Edward (Zhonghua) Cheng is a partner of Beijing Dacheng Law Offices, LLP (Shanghai) . Cheng's practice areas cover Private Equity, Corporate and M&A, dispute resolution, corporate bankruptcy & insolvency, etc. Over the past 20 years, Cheng has handled a large number of corporate and M&A cases in the supply chain, electrical appliances, pharmaceutical, photovoltaic, big data, new energy and other industries. Cheng specializes in private equity funds and equity investment. He provides various services including structure design, sub-fund recruitment, and manager registration for various provincial and municipal government investment funds. Meanwhile, Cheng provides various venture enterprises with equity financing services and participates in the raising, investment, management and exit of market-oriented private equity investment funds.

Provided legal services for a provincial government investment fund in terms of fund structure design, drafting of management rules and agreements, and recruiting subfunds, etc.

Produced legal documents such as management measures and implementation rules for a government investment fund in Nanjing, and provided legal services such as sub-fund formation programmes.

Provided services such as registration of fund managers and change of significant matters for many equity and securities managers such as Yantai Caijin and Huizhu Asset.

Advised Jiangsu and Shenzhen Funds on their joint investment in a pharmaceutical company (Series D, mainly focusing on R&D of small molecule oncology drugs).

Provided year-round legal advisory services to a cultural tourism development fund in Jiangsu Province.

Provided legal services including investment negotiation and document preparation to a Hong Kong venture capital fund investing in sci-tech projects in Shanghai.

Assisted a planning and design firm in its internal shareholding restructuring and in establishing an employee incentive plan for its employees.

Represented a central enterprise to invest in the Sinochem Energy Supply Chain Project with the local government of Ningbo and participating in the due diligence, negotiation, legal document production and other legal services on behalf of the project, which is a key project introduced by the city of Ningbo.

Represented a central enterprise in setting up a special fund to invest in a project of China Nuclear Exchange Energy, providing legal services such as reviewing the documents of the special fund and making the text of the agreement.

Represented the founding shareholders in the repurchase of equity interests in Jazhong Xincai held by a local government fund.

Represented a biopharmaceutical company against various investment institutions for a Pre-A round of financing.

Represented a fund in a successful equity repurchase case against the founding shareholder, involving tens of millions of RMB.

Represented Guangqian Equity Investment Fund in an equity transfer dispute and won the case.

Represented a company in a series of real estate sale and purchase contract disputes, all of which were successful, with a value of tens of millions of RMB.

Represented an engineering design company against Yunnan Xianfeng Company in a construction project dispute with a value of tens of millions of RMB.