Zhixi Guo (郭之晞) PRC-licensed Attorney · Beijing Tiantai Law Firm (Taiyuan)
Product · inbound M&A

Legal due diligence on your Chinese target

For foreign investors and acquirers taking a stake in — or buying — a Chinese company. A PRC-licensed lawyer's due diligence on the target under Chinese law, with the cross-border regulatory layer that domestic-only checks miss.

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Why a China-side lawyer

Background-check firms report facts. I give you the legal read — and the fixes.

Integrity and data providers can confirm a company exists and surface adverse records. They do not opine on Chinese law, and they do not turn a finding into a deal term. My core practice is corporate, equity and investment work; I run the legal due diligence and translate each risk into something you can put in the transaction documents.

Scope

The company — and the cross-border layer

Target company

  • Legal standing, history, equity & paid-in capital (defects flagged)
  • Shareholders, actual controller & related-entity penetration
  • Material assets, title & encumbrances; major contracts
  • Debts, external guarantees; litigation, arbitration, enforcement
  • Tax & subsidies; labour, social insurance; environment & qualifications

Foreign-investment & cross-border layer

  • Foreign-investment access (negative-list) screening
  • National security review exposure
  • Merger-control (anti-monopoly) notification threshold read
  • Data compliance & cross-border data-export (PIPL) exposure
  • Export-control / trade-compliance flags; licence & ownership-change steps
Findings are turned into deal-document fixes — conditions precedent, seller representations & warranties, indemnities, price adjustments and escrow — so a discovered problem becomes an enforceable remedy, not just a note.
Formats

Red-flag report or full due diligence

Red-flag report

A focused, fixed-fee first pass — key issues and deal-breakers, delivered to the executive summary and red-flag level.

Full legal due diligence

The complete report across all scope areas, with the cross-border regulatory chapter and a reliance letter for white-label use.

Who it's for

Investors, advisers, and foreign counsel

Private-equity and strategic investors, family offices and their advisers; and foreign law firms with a China desk but no PRC-licensed team — I act as your white-label China-side back office, and your reliance is defined by a reliance letter.

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Scope & limitations. PRC-law legal due diligence only, on the materials made available and public records. Not a financial/tax audit, valuation, commercial/technical due diligence, or background investigation; no opinion on non-PRC law (including your jurisdiction's foreign-investment, tax, sanctions and export-control rules). Professional judgment, not a guarantee of any outcome. Formal engagement subject to conflict check and a signed agreement; this page is information, not legal advice.