Jiannian Fan Bio

Fan Jiannian is a partner in Gide's Shanghai office. He specialises in cross-border mergers and acquisitions. He advises public and private companies and multinationals, both listed and unlisted, on their activities in China, in a wide range of sectors: automotive, equipment manufacturing, industrial gases, biomedicine and fashion brands. Jiannian advised SEB Group on its acquisition of Zhejiang Supor Co. Ltd. and Veolia Environnement in connection with the filing of the Panda Bonds issuance plan. In recent years, he has advised a number of Chinese companies on overseas investment projects, including Kweichow Moutai, ICICLE and Zhejiang Semir Garment Co, Ltd. He has been with Gide since 2005. He is a graduate of Université Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne and Fudan University in Shanghai. He was admitted to the Chinese Bar in 2002.