Betty Yap - The Wire China

Betty Yap’s practice focuses on advising private equity funds and other financial sponsors in buyout, growth capital and co-investment transactions, structured investments and exits.

She also advises financial institutions and corporates on complex cross-border mergers and acquisitions, divestments and joint ventures. She advised Hillhouse Capital on its investment in Magento Commerce, and the subsequent US$1.68bn sale to Adobe, and also advised a consortium of investors as a finalist bidder in the auction sale of McDonald’s operations in mainland China, Hong Kong SAR and Macau SAR which were sold for US$2.1bn.

Contact: betty.yap@linklaters.com

Cover Story

Remember Tibet?

In recent years, there haven’t been any visible, large-scale demonstrations for Tibetan independence, either inside the country or abroad. This is a big contrast to the waves of self-immolations and solidarity protests of the past — and exactly what Beijing wants. If China’s digital surveillance and censorship efforts have reached their full potential in Tibet, what comes next?

The Big Picture

The Main Takeaways from the House’s China Week
By Eliot Chen and Aaron Mc Nicholas

Lawmakers have passed a string of bills this week designed to counter China — but with some notable omissions.

Q & A

Tim Clissold on the Importance of Knowing China
By Andrew Peaple

The author of Mr. China discusses why improving knowledge of the country is so vital, why China has become so toxic politically and whether he would advise young people to make a career there today.

September 17th: Strategies for Identifying Military End Users

Learn about the latest proposed export controls
Discover techniques to identify covered end users
Enhance compliance processes, avoid penalties

The Main Takeaways from the House’s China Week By Eliot Chen and Aaron Mc Nicholas

Tim Clissold on the Importance of Knowing China By Andrew Peaple

September 17th: Strategies for Identifying Military End Users

The Wire China Archives

The Main Takeaways from the House’s China Week
By Eliot Chen and Aaron Mc Nicholas

Tim Clissold on the Importance of Knowing China
By Andrew Peaple