Tiantian WANGPartner
Tiantian WANG is a partner at Jia Yuan Law Offices, Shanghai. Her practice areas cover financial services, capital markets, and debt enforcement and restructuring. Tiantian has over fifteen years of experience, including over ten years at a Magic Circle Firm. Tiantian has extensive experience in advising both sell side and buy side clients in financial services on market entries, cross-border investment channels (e.g. QFLP, QFII, QDLP/QDIE, QDII, Stock Connect, Bond Connect, CIBM Direct, MRF etc.), trading rules and mechanisms, key risk areas and conflicts of laws. She is also experienced in advising clients on cross-border debt enforcement and restructuring involving multiple jurisdictions. Tiantian is highly appreciated by clients for providing strategic advice on cutting-edge and complex transactions, cases and business lines.
Representative Deals
- Advise leading FIGs, private funds and sovereign wealth funds on FIG M&As, acquiring and selling strategic minority equities in the financial sector, platform building and license applications.
- Advise leading hedge fund managers, mutual fund managers and FIGs on obtaining QDLP and QFLP licenses, product offering and fund formation, and various on-going ad hoc matters.
- Advise foreign investors on enrolling into various cross-border investment channels including QFII, Stock Connect, Bond Connect, and Direct Access to China National Interbank Bond Market (CIBM Direct). Advise on relevant channel rules and trading rules. Advise on trades and trading structures via those channels, such as participations in private placements and investments as cornerstone strategic investors in IPOs, related issues on trading, settlements, asset segregation and insolvency analysis and so on. Clients include leading prime brokers, sovereign wealth funds, hedge fund managers, pension fund managers and prop-trading companies.
- Advise on key risk areas including license and marketing restrictions, sanction and anti-sanction implications to one’ China and global client and trading exposures, AML data protections, and implications of latest data export regulatory developments to requests for customer data from China.
- Advise on fintech, payments and financial outsourcing.
- Advise leading brokers, hedge fund managers, prop-trading companies on implications of latest algorithm trading regulations, produce compliance policies, advise on key compliance and risk control respects, review algorithm trading brokerage agreements, and prepare algorithm trading brokerage template agreements.
- Advise on various capital markets respects, including close-out netting, exchange bond repos, clearing rules, margin and position segregations, bankruptcy remoteness and so on.
- Advise leading Chinese banks on complicated debt enforcement and restructuring projects outside of China, involving multiple jurisdictions (including Cayman, BVI, and various European countries) and several layers of credit enhancement arrangements.
Education
- University College London, LLM in Banking and Finance
- Tsinghua University, LLB General
