East Asia - China

Jingtian & Gongcheng

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Jingtian & Gongcheng represents clients across multiple financial sectors, including banks and funds, with insolvency and restructuring issues. The department is regularly active in bankruptcy investigations, complex loan restructuring, and debtor-in-possession and exit financings. Other key matters include litigation matters such as insolvency proceedings and dispute resolution. Based between Beijing and Guangzhuo, practice head Bangwei Xu is a litigation and dispute resolution specialist. In Shanghai, Shiqi Sun handles bankruptcy and liquidation arbitration. Other names to note are Jianbo Pan and Lei Zhang.

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  • ‘The firm's insolvency practice is one of the biggest and the most prominent in mainland China. They have undertaken many of the high profile and high value insolvency and restructuring matters in the market. What impresses me the most is their commitment to professionalism and also the extensive experience in this area of the law.’

  • ‘Bangwei Xu is the leader of the insolvency and restructuring practice in Beijing. He is an extremely good and experienced strategist, who can provide practical and commercial solutions to complicated restructuring arrangements.’

Key clients

  • Lingzhi Fashion Sales (Tianjin) Co.
  • Standard Chartered Bank
  • Bank of Communications
  • Ping An International Financial Leasing
  • Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
  • China Minsheng Banking Corporation
  • China Merchants Bank
  • Shanghai Pudong Development Bank
  • Ping An Bank
  • Anhui Conch Cement
  • Conch Venture
  • Conch Enviro

Work highlights

  • Assisted Anhui Conch Venture Capital Co. and BOC Xin Holding Group Co. with acquiring the aluminum industry sector of Shandong Conglin Group Co. through direct acquisition and establishment of private equity investment funds.
  • Assisted Hiersun Industrial Co. with legal counsel for its pre-reorganisation case and the merger and reorganisation case of seven companies, with an overall debt scale of nearly RMB 2bn.
  • Assisted the trustee with a real estate bankruptcy project to complete bankruptcy pre-reorganisation and reorganisation.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Bangwei Xu

Other key lawyers

Shiqi Sun, Jianbo Pan, Lei Zhang