Liang Deng

Practice Areas

As one of the earliest law firms in China to provide insurance legal services, JunHe has consistently maintained a preeminent status in the industry. Our services in this field even precede the formal introduction of some regulatory regulations, and our practice has witnessed the evolution of regulatory rules and the overall development in the insurance industry.

Ms. Deng is a core partner in the insurance business team. Since joining JunHe in 2002, Ms. Deng has been engaged in the insurance-related legal services, focusing on this field for nearly two decades since 2009.

Through more than 20 years of hard work in insurance legal services, Ms. Deng has a deep understanding of the existing regulatory regulations and historical evolution of the insurance industry, as well as the enforcement standards and policies of regulatory agencies. She is quite familiar with the extension and connotation of various regulatory rules, and understands the intersection, mutual influence and possible contradictions of different regulatory rules. In the practice process, especially in some innovative projects, all of the above enables her and her team to provide clients with more valuable services by effectively integrating project realities with an understanding of regulatory thinking.

In the process of providing legal services for clients in the insurance industry, Ms. Deng makes full use of JunHe’s “integration” advantage and organizes an experienced cross-professional team to provide one-stop services for clients according to their actual legal service demands, and assists various clients in numerous innovative and typical cases.

Ms. Deng’s leading position in insurance legal services is also reflected in dealing with a number of highly sensitive and policy-oriented risk mitigation projects for financial institutions in recent years. Generally speaking, the risk disposal projects of financial institutions are relatively complex, and have strong social sensitivity and significance. Leveraging her long-term practice in the domestic legal market, solid professional skills and deep understanding of China’s administrative and judicial systems, Ms. Deng has the ability to provide targeted and highly personalized legal services in such projects based on the particularities of projects and clients.

With years of practice in the industry and positive reputation, Ms. Deng has earned the recognition from regulatory authorities in the insurance legal services.

Career

Ms. Deng is a member of the Beijing Lawyers Association and the All-China Bar Association.

Professional Memberships

Ms. Deng has been a member of the Legal Compliance Committee of the Insurance Asset Management Association of China (“IAMAC”) since its establishment, and was appointed as a member of the second and third Legal Compliance Committees in 2021 and 2024 respectively.

Since 2019, Ms. Deng has been employed as an external expert in the evaluation of the asset support program of China Insurance Asset Registration and Trading System Co., Ltd.

Publications

In 2019, Ms. Deng was entrusted by the legal compliance committee of IAMAC to participate in the compilation of “Compilation of Laws, Regulations, and Normative Documents on the Utilization of Insurance Funds (Revised Edition of 2018)”, and was responsible for the contents related to the investment of insurance funds in equity, financial products and overseas investment of insurance funds. Based on the overall continuation of the “Compilation of Laws, Regulations and Normative Documents on the Utilization of Insurance Funds (2019)”, Ms. Deng led her team to participate in the “Compilation of Laws, Regulations and Normative Documents on the Utilization of Insurance Funds (2022)” in 2022 and 2023, and was also responsible for the content related to the investment of insurance funds in equity, real estate, infrastructure and financial products.

Clients

China Life Insurance (Group) Company/

China Life Asset Management Company Limited/

Swiss Re/

AIA Group/

Manulife/

Ergo Group /

Generali

Work Highlights

In 2024, Represented China Life Insurance Co., LTD., New China Insurance Co., LTD., China Life Asset Management Co., Ltd. and New China Asset Management Co., Ltd. in the pilot fund project of private equity investment. As the first fund project of private equity investment in the insurance industry, this innovative project has received high-level policy support from the State Council, the Financial Regulatory Administration, the Securities Regulatory Commission and the Asset Management Association of China.

In 2021, the insurance business team led by Ms. Deng advised AIA on its strategic investment project in China Post Life, with the transaction amount of RMB 12 billion. This project is not only the largest strategic investment introduction project in China’s insurance market, but also a rare large-amount transaction in the recent financial market.

Risk Disposal Project of Anbang Insurance Group and Strategic Investment Introduction Project of Dajia Insurance Group

Advised Harbour Life and Its Investors on the Risk Disposal Project of Evergrande Life

Industry Sector Expertise

Insurance, asset management

Expert in these Jurisdictions

PRC

Languages Spoken

Mandarin, English

Education