Paul, Weiss advised Chinese internet giant Tencent in its US$604 million investment in Vipshop Holdings Ltd, a major Chinese online discount apparel retailer. Under the terms of the agreement, Tencent and JD.com Inc,, China’s largest e-commerce firm, will invest an aggregate US$863 million cash into Vipshop and will grant Vipshop access to Tencent’s digital wallet platform and JD.com’s mobile application.  Tencent and JD.com will subscribe for newly issued Class A ordinary shares of Vipshop. Upon closing, which is expected to occur in the near future, Tencent will own approximately 7 percent of Vipshop’s total issued shares.

The Paul, Weiss team included corporate partners Jeanette Chan and Tong Yu and counsel Paul Donnelly.