Li Xiaojuan
Senior Partner
Areas of practices

Corporation and Investment, Securities and Capital Market, Fund, Cross Border Investment , Civil and Commercial Dispute Resolution,

Practice experience
Ms. Li mainly engages in Private Equity (including but not limited to private equity fund investment, fund establishment fund of fund (FOF) investment, fund manager qualification application, compliance, fund filing)/Venture Capital, mergers and acquisitions, dispute resolution (especially on financial disputes), offshore investment and financing, and offshore bond issuance.
Ms. Li used to work in such famous law firms at home and abroad as LINTANG&CO.LAWYERS, Beijing King & Wood Mallesons, Zhonglun W&D Law Firm. She served as the head of risk control department of the PE fund management company under SINOMACH Group and the legal director of CreditEase PE FOF Investment successively. Ms. Li has accumulated ample practical experience in all aspects of the whole PE industry chain, inclusive of the establishment and issuance of PE funds, fund raising, fund investment, fund operation and post-investment management, fund exit, fund liquidation, fund compliance, and relative dispute resolution. Ms. Li also has been involved in some overseas business, such as foreign litigation and arbitration, international technology transfer, offshore listing, offshore bond issuance and other foreign-related business.
Work experience
Ms. Li joined Gaopeng  as a senior partner in January 2024. Before joining Gaopeng, Ms. Li used to worked as a lawyer at well-known law firms at home and abroad, including King & Wood Mallesons Law Firm, Beijing Representative Office of Australian LINTANG&CO.LAWYERS, and Beijing Grandall Law Firm. She also served as the head of risk control department of the PE fund management company under SINOMACH Group and the legal director of CreditEase PE FOF Investment. She became a partner at Beijing Zhonglun W&D Law Firm in January 2021.
Educational background
Tianjin Foreign Studies University,  Bachelor's degree in English
Nankai University, Master's degree in Law
Social positions
Mediator of Beijing Association for Alternative Dispute Resolution
Awards
Passed Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Level I exam in 2021
Obtained Fund Qualification of Asset Management Association of China (AMAC) in 2015
Became a Chinese licensed lawyer in 2011
Passed the Licensing Examination for Securities Practitioner Qualification in 2009
Won the third in ‘Foresight’ English Speech Contest in Nankai University in 2006
Won honors in Nankai-Stetson University Summer Abroad Program in 2006
Won ‘Best Performance Awards’ in Singers’ Contest in Nankai University in 2005
Representative cases
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  • Represented the Irish ICON Group in its acquisition of a Chinese medical services company

  • Represented Tencent in its acquisition of an offshore technology company

  • Represented China National Offshore Oil Corporation in an arbitration case concerning a foreign contractual dispute

  • Represented a domestic petroleum group in the issuance of its offshore bond

  • Represented TusHoldings in its investment in a certain Beijing pharmaceutical technology company

  • Represented Lenovo Group in its acquisition of the assets of a certain courier company

  • Provided three subsidiaries of Tianjin Energy Resources Investment Group with the corporate compliance service

  • Provided John Deere US with specialized services on corporate compliance

  • Provided the investors of NCF GROUP with legal service on rights defense litigation

  • Represented a certain private equity fund management company in investor rights defense litigation

  • Provided specialized legal services to a certain private equity fund management company due to abnormal business operation

  • Provided specialized legal services for the establishment of a certain private equity fund management company

  • Provided a certain petroleum group in China with the IPO legal service

  • Represented Chongqing Lingkong Investment Group in a certain FOF investment by IDG

  • Represented a certain Beijing technology company in a contractual dispute with Shanghai Qinju Industrial Company over bitcoin mining, which was recommended by the PRC Supreme People's Court as a classic case and selected for CCTV's ‘Rule of Law One Depth’ program, which has been broadcasted on CCTV Channel 12

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Thesis and books
Working language
  • Chinese and English