Ms. Dandan Fei is a Partner of Guantao Law Firm Shenzhen Office. She previously served in government agencies, the procuratorate, a private equity fund management company and law firms. Holding an LLM from the UK, she brings an integrated international background spanning law + industry/business/policy. With 20+ years of legal experience, she focuses on corporate/M&A, investment & capital markets, compliance and dispute resolution, and has long handled cross-border mandates involving Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Singapore, UK, EU & US, and the Middle East. She advises clients in new energy, healthcare, semiconductors & advanced manufacturing, cross-border e-commerce and consumer sectors, and serves as legal counsel to multiple enterprises and organisations in the Greater Bay Area and the Yangtze River Delta. She has extensive cross-border experience and efficiently handles complex transactions across multiple jurisdictions.
Practice Areas
• Outbound enterprise compliance (including foreign-trade regulation, data and cross-border data).
• Cross-border investment & financing and overseas listing.
• Corporate governance and M&A/restructuring.
• Intellectual property and trade secret protection.
• International dispute resolution and cross-border enforcement.
• Research on compliance and structuring for overseas real-world assets (RWA).
Professional Experience
• Partner, Guantao Law Firm Shenzhen Office.
• Director, International Department, Qingheqing Law Firm.
• Deputy General Manager, Shenzhen Boyue Capital Management co., Ltd.
• Deputy Director, General Office of Shenzhen Municipal People’s Government.
• Deputy Director, General Office of Shenzhen Nanshan District Government.
• Prosecutor, Nanshan District People's Procuratorate, Shenzhen.
Appointments & Memberships
• Member, Asian Society of International Law (AsianSIL).
• Leading Foreign-related Lawyer Talent of Anhui Province.
• External Practice Mentor, Guangdong University of Finance & Economics.
• Executive Secretary-General, Shenzhen Sci-Tech Promotion Association.
Representative Matters
• Participated in an investment project in China by a leading UK semiconductor company, coordinating policy and compliance for implementation.
• Advanced the RMB international investment-and-loan fund Hong Kong platform, providing cross-border structuring and regulatory compliance support.
• Advanced the establishment of an offshore USD fund, responsible for offshore fund structuring and drafting fund documentation.
• Represented a co-investor in the Hong Kong financing of a leading AI company, responsible for due diligence, transaction structuring and investment execution.
• Provided legal support to a leading domestic pharmaceutical company in acquiring European rare-disease pipeline assets.
• Provided PRC legal support to a Hong Kong-listed biopharma company for onshore biopharma investments.
• Collaborated with an Israeli healthcare fund on structuring, due diligence and compliance analysis.
• Conducted due diligence on a top-tier private equity institution for the establishment of an industrial M&A fund by a state-owned VC enterprise.
• Provided legal services for a cooperation project between a Shenzhen district-level industrial guidance fund and an overseas manager.
• Provided US export-control compliance risk assessment and responses for a Shenzhen investment institution's project.
• Issued legal opinions for the issuance of a Sci-Tech Innovation corporate bond on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange by a state-owned VC enterprise.
• Supported implementation of major Shenzhen industrial projects including CSOT, SMIC, Hengli and the National Gene Bank.
• Provided policy support for the Qianhai Shenzhen–Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone, participating in the formulation and release of Shenzhen's policies and plans on strategic emerging and future industries.
• Introduced a Singapore chip-testing company to establish a manufacturing base in Shenzhen and provided related legal services.
• Provided full-cycle legal services for an LCD panel company's factory investment in Vietnam.
• Provided full-cycle legal services for an abrasion-resistant materials company's factory investment in Malaysia.
• Provided legal services for an aged-care group's investment in aged-care projects in Australia.
• Issued legal opinions on the disposal of an overseas real-estate project for an Anhui provincial SOE.
• Provided cross-border coordination and legal support for a Shandong company's fraud incident in Kazakhstan.
• Advised on entry into Russian insolvency proceedings for a debtor of a state-owned new-materials company.
• Advised on recognition and enforcement in the United States of a CIETAC arbitral award.
• Advised on PRC outbound compliance and domestic capital contributions to the RMB international investment-and-loan fund.
Education
• LLB, Southwest University of Political Science & Law.
• MBA, Peking University.
• LLM (Commercial & Corporate Law), Queen Mary University of London.
Qualifications
• PRC Legal Professional Qualification.
• China Fund Practitioners Qualification.
Publications
• New Models for RMB Cross-border Investment.
• Public Policy Defense in International Arbitration: A Comparative Perspective.
• Green Data Governance and Digital Rights in Cross-Border ESG Disclosure: Legal Challenges and Solutions for the Twin Transition.
• Chinese Women External Counsel in Belt-and-Road and Other South–South Deals.
• From Battlefield Secrecy to Procedural Fairness: Evidentiary Techniques from International Arbitration for Fact-Finding in International Humanitarian Law.
• Corporate Accountability Across Borders: Analysing the Liability of Parent Companies for Subsidiaries' Tortious Actions in Multinational Enterprises.
Working Languages
• Chinese
• English
