends in the Overseas Expansion of Chinese Manufacturing

  3. Risk Mitigation and Management for Chinese Manufacturers Abroad

 

【Biography】

Yuexi Yao, Managing Partner of Hylands Law Firm Shanghai Office, Leading Partner of the International Investment & M&A Committee of Hylands Law Firm, graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University with a bachelor's degree in Law and a master's degree in International Law. Yuexi Yao is admitted to practice law in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the United States (New York State). Yao’s areas of expertise encompass domestic and foreign investment& M&A, general corporate matters, private equity and investment funds, and asset management. She previously served for many years with the China office of a premier U.S. international law firms and leading Chinese law firms, demonstrating both exceptional professional expertise and comprehensive law-firm management experience. Yuexi Yao has been awarded the “Top 15 in LEGALBAND’s 2024 Special Recommendation: Outbound Investment”, and the “Top 15 Client-Favorite M&A Lawyers in 2023”, consecutively listed in “Chambers Asia-Pacific / Greater China Region: Corporate/Commercial” (2020–2024), “Chambers Global 2022–2023: Corporate/M&A”, and “The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific 2022: Corporate/M&A”. Concurrently, Yuexi Yao is also a member of the Overseas Chinese, Ethnic and Religious Affairs Committee and Foreign Affairs Committee, Standing Committee of the Seventh People’s Congress of Pudong New Area, Shanghai; the deputy chair of the 12th International Investment & Belt-and-Road Initiative Committee, Shanghai Bar Association; the listed lawyer of Shanghai Municipal Talent Pool of Foreign-Related Legal Professionals; a member of 11th International Investment Committee; a member of 12th Foreign Affairs Committee; a member of 12th Pudong Lawyers’ Working Committee; an arbitrator of Shanghai International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission; a part-time MA student advisor/director of Law Alumni Association of Shanghai Jiao Tong University Kaiyuan Law School; the vice president of Kaiyuan Law School Alumni Association; a professor of practice at Shanghai University of Political Science and Law; one of the “Top 10 Outstanding Young Lawyers of Pudong (8th Edition)”; a director of Pudong Female Lawyers Association and a qualified independent director certified by Shanghai Stock Exchange.

With fifteen years of distinguished practice, Yuexi Yao focuses on domestic and foreign investment& M&A, private equity, new-economy matters, and complex commercial dispute resolution. Through years of providing legal service to domestic and overseas clients from different industries, Yao and her team have developed a diversified practice with the clients' needs as the core. Yao and her team are able to provide reasonable, feasible and innovative one-stop legal services with respect to cross-border, cross-jurisdiction, and cross-industry complex commercial transactions and complex commercial dispute resolution projects.