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Daisy joined KPMG Beijing Financial Advisory Services practice in 2000. She has nearly 20 years experience in mergers and acquisitions, assisting multinational companies and Chinese clients in their investment activities around the globe.
During 2008 to 2011, Daisy was seconded to KPMG London Office. Daisy specialized in the Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) sector, ranging from oil and gas, mining and renewable energies. Her primary focus was to assist Chinese companies investing in the UK and Europe. In addition, she provided advices to international clients which had plans to invest or to expand operations in China. During that period, Daisy also worked in KPMG Global Chairmen’s Office and assisted global leadership in managing KPMG’s global initiatives.
Daisy returned to KPMG Beijing Office in August 2011, leading a dedicated team in the ENR sector. Since her return, she has completed a number of high profile transactions assisting Chinese companies for their overseas deals and multinationals investing in China, leading financial due diligence, SPA assistance and negotiation support, etc.

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Wei is an Advisory partner with twenty years of M&A and strategy consulting experience across a number of industries, with a focus on consumer and retail, life sciences and financial services sectors. Wei is the National Sector Advisory Lead for the Consumer Markets, and leads the Strategy practice for KPMG in Mainland China. Wei specializes in strategy development and execution supporting growth, market entry, mergers & acquisitions and restructuring situations. His areas of expertise include strategy, commercial and operational due diligence, operating model design, merger integration program management and change management. In the last fourteen years, Wei has led numerous engagements in China to help his clients securing and maximizing the value of their investments, into and out of China, through effective strategy / deal execution.

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Lisa is a partner in KPMG’s Deal Advisory practice. She has been with KPMG for over 15 years working in both China and Australia predominately focusing on buy side due diligence engagements for both inbound and outbound investors. During her career, Lisa has provided acquisition due diligence and advisory services for M&A transactions to an extensive portfolio of leading overseas and locally headquartered multinationals and PE funds. Lisa has relevant M&A due diligence experience across a wide number of sectors including IM, automotive, infrastructure, pharmaceutical, consumer and E&R. In recent years, Lisa was involved in a number of sell side engagements helping PE and multinational companies’ disposal of their investments in China.

Lisa got her Master degree in Business and Finance at Monash University, Australia. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and AICPA.

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Paula Yu is a senior partner of SF Lawyers (上海睿威律师事务所). Yu obtained her Master’s Degree from Johns Hopkins University and Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law. Having studied and worked in the United States for ten years, Yu was seconded by Kaye Scholer to its Shanghai office in 2007 and has practiced in China ever since. Yu specializes in cross-border transactions, in which she advises multinational corporations on a large variety of legal matters in China and represents Chinese companies in their outbound investments. Yu has received a number of awards, including the 2020 Corporate and M&A Lawyer award from Chambers and Partners, the 2019 Top 15 M&A Lawyers award from ALB, the “2018 Best M&A Lawyer” award and “2017 Best M&A Lawyer” award from the China Mergers and Acquisitions Association, the “2017 Top 10 M&A Persons” award from the Zhejiang Investment and M&A Association and Phoenix, and the “2017 Golden Whistle Award for Chinese Overseas M&A Legal Advisory Services” from the Morning Whistle Group.

P.S, SF Lawyers (上海睿威律师事务所), a Shanghai law firm which is an independent law firm operating in PRC and which belongs to the KPMG global legal network.