Benson Tang

Benson Tang is a corporate and M&A lawyer, and heads the firm’s corporate and M&A practice.

Benson has 25 years of experience in representing multinational corporates and domestic companies on joint ventures, mergers & acquisitions, disposals and restructuring transactions in China, and provides clients with corporate and commercial advice in relation to their day-to-day business operations. His clients cut across a broad range of industry sectors, especially those in the fast-moving consumer goods markets and commercial manufacturers.

• Advised various American and European industrial and fast-moving consumer goods companies (beer, whisky, milk, biscuits and alcoholic beverages) with regard to operational legal compliance and IP protection in China.
• Represented a number of overseas companies in applying to the Chinese Ministry of Commerce with regard to anti-monopoly reviews for cross-border merger and acquisition projects.
• Assisted a Hong Kong private equity fund in acquiring Chinese companies and assets involved in business, food and clothing, as well as the expansion of subsequent business.
• Advised a major American brewery on the acquisition of Chinese breweries and a subsequent expansion project.
• Acted for many multinational chemical and food corporations in a number of greenfield projects in China.
• Assisted a well-known Hong Kong headhunting company to set up a subsidiary in mainland China, which is the first wholly foreign-owned headhunting company approved in Shanghai after the implementation of CEPA.
• Acted for a well-known European building materials company, which successfully acquired an insulation materials manufacturing company in Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, and helped to complete all the integration matters following the acquisition.
• Provided a full range of legal services in China for a leading American whiskey company, including  advising on a dispute settlement between the company and domestic distributors, the handling of labour disputes, compliance training and investigation, etc.
• Acting as external PRC counsel to multinational companies with respect to labour law matters, including drafting and negotiating non-competition agreements, non-disclosure agreements, and employment contracts, as well as strategic planning for labour use and labour dispute resolution.
• Acting as external PRC counsel to multinational companies with respect to compliance matters, including anti-competition, anti-monopoly, customs, tax, foreign exchange, anti-corruption and anti-bribery.
• Acting as external general counsel to the Chinese subsidiaries of a number of U.S. and European companies, with respect to their regular commercial legal matters, including but not limited to drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, advising on compliance in respect of sales, advertising and marketing. etc.

• East China University of Politics and Law, LLM
• East China University of Politics and Law, LLB

• PRC

• Chinese
• English