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Lee
Edwards
Partner
Education
Columbia University School of Law, J.D., 1992,
Articles Editor, Columbia Journal of Chinese Law, 1990-1992
Columbia College, B.A., 1986
Practice
Lee Edwards is the managing partner of Shearman & Sterling LLP's Beijing office. Mr. Edwards has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions and foreign direct investment transactions. Mr. Edwards has represented Chinese, U.S. and European corporations in tender offers, stock and asset purchase transactions, venture capital and private equity transactions and in the establishment of Sino-foreign joint ventures. Mr. Edwards speaks Mandarin and has practiced in the firm's Beijing and Hong Kong offices since 1994.
Recent Experience
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Target Media Holdings Limited and certain of its selling shareholders in the pending sale of all of Target Media's outstanding share capital to Focus Media Holding Limited
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PetroChina in its pending acquisition of the outstanding shares of Jilin Industrial Chemical Company, Jinzhou Petrochemical Company and Liaohe Jinma Oilfield Company
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Viacom Outdoor in its acquisition of a 70% stake in Beijing-based Magic Media Co. Ltd.
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Hunan Valin Iron & Steel Group Co., Ltd. in connection with its sale of a 37% interest in
Shenzhen-listed Hunan Valin Steel Tube & Wire Co., Ltd. to Mittal Steel Company N.V.
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Bunge Limited in its establishment of a joint venture company with, and purchase of assets from, Rizhao Dahai Oil & Fat Co., Ltd and Shandong Sanwei Oil & Fat Group Co., Ltd.
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China DRTV, Inc. and certain of its shareholders in connection with China DRTV's Series A preferred stock financing and the sale by such shareholders of certain of their shares in China DRTV to a fund controlled by Softbank Corporation
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Polycom Inc. in its acquisition of DSTMedia Technology Co., Ltd., a PRC-based audio and video conferencing equipment company
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SINA Corporation in its acquisition of 20% of the outstanding shares of Telewill Investments Limited, a provider of advertising-related services in China
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SINA Corporation in the sale of its 100% equity interest in Shanghai Xinwang Computer Technology Co., Ltd. which provides hotel reservation services, to eLong, Inc.
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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
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Huawei Technologies in connection with the sale of its enterprise data communications business to a Hong Kong joint venture to be formed by Huawei and 3Com Corporation
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Aventis Pharma Deutschland GmbH in the sale of its 50% interest in a PRC pharmaceutical joint venture to its joint venture partner
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Huawei Technologies and Huawei Electric in connection with their sale of Avansys Power to a wholly owned subsidiary of Emerson Electric
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Fiat Auto in connection with its acquisition from Malaysia's Lion Group of interests in four existing Sino-foreign automobile manufacturing joint ventures
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