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About Ruijun
Senior Partner | Mergers & acquisitions; cross-border investment and finance; foreign-related corporate matters
Ruijun Wang is a senior partner in the Wuhan office of Fangda Law Offices whose public practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions and cross-border investment and finance. Her official profile identifies her as a leading foreign-related legal talent in Hubei and notes professional roles in foreign-related committees of the Wuhan and Hubei lawyers associations. She works in Chinese and English and has more than a decade of experience advising large state-owned enterprises and handling foreign joint venture and cooperation projects.
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The strongest feature of Wang's profile is its cross-disciplinary orientation. Fangda describes her as having experience spanning law, enterprise management and finance, which is highly relevant to cross-border corporate work. A foreign investment or joint venture is rarely just a question of company registration. The parties need to align capital commitments, financing, board control, reserved matters, technology rights, profit distribution, exit rights and regulatory filings. Where one shareholder is a state-owned enterprise or a large industrial group, internal approval and decision-making rules can add another layer to the transaction.
Wang's experience with foreign joint venture and cooperation projects makes her particularly useful in Wuhan's industrial market. Wuhan is a major automotive, high-technology, engineering and manufacturing center. Cross-border joint ventures in these sectors frequently involve a foreign technology provider, a Chinese industrial or state-owned partner, local project incentives and substantial capital expenditure. Counsel needs to understand how corporate governance works after closing, not simply how the investment agreement is signed.
For an international investor, governance is often the most important protection. A minority foreign shareholder may negotiate board seats, veto rights, information rights and restrictions on related-party transactions. Those provisions need to be drafted in a way that can operate under the Chinese company's constitutional documents and current Company Law. A shareholder agreement that gives a party theoretical control but is not implemented through the articles or corporate resolutions can be difficult to enforce in practice.
Financing adds further complexity. A joint venture may use shareholder contributions, shareholder loans, bank facilities, guarantees or project financing. The parties need to specify which shareholder bears funding shortfalls, what happens if a capital call is missed and whether dilution or default remedies are available. The revised Company Law's registered-capital regime makes contribution timing and shareholder obligations a more important diligence and drafting issue than under older long-dated subscription practices.
Wang's public foreign-related roles also suggest familiarity with the institutional dimension of international transactions. Foreign investors often need counsel who can communicate with overseas headquarters while also coordinating with Chinese counterparties, banks and local authorities. English-language capability is valuable where transaction documents, board materials and internal reporting need to be reviewed across jurisdictions.
Her M&A practice further broadens the profile. A buyer considering a Wuhan industrial target needs legal due diligence on capitalization, licenses, land, employees, IP, material contracts, environmental matters, financing and disputes. A cross-border buyer must also consider foreign-investment restrictions, national security issues where relevant, competition review and the mechanics of paying or funding the transaction. Counsel who understands financing and governance can translate diligence findings into closing conditions, price adjustments, indemnities and post-closing controls.
For Chinese companies going abroad, the same practice mix can apply in reverse. The Chinese investor may need to structure an overseas acquisition, joint venture or greenfield project while complying with China-side outbound investment and funding requirements. Local foreign counsel will advise on host-country law, but China counsel still has a central project-management role in corporate approvals, financing, security, contractual risk allocation and coordination of the cross-border team.
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