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Shanghai City, China, shanghai China
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China Cross Border M&A and Investment Professional
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linkedin.com/in/brunobensaid
About
Arrived in Shanghai in 1997 for a year studying Chinese at one China's top-10 universities. I then moved to Singapore in 1999 to join the APAC Finance team of Cisco Systems. Back in China (2002), I co-managed the China operations of French VC-backed Mobile Internet startups (we helped one of them raise financing from a Hong-Kong based VC). In 2006, I started helping French VC firms and portfolio companies expand into China and later officially joined Ventech (a US$ 500-Mil Fund) as the "first China employee". late 2008, I started Shanghaivest, an investment banking advisory firm. It started focusing on cross-border M&A transactions between Europe and China in 2010 when a DLA Piper Partner...
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