Former Simpson Thacher & Bartlett partner Shaolin Luo in Beijing has joined private equity client YunFeng Capital as general counsel.

A corporate lawyer, Luo has long handled M&A and private equity investments related to China. Notably, Luo co-led the Simpson Thacher team—with New York-based partner Alan Klein, co-head of the Wall Street firm’s M&A practice—that advised state-owned China National Chemical Corp. on its $43 billion acquisition of Swiss agribusiness giant Syngenta AG.