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  • Heng DING

    Equity Partner / Shanghai

  • Tel +86-21-6061-3666

    Email dingheng@zhonglun.com

  • Practices

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

  • Industries

    Energy & Power

CV

Heng DING

Ding Heng is a PRC qualified lawyer with rich experience in providing legal services for many famous 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., involving the fields of 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

1. Company setup and M&A


With rich experience in regard of foreign investment, joint venture, project negotiation and handling complex problem in the project, he has 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 and UMOE Advanced Composites AS, etc. in the projects such as setting up sino-foreign joint ventures in China (including new establishment and merger and acquisition), corporate merger and reorganization (including merger by new establishment, absorption merger, equity transfer, equity contribution and withdrawal liquidation), and restructuring (including asset transfer, real object contribution, etc.). The work includes legal due diligence, drafting transaction documents (joint venture contract, articles of association, merger and acquisition agreement, etc.), declaration of concentration of undertakings, and assistance in handling government formalities, etc.


2. Anti-monopoly


Assisted in the declaration of concentration of undertakings of the joint venture set up by established 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.


3. 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 and 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 for Toyota Motor with 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 for Yamato, an international logistics company, and proposed rectification suggestions on how to build data compliance system.


Assisted a well-known auto technology enterprise and a well-known US SPAC company in their merger and listing project in the US, and provided professional legal advice on data compliance and cyber security review involved therein.



4. Corporate compliance


Provided legal services for many multinational enterprises in formulating their internal compliance guidelines (mainly in anti-commercial bribery), and consulting, compliance investigation and other legal services for a number of compliance cases (mainly in fraud cases such as commercial bribery, job embezzlement, etc.).


5. Commercial arbitration and litigation


Represented several Japanese funded enterprises to deal with debt recovery cases, which involves litigation and arbitration procedures, and the subject matter of the cases amounted to hundreds of millions RMB. Also represented several Japanese enterprises in the arbitration held by China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission for the disputes arising from their investment and merger projects, and finally obtained the awards to clients’ satisfaction.


Related

  • Bar Admissions/Professional Qualifications

    2005 Passed China Bar Exam
    2007 Admitted to practice in China

  • Education

    B.A., Tianjin Foreign Studies University
    LL.M., Renmin University of China
    Online LL.M., Washington University in St. Louis

  • Professional Experience

    Partner,Associate Zhong Lun Law Firm, Beijing Oct. 2011-Present
    Legal Counsel Tsuyuki Akazawa Law Firm, Tokyo May. 2010-Sep.2011
    (placed as a In-house Counsel at the headquarter of TOYOTA TSUSHO CORPORATION in Tokyo from Jan. 2011 to Sep. 2011.)
    Associate King & Wood,Beijing March 2005-April 2010
    (placed as a In-house Counsel at the headquarter of MARUBENI CORPORATION in Tokyo from Aug. 2009 to Jan. 2010.)

  • Languages

    Chinese
    Japanese
    English