We have been providing legal services to state-owned banks, foreign-invested banks, financial asset management companies, overseas banks and other financial institutions for a long time; we also handle legal matters related to nonbanking financial institutions, such as financial leasing companies, consumer finance companies, factoring companies, consumer finance companies, small-amount lending companies, etc.; and we have represented our clients to handle a number of pre-loan investigations, credit line management, post-loan tracking, debt collection, and disposal of non-performing assets, etc. We are also providing legal services for securities and financial products investors and consumers to protect their rights.
Draft, review and revise various legal documents such as major loan contracts and syndicated loan contracts;
Conduct legal due diligence of borrowers on their assets, liabilities, business, guarantees and other facts to be considered for granting loans;
Handle approvals/filings required for “transactions under which a domestic bank offers a guarantee for a loan granted by a foreign bank” or “transactions under which a foreign bank offers a guarantee for a loan granted by a domestic bank” or other cross-border financing securities;
Handle legal matters associated with the issuance, endorsement, discount and negotiation of negotiable instruments;
Handle tracking, attachment, collection, disposal and transfer of non-performing assets;
Conduct investigations of the authenticity, legality and validity on the factoring accounts receivable and handle the transfer and collection of accounts receivable;
Represent clients in financial lease, rent collection and repurchase of leased property;
Represent securities investors in damage lawsuits against misrepresentation and other illegal acts of listed companies;
Represent investors of financial products in assertion of their rights in respect of their investments in private equity funds and mutual funds;
Litigation, arbitration and mediation involved in the above-mentioned matters.
Provided regular consulting services and special legal services for domestic commercial banks and non-commercial banks such as Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Bank of China, China Development Bank and Export-Import Bank and other domestic commercial banks and the services include formulating financing proposals, reviewing loan contracts, conducting due diligence and compliance review, etc.
Provided regular consulting services and special legal services for banks in Hong Kong and Taiwan and other regions and their branches or subsidiaries in China, on compliance review, drafting legal documents, issuing legal opinions and representing the clients in litigations, etc.
Provided due diligence, legal review, litigation representation and other legal services for China Huarong, Great Wall and other assets management companies in the disposal of non-performing assets, which provided a strong support for the disposal of non-performing financial assets.
Conducted legal due diligence, provided detailed and objective legal opinion with respect to the collection of syndicate loans between a number of syndicated lending banks in Taiwan and a Hong Kong Stock Exchange-listed company, and assisted the syndicate in taking response actions.
Represented a client in the acquisition of a package of non-performing assets involving an amount of RMB 160 million from an USA investment fund, completed the business transaction and change of creditor by obtaining a court ruling, enabling the client to acquire the debts successfully.
Represented a Taiwan-based bank in a lawsuit regarding international factoring of accounts receivable, and successfully resolved the difficult matters regarding differences in the laws, international factoring business practices across the strait, and successfully defended the legitimate claims of the factoring bank.
Issued legal opinions for a Hong Kong bank regarding the legality, validity and enforceability of its guarantees involving transactions in which a domestic bank provided a guarantee for a loan granted by a Hong Kong bank.
Handled the review of legal documents and the structuring of the corporate governance, issued legal opinions and conducted due diligence for the establishment of a Shanghai town bank and a Sino-foreign joint venture consumer financial company.
Represented a number of Taiwan banks in litigations against domestic borrowers and guarantors, disposed of the collateral for the loans through judicial means, and remitted the claimed funds to the clients for enforcement of the debts after the fulfillment of formalities.
Represented a number of cases in which commercial judgments involving financial claims made by Taiwan courts were recognized and enforced in mainland courts.
Represented a state-owned enterprise in a dispute with a private equity fund regarding a contract on beneficiary right transfer and repurchase of commercial acceptance draft.
Represented the major shareholder of a listed company and the persons acting in concert in conducting legal due diligence and providing legal opinions regarding the matters of share pledge and financing related to the margin trading and short selling business.
