Our team's deal experience includes
Four senior partners. One shared trail for every deal — trade, M&A, market entry. Nothing hidden. No one lost.
We don't sell you a catalog. In China, serious deals run on relationships — with factories, with counterparties, and with the government offices approvals run through. Seventeen years of them, and the judgment to know which door your deal actually needs.
A global restaurant brand wants its first locations in China. The deal needs the right partner, the right licenses, the right districts — and introductions in Shanghai that make it real.
A Fortune 500 buyer suspects it's overpaying. The deal needs factory-gate truth on cost, requalified suppliers, and contracts that hold when volumes are serious.
An industrial group wants to open a paper mill. The deal needs land, permits, equipment and people — and twenty years of knowing which factories deliver.
Deals like these don't live on a marketplace. They live on relationships — and a record.
One private timeline. Visible to your deal's stakeholders — and no one else. Every step stays on the record, including ours.
The steps fit the deal. A production trail runs factory, inspection and freight; an M&A trail runs diligence, approvals and closing. The record works the same.
You tell us the deal. We tell you if we're the right house for it.
Your product and pricing protected before anything moves.
Every party checked — real names, real registrations, real chops.
Terms enforceable where it matters — including in Chinese courts.
The right factory, chosen and watched by twenty years of floor experience.
Inspections reported straight onto the trail. You see what we see.
Tracked on the same record. No black hole between factory gate and your door.
Money moves when milestones are met — not before.
The trail closes as a permanent record — and the start of the next deal.
Humans on one side. The record on the other.
Law, manufacturing, logistics and the relationships that open doors — four senior partners on your deal, by name.
The Network
Founder
17 years of cross-border deals, and the relationships in China that open the right rooms.
The Law
Head of Legal
M&A and cross-border counsel behind deals for Coca-Cola, Pfizer, Carlyle, EQT and Warburg Pincus.
The Factory
Head of Manufacturing
20+ years inside Chinese factories. Supply work for Cardinal Health, McKesson and Medline.
The Logistics
Head of Logistics
20+ years moving goods worldwide — from the factory gate to your door.
Native in both. Nothing lost in translation — on either side of the table.
We don't just advise on deals. We run cross-border businesses of our own — the same way we'd run yours.
New shipping containers, factory-direct from China — inspected before release, documented before you pay, delivered on a first trip the cargo pays for.
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A sourcing agent typically earns on the factory side, where you can't see it. SilkNet is a trade house: paid by you alone, on your side of the table, and responsible for the whole deal — contracts, factory, quality, logistics and payment.
One shared timeline of your deal. NDA, identity verification, contracts, production, inspection, shipping and payment — every step visible to every stakeholder, permanently on the record.
Completely. Every engagement begins under NDA, and your trail is visible only to the stakeholders you approve — no one else. We never publish client names or deal details.
Serious production programs, supply-chain deals, M&A and market entry — any deal where a global company needs China done right, and getting it wrong is expensive. We don't do marketplace reorders or dropshipping. Engagements typically start at US$1M.
One fee, agreed with you before the deal starts. We are paid by you alone — never by the factory, never inside the price.
Funds move on milestones — held and released as each step on the trail is met, not before.
We are native in Chinese and English, with presence in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Wuhan, Thailand and the United States.
Tell us what you want to do. That message is step one — from there, your deal runs on its own private trail.
Or write directly: dana@thesilknet.com