Julius Shen

Julius Shen is a Partner with PwC Strategy& China, based in Shanghai. He is also the consulting leader of the industrial sector at PwC China. He is responsible to provide diversified corporate strategy and deal services to the multinational, domestic, government and private equity clients.

Julius has almost 20 years of deal and corporate strategy consulting experience and served for over 100 clients. He has extensive experience in corporate growth and transformation strategy, operation/supply chain improvement, deal and M&A strategy, market entry, target search, negotiation support, financial modeling, commercial due diligence and post deal integration, covering industrials and services, transportation & logistics, food and agriculture, healthcare, consumer products & retail, TMT, regional planning and real estate development.

His project experiences include:

• Assisting multinational companies to set up China strategy and search/identify potential cooperation targets in China. The scope includes assessing China market dynamics and trends, regulatory environment, competitive landscape, business model of major players, operation/supply chain improvement etc. He provides systematic solution to establish existing player pool, screen and evaluate potential M&A or JV candidates and advise on acquisition strategies
• Providing corporate strategy, deal and M&A strategy, business unit strategy, operation/supply chain improvement, benchmarking, channel strategy services to China companies (including state-owned and private companies)
• Assisting central, provincial and municipal government and major developments to conduct region/city/industry zone planning, industry trend and integration, investment and financing strategy and project execution support etc.
• Providing deal advisory services for some leading Chinese companies on outbound investment including greenfield, M&A and JV etc.
• Conducting negotiation support and commercial due diligence for leading foreign and local private equities. Recent projects cover the local targets in industrial products, transportations & logistics, food & agriculture, TMT, consumer products & retail sectors

Prior to joining PwC, Julius has worked at a leading private equity firm and an international consulting firm at different management roles. Before that, he also had four years of technical and management experience at two global leading IT companies.

Julius graduated from Fudan University, majored in Computer Science and Master of Software Engineering. Besides Mandarin as native language, Julius also speaks fluent English and Japanese, with JEES top level certificated.