Bio

Qi Yue is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Beijing office and a member of the firm’s Corporate Department and its Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Practice Groups. Mr. Yue has extensive experience in China-related public and private M&A and Private Equity transactions, including complex cross-border mergers and acquisitions, strategic and private equity buyouts, minority investments and venture capital transactions, offshore and onshore joint ventures and other strategic cooperation. Mr. Yue has also represented diverse participants in going private transactions involving Chinese companies listed in the United States, including special committees, buyer consortiums, founders, co-investors and other financing sources. Mr. Yue has worked on a number of landmark transactions, including the representation of the special committee of Sina Corporation in the company’s $2.6 billion going private transaction; the representation of NetEase in the sale of its cross-border e-commerce platform Kaola to Alibaba for $2 billion; the representation of Tsinghua Unigroup in the acquisition of a majority stake in Hewlett-Packard’s China-based server, storage and technology services businesses for $2.5 billion and the related joint venture; and the representation of Danone in the formation of chilled yogurt joint ventures with Mengniu and the strategic investment in Mengniu’s Hong Kong Listco for approximately $420 million. Mr. Yue’s private equity and other funds clients include JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Macquarie, Kuwait Investment Authority, Hillhouse Capital, CITIC Capital, CPE, AGIC Capital and Anchor Equity, among others. Prior to joining Gibson Dunn in 2015, Mr. Yue worked at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP where he spent two years in its New York office and three years in its Beijing office. Mr. Yue received his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 2010, his Master of Science from the University of Washington in 2007 and his Bachelor of Science from Peking University in 2002. He is admitted to practice in the state of New York and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and English.