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  • Bin ZHOU

    Equity Partner / Beijing

  • Tel +86-10-5957-2288

    Email zhoubin@zhonglun.com

  • Practices

    Financial Products & Trusts, Litigation & Arbitration, Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Reorganization

  • Industries

    Banking & Financial Services

CV

Bin ZHOU

Mr. Zhou specializes in providing legal services for asset management, private equity & investment funds, securities, finance, investment and M&A, litigation & arbitration, bankruptcy and reorganization, etc. He has extensive experience in private fund, capital market and litigation & arbitration. Mr. Zhou also serves as independent director of several listed companies.

Representative Matters

Retainer-based Legal Services

  • Provide legal services on a retainer basis to plenty of well-known enterprises and listed companies, such as Bank of China, China Construction Bank, Longjiang Bank, Chengdu Rural Commercial Bank, China Cinda Asset Management Co., Ltd., Beiqi Foton Motor Co., Ltd. (600166.SH), Nine Dragons Paper (Holdings) Ltd. (02698.HK), Dayu Water-saving Group Co., Ltd. (300021.SZ), Weichai Power Co., Ltd. (000338.SZ) and Sichuan Lutianhua Co., Ltd. (000912.SZ)


Asset Management and Finance

  • Provided ABS legal services to China Cinda Asset Management Co., Ltd., China Orient Asset Management Co., Ltd., China Great Wall Asset Management Co., Ltd. and China Huarong Asset Management Co., Ltd.

  • Provided legal services to more than ten trust companies, including Citic Trust, Sichuan Trust, AVIC Trust, Beijing International Trust, Huarun SDK Trust, China Construction Investment Trust, Zhongrong International Trust, Minmetals International Trust, Zheshang Jinhui Trust, Ccb Trust, China Credit Trust, Xingye International Trust and Huarong International Trust

  • Provided legal services to many securities companies and subsidiaries of fund management companies such as Ping An Securities, China Merchants Securities, China Securities, Dongxing Securities, Great Wall Glory Securities, Huachuang Securities, Capital Securities, CITIC Securities, Huaxi Securities, Tianhong Asset Management Co., Ltd., CITIC-CP Asset Management Co., Ltd., Xinda Xinxing Wealth (Beijing) Asset Management Co., Ltd. and Orient Minerva Asset Management Co., Ltd.

  • Provided legal services to multiple private investment institutions such as Raystone Capital, China Development Bank Capital, JIC Capital, China Soft Capital, Zhihe Capital and Lakeshore Capital

  • Provided legal services to several insurance companies such as Sunshine Insurance and Taikang Life Insurance


IPO

  • Provided legal services for the ChiNext listing of Tangshan Huizhong Instrumentation Co., Ltd. (300371.SZ)

  • Provided legal services for SEHK main board listing of Lonking Holdings Limited (3339.HK)

  • Provided legal services for issuance of red chip stocks and SEHK main board listing of China Zhongwang Holdings Limited (1333.HK)


Litigation & Arbitration and Bankruptcy Reorganization

  • Mr. Zhou has handled nearly 100 civil and commercial litigation and arbitration cases, such as the claim of several Chinese foreign trade companies against the Iraqi government after the Gulf War, the enforcement objection case between Wang and Beijing Jinbi Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. (the Supreme People’s Court’s Guidance Case No. 156), Tianjin Raystone Taihe Equity Investment Fund Management Partnership v. Raystone (Beijing) Equity Investment Fund Management Co., Ltd. for unfair competition, and the arbitration case concerning a share repurchase dispute between Beijing CRRC Venture Capital Co., Ltd. and Beijing Heneng Times Electromechanical Technology Co., Ltd. The disputes mainly involve equity changes of listed companies, financial products, equity investment and financing, corporate governance and other fields. In addition, Mr. Zhou has also provided legal services for numerous reorganization projects, such as the establishment and existence of a special service trust for the reorganization of HNA Group, China Cinda Asset Management Co., Ltd.’s participation as a creditor in the reorganization of Sichuan Dazhou Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd., and the substantive consolidated reorganization of 83 affiliated companies of Huishan Dairy

Memberships & Affiliations

Independent Director, several listed companies

MBA Alumni Mentor, Tsinghua University

Professional Master Industry Mentor, School of Finance, Renmin University of China

Former Secretary General, Chengdu Bankruptcy Administrator Association

Former Lecturer of FMBA “Company Law and Securities Law” Course, The Chinese University of Hong Kong - Tsinghua University

  • Bar Admissions/Professional Qualifications

    PRC Bar

  • Education

    J.D. in Evidence Law, School of Law of Sichuan University
    MBA in Financial Accounting, Business School of The Chinese University of Hong Kong Business School, 2004 - 2006
    LL.M., Law School of Peking University, 2000 - 2002
    LL.B., Law School of Tsinghua University, 1998-2000
    Bachelor in Education, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 1993 - 1997

  • Professional Experience

    Partner, Zhong Lun Law Firm, February 2009 to present
    Associate, Jun He Law Firm, March 2008 - February 2009
    Associate, Zhong Lun Law Firm, July 2003 - February 2008
    Paralegal, Century-Link Xin Ji Yuan Law Firm, July 2002 - July 2003

  • Languages

    Chinese
    English