Fintrade-Mercer and Founders

Fintrade-Mercer Corporate Services has been operating in China and Hong Kong since 1985. We are specialized in investment management, corporate formation and various technology based market entry operations offering a wide range of corporate market entry legal, professional and advisory services.

Mr. Jari Vepsäläinen is the CEO of the Fintrade-Mercer Group. He is a China trained attorney who has worked with Western companies located in China since mid 1980’s. Mr. Vepsäläinen is specialized in Merger and Acquisition / Joint Venture Companies contracts / Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprises, technology capitalization and forms of direct investment and restructuring operation and has many Board of Directors assignments in China and Hong Kong.

Mr. Vepsäläinen was among the first Western lawyers given access to Chinese Universities where he completed 1985-1988, Government funded research program on Chinese commercial legislation and investment in the People’s University of China in Beijing and Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou.

In addition to business organizations, Mr. Vepsäläinen serves various governmental organizations and international federations in the Asia Pacific and he is frequently invited speaker at professional China investment and technology conferences and seminars. 

The most current assignment of Mr. Vepsäläinen is the Chairman of China Foreign Energy Investment Committee by IPPF, Independent Power Producers Forum to manage China out-borne energy investment   project on global scale.