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Justin Cai

Senior Partner
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Professional Experience

Justin Cai started his legal practice from 2003. Before joing in JT&N in 2019, Justin has had many years’ work experience with King & Wood, Weil Gotshal, McDermott Will & Emery (China Office) and Zhong Lun Law Firm, and his practice areas mainly include cross-border M&A, life science, pharmaceutical and healthcare, cyber-security and data-protection, dispute resolution, unfair competition investigation, financing for start-up companies. Justin has successfully assisted foreign and Chinese clients in completing over 150 projects in these areas, with total project value amounting to USD 20 billion. In these projects, Justin has taken major responsibilities in legal/compliance due diligence, responding to government investigations, handling commercial disputes, designing deal structures and legal documentations, and has handled numerous compliance issues such as data-protection and privacy, anti-bribery, anti-fraud etc. Justin also published many professional articles in his practices and was frequently invited as guest speaker on hot legal topics. Most of Justin’s clients are market leaders in their industries, which include 3M, Eli Lilly, Covidien, DaVita, GAP, CVRD, Invista, WWF, AVIC, Warburg, Ford Finance, Duke Kunshan University, SCB, ICBC International, China Union Pay etc.

Representative Performance

  • Represented AVIC on its joint venture with GE for C919 commercial aircraft project
  • Represented ICBC International on its joint establishment of a healthcare data procesing company
  • Represented PerkinElmer on acquisition of Shanghai SymBio and Shanghai Haoyuan
  • Represented DaVita hospital on its handling of daily compliance issues in China
  • Represented Covidien on its acquisition of a medical device company in Jiangsu
  • Represented Galderma on product distribution compliance, advertisement investigation and problem employees
  • Represented ZTO on its placing of USD 1.34 billion shares to Alibaba
  • Represented Eli Lilly handlinng daily legal and compliance affairs in China
  • Represented CVRD on its joint venture with China Yankuang
  • Represented Invista on its establishment of a airbag manufacture plant in Shanghai
  • Represented WWF on its investigation of fund donor's background
  • Represented ICBC International on revoking RMB 750 million illegal share transfers made by its debtor
  • Represented Huaan Fund on its reclaim of real estate debts worthing RMB 170 million
  • Represented J&J on its acquisition of Dabao cosmetics
  • Represented China Union Pay on its fraud site problems and monopoly accusation
  • Represented many AI companies on its private equity financing
  • Represented Changning Finance Buearu, Shanghai VC Center on their FOF investments
  • Represented a Sino-foreign JV on its responding to FCPA investigation
  • Represented a listed company on its investment in the Philliphines' real estate market
  • Represented GAP on its lease of retail stores in China

Social Status

  • Wolters Kluwer Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Counsel Board
  • Tutor of MIB Project in Shanghai University of International Business and Economics
  • Chief Editor of LawReview (A WeChat platform for legal professionals)

Education Background

  • Duke University School of Law: LL.M.
  • Fudan University: Master of Business Law
  • University of Electronic Science and Technology of China: LL.B.

Publications

  • Overview of China's Life Science, Pharma and Healthcare Law and Typical Cases (2021-2024)
  • Comments on the Proposed Revisions to the PRC Anti-unfair Competition Law, 2023
  • Regulation on Monopoly Agreements: Newly Revised Anti-Monopoly Law and the draft Rules on Prohibiting Monopoly Agreements, 2022
  • China Health and Pharma Data Protection Overview, OneTrust, 2021
  • China
  • How to Distinguish Individual Responsibilities and Corporate Responsibilities in Commercial Bribery Cases, 2019
  • Legal Perspective on Establishing Enterprise Compliance System, 2017
  • Negotiation Tactics in China-related Cross-border Transactions, 2017
  • How to Structure Outbound Investment under Strict Government Supervision, 2017
  • Anti-bribery Investigations in Cross-border M&A Transactions and the Methods to Avoid Taking Successor Liabilities, 2016