Biography

Vera Shen is a member of our Shanghai office. Her practices mainly focus on the formation, operation and termination of hedge funds and private equity funds, types of funds including open-ended mutual funds, close-ended private funds and master-feed funds. Vera has extensive experience in serving offshore funds and asset managers investing across frontier industries and fundamental sectors, from biopharmaceutical, to semiconductor, automobile, digital media and gaming, financial technology and virtual assets, forex and futures, solar photovoltaic, metals and mining, property management and real estate, and Belt Road Initiative infrastructure projects. She also advises on a variety of offshore corporate matters and cross-border transactions, including initial and secondary public offerings, private and public mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, equity financing, bond issuance, banking and financial affairs and group reorganizations and restructurings.

Prior to joining us, Vera worked for two reputable law firms in Shanghai. Before that, she worked at the Freshfields Global Centre in Manchester, and interned at Norton Rose Fulbright, Pinsent Masons and CIETAC.

Vera does not practise PRC law. She is fluent in English and Mandarin.