Li Cheng

Li Cheng is a Non-Executive Director at Ant Group. Li was previously a partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in the firm's Hong Kong Office from April 2006 to March 2016. At Simpson Thacher, Mr. Chen advised primarily on capital markets matters. Li has worked on a variety of equity and debt offerings, including in the context of privatizations. Transactions in which they have been involved include SEC-registered offerings, Rule 144A/Regulation S offerings and listings in the United States and Hong Kong for companies in the telecom, banking, insurance, oil and gas, technology, retail, real estate, manufacturing and other sectors. Mr. Chen regularly advised public companies on corporate governance and regulatory compliance matters, including issues arising under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

Mr. Chen's geographic focus is China and they have played a key role in executing some of the most significant privatizations and securities offerings by leading companies in China, including PetroChina, China Mobile, Bank of China (Hong Kong), Bank of China, China Telecom and China Ping An Insurance. Mr. Chen has also been involved in a number of important cross-border M&A transactions for Chinese companies, including China Mobile and PetroChina. Mr. Chen also regularly advises on M&A and investments transactions in China involving private equity funds.

Mr. Chen has been recognized as one of the leading capital markets lawyers in China/Hong Kong in a number of recent surveys, including Asialaw Leading Lawyers (2007), The Asia Pacific Legal 500, Chambers Global Guide to the World's Leading Lawyers for Business and Legal Who's Who (Hong Kong).

Li Cheng graduated from York University - Osgoode Hall Law School with a J.D. in Law.