Stephanie Bai

Registered Foreign Lawyer (PRC)

 T:    +852 2816 6888

WeChat  stephabai

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Stephanie Bai

Registered Foreign Lawyer (PRC)

 T:    +852 2816 6888

WeChat  stephabai

Specialty Areas:

About Stephanie

Stephanie is qualified to practice law in PRC and the State of New York, US. Stephanie has more than 12 years of legal experience in an international law firm, a top "red circle firm" and the law firm of one of the “Big Four”. Her practice focuses on private wealth and succession planning, family office, family trust and governance, cross-border financing, M&As, and labour disputes. 


In her private wealth practice, she has handled dozens of offshore family trusts, family offices and cross-border operational structures projects, provision of cross-border asset protection services and succession-related solutions for wealthy families with international background, including various Forbes listed families. Stephanie has extensive practical experience in dealing with equity planning for listed companies. She successfully advised an American controlling shareholder on the equity placement of a H-share listed company.


Stephanie is also experienced in coordinating with tax advisers, overseas lawyers, trust companies, secretarial companies and banks to provide comprehensive solutions for client’s various cross-border needs. She was invited to speak at seminars and conferences hosted by private banks, trust companies and family offices and has been widely praised by institutions and clients. She also provides legal services to enterprises, including Mainland Chinese clients on making outbound investments, foreign clients investing in Mainland China, and labour law.


Stephanie’s clients are widely distributed in the Pearl River Delta, Yangtze River Delta, Chengdu-Chongqing area, and other regions, and the industries include real estate, food and beverage, e-commerce, car networking, new energy, etc.


Stephanie is recognised as a Leading Talent of Foreign Affair Lawyers by the Guangzhou Lawyers Association, one of the first batch of outstanding young lawyers selected for Guangzhou "Lingyun Plan" and shortlisted as a Finalist for “Young Lawyer of the Year: South China & Central China - Non Local” at the ALB China Regional Law Awards 2024.


Stephanie is fluent in Mandarin and English.


Education

  • University of California, Berkeley, LLM
  • Murray State University, BA (Political Science)
  • Ludong University in China, LLB

Qualifications

  • Licensed Lawyer, People's Republic of China
  • Admitted Lawyer, New York State of the U.S.

Private wealth and planning, family office, offshore family trust, cross-border framework and operational structures

  1. Advising the controlling holder of a family office which assets reached over RMB10 billion on the breakup and division of matrimonial assets and properties in mainland China and overseas including real estates, virtual currency, equity investment, etc.
  2. Advising a well-known real estate developer on establishing an overseas private trust company
  3. Advising the controlling holder of a well-known real estate group family office on establishing a family trust, cross-border restructuring and investment in Philippine
  4. Providing planning advice to the second generation of a fast-moving consumer goods family including identity planning, pre-marital property preservation and trust
  5. Providing planning advice to the controlling holder family of a logistics company on identity planning, Canadian "Granny Trust", and Hong Kong family office set-up
  6. Advising the co-founder family of a Hong Kong-listed education company on restructuring of its cross-border investment
  7. Advising the controlling holder of an investment group family that has incubated three unicorns, on establishing an offshore family trust
  8. Providing planning advice to the founder family of a car networking company on identity planning, set up Singapore family office and overseas trust
  9. Advising a famous private entrepreneur on set up of a Singapore family office and trust
  10. Advising an American controlling shareholder of an A+H listed company in the placement of H shares in offshore trusts
  11. Advising the controlling shareholder of a Canadian-listed pharmaceutical company on succession of shares of the listed company and identity planning
  12. Advising the controlling holder of a leading consumer goods company in establishing the top-level offshore family trust of an IPO, employee trust, and family charter
  13. Advising the controlling shareholder of an A-share listed company on asset protection and succession including due diligence, transfer A-share shares into an offshore family trust
  14. Providing marriage counseling to the founder of a Shanghai pharmaceutical company in US green card renunciation and trust establishment
  15. Advising a Shanxi wealthy family on family asset protection and succession of properties located in China and Canada, and drafting family charters
  16. Advising the owner of a manufacturing e-commerce group on establishing the top-level overseas family trusts
  17. Advising the controlling shareholder of an A-share listed company in the family asset protection and succession including establishing an offshore family trust and its family charter
  18. Providing planning advice to a Canadian senior executive of a listed pharmaceutical company in his identity planning and wealth protection
  19. Providing Chinese legal opinions for the PLI structure of a client of OCBC Wing Hang Bank in Singapore
  20. Advising the controlling shareholder of a new energy joint-stock company on its overseas reorganisation

Cross-border investment and financing, M&As, and foreign investment in China

  1. Advising an onshore company of the US fund on pre-IPO
  2. Advising a listed automotive supply chain company on its potential expansion into Mexico
  3. Advising a foreign consulting company on its potential development and building a training center in Hainan
  4. Representing a PRC company in liaising with a Canadian company for importing a Canadian medical beauty product into China
  5. Advising a unicorn company on its cross-border international business reorganisation (including United States, Southeast Asia, Europe, etc.)
  6. Advising a European company on establishing a JV with a Chinese company
  7. Advising the Tianjin group on its investment in a coal trading company in Mongolia
  8. Advising Gembah Co., a US company, on establishing a WFOE in China

Labour, personnel risk management and dispute resolution

  1. Acting for a delisted Chinese concept stock company and its employees in an option dispute
  2. Acting for a Japanese automaker in an arbitration case with its employees and obtained a favourable result
  3. Advising a suspected of malpractice employee of a US-funded enterprise in compliance investigation
  4. Acting for an automobile finance company on a dispute case with its employees and settlement
  5. Acting for a Fortune 500 fast-moving consumer goods company on a dispute case with its management personnel and obtained a favourable result
  6. Acting for the branch of Agricultural Bank of China in a dispute case with its employees and obtained a favourable result
  7. Acting for a travel agency in a dispute case with its employees and obtained a favourable result
  8. Acting for a subsidiary of a Sino-pharm in a dispute case with its employees and obtained a favourable result
  9. Providing special advice to a large insurance company on human resources management risk diagnosis and management
  10. Providing special services to various companies on labour contracts and employee handbooks

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