Jianan Yuan

Practice Areas

Mr. Yuan practices in the Beijing office of JunHe. Prior to joining JunHe in 2007, Mr. Yuan worked at Junyi Law Office (as partner from 1996) and Clifford Chance’s, London and Hong Kong offices (on secondment for one year) and C&C Law Office (as associate from 1993).

Mr. Yuan has over 30 years of experience in infrastructure investment and finance transactions, covering energy, communication, water and waste projects, and also dealing with related tendering and bidding, mergers and acquisitions – both domestic and overseas. His most recent experience is in the areas of foreign-invested seawater desalination and communication, municipal solid waste incineration and treatment, nuclear power, coal chemicals, reorganization, renovation and upgrading of water and wastewater treatment projects. He has also led legal services in several urban subway public and private partnership (PPP) projects in China, the acquisition of a water technical and engineering company by an environmental group in Sweden and the M&A financing involving iron ore mines in Australia and coal mines in Canada.

He has been ranked by Chambers Asia Pacific as Senior Statespeople in Projects & Infrastructure and by Legal 500 as Hall of Fame in Projects and Energy.

Career

Member of the All-China Bar Association.

Publications

2018 Merger and Acquisition of Companies (2nd Edition), co-associate editor, China Renmin University Press (in Chinese)；

2014 Merger and Acquisition of Companies, co-associate editor, China Renmin University Press (in Chinese)；

2012 Speech on Chinese Nuclear Liability Issues for 2012 annual meeting of INLA Congress (in English)；

2009 Establishing and Financing Utilities Projects in China, Financier Worldwide, Issue 80 August 2009 (in English)；

2006 Privatisation in China – Now on The Road, Euromoney Yearbooks (Review 2006/2007) – Privatisation & Public Private Partnership (in English)；

2006 Practice of Tendering and Bidding for Water Concession Projects (co-author, China Chemical Press) (in Chinese)；

2005 Speeches for the Urban Water Forum-2005 and the seminar on local legislation of urban infrastructural concession (in Chinese)；

2004 several articles on concession regarding urban infrastructural and public utilities, China Law & Practice (in English)；

2002 Outside Councel’s Role in a Nuclear Power Project, China Nuclear Industry (in Chinese)

Languages Spoken

Mandarin and English

Education