Mr. Shaolin Luo is a Partner based in our Beijing office.  Mr. Luo has more than ten years of experience in mergers and acquisitions, foreign direct investment, private equity and securities transactions.  Mr. Luo has represented Chinese, U.S. and European corporations in stock and asset purchase transactions, venture capital and private equity transactions and in the establishment of Sino-foreign joint ventures.  Mr. Luo’s core practice includes the representation of large Chinese State-owned companies and private companies in connection with their overseas business development transactions and strategic cooperation with foreign investors as well as the representation of U.S. and European multinational companies and private equity firms in connection with their investments in China.  Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Luo was a partner of a leading PRC law firm.

Mr. Luo received his LL.M. in Corporate Law in 2000 from New York University School of Law and his LL.B. in 1995 from Fudan University Law School.  He is admitted in both the State of New York and the People’s Republic of China.  He obtained China CPA Qualification in 1998.  He is fluent in Mandarin.

Mr. Luo's recent representative experience includes advising:

• Aluminum Corporation of China on its landmark US$14 billion acquisition of 12% of Rio Tinto plc, China’s largest ever overseas acquisition
• Aluminum Corporation of China Limited and its parent in connection with its various overseas investment transactions (ongoing)
• Aluminum Corporation of China Limited in its bidding for the worldwide specialty chemical business of a U.S. public company
• Aluminum Corporation of China in the establishment of a US$320 million titanium sponge joint venture in China with Aricom PLC
• Blackstone in its HK$536.7 million acquisition of Changshou Commercial Plaza in Putuo District, Shanghai
• Changsha Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science and Technology Development Company Ltd. and a consortium led by it in the acquisition of CIFA S.P.A., the leading  concrete equipment manufacturer in Italy; China’s largest overseas industrial acquisition to date
• China Mobile Communications Corporation in its bidding for a controlling stake in Pakistan Telecommunications Corporation Limited
• A Chinese steel company in connection with its proposed sale of a strategic stake to a foreign investor
• China Medical Technologies, Inc. in connection with its corporate matters and overseas investment transactions as well as its recent follow-on offering
• China Medical Technologies, Inc. in connection with its US$146.6 million secondary offering of American Depositary Shares
• Citadel in its various China investment transactions
• DaimlerChrysler Corporation in connection with its various investment and corporate matters in China
• EMarket Holding Group Corp. in its convertible note and series A financings by Goldman Sachs Special Situations Group, Sequoia Capital China, New Horizon Capital and a number of co-investors
• GE Healthcare in its subscription and purchase of the new shares of common stock issued by a company limited by shares in Beijing
• GE Healthcare in its acquisition of the medical equipment business of a Chinese private company in Nanjing
• Goldman Sachs Principal Investment Area in its acquisition of a 10.7% interest in Guangdong Midea Electric Appliances Co., Ltd., one of the largest white goods producers in China listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange
• Goldman Sachs Special Situations Group in connection with its investment in Zhejiang Liang An Food Chain Co., Ltd. in 2008
• Goldman Sachs Special Situations Group in connection with its investment in EPIN Media Holdings, Ltd. in 2007 and 2008
• Goldman Sachs Special Situations Group and TB Partners in their investment in New Grand Outdoor Media Holdings Limited
• Hunan Valin Iron & Steel Group Co., Ltd. in connection with its sale of a 36.673% interest in Hunan Valin Steel Tube & Wire Co., Ltd. to Mittal Steel Company N.V.
• Lehman Brothers and Salomon Smith Barney in their joint bid for certain non-performing assets of China Huarong Asset Management Corporation
• Long Tree Capital Limited in its purchase of ordinary shares from a shareholder of Rongsheng Heavy Industries Holdings Limited
• Morgan Stanley Private Equity in its acquisition of equity interests in two foreign-invested companies
• Nokia Corporation in connection with the restructuring of its PRC joint ventures, including (i) the merger of three joint ventures into a fourth joint venture and (ii) the conversion of the surviving joint venture into a foreign-invested joint stock company
• Nokia Corporation in connection with the sale of its set top box business in Asia to Thomson S.A.
• Nokia (China) Investment Co., Ltd. in its sale of certain equity interest in a joint venture to the Chinese partner
• Shanghai Electric (Group) Company in connection with its privatization.
• TB Partners in its $50 million indirect acquisition of the GPS business of Jiangsu Shinco Digital Technology Limited
• Universal Education Holdings in its series A financing by Sequoia Capital China and Legend Capital

Publications

•	China Blocks Foreign Acquisition of a Chinese Company in an Early Major Test of the Chinese Anti-Monopoly Law

Admissions

•	China 1996
•	New York 2001

Education

•	Fudan University School of Law, J.D. 1995
•	New York University School of Law, 2000 LL.M.