CHINA Trends and Developments
Trends and Developments Contributed by: Zheyuan Jin, Xiang Mao, Lingyue Sun and Yi Wu Merits & Tree Law Offices Merits & Tree Law Offices was founded in 2006 and is now a comprehensive law firm with nine offices across China. Its real estate department is led by ten key partners and around 15 sup - portive partners, in addition to over 20 lawyers. The team provides contentious and non-con - tentious legal services in this sector, including real estate development and sales, land acqui - sition, project mergers and acquisitions, urban renewal, property management and operation,
project investment and financing, project tax planning and asset-backed securitisation. The lawyers advise local giant real estate develop - ers as well as various construction companies in China. The team specialises in construction and provides strategic and professional solu - tions to clients on contract negotiation, bidding and tendering, construction claims and dis - putes, and on-demand guarantee-related mat - ters.
Authors
Zheyuan Jin is a partner at Merits & Tree Law Offices, where he leads the real estate department. Zheyuan has extensive experience in the development, construction,
Xiang Mao is a partner of Merits & Tree Law Offices who specialises in real estate and infrastructure, M&A, rail transit and the above-ground property development, urban renewal and
investment and financing of real estate and infrastructure. He represents the project owners including local governments, real estate developers, manufacturing enterprises and project financiers to provide litigation and non-litigation legal services for real estate projects related to development, financing, sales and M&A involving commercial real estate, long-term rental apartments, logistics, industrial parks and urban renewals. Zheyuan was a consulting expert on construction and engineering for the World Bank’s “Doing Business” report; he also participated in the revision of China’s Construction Law in 2020.
operation of commercial property. Prior to joining Merits & Tree, he has worked in Shenzhen Metro Group for many years. Benefited from his career background, he has successfully handled a number of real-estate investment and urban renewal projects on behalf of a wide range of clients, including foreign companies, state-owned enterprise, listed companies and private companies. He is a member of the Real Estate Law Professional Committee of Shenzhen Lawyers Association, member of the Urban Renewal Group of the Real Estate Professional Committee.
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