Naidong (Michael) Ma
Dacheng Law OfficesDacheng Law Offices is recognised for its extensive experience in wealth management, encompassing areas from family trusts to international tax regulations and private banking. The firm offers comprehensive services in family and corporate wealth preservation and inheritance, especially for Chinese banks, financial institutions, and ultra-high-net-worth clients both within and outside of China. The practice, co-led by Jacky Wang, Lijun Huang, Naidong (Michael) Ma, Jing Xue, Jun Zhang and Xiaochu Zhang, offers a wide spectrum of specialised services. Huang is an expert in family wealth inheritance, asset isolation, and second-generation enterprise inheritance planning, with proficiency in marriage wealth protection and family trust consultancy. Ma focuses on global wealth management and inheritance including thorough due diligence investigations of marriage property worldwide, as well as expert arrangements for wealth inheritance. Xue offers innovative services including family trust, family business governance, and equity inheritance, while Jun Zhang excels in family governance, ownership restructuring, and both onshore and offshore family trust planning. Xiaochu Zhang’s forte is representing Chinese tycoons and major financial institutions, especially in planning cross-border assets and inheritance.
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Testimonials
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‘Naidong (Michael) Ma was able to organise in an orderly manner various messy details, and his communication skills were very strong! He has a strong will, a clear mind and a calm manner.’
‘Partners Lijun Huang, Huimin Zhang, Jun Zhang, and Yifan Lai provided professional quality services with outstanding communication.’
‘In my opinion, in the field of wealth management, the service ability and professionalism of the team are top-notch in China. They are leading, and able to fully respond to the different demands of customers based on environmental changes. In the field of family wealth management, the team satisfies customers' demands through systematic, overall solutions instead of only solving single points.’
‘Jun Zhang’s judgement on the development trend of the wealth management field is very forward-looking, and his views are also market-leading. Zhang can solve the most urgent demands and propose long-term solutions for families. Xiaochu Zhang has very rich domestic and overseas practical experience and is able to propose a variety of implementation plans for clients. The two lawyers are also very professional in tax planning in wealth management.’
‘Naidong (Michael) Ma has an outstanding advantage in working with cross-border alliances and institutions outside China, including in Australia, Singapore, America and other places. He can realise the protection of Chinese clients' overseas wealth through exchange speeches and customer resource sharing.’
‘Naidong (Michael) Ma’s outstanding feature is that he pays more attention to the theoretical foundation of Chinese law. His good English communication skills and understanding of foreign cultures make our communication smoother.’
‘They are able to respond in a short time and make professional and reliable suggestions.'
‘Jing Xue is a very outstanding lawyer: a friendly attitude, excellent service ability, and open-minded. Impressive!’
Work highlights
- Served as the perennial legal counsel for the 1929 family office and Beijing branch of Taiping Life Insurance Co., Ltd., and provided legal and tax training and high-customer consulting services for many branches across the country.
- Provides full range of litigation and non-litigation legal services for divorce disputes between spouses of well-known persons.
- Provide legal services on the delisted overseas corporate structure demolishing and plan implementation for real estate companies listed on New York Stock Exchange, and complete the family wealth inheritance planning and arrangement for actual controllers on that basis.
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Jun Zhang
Dacheng Law OfficesPractice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Jacky Wang, Lijun Huang, Naidong (Michael) Ma, Jing Xue, Jun Zhang, Xiaochu Zhang