Dacheng Law Offices is ‘Highly recommended’ in our construction, labour and employment, restructuring and insolvency tables. The firm is best known for its speciality in handling matters across the spectrum of transportation and infrastructure. Through cooperation with the government and enterprises in major construction projects, the team has accumulated extensive experience in public-private partnerships (PPPs). Based in Beijing, senior partner Huazhi Yuan heads the firm’s real estate and natural resources practices. Real estate, construction, PPP, mineral resources and general corporate law are some of his core practices. Another key senior partner is Guisheng Yang, who specialises in the mining industry (the establishment, M&A, restructure, reform, financing, prospect, exploitation, disposal of mining rights), real estate and construction, foreign investment, and administrative litigation. The firm welcomed five partners for dispute resolution over the last 12 months.
Client feedback
“They are really professional. When dealing with complex projects, they can accurately understand the situation and needs of the project and understand the legislative trend. They integrate various laws and policies and give us a lot of help and support.” – Banking and finance
“They integrate various laws and policies and give us a lot of help and support. In addition, their global network also enables them to provide us with overseas legal services.” – Banking and finance
“The law firm is experienced and insightful, with a precise grasp of the legal and policy boundaries, creating business value with the law.” – Banking and finance
“They provide prompt feedback, an active approach, and professional service.” – Competition/antitrust
“Dacheng Law Offices provided professional and practical legal opinion and solutions to us.” – Competition/antitrust
“The team has a large number of personnel and overall high quality. They are familiar with the laws and regulations in the field of construction engineering and are skilled in handling large, difficult, and complex cases in the construction engineering field. They have rich practical experience in handling legal services, which are comprehensive, in-depth, and meticulous, with high service quality and quick feedback. They attach great importance to commercial promotion.” – Construction
“The firm handled the employee relation cases professionally and with customer focus.” – Labour and employment
“They have a professional attitude and rich industry experience, which helped us to close the acquisition efficiently.” – Real estate
Jianmin (Ken) Dai
“He is professional and provides constructive advice.”
Zhisong Deng
“Zhisong is very professional in regard to antitrust, and he is very familiar with life science business and legal practice and provides comprehensive legal services to clients.”
Huixiao Han
“He has rich experience in dispute resolution, legal risk control and crisis management in finance, corporate and trade. Through comprehensive analyses and accurate grasp of the other party, he could develop optimal solutions from a unique perspective.”
Ying Jian
“Ying Jian is good at M&A, restructuring, and financing services. Her advice was accurate and professional. When we encounter relatively rare or cutting-edge problems, she can provide us with suggestions from the perspectives of legislation, supervision, and practice for us to make all-round reference. She is very helpful to us in terms of professionalism and understanding of the actual situation of the industry. Ying Jian can provide us with advice from various perspectives and dimensions, including the law. Sometimes she even provides effective advice not only from a legal perspective but also from various other perspectives, such as the professional ethics of company employees, the risks of employment, and industry risks. Her service makes us feel very reassured.”
“She is very good at providing us with multi-dimensional services. Her suggestions often make us feel enlightened, and our difficulties can be resolved well with her help. Her service always surprises us.”
Yingying (lily) Li
“Yingying Li's team of lawyers has top-notch expertise in handling major, difficult and complex dispute resolution cases. She always understands our needs quickly and accurately and is able to accurately grasp the key and core points of a case to make it simpler and more complicated. Under the leadership of Yingying Li, the team provides us with innovative, pragmatic and effective solutions in a timely manner, and is a trustworthy and excellent team.”
“Yingying Li is an excellent lawyer with breakthrough power and creativity. Under her leadership, her team not only has excellent professional ability in the field of dispute resolution of gold financing and management but also continues to plough into the corporate and M&A and restructuring sectors and is well-versed in the way of survival in the capital market, such as investment banking, private equity, and shareholding, to be able to create the most preferred customised solutions for her clients. This is the kind of complex team we need and trust.”
Shane Luo
“He very closely follows up on client needs, thinks from the perspective of the customer, and always provides feedback quickly and professionally.”
Yun Tang
“She is very positive and cooperative.”
Work highlights
Advised a listed state-owned housing enterprise on a series of disputes over $1.4 billion (Rmb10 billion) claims for the redevelopment of contaminated sites.
Advised a senior executive of a listed company in a dispute involving $110 million (Rmb800 million) market value equity incentive plan with a listed company. The transaction is the first panda bond offering by Volkswagen and the first offering under China’s pilot programme for panda bond pricing and allocation.
Key clients
China Merchants Bank, Guokai Chuansha (Shanghai) Town Investment Development, Shanghai Goldstate Brilliance Asset Management.
Work highlights
Advised CITIC Guoan Group and six other companies on substantive consolidation in a bankruptcy reorganisation.
Advised Chongqing Energy Investment Group on its bankruptcy reorganisation.
Advised Caissa Tosun Development for pre-reorganisation and reorganisation.
Key clients
Bank of Jilin, Doushen Beijing Education & Technology, Yi'an Property Insurance.
Work highlights
Advised IXM and ERG Clean Tech in submitting the merger filing for establishing a joint venture with Glencore International.
Key clients
Anti-monopoly Division I of State Administration for Market Regulation.
Work highlights
Acted as the PRC counsel to assist in the listing of Guangzhou Zhongxu Future Technology on HKEX. The project has a complex reorganisation structure, including a variable interest equity structure and the need to coordinate multiple factors, such as domestic and overseas.
Advised China Zheshang Bank in issuing the non-performing asset-backed securities project, the Zhenjin Series.
Key clients
Bank of Communications, Guotai Junan Futures, Henan Civil Aviation Development Investment Group.
Work highlights
Acted for Shanghai Fosun Health Technology Group, a subsidiary of Fosun Pharmaceutical and a listed company in China, on securing the clearance of merger control filing for the transaction between Fosun Health and Guangzhou Xinshi Hospital.
Key clients
Contemporary Amperex Technology.
Work highlights
Advised Shanxi Fengrong Real Estate Development in a dispute with China Railway Sixth Bureau over a construction contract.
Advised China Electric Power Engineering Consultant Group - North China Electric Power Design Institute and State Grid North China International Power Engineering (Beijing) in connection with a contract dispute with Ningxia Eastern Thermal Power.
Key clients
Beijing Baichuang Environmental Protection Company, China Chemical Engineering 11th Construction Company, Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the People's Republic of China.
Work highlights
Advised Okay Airways on about $250 million in aircraft leasing. The transaction involves multiple governing laws, entities, and complex documentation.
Advised Guangzhou Hangrun Aero-Tech on about $150 million aircraft purchase, leasing, and termination. This project involves fully following up on the daily business needs of clients, covering all aspects of aircraft transactions with numerous entities, complex legal relationships, numerous transaction documents, and a large financing amount.
Key clients
Bank of China, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank.
