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Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Provide buy-side financial due diligence, SPA review, Completion accounts and etc.;Support companies to be listed on ASX / NSX as an Investigating accountant;Provide financial advisory service for M&A transactions, including company screening, Information Memorandum, sell-side due diligence and etc.; Provide a valuation of a business and a company; andBuild up a financial modelling for the clients.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Work with the head of corporate finance to verify M&A opportunity against the M&A criteriaPrepare the due diligence report and board reportProject management

Sydney, Australia

Performed/lead over 20 financial due diligence projects on M&A transactions for both buy-side and sell-side and almost 10 companies to be listed on ASX/AIM. Clients include private equity, commercial and investment banks, ASX listed companies and privately held corporates. Target companies covered a wide range of industries, i.e. healthcare, TMT, manufacture, consulting, retail and etc.Provide buy-side financial and sell-side vendor due diligence on M&A transactions, including: identification of the key business issues/risks through detailed analysis of quality of earnings, financial position, working capital and cash flows over the historical period; and review and comments on the three-way financial modelling, including assessment of assumptions and factoring the identified historical issues into the financial forecast.Provide buy-side and sell-side financial assistance on M&A transaction, i.e. identification of the accounting errors, accounting adjustments in accordance with the new IFRS, normalised EBITDA preparation and etc.Participate in sale and purchase agreement (SPA) financial review, i.e. enterprise to equity value bridge preparation and negotiation for M&A transactions, including net debt adjustments (debt-free and cash-free adjustment) and working capital adjustments.Served as an investigating accountant to assist companies to be listed on ASX/NSX, including: preparation of the invetitgating accountant's report (i.e. historical and forecast trading performance, financial position, captial structure, pro forma balance sheet post IPO and etc.); preparation of the financial section in the Prospectus; and providing assistance to clients during the whole listing process from a financial perspective.

Shanghai, China

Over almost 7 years in Deloitte, performed/lead almost 80 M&A financial due diligence projects on M&A transactions, over 50 of which are served as a manager and associate director. Clients include the famous global private equity, large multinational groups and listed companies. Industry focuses on life science and healthcare, logistics, big data, manufacture, biological products, eCommerce, power station, energy and resources, food and beverage and real estate.Prepare transaction advisory report specific to key issues which address buyer’s concerns, valuation models, synergies, contractual issues and accounting implications. The report also includes evaluation of target company’s operating results, trading performance, financial position, cash flows, quality of assets and earnings, potential contingencies and risks.Factor the due diligence key issues to financial forecast, and perform sensitivity analysis.Provide advice on the terms of SPA from a financial perspective.Attend purchase price negotiation meetings with vendors to assist buyers to smooth the price negotiation process.Involvement in recruitment and training for junior staff.

Shanghai, China

Participated in/lead a team to provide financial due diligence on merger & acquisition (M&A) transactions to both strategic and financial buyers..Analysis of target companies' trading performance, financial position, quality of assets/liabilities.Identification of the key issues which address buyer's concerns, valuation models, synergies and accounting implications.Discussion with clients about the key issues and the impact on the proposed transactions.Support associated directors/partners in the projects.Provide on job training to the junior staff.

Shanghai, China

Participated in around 30 financial due diligence projects on merger & acquisition (M&A) transactions to both strategic and financial buyers.Analysis of target companies' trading performance, financial position, quality of assets/liabilities.Identification of the key issues which address buyer's concerns, valuation models, synergies and accounting implications.Support the manager, associate director, and partner in the projects.

Shanghai, China

Served as senior accountant in Assurance Department of EY Shanghai, providing clients with audit related services including SOX 404 internal audit, statutory audit for listed and non-listed companies, IPO audit and special purpose audit under PRC GAAP, US GAAP and IFRS. During the first year audit work, awarded a bravo for the project of “Morgan Stanley-Real Estate”.Involved in the audit work of several large-scale companies, such as Manufacturing and Real Estate Industries. Familiar with the operation procedure of these companies` sales, purchase and costing and get knowledge of the financial management ; Moreover, expressing my point of view of the suggestion to the problem, the companies faced; Based on the companies` financial and operational ratio, analyzed the financial and operational status of the company and found the financial risk and accounting error. Involved in SOX audit of the large multinational firms, get deep acknowledge of the internal control and management procedure; Gave my good opinion to the internal control issue and good advice to these issues. During my second year in EY, served as FIC (Field In Charge) in three to four audit engagements, communicated with the clients` about the audit results and issues and completed the audit reports independently. Served clients included: Morgan Stanley-Real Estate, Jiangxi Cooper, Rizhao Steel, Timken Bearing, Golden Dragon (IPO project), Changjia Real Estate (IPO project), CTS and etc.