Audrey Chen joined the firm in 1993 and practices in Beijing and Hong Kong. Her primary practices include corporate and M&A, cross-border investment, restructuring and divestiture of group companies and overseas listings, general corporate and compliance matters.

Audrey has more than 30 years of experience in the automobile, high-tech, manufacturing, education, energy and natural resources, luxury retail, pharmaceutical, food/agriculture, etc. She also focuses on the projects of the automation and robotisation industries in recent years. She has advised domestic and international clients across various industries, adopting creative structures and negotiating complicated legal documents for cross-border M&A transactions/internal restructuring of major global companies.

Audrey also provides strategic planning and advice for corporate compliance, including reviewing the clients’ existing compliance programs, improving or tailoring the programs to the client's needs in China, policy implementation and ongoing monitoring systems, risk/crisis management, regulatory guidance, supporting the clients when regulatory scrutiny or investigations are involved, etc.

Audrey is the Publication Officer of the Corporate & M&A Law Committee, International Bar Association.

Awards

2017-2024 Who’s Who Thought Leaders Mainland China and Hong Kong SAR, M&A and Governance, Competition lawyer

2021 The Legal 500 Leading Lawyers Corporate and M&A

2021 The Legal 500 Recommended Lawyers Corporate and M&A

2021 Who’s Who Legal Business, Competition, Corporate Governance, M&A and Mining Lawyer (China).

2020 ALB Dealmakers of Asia

2019 ALB China Top 15 Female Lawyers

2017 ALB China Top 10 M&A Lawyers; 

2017 Asialaw Profiles Leading Lawyers