Joined JunHe in 2004, Ms. Chen Wei has rich experience in the areas of M&A, PE/VC investment and capital market. Ms. Chen also has extensive industry knowledge in the sectors of TMT (especially ICT and communication infrastructure such as datacenter, cloud services and satellite services), energy, financial services and life science.
Ms. Chen has represented many multinational companies, PE and buy-out funds and SOEs in a variety of industries including telecom/Internet, energy, real estate, financial services, pharmaceutical, medical device, aviation, mining, automobile and manufacturing.
Ms. Chen has handled a great deal of high-profile and complex projects. Ms. Chen’s structure design and drafting strength as well as good business sense make her services valuable to her clients. Ms. Chen has established herself as an innovative attorney while serving clients in challenging projects.
She was creative and diligent in guiding a multinational company to smoothly and successfully close a share deal in China in RMB currency in mid-2011, when the relevant regulations were confused as they had only been recently established.
In recent years, Ms. Chen has represented various clients to invest in, buy out or operate communication infrastructure projects and energy projects. By providing full service covering aspects of investment, acquisition, financing, construction and operation in these areas, she has been recognized as a leading legal profession in the communication infrastructure and energy sectors.
Ms. Chen is ranked as a leading M&A lawyer by Chambers Global and Chambers Greater China Region for the years 2024 and 2025. She has been consecutively ranked as the “A-List Lawyers" by China Business Law Journal from 2021 to 2024. She was also awarded the 2020-2022 Thomson Reuters "Stand-out Lawyers".
An M&A project between INEOS and Sinopec led by Ms.Chen has been recognized as one of the 2023 “Deals of the Year” by China Business Law Journal and 2023 “M&A Deals of the Year” by ALB.
MS in Finance, Leicester University, 2003
LL.M., Newcastle University, 2002
LL.B., Yantai University, 2000
Member of the All-China Bar Association
Mandarin, English