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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

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

  • Bar Admissions/Professional Qualifications

    PRC Bar, 2007

  • 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