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Background
Catherine is a founding partner of PwC Legal China. She is a qualified PRC lawyer having close to 15 years’ experience in legal practice. She received her LL.B. in Economic Law from the East China University of Politics and Law, and her LL.M. in International Economic Law from the University of Warwick. Before joining PwC Legal China, Catherine was a partner of a Chinese law firm, and has extensive practice experience with both international and local law firms and also got solid in-house experience with a multinational company.
Areas of Expertise
Corporate restructurings and business reorganisations
Cross-border M&As and joint ventures
Real estate investment and hotel management
Anti-trust and compliance
General corporate and commercial legal services

Key Experience
Catherine has extensive experience advising clients on large scale and complex cross-border M&A transactions, foreign direct investment, joint ventures and group restructuring projects in China. Catherine frequently advises Chinese and foreign investors, ranging from Fortune 500 multinational companies to State-owned and privately owned businesses, across a wide variety of sectors including telecommunications, internet, information technology, automobiles and automobile components, mining, real estate, travel and leisure, healthcare, clean energy, education, financial services and industrial products manufacturing. Her advice and assistance have covered the acquisition of shares or assets of Chinese companies, establishment of foreign-invested enterprises in China, restructuring and spinning off of existing investments in China, liquidation, relocation, as well as general corporate and commercial issues.
In addition to her transactional and general corporate and commercial experience, Catherine specializes in all aspects of PRC anti-trust law, including merger control clearances, cartel investigation defense, and compliance and training programmes for clients.

Office: +86 (10) 6533 2786
Mobile: +86 (0) 13601283820
catherine.x.shen@cn.pwclegal.com

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Mr. Mats Harborn is Executive Director of Scania China Strategic Center which was newly established by Scania on Sep 1st 2010 in a commitment to a long-term development in China. He also serves as Executive Director of Scania Sales (China) Co., Ltd.

Before taking the roles, Mr. Harborn had been acting as Managing Director of Scania Sales (China) Co., Ltd since its founding in 2007. Ahead of that, he was responsible for managing the Regional Office of Scania for China starting from 2004 when the leading international commercial vehicle manufacturer started tapping into the Chinese market.
Before taking the roles of vice president of the European Chamber, Mats had been acting as Chairman of Swedish Chamber of Commerce in China. And he is main board member of ACEA China Board.

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Stephen has 25 years of professional auditing and internal controls services experience. Before joining PwC, Stephen spent over five years with a leading UK mutual life insurance company as the Head of its internal audit function

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Thomas is the head of the German Business Group in PwC China. He specializes in providing assurance services to MNCs.

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Yixiang is Director of Corporate Affairs at Volkswagen Group China, in charge of governmental affairs and policy analysis. Before taking this role, he had been working in insurance industry for more than 10 years.