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  • Qinghua LIANG

    Equity Partner / Guangzhou

  • Tel +86-20-2826-1689

    Email liangqinghua@zhonglun.com

  • Practices

    Customs & Import/Export, Chinese Mainland Capital Markets, Financial Products & Trusts

  • Industries

    Energy & Power

CV

Qinghua LIANG

Before 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.

Representative Matters

1. Import / Export & Customs Legal Matters

  • Advised Guangzhou Customs and its subordinated companies, Nansha Free Trade Zone Customs on their legal affairs and compliance

  • Acted for dozens of auto traders in the franchise fee cases

  • Advised numbers of multinational companies on the smuggling cases and investigation process conducted by Chinese Customs

  • Advised numbers of multinational companies on the classification and evaluation of products sold in China

  • Advised on dozens of customs inspection and investigation cases

  • Advised numbers of enterprises on the customs' protection of intellectual property

  • Advised an international logistics company in Qingdao in a criminal litigation case of international express smuggling

  • Advised an international logistics company in Foshan in a criminal litigation case of cross border E-commerce

  • Advised an international supply chain company in Zhuhai in a criminal litigation case of cross border E-commerce

  • Acted for Mr. Li for a criminal litigation case of waste smuggling

  • Acted for Mr.Zhan for a criminal litigation case of waste smuggling

  • Acted for Mr. Xie for a criminal litigation case of Oily sewage smuggling

  • Acted for Mr. Huang of a criminal litigation case of cigarette smuggling

  • Acted for Mr. Shao of a criminal litigation case of fruit smuggling

  • Acted for Mr. Xiao of a criminal litigation case of waste plastics

  • Acted for Mr. Zhang of a criminal litigation case of steel scrap

  • Advised Mr. Lin in an special legal consulting project of the Crime of Smuggling Ordinary Goods


2. Investment Projects and Mergers & Acquisitions

  • Advised Yudean Group Guizhou Co.,Ltd. on its acquisition of dozens of wind power projects in Dezhou of Shandong province, Jingbian county of Shanxi province, Liaoning province and Yunnan province

  • Advised Upper Horn Investments Limited on its acquisition, investment and construction of dozens of wind power projects in Yancheng and Ningjing of Jiangsu province

  • Advised Guangdong Electricity Development Company on its acquisition of dozens of agricultural photovoltaic and fishery photovoltaic complementary power generation project in Qingyuan, Suixi county,Leizhou, Lianjiang, Maoming

  • Advised Guangdong Xindian New Energy Co.,Ltd. on its acquisition of dozens of photovoltaic power station project, roof distributed photovoltaic power generation project in Foshan and Baoji

  • Advised Zhuhai Power Development Group Co.,Ltd.on its acquisition of dozens of photovoltaic power generation project in Wuqing district, Tianjin

  • Advised Guangdong Electricity Development Company on its acquisition of dozens of photovoltaic power project in Changzhou, Niqiu county in Hebei province, Shangyi county, Chenzhou and Guiyang county

  • Advised Yudean Group Guizhou Co.,Ltd. on its acquisition of dozens of photovoltaic power generation project in Dongying of Shangdong province, and Panzhihua

  • Advised CPI Southern Power Co.,Ltd.on its acquisition of Jiuzhou New energy photovoltaic power generation project

  • Advised Zhuhai Gangchao New Energy Technology Group Co., Ltd.on its acquisition of the shares of Quzhou New Energy company

  • Advised Guangdong Yuedean Qujie Wind Power Generation Co., Ltd on its investment and construction of the offshore wind power project in Wailuo, Zhanjiang Province

  • Advised Tongdao Yuexin Wind Power Co., Ltd on its investment and constructure of the Tongdao Dagaoshan wind power project

  • Advised Yudean Group Guizhou Co.,Ltd. of dozens of its investment and constructure of the Xianrenshan, dadingshan, and dabangshan wind power project in Guizhou province

  • Advised Guizhou Yuedean Congjiang Wind Energy Co., Ltd on its investment and constructure of the Xiutang wind power project in Guizhou province

  • Advised Hunan Xupu Yuefeng New Energy Co., Ltd on its investment and constructure of the wind power project in Xupu county, Hunan province

  • Advised Upper Horn Investments Limited on its investment and constructure of dozens of photovoltaic power generation projects and agricultural photovoltaic complementary power generation projects

  • Advised Guangdong Yuedean Dapu Power Generation Co., Ltd on its investment and constructure of dozens of photovoltaic power generation projects and agricultural photovoltaic complementary power generation projects

  • Advised Guangdong Yudean Xinhui Power Generation Co., Ltd on its investment and constructure of the photovoltaic power generation project of Jiangmen Xinhui Power Generation Co., Ltd.

  • Advised Linfen Zhaocheng Yuefeng New Energy Co., Ltd on its investment and constructure of Hongdong agricultural photovoltaic complementary power generation project in Linfen, Shanxi province

  • Advised Lianjiang Yuefeng New Energy Co., Ltd on its investment and constructure of Lianjiang Dongsheng Farm agricultural photovoltaic complementary power generation project, Changshan Farm agricultural photovoltaic complementary power generation project, Liming Farm agricultural photovoltaic complementary power generation project

  • Advised Guangzhou Yajule Solid Waste Treatment Co., Ltd on its acquisition of the shares of dozens of garbage treatment companies, solid waste disposal companies and sewage treatment companies in Hunan, Henan, Shandong

  • Advised Guangxi Investment Group Co., Ltd. on its merger and acquisition of Asia Aluminum Industry Co., Ltd.

  • Advised Guangdong Yudean Finance Co., Ltd. on its acquisition of the shares of China Huarong Trust Company

  • Advised Guangdong Yudean Group Co., Ltd. on its acquisition of the shares of Guizhou Yueqian Power Co., Ltd.

  • Advised one energy group company on its investment of a nuclear power project

  • Advised Guangdong Yudean Group Co., Ltd on its investment of Jordan APCO oil shale mine electricity joint venture project

  • Advised Upper Horn Investments Limited on its investment of the Invincible Colliery Coal Mine Project in New South Wales, Australia

  • Advised Upper Horn Investments Limited on its investment of the MLA 2008 coal mine project, the Cullen Valley coal mine project in Australia

  • Advised Guangdong Yudean Group Co., Ltd  on its investment of Indonesia DBP Coal Mine Project

  • Advised TROLLI Group on its acquisition of the shares in a company located in Panyu

  • Advised one group company on its acquisition of the shares in Qingyuan Jiahe Rare MetalCo., Ltd


3. Asset Securitisation and IPO

  • Advised a Metro Group Co., Ltd on its publicly offered infrastructure REITs project

  • Advised an electric power company limited by shares on its publicly offered infrastructure REITs project

  • Advised a company on its rental housing publicly offered infrastructure REITs project

  • Advised GAC Huili Auto Finance Co., Ltd. on its auto mortgage loan ABS project from 2019 to 2022

  • Advised GF Securities Asset Management (Guangdong) Co., Ltd. on its issuing "GF Hengjin - Guangzhou Port Group Asset Support Special Plan" (CMBS) project

  • Advised Guangzhou Development Zone Investment Group Co., Ltd. on its issuing commercial real estate mortgage backed securities (CMBS) project

  • Advised Guangzhou metro design institute Co., Ltd on its IPO project

  • Advised Guangzhou Pingo Software Co., Ltd on its IPO project

  • Advised a Guangdong design institute Co., Ltd on its IPO project

  • Advised a Guangdong Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd on its IPO project

  • Advised a Guangdong high-grade highway maintenance company on its IPO project

  • Advised Guangdong Power Development Co., Ltd. on its acquisition of the major asset restructuring project of Guangdong Yudean Group's power generation assets

  • Advised for the reorganization project between Yuehai Investment Co., Ltd., Yuehai Holding Group Co., Ltd. and Yuehai Land Holding Co., Ltd.

  • Advised multiple investors including Guangzhou Metro on the project that jointly subscribe for the additional shares issued by Guangzhou Rural Commercial Bank

  • Advised Guangzhou Metro on its Pre-IPO investment project of Yuexiu Real Estate spin off listed property company

  • Advised Upper Horn Investments Ltd. as cornerstone investor on its acquisition in respect of H-shares in China Cinda Asset Management Co., Ltd.


4. Debt Financing

  • Advised Guangdong Environmental Protection Group Co., Ltd on its public offerings of corporate bonds and renewable corporate bonds

  • Advised Hainan Development Holding Co., Ltd on its issuance of renewable corporate bonds and perpetual medium-term notes

  • Advised Guangdong Power Development Co., Ltd on its public offerings of corporate bonds, renewable green enterprise bond, medium term note (MTN) and Super short-term commercial paper

  • Advised Guangdong Energy Group Co., Ltd. on its public offerings of corporate bonds, green enterprise bond, U.S. dollar bonds and diversified debt financing instruments (DFI)

  • Advised Guangdong Hengjian Investment Holding Co., Ltd. on its public offerings of corporate bonds, debt financing plans, and diversified debt financing instruments (DFI)

  • Advised Guangzhou Industrial Investment Holding Group Co., Ltd on its public offerings of corporate bonds and short-term corporate bonds

  • Advised Guangzhou Panyu Communications Construction Investment Co., Ltd on its non-public offerings of corporate bonds

  • Advised Guangzhou Metro Group Co., Ltd on its public offerings of corporate bonds, green enterprise bond, U.S. dollar bonds, medium term note (MTN) and Super short-term commercial paper

  • Advised Guangzhou Panyu Haiyi Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. on its public and non-public offerings of corporate bonds and its debt financing projects

  • Advised Guangzhou Industrial Investment Fund Management Co., Ltd on its public offerings of corporate bonds and medium term note (MTN)

  • Advised Foshan Construction Development Investment Co., Ltd. on its non-public offerings of corporate bonds and its enterprise bonds project

  • Advised Guangzhou Nansha Asset Management Co., Ltd. on its non-public offerings of corporate bonds, and its medium term note (MTN), Super short-term commercial paper project

  • Advised Guangzhou Radio Group Co., Ltd on its public offerings of corporate bonds

  • Advised Guangzhou Port Group Co., Ltd on its public offerings of corporate bonds

  • Advised Guangdong Sanshui Development Holding Investment Co., Ltd on its enterprise bond project

  • Advised Guangdong Yuecai Investment Holding Co., Ltd. on its medium term note (MTN) and Super short-term commercial paper project

  • Advised Guangdong Guangye Group Co., Ltd. on its super short-term commercial paper project

  • Advised Guangzhou Development Zone Investment Group Co., Ltd on its super short-term commercial paper project

  • Advised Guangzhou Hi tech Zone Investment Group Co., Ltd on its super short-term commercial paper project

  • Advised Guangzhou Jianfang Housing Leasing Management Co., Ltd. on its debt financing tools project

Honors and Awards

For Individual

One of the 16 Corporation Law Experts of Guangdong Lawyers Association, Guangdong Lawyers Association

Member, "The Belt and Road" Foreign related Leading Talent Pool of Guangdong Lawyers Association

Memberships & Affiliations

Member, the Lawyer Advisory Group of Guangdong State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission

Publications

“Pre-acquisition Transaction Structure Design and Key Terms Arrangement of New Energy Projects”, Zhonglun Research Institute, 2022

“Brief Discussion on Enterprise Import Compliance Risk under the New Solid Waste Prevention Law”, Zhonglun Research Institute, 2022

  • Bar Admissions/Professional Qualifications

    PRC Bar

  • Education

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

  • Professional Experience

    Partner, Zhong Lun Law Firm, 2010 to present
    Partner, Guangdong Teamwin Law Firm, 2001 to 2010
    Secretary of Customs Commissioner and Head of Legal Department, Guangzhou Customs, 1997 to 2001
    In-house Counsel, Guangzhou Metro Group Co., Ltd., 1995 to 1997

  • Languages

    Chinese
    English