Biography
Wensheng is a corporate Counsel at Hogan Lovells Fidelity (Shanghai), focusing on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, restructurings, and other complex corporate matters. He also advises on licensing and collaboration agreements and other strategic commercial agreements. Wensheng has represented a broad range of clients in a variety of industries, including life sciences, technology, financial services, automotive, industrial and consumer and retail.
Recognized by The Legal 500, Wensheng regularly earns plaudits from his clients, noting that “his customer service is top-notch. He's prompt, knowledgeable and very respectful of and familiar with our processes” and “I always appreciate [his] diligence and responsiveness. No one does it better (and we work with a lot of outside counsel)!”
Wensheng holds an LLM from the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. He is fully qualified to practice in China.
Representative experience
Wensheng’s recent transactions include representing:
- Jiangsu Jinsheng in its sale of certain EU businesses to Rieter Holding AG
- Synopsys in its joint venture in China’s energy vertical market
- Medtronic in its spin-off of OEM business from Kanghui
- Willis Towers Watson in its sale of reinsurance brokerage business and its buyout of the Chinese partner
- Ford Motor Co. in its arrangement with CATL to produce LFP in Michigan and in its collaboration with Huayou Cobalt and PT Vale Indonesia in Indonesia’s battery nickel project
- PPG in its acquisition of powder coating business in China
- Dana Incorporated in its acquisition of SME Group
- ATI Industrial Automation in its sale to Novanta Inc.
- Booking.com in its sale of customer service centers to Majorel
- REEL International in its acquisition of Metso Outotec
- Lion Brothers in its sale to Avery Dennison
- Google in its investment in JD.com
- Sesen Bio in its licensing agreement with Qilu Pharmaceutical
- Novartis in its licensing and supply arrangement with Grand Pharmaceutical
- Insulet in its contract manufacturing arrangement in China
- Insightec in its strategic partnership with Fosun Pharma
"The work results have been excellent; the service of the firm was a good mixture of Western and Asian style and the advice was focused on the commercial and legal interest of the client."
Legal 500 Asia Pacific
Andrew McGinty
Partner, Hogan Lovells & Responsible Person Assigned by Hogan Lovells to Hogan Lovells Fidelity
Gui Liang Lu
Director & Partner, Fujian Fidelity (Shanghai) Law Firm & Responsible Person Assigned by Fidelity to Hogan Lovells Fidelity
Suyu Yuan
Partner, Fujian Fidelity (Shanghai) Law Firm & Chinese lawyer Assigned by Fidelity to Hogan Lovells Fidelity
Jonathan Liang
Deputy Director & Counsel, Fujian Fidelity (Shanghai) Law Firm & Chinese lawyer Assigned by Fidelity to Hogan Lovells Fidelity
Crystal Li
Senior Lawyer, Fujian Fidelity (Shanghai) Law Firm & Chinese Lawyer Assigned by Fidelity to Hogan Lovells Fidelity