We have rich practical experience and a broad client base in terms of providing legal services in fields of finance and assets management such as banking, trust, insurance, securities and funds. Our clients include hundreds of financial institutions and regulators at home and abroad, including insurance companies, banks, trust companies, fund companies, financial leasing companies, auto finance companies and financial companies. We have kept abreast of market trends, and established a good reputation by providing clients with integrated legal services in fields such as establishment, capital increase, equity transfer, bond issuance, listing, financial product establishment and issuance, corporate governance and compliance, dispute resolution, takeover and risk disposal, and insolvency & restructuring.
- Provided legal services for a series of projects supported by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) under the two-phase international financial organization loan program with the Ministry of Finance of China (with China National Investment and Guarantee Corporation as the implementing agency), and these projects include the Green Financing Platform for Accelerating Air Quality Improvement in the Greater Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region, the Green Financing Platform-Capacity Enhancement for Accelerating Air Quality Improvement in the Greater Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region, and the Formulation of Action Plans for Air Quality Improvement in the Greater Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region;
- Acted as the lawyer for the issuer of H-share IPO projects of Bank of Tianjin and Shengjing Bank;
- Provided legal services for the listing of financial technology companies such as 360 Finance;
- Assisted China Life Insurance Co., Ltd., etc. in subscribing to shares of Postal Savings Bank of China (listed as one of the "Top 10 M&A Transactions in China" by the China Business Law Journal);
- Provided legal services for the establishment of Daiwa Securities (China) Co., Ltd. jointly by the State-owned Capital Operation and Management Center of Beijing, Daiwa Securities Group Inc., and Beijing Xicheng Capital Holdings Co., Ltd.;
- Provided legal services in terms of loan review, special legal consultation, dispute resolution, etc., for institutions such as China Development Bank, CITIC aiBank, and Bank of Hainan;
- Provided legal services for the establishment of the "Green Financing Platform for Accelerating Air Quality Improvement in the Greater Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region" project by the State Development and Investment Corporation utilizing loans from ADB;
- Provided legal services for various financial institutions such as banks, trusts, and financial leasing companies in financial disputes, litigation, and arbitration related to loans, investments, etc.
- Assisted Samsung Property & Casualty Insurance in capital increase by Tencent, Boyu Capital and other investors, transforming it from a wholly foreign-owned P&C insurance company into a Sino-Korean joint venture insurance company, as a gift for the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and South Korea;
- Completed the major legal affairs related to the takeover and risk disposal of Anbang Insurance Group Co., Ltd., 1 An Property & Casualty Insurance Co., Ltd., etc., which are part of the "Tomorrow" institutions, by the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, including civil, criminal, and administrative comprehensive legal services such as asset disposal and asset recovery;
- Provided legal services for the establishment of insurance companies including Qianhai Reinsurance, Huagui Life Insurance, Yellow River Property & Casualty. Insurance, Public Mutual, and PICC Capital;
- Provided legal services for numerous insurance equity transfers and capital increases, including the acquisition of a 40% stake held by Sinopec and others in Huatai Insurance Group by Inner Mongolia Junzheng Group, the investment of CICC Securities (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd. in Zhongan Insurance, the transfer of 75% equity and capital increase of Shin Kong HNA Life (now "Dingcheng Life"), the transfer of 50% equity of Great Eastern Life Insurance, the investment of GOHO Asset Management Co., Ltd. and Bengbu High-tech in Chang An Insurance, the acquisition of 100% equity of Hexie Health Insurance by Fujia Group, and the transfer of 51% equity of Happy Life Insurance by China Cinda Asset Management Co., Ltd.;
- Provided legal services for the initial public offerings and listings at home and abroad of multiple insurance companies and insurance intermediaries;
- Provided legal services for the issuance of subordinated bonds and capital supplementary bonds by issuance companies such as Taikang Life and Fosun United Health Insurance;
- Provided legal services for investments in equity, real estate, and financial products by dozens of insurance institutions, including PICC, Ping An Insurance, China United Insurance, China Life Property Insurance, Aeon Life, and Evergrande Life;
- Provided legal services for insurance claims and subrogation in the fields of enterprise property insurance, construction engineering insurance, credit insurance, guarantee insurance, profit loss insurance, litigation liability insurance, and personal insurance for insurance institutions such as PICC and China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation;
- Provided legal services for administrative hearings, administrative reconsideration, and administrative litigation for insurance regulatory agencies or counterparties;
- Provided legal services for the establishment of debt investment plans and equity investment plans by companies such as China Life Asset Management Co., Ltd., PICC Asset Management Co., Ltd., PICC Capital Insurance Asset Management Co., Ltd., CPIC Asset Management Co., Ltd., and Sino Life Asset Management Co., Ltd., for investment in major infrastructure construction projects, housing renovation in rundown urban areas, real estate projects, and other projects;
- Provided legal services for the establishment of portfolio asset management products for retail investors by Sunshine Asset Management Corporation Limited, including the drafting or review of complete product demonstration texts, analysis of sales process compliance, drafting of sales document demonstration texts, and drafting of sales system documents;
- Provided legal services for the establishment of multiple asset support plans by companies such as China Life Investment Insurance Asset Management Co., Ltd., PICC Capital Insurance Asset Management Co., Ltd., and PICC Asset Management Co., Ltd., involving underlying assets such as accounts receivable, trust loan claims, rental income from real estate projects, and equity.
- CHN Energy Fund, CHN Energy's subsidiary, initiated the establishment of the CHN Energy Green and Low-Carbon Development Investment Fund, with a total scale exceeding RMB 15 billion;
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Chengtong Tongying Fund, China Chengtong Group's subsidiary, initiated the establishment of a RMB 2.699 billion industrial fund to invest in the capital increase and strategic projects of China General Nuclear Power Corporation's wind power company;
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Provided comprehensive legal services for the establishment of debt investment plans, equity investment plans, asset support plans and other products as well as the outbound investment of these products for insurance asset management institutions such as China Life Asset, China Life Investment, PICC Asset, PICC Capital, CPIC Asset, Ping An Asset, Taikang Asset, Taiping Asset, Huatai Asset, Sun Life Everbright Asset Management, Generali China, Sunshine Asset Management, and Sino Life Asset;
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Provided comprehensive legal services for the establishment of "China Life Asset — Phoenix Products" for China Life Asset Management, which is pioneering and benchmarking in the industry;
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Provided legal services for the establishment of insurance private equity funds and their outbound investments for China Insurance Investment Co., Ltd., Source Capital Co., Ltd., and China Re Capital Management Co, Ltd.;
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Provided legal services for the establishment, fund raising, and investment of financial asset investment company's debt-to-equity investment plans;
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Provided legal services for the establishment of trust plans and their outbound investments for CITIC Trust, Ping An Trust, FOTIC, ZRT, MINMETALS Trust, and Bohai Trust;
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Assisted in the risk disposal of multiple trust companies' multiple collective fund trust plans with real estate companies as counterparties, by assisting trust companies in effectively disposing of risks through asset acquisition, disposal, and guarantee realization;
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Provided legal services for the risk disposal of asset management products for multiple financial institutions.
- The first carbon-neutral ABS in Yunnan Province and Hebei Province: Hebei GCL, a subsidiary of Yunnan Energy Investment, issued the "Guojun-Yunnan Energy Investment Renewable Energy Electricity Price Surcharge Carbon-Neutral Asset Support Special Plan (specifically for carbon neutrality)";
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China Huadian Corporation, Ltd. issued the "Huadian Jintai (Beijing) Investment Fund Management Co., Ltd. 2021 First Tranche Guangsui Huadian Targeted Asset-Backed Notes" and Huadian Jintai (Beijing) Investment Fund Management Co., Ltd. 2021 Second Tranche Guangsui Huadian Green Targeted Asset-Backed Notes (Carbon Neutral Bonds)" project, with a total scale of RMB 8 billion;
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Assisted China Resources and Environment Co., Ltd. ("CRE"), a leading waste electrical and electronic products recycling and disposal enterprise, in the successful issuance of the "CRE 2020 First Tranche Green Asset-Backed Notes". This product is the first interbank market issuance of asset-backed notes backed by subsidies from the fund for the dismantling of waste electrical and electronic products;
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Market exit of HNA Pudong Development Building quasi-REITs Project (the first quasi-REITs project of Shanghai Stock Exchange);
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Provided legal services for the first central enterprise automotive leasing asset securitization project on the Shanghai Stock Exchange: Sinolink-Huiyi Leasing Phase I Asset-backed Special Plan;
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Provided legal services for the PICC Agricultural and Small-Micro Enterprise Microloan Project Asset-backed Plan, which is the largest series of asset-backed plans approved by the former China Insurance Regulatory Commission;
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Provided legal services for the establishment, fundraising, and liquidation exit of the Beiyin Fengye Jintong Small Loan Asset-backed Special Plan;
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Provided legal services for the fundraising, establishment, and filing of the new energy sub-fund "Beijing Dongneng Xinyuan Equity Investment Partnership (Limited Partnership)" established through cooperation between the CHN Energy's low-carbon parent fund and China Orient Asset Management Co., Ltd.;
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Joint credit enhancement by four AAA-rated guarantee institutions, the first private toll road revenue rights ABS, and the first toll road revenue rights ABS in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area: Huajin Securities — Huizhou-Dongguan Expressway Asset-backed Special Plan (guarantee institution legal advisor);
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The first PPP-ABCP in China: Chongqing Maohe Infrastructure Construction Co., Ltd. 2022 First Tranche China Construction Fifth Engineering Division Investment PPP-ABCP (guarantee institution legal advisor);
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The first green battery asset-backed notes in China: Wuhan Weinen Battery Asset Co., Ltd. 2022 First Tranche Green Battery Asset-backed Notes (guarantee institution legal advisor);
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Dispute regarding the Qinghui Leasing Phase I Asset-backed Special Plan between Hengtai Securities Co., Ltd., and Qinghui Leasing Co., Ltd. and Xianyang Hongyuan Petrochemical Co., Ltd.
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