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20 years of practicing and research. Rich experience and excellent expertise in the areas of international finance, international investment and trade, securities, futures, trust and international commercial arbitration.
(i) Advising on dozens of large industry and infrastructure financing projects involving various financings such as international commercial loans, syndicated loans, export and import credit, project financing, aircraft financing and structured financing;
(ii) Advising a large number of international financial institutions on (financial and commodity) derivatives and structured products, repos, precious metal loans, collateral, foreign exchange, assets management, private banking and etc;
(iii) Advising a number of trust and investment companies, securities companies, fund management companies and etc for their formations, restructuring, rectification, reorganization and liquidation;
(iv) Advising a number of international financial institutions on their setting up joint venture financial institutions, investment in local financial institutions in China (including securities company, trust company, fund management company and auto financing companies);
(v) Advising foreign financial institutions in their purchase for NPLs of Chinese financial institutions;
(vi) Providing legal survey and research papers for international financial institutions (including World Bank);
(vii) Advising on issuing and listing of shares and share transfer of dozens of listed companies;
(viii) Advising a number of foreign private equity investment funds and venture capital funds on their various projects in China;
(ix) Representative dozens of international arbitration cases.

Education Background

• Bachelor in Law, Law School, Jilin University (international law), 1986;
• Master in Law, Graduate College of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, (international private law), 1989;
• Postgraduate Diploma, Program on International Law, International Organization and Development, The Institute of Social Studies, the Netherlands, 1995;
• PH. D, Law School, University of International Business and Economics, China, (International Law), 2007.

Membership

• Arbitrator, China International Trade and Economic Arbitration Commission;
• Conciliator, Conciliation Center of China Council for Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) /China Chamber of International Commerce (CCOIC);
• Mediator, US-China Business Mediation Center;
• Arbitrator, Beijing Arbitration Commission;
• Member, Global Documentation Committee, Collateral Committee and Asia-Pacific Collateral Committee and Law & Regulatory Committee, International Swaps and Derivatives Associations;
• Professor, Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences;
• Researcher, Institute of Trust and Fund, China Renmin University;
• Standing Director, China International Economic Law Society;
• Director, Financial Derivative Legal Committee (2009), Beijing Lawyer’s Association;
• Deputy Director, Commercial Banking Legal Committee (2005), Beijing Lawyer’s Association;

Publication

• Legal Studies on External Security;
• Nature of Independence and Abstraction of Letter of Credit and Exceptions on Fraud
• Legal Issues regarding the Closure and Bankruptcy of Guangdong International Trust and Investment Company
• Main Legal Issues regarding International Derivatives Transactions
• Using Trust Vehicle to Carry out Stock Option Plan
• Importance of Building a Sound Legal and Regulatory Framework for Healthy Development of China Securities Market
• Legal Issues on the Issuing and Listing of Stock of Foreign Investment Companies in PRC
• Legal Studies on Institutional Investors in China Capital Market (2002, a working report (in English) for World Bank)
• Trust Business with Chinese Characteristics (in English)
• Innovation of Guaranty Business and Law
• Close-out Netting in OTC Derivatives
• Documentation and Key Issues regarding OTC Derivatives
• The Commercial Law of England (book, co-translator);
• Collection of International Commercial and Civil Treaties and Practices (co-chief-editor)

Working Experience

• 1995--now, founding partner of JunZeJun Law Offices;
• 1992—94, Fellow Research, International Law Department, Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences;
• 1989--92 Lawyer, Tian Ping Law Office & China Legal Consultancy Center, China Law Society.