About Zhiyi Ren

Zhiyi Ren is a partner at Fangda Partners based in Shanghai, qualified to practise law in both the PRC and New York. He is a leading regulatory lawyer in China, specialising in regulatory, financial markets, fund products and M&A transactions in the financial sector. Since the most recent wave of China’s financial sector liberalisation, Zhiyi has advised world-class financial institutions/assets managers on establishing the pioneering first batch of foreign-controlled financial institutions in the PRC such as securities firms, fund management companies, futures firms, foreign-invested private securities investment fund managers (known as PFMs), wealth management companies, fund sales institutions, fund custodians, NPL WFOEs, debt QFLPs, QFIIs, and insurance brokers.