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Heng DING
Equity Partner / Shanghai
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Tel +86-21-6061-3666
Email dingheng@zhonglun.com
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Practices

Cross-border Investment/M&A, Antitrust & Competition, Cybersecurity & Data Protection
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Industries

Energy & Power
Heng DING
Heng Ding is a PRC qualified lawyer with substantial experience in providing legal services to many leading multinational enterprises and state-owned enterprises with respect to mergers and acquisitions (including overseas mergers and acquisitions), foreign investment, anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition, corporate compliance, dispute resolution, etc. His practice spans automobile, circular economy industry, agriculture, commercial enterprises, real estate, ports, hotels, environmental emission reduction, medicine, medical care, general manufacturing, TMT, logistics, cosmetics, beauty services, etc.
Representative Matters
Corporation and M&A
Represented many well-known overseas enterprises and domestic enterprises such as Toyota Tsusho, Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Yamato, Marubeni, Toyota Motor, Honda Automobile, Yaskawa Electric, Hino Motor, Kyocera, Ricoh, JDI, Healthcare, Beijing Shuimuqingyuan, Haldex AB, UMOE Advanced Composites AS, etc. in projects such as setting up Sino-foreign joint ventures in China (including by way of new establishment and merger and acquisition), corporate merger and reorganization (including consolidation merger, absorption merger, equity transfer, equity contribution, and withdrawal liquidation), and restructuring (including asset transfer, real object contribution, etc.), with services encompassing legal due diligence, drafting transaction documents (joint venture contract, articles of association, merger and acquisition agreement, etc.), declaration of concentration of undertakings, assistance in handling government formalities, etc., showcasing considerable expertise in foreign investment, joint venture, project negotiation, and resolving complex project problems
Anti-monopoly
Assisted in the declaration of concentration of undertakings of the joint venture set up by a Japanese commercial entity and a Japanese construction machinery company
Assisted in the declaration of concentration of undertakings of the joint venture set up by Toyota Tsusho (China) Co., Ltd. and a domestic automobile company
Assisted in the declaration of concentration of undertakings of the joint venture set up by Honda Motor (China) Investment Co., Ltd. and a domestic automobile company
Assisted in the declaration of concentration of undertakings of the joint venture set up by Yaskawa Electric Corporation, Chery New Energy Vehicle Co., Ltd., and Wuhu Construction Investment Co., Ltd.
Cybersecurity and data protection
Provided legal advice to many multinational enterprises on compliance issues such as collection of user data and cross-border data transfer
Provided consulting and legal services for many multinational companies on legal documents draft with respect to personal privacy policy, user policy, etc.
Provided comprehensive legal services including review and improvement of the network security compliance system for a giant Internet medical care company
Provided legal due diligence and legal consulting services to Toyota Motor, covering comprehensive legal analysis and advice on the legal system and policies, legal risks and trend prediction (including road test license, mapping, responsibility undertaking, data security, and personal information protection) related to autonomous driving in China with regard to the investment in an autonomous driving startup named Pony AI
Provided data compliance review services to Yamato, an international logistics company, and proposed rectification recommendations on building data compliance system
Assisted a well-known auto technology enterprise and a well-known US SPAC in their merger and US listing and also provided legal advice on data compliance and cybersecurity review involved therein
Corporate compliance
Provided legal services to many multinational enterprises in formulating their internal compliance guidelines (mainly in anti-commercial bribery), delivering consulting, compliance investigation, and other legal services for a number of compliance cases (mainly in fraud cases such as commercial bribery, job embezzlement, etc.)
Commercial arbitration and litigation
Represented several Japanese funded enterprises to deal with debt recovery cases, involving litigation and arbitration procedures and hundreds of millions RMB, and also represented several Japanese enterprises in the arbitration heard by China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission over the disputes arising from their investment and merger projects, finally obtaining the favorable awards to the clients' satisfaction
Related
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Deals Related
Zhong Lun Assists Hisky Medical with Series D Financing
As Hisky Medical’s legal counsel, Zhong Lun played an integral role in all aspects of this financing round, providing comprehensive legal support.
2025-04-02 -
Awards Related
188 Zhong Lun Lawyers in 33 Practice Areas/Regions Honored on The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific Greater China 2025 List
33 business areas/regions and 188 lawyers have been honored on the list.
2025-01-15
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Bar Admissions/Professional Qualifications
PRC Bar, 2007
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Education
B.A., Tianjin Foreign Studies University
LL.M., Renmin University of China
Online LL.M., Washington University in St. Louis -
Professional Experience
Partner and associate, Zhong Lun Law Firm, Beijing, Oct. 2011 to present
Legal Counsel, Tsuyuki Akazawa Law Firm, Tokyo, May 2010 - Sep. 2011
(In-house Counsel, headquarter of Toyota Tsusho Corporation, Tokyo, Jan. 2011 - Sep. 2011)
Associate King & Wood, Beijing, March 2005-April 2010
(In-house Counsel, the headquarter of Marubeni Corporation, Tokyo, Aug. 2009 - Jan. 2010) -
Languages
Chinese
Japanese
English