Yi Huang has experience in a wide range of corporate and cross-border transactions, including U.S. and global private equities, PIPE transactions, mergers and acquisitions, wholly foreign owned enterprises (“WFOE”), and domestic and international joint ventures.  Ms. Huang often represents private funds and investment fund managers in the United States and abroad in venture capital financings and in financings with publicly traded issuers in the United States and Asia. She also provides day-to-day PRC-related corporate law advice to clients.

Ms. Huang also has experience with employment laws and regulations. She frequently advises Chinese subsidiaries of U.S. companies on labor-related issues in China, including review of employment agreements and employee handbooks. Before joining the firm, Ms. Huang worked for several Chinese law firms and was a volunteer lawyer for the Shanghang Municipal Legal Aid Center.

Select Representations

• Assisted a top U.S. toy retailer in setting up its first flagship theme store in China
• Represented a NASDAQ-listed company in its global assets acquisition of a multinational packaging company in China
• Represented a top global manufacturing and technology company in its assets acquisition of  certain business lines from a Chinese company
• Represented a leading U.S. provider of engineered and display solutions in selling and restructuring its business units in China
• Advised a leading global supplier of technology-based materials on its spin-off and sale of a business unit to the subsidiary of another leading U.S. company in China
• Represented a NASDAQ-listed company in the sale of all shares in a China subsidiary
• Advised a leading U.S. designer, developer and manufacturer of highly engineered wear and replacement products in its corporate restructuring in China
• Advised a U.K. company for its business expansion in China
• Advised a leading global aerospace company on various employment matters in China, including but not limited to the issues related to employee benefits, employment restructuring, expatriate arrangements and separation
• Advised a European manufacturing company in its restructuring of several joint ventures in China
• Advised several international companies in their employee transfers and other employment-related matters in China.

Bar and Court Admissions

People's Republic of China, 2002

New York, 2006

Education

University of California-Davis, LL.M., 2005

East China University of Politics and Law, LL.M., 2004

East China Institute of Politics and Law, B.A., 2001

Languages

Chinese (Mandarin)

English