Qinghua LIANG；ZhongLun Law Firm；China；Customs & Import/Export, Chinese Mainland Capital Markets, Financial Products & Trusts；efore joining Zhong Lun, Mr. Qinghua Liang acted as Secretary of Customs Commissioner and head of legal department of Guangzhou Customs and as in-house counsel of Guangzhou Metro Corporation, and such experience familiarized him with compliance policies applicable to state-owned companies and compliance requirements of the Customs. Mr. Liang is well-versed in risk prevention relating to international trade and customs and skilful at handling customs investigation and defending clients in criminal cases of smuggling.
Mr. Liang has extensive experience and profound knowledge in the areas of M&A, cross-border transaction, IPO, securitization, and corporate bonds. He has represented a large number of local and international clients on dozens of transactions across a wide range of sectors. He is astute at coming up with efficient and creative solutions based on in-depth dissection of intricate legal issues from the perspective of an experienced lawyer.

Magister Juris in European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford；LL.B., Peking University

Advised a state-owned enterprise on the overall sale, replacement and restructuring of overseas energy equity assets. In order to resolve the shareholder deadlock and protect the client's equity investment interest to the greatest extent, we provided the client with a package of solutions including a series of UK asset sales, Australian asset spin-offs and restructuring, and refinancing of the project company, which included designing the transaction structure and key arrangements, drafting transaction documents, reviewing key document and taking part in negotiation, reviewing and analysising the legal risk overally. Besides, we also provided legal services for the whole process of the domestic approval procedures in mainland China to be performed for the sale of overseas assets, and designed a feasible exit path for the client based on the main issues such as the recovery path of the proceeds obtained after the sale of assets, the arrangement of the proceeds that could not be recovered after the restructuring, and the responsibilities of the original shareholders after the exit transaction, and it is expected that the client would  recover about RMB 1 billion of investment interest after the overall restructuring.

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