Mergers & Acquisitions and Partnerships in China (ePub)

then-first Chinese Mazars office. This was followed by the establishment of offices in Shanghai (2002) and Guangzhou (2007). He previously worked for Mazars in France as well as in Hong Kong. He has accompanied numerous M&A in China on behalf of companies of all sizes, allowing him to acquire a recognized understanding of the Chinese business environment, particularly of its accounting, fiscal, and financial practices.

Mazars is an international, integrated, and independent organization, specializing in audit, accountancy, tax, legal, and advisory services. Mazars relies on the skills of 13,800 professionals in 72 countries in all the five continents, and is supported by a network of correspondents and JVs in 13 additional countries. Mazars is a founding member of the Praxity alliance (69 independent organizations and 33,400 professionals in 97 countries).

Josephine Chow, office practice leader of Towers Wyatt, Taiwan, is the director of the Asia-Pacific M&A services. Towers Watson specializes in human resources consulting. Josephine Chow is also the director of the Work Taiwan Employee Attitude Research Center. She specializes in employee training and motivation, for both local and multinational companies.

During her career at Towers Watson, Josephine Chow managed several projects related to organization and company transformation, M&A due diligences, post-acquisition integration, compensation mechanisms, talent management, and improvement of performance management tools.

Steven Yu, principal consultant, is the director of actuarial services of Towers Watson, China. He assists his clients with issues related to actuarial practices and staff remuneration, and has over 13 years of experience in this...



Olivier Coispeau is the co-founder of Maverlinn, a strategy consulting firm specialized in growth acceleration and social impact projects. As a former investment banker and industrial strategy expert, he has engineered numerous industrial partnerships, and led many complex industrial projects and M&A transactions for Fortune 500 and international clients. He is also a specialist in capital investment, and previously started and headed a number of technology investment funds in Europe. Aside from advising on industrial projects, he dedicates the rest of his time working in less-favoured areas on responsible leadership and social impact projects. He spent many years in China advising Chinese industry leaders for accelerating economic growth and has been living in China for about 8 years. He has been educated at Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, University Paris IX Dauphine, and Stanford University.

Stéphane Luo is a lawyer at the Paris Bar and specializes in mergers and acquisitions operations, as well as related matters of corporate law, tax law, and contract law for international projects. With over 20 years of field experience, he was an advocate for pre-eminent French and American law firms for more than fifteen years. He assisted many companies in large-scaled implementation and acquisition projects in China as well as their follow up. Stéphane Luo came back to Paris at the end of 2010 in order to support the trend of outbound investment from China to Europe, and continues to put his expertise in service of French and European companies, while dividing his time between France and China. Stéphane Luo is also a consultant for several law firms and French companies, and teaches Chinese corporate law at the Institut national des langues et civilizations orientales in Paris.

Thierry Labarre is the senior partner for Mazars in Mainland China. Based in Beijing since 1997, he opened the then-first Chinese Mazars office. This was followed by the establishment of offices in Shanghai (2002) and Guangzhou (2007). He previously worked for Mazars in France as well as in Hong Kong. He has accompanied numerous M&A in China on behalf of companies of all sizes, allowing him to acquire a recognized understanding of the Chinese business environment, particularly of its accounting, fiscal, and financial practices.

Mazars is an international, integrated, and independent organization, specializing in audit, accountancy, tax, legal, and advisory services. Mazars relies on the skills of 13,800 professionals in 72 countries in all the five continents, and is supported by a network of correspondents and JVs in 13 additional countries. Mazars is a founding member of the Praxity alliance (69 independent organizations and 33,400 professionals in 97 countries).

Josephine Chow, office practice leader of Towers Wyatt, Taiwan, is the director of the Asia-Pacific M&A services. Towers Watson specializes in human resources consulting. Josephine Chow is also the director of the Work Taiwan Employee Attitude Research Center. She specializes in employee training and motivation, for both local and multinational companies.

During her career at Towers Watson, Josephine Chow managed several projects related to organization and company transformation, M&A due diligences, post-acquisition integration, compensation mechanisms, talent management, and improvement of performance management tools.

Steven Yu, principal consultant, is the director of actuarial services of Towers Watson, China. He assists his clients with issues related to actuarial practices and staff remuneration, and has over 13 years of experience in this...