Ben Qi
Bin QI (Ben) is the Managing Partner of Jin Mao Partners, based in its Beijing Office. Ben has rich experience in Corporate Development Strategy, IT Industry, Merger & Acquisition, Anti-trust, Capital Markets, Venture Capital, Private Equity and Cross-border Transaction.
Ben represents many Fortune 500 clients in their China business developments and operations. He also represents many China domestic clients in some complex cross-border investment deals, including PIPE deal, SPAC and reverse merger transactions. He also advises many Private Equity funds and Chinese start-up companies in their fund-raising and pre-IPO investment or financings. Ben is also an expert in structuring and advising cross-border IP licensing deals. He has in-depth insights on how to manage a complicate M&A transaction as well as integration, particularly in TMT industry. In 2015, he was awarded by American Lawyer and China Law & Practice as “Deal of the Year in TMT Sector”.
Prior to joining Jin Mao Partners for his private practice, Ben was a senior legal counsel for IBM Greater China since 2003. He was the lead lawyer for IBM Corporate Development and M&A activities in Greater China region, participated in many high-profile deals, including IBM’s divestiture of PC and x86 server business to Lenovo, acquisition of the Weather Company, Citigroup/IBM’s recent sales of 23.7% shares in Guangdong Development Bank to China Life, and IBM’s spin-off of its Printer business. Ben was also the Chief Legal Counsel for IBM China Investment Fund. Prior to IBM, he was the Asia Pacific General Counsel for Peak Pacific Investment Company and Senior Counsel for Siemens China.
Ben is an active practitioner and frequent speaker in M&A forum on the matters of execution and integration. His more than 10 years in-house experiences in Fortune 500 companies provide him valuable insights when he advises his clients of those complex deals.
He received his LL.B from East China Politics and Law Institute, Shanghai, his LL.M and Ph.D from Renmin University Law School, Beijing, and S.J.D. from School of Law, University of British Columbia, Canada.
Ben is fluent in both Mandarin and English.