Press Release

Yan Xia

Reasons for selection: During years of legal practice, Mr. Xia has made prominent achievements in advising numerous corporate clients in industries concerning the Internet, blockchain, artificial intelligence, metaverse, cloud computing, and gaming and entertainment, and has acted as the lead partner in serving domestic and overseas investment and financing deals in the digital economy. Mr. Xia's long-term, profound study and service experience in various sectors of the digital economy has made him a trusted counsel to clients who is able to provide legal analysis of leading-edge issues related to metaverse, Web3.0, and NFT from overarching and unique perspectives. Also, with sophisticated legal expertise and a solid knowledge base, Mr. Xia is able to advise companies in cutting-edge and emerging industries in respect of private equity and venture capital, investment fund, foreign direct investment and outbound investment, mergers and acquisitions, compliance, shareholding structure design, etc. "Mr. Xia excels at designing various types of deal structure and transaction plans for our reference, supported by a great number of practical cases. He is a trustworthy legal advisor for us." "Mr. Xia's legal mind and global vision has brought strong support to the global expansion of our business." "Mr. Xia is a highly professional and responsible legal advisor who has provided solid analysis and demonstration for the compliance and feasibility of the innovative ventures of our company."

Lawyer's Profile: Mr. Xia has advised dozens of reputable RMB and USD funds on their investment, financing, and fund formation transactions. He has advised many business groups and listed companies in connection with their domestic and outbound investment and merger and acquisition transactions, and many start-up companies in their domestic and outbound restructurings, employee equity incentive plans, private equity financings, project financings, IPOs, compliance, and general legal matters.

Mr. Xia's practice focuses on Internet plus business, gaming and entertainment, metaverse, blockchain, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, new energy, smart manufacturing, and other new economy areas. Particularly, he has been deeply involved in the digital economy by advising on numerous digital economy projects with respect to domestic and outbound investments and financings, business compliance, shareholding structure design, employee equity incentive plans, etc.

Mr. Xia received his LL.B. and B.A. degrees from Southwest University of Political Science and Law in 2011, and received an LL.M. degree from China University of Political Science and Law and an LL.M. degree from Hamburg University in 2014.