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  • Xin WU

    Equity Partner / Beijing

  • Tel +86-10-5780-8431

    Email wuxin@zhonglun.com

  • Practices

    Financial Products & Trusts, Compliance & Investigation, Debt Restructuring & Non-performing Assets

  • Industries

    Banking & Financial Services

CV

Xin WU

Ms. Xin Wu practices in financial regulation and compliance (including financial sanctions, anti-money laundering compliance, and data protection), cross-border financing, disposal and restructuring of weak banks and non-performing assets, financial leasing, financial derivatives, establishment, joint ventures, M&A of financial institutions, etc. Ms. Wu has extensive experience in banking and finance, mainly represents financial institutions such as banks, wealth management companies, financial leasing companies, and AMCs.

Representative Matters

Financial Compliance

  • Provided policy banks, commercial banks, and wealth management companies in connection with retainer-based financial compliance legal services

  • Represented several banks and other financial institutions in connection with personal information and cross-border data provision compliance

  • Represented a PRC major payment institution in connection with anti-money laundering compliance of its cross-border payment module

  • Represented a PRC major fintech company in connection with financial compliance legal services

  • Represented a Swiss bank in connection with financial compliance and computer network domain name disputes

  • Represented major PRC state-owned banks in connection with US and EU sanctions

  • Analyzed sanction risks in sensitive transactions for a major PRC policy bank

  • Assisted a state-owned electronic information enterprise to resolve its US sanction risks

  • Represented major PRC state-owned banks in connection with investigations by OFAC

  • Represented a major PRC state-owned bank in connection with the investigation by New York Department of Financial Services

  • Represented a PRC state-owned bank in connection with Wolfsberg questionnaire and FATF's compliance review


Disposal of Risky Financial Institutions and Non-performing Assets

  • Represented a major PRC financial leasing company in connection with the disposal of aircraft financial leasing in the United States

  • Represented Deposit Insurance Fund Management Co., Ltd. in the debt restructuring and bankruptcy of Baoshang Bank

  • Represented a major AMC in the transfer of CNY 150 billion non-performing assets of a large city commercial bank

  • Assisted a large commercial bank to file the bankruptcy claims against a domestic airline enterprise

  • Represented a major PRC development financial institution in connection with the batch transfer and disposal of overseas non-performing syndicated loans


Establishment, M&A, and Joint Ventures of Financial Institutions

  • Represented a PRC wealth management company in connection with its establishment of the first Chinese foreign-capital-controlled wealth management joint venture with a major European asset management company

  • Represented a European financial institution in connection with establishing a bank, an independent fund sales agency, and a private fund manager in China

  • Represented a UK fund manager in connection with obtaining the qualification of Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (QFII) in China

  • Represented First Abu Dhabi Bank in connection with the establishment of a bank wholly owned by the client in China


Cross-border Financing

  • Represented the Export-Import Bank of China in connection with the issuance of CNY 6 billion bonds in Hong Kong

  • Represented the Export-Import Bank of China in connection with a USD 128 million facility to China Huadian Corporation Ltd. for a thermal power plant project in Indonesia

  • Represented the Export-Import Bank of China in connection with a syndicated loan of USD 1.68 billion to China National Chemical Agrochemical Corporation for the acquisition of a listed Israeli company

  • Represented Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in connection with a facility of USD 200 million to Dalian Wanda for the acquisition of 91.81% equity in UK company Sunseeker International (Holdings) Limited

  • Represented the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Co., Ltd. in connection with a USD 188 million financing to Sany Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. for the acquisition of 90% stake in Putzmeister

  • Represented ICBC Financial Leasing Co., Ltd. in connection with the leaseback of two B737 aircrafts to Xiamen Airlines and the financing to the Export-Import Bank of China

  • Represented ICBC Financial Leasing Co., Ltd. in connection with the leaseback of two A320 aircrafts to Southern Airlines and the financing to the Export-Import Bank of China

  • Represented Hong Kong Branch of China Construction Bank, ANZ Singapore Branch, and ING Singapore Branch in connection with a USD 125.2 million syndicated loan for the construction of four 24,000-ton multi-function vessels

  • Represented China Development Bank in connection with a USD 1.3 billion loan for a copper mining project in Ecuador

  • Represented China Minsheng Banking Corp., Ltd. in connection with a USD 25.5 million syndicated loan for the purchase of a 92,500-ton dry bulk carrier

Publications

“The Role and Risk of Wealth Management Companies in Public REITs Investment”, Zhong Lun Legal Collections of Public REITs, 2022

“On New Highlights of the Revised Draft of Anti-Money Laundering Law”, Dow Jones Risk Compliance, June 2021

“A Review of the Revised Draft of Commercial Bank Law from the Perspective of Early Corrective Mechanism”, Dow Jones Risk Compliance, January 2021

  • Bar Admissions/Professional Qualifications

    PRC Bar
    New York State Bar

  • Education

    LL.M., Indiana University
    LL.B., Nankai University

  • Professional Experience

    Partner and non-equity partner, Zhong Lun Law Firm

  • Languages

    Chinese