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  • Jinghua LIU

    Equity Partner / Guangzhou

  • Tel +86-20-2826-1688

    Email liujinghua@zhonglun.com

  • Practices

    Investment/M&A & Corporate Governance, Bankruptcy-Insolvency & Reorganization, Chinese Mainland Capital Markets

  • Industries

    Banking & Financial Services

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Jinghua LIU

Ms. Jinghua Liu has 22 years of experience and specializes in providing comprehensive legal services to group companies, banks and other financial institutions in different industries. Ms. Liu's practice areas include investment, M&A and corporate governance, bankruptcy, restructuring and capital markets.

Representative Matters

Investment, M&A and Corporate Governance

  • Represented Guangzhou large-sized fund in acquiring a listed company (MJH) in Shenzhen

  • Provided legal services for a large SOE in Guangzhou City in its acquisition of a listed company (HB)

  • Provided legal service for a large-scale fund in Guangzhou City to acquire a listed trust company

  • Provided a large SOE in Guangzhou with legal services for its acquisition of a listed media company

  • Provided a State-owned City construction Group with legal services   for its acquisition of the equity interest in a construction company

  • Represented the purchaser in the acquisition of a large agricultural State-owned Group in Zhuhai

  • Provided legal service for the irradiation investment project of a Guangzhou Biotechnology Co., Ltd. in Henan Province

  • Provided legal service for Guangdong Guangxin Holding Group Co., Ltd. in its acquisition of large comprehensive foreign trade service enterprise

  • Provided legal service for an Automobile Trading Co., Ltd. in its acquisition of the equity of an Automobile Distribution Company in Guizhou Province

  • Provided legal service for Foshan Rural Commercial Bank Co., Ltd. merging Gaoming Rural Commercial Bank Co., Ltd. and Sanshui Rural Cooperative Union

  • Provided legal service for a large state-owned company in Guangdong province merging a New Zealand milk powder manufacturer

  • Provided legal service for an investment group in establishing a finance leasing company

  • Provided legal service for establishing a financial holding company by a large-scale state-owned enterprise

  • Provided legal service for a large-scale securities limited liability company to set up direct investment subsidiary

  • Provided legal service for a large-scale securities limited liability company to set up a branch company

  • Provided legal service for a Hong Kong company to set up a representative office in Shenzhen

  • Provided legal service for the overall financing transaction of a new district in Guangdong

  • Provided legal service for a foreign-invested company in Guangzhou to change its foreign investor

  • Provided legal advisory service for a branch of China Development Bank

  • Providing long-term legal advisory services for a large financial holding company

  • Acted as long-term and special counsel for large state-owned enterprises and several of their subsidiaries

  • Acted as long-term and special counsel for China Development Bank Securities Co., Ltd.


Bankruptcy Liquidation and Reorganization

  • As member of the liquidation team for the bankruptcy and reorganization of LONKEY INDUSTRIAL CO.LTD.,GUANGZHOU, to facilitate the completion of the bankruptcy and reorganization procedure in 43 days

  • Provided legal service for the bankruptcy and reorganization of a listed company

  • Provided legal service for the asset-stripping and bankruptcy liquidation of rural commercial banks and village banks in the districts of prefecture-level cities in the North

  • Acted as secondary administrator appraised by the High People's Court of Guangdong Province, and have been designated by the Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court and the district courts to act as insolvency administrator in more than 30 enterprise bankruptcy liquidation cases

  • Represented the Dongguan municipal government in a debt restructuring project involving over 16 billion yuan of a large real estate company

  • Advised a major bank in connection with the bankruptcy reorganization of its debtors

  • Provided legal services for the debt restructuring of a large comprehensive foreign trade service company in Foshan relating to RMB 480 million debt

  • Conducted legal research on and issued report to Guangdong Equity Register & Custody Center in connection with the "liquidation" of zombie enterprises

  • Provided legal services for exit of a large fund in Guangzhou regarding the investment of a distressed WX debt project


Capital Market of the Chinese mainland

  • Provided legal services for DS Group, the controlling shareholder of two listed companies in connection with the division and restructuring of DS Group

  • Provided legal services as brokerage counsel for DS Batteries in connection with material asset restructuring of DS Batteries

  • Provided legal services for the control arrangement and determination of the controlling person of two listed companies

  • Provided legal service for the project of restructuring several rural credit cooperative unions including XX Rural Credit Cooperative Union in Foshan into rural commercial banks

  • Provided legal service for a large state-owned enterprise mixed ownership reform project in Guangdong Province

  • Provided legal service for the mixed ownership reform project of Yongshun Tai Malt Group

  • Provided legal services for the Restructuring Project of FG Rural Credit Cooperative Union in Qingyuan City

  • Provided legal Services for the Capital and Share Increase and Restructuring Project of QX Rural Credit Cooperative Union in Qingyuan City

  • Legal Services for the Capital and Share Increase project of XX Guangdong Rural Commercial Bank

  • Provided legal service for the equity restructuring project of a rural credit cooperative union in Guangdong Province


Project Financing Services

  • Provided legal services for the public offering of 6 billion yuan of corporate bonds in 2019 by a fund management company in Guangzhou (the first enterprise in Guangzhou that has obtained the approval reply for corporate bonds from China Securities Regulatory Commission)

  • Provided legal services for the project of Foshan XX Development & Investment Co., Ltd. to issue 500 million corporate bonds in 2020

  • Provided legal services for the private placement of 1.8 billion yuan of corporate bonds by Foshan XX Development & Investment Co., Ltd. in 2020

  • Provided legal services for the medium-term notes issued by a large-scale fund in Guangzhou City in 2017

  • Provided legal services for the overseas issuance of US $500 million bond by a large fund in Guangzhou (as the underwriter's PRC counsel)

  • Provided legal services for the overseas issuance of US $750 million bond by a large fund in Guangzhou (as the underwriter's PRC counsel)

  • Provided legal services for a 1.5B billion debt financing plan project issued by a large fund in Guangzhou

  • Provided legal services for a paddy field reclamation loan project undertaken by a branch of CDB

Memberships & Affiliations

Association Member, Internship Assessment Management Committee of Guangzhou Lawyers Association

Certified Expert, Expert Bank for Decision Making Consultation of SASAC of Huizhou City

Publications

“Opportunity, Predicament and Countermeasure of Rural Small and Medium-sized Financial Institutions in the Strategy of Rural Revitalization”, Money China 630, August 2022.

“My Opinion of the Risks of Merger and Restructuring”, Operator 11, 2022

  • Bar Admissions/Professional Qualifications

    Lawyer’s License of People’s Republic of China, 1999

  • Education

    Southwest University majoring in Economic Law, 1998

  • Professional Experience

    Partner, Zhong Lun Law Firm, 2013 to Present
    Partner, GuangDong Teamwork Law Firm, 2010 to 2013
    Lawyer, WhoBound Law Firm, 2000 to 2010
    2000.3-2000.8 Lawyer, Genius Law Firm, 2000
    Apprentice lawyer, GuangZhou MingHao Law Firm, 1999 to 2000

  • Languages

    Chinese
    English