Qinghua Zhang

Practice Areas

Reorganization/Bankruptcy

Career

As one of the founding partners and the director of Beijing Highking Law Firm, Ms. Zhang has practised law in China since 1993. She has achieved the title of an excellent lawyer in Chaoyang District, as well as in Beijing. She has served as a member of the Tax Professional Committee of the Beijing Lawyers Association, a member of the Professional Committee of Mergers and Acquisitions, Reorganization and Non-performing Assets Disposal, and a member of the Shenzhen Financial Technology Ethics Committee.

Ms. Zhang is well-known in the financial field. She has achieved considerable success by serving as the perennial legal advisor of dozens of state-owned commercial banks, joint-stock commercial banks, securities companies and insurance companies. She has provided legal services in banking, securities, trust, insurance, M&A and restructuring of companies and financial institutions, disposal of non-performing assets, financing bond issuance, and asset securitization. Ms. Zhang has drafted and revised the standard contract texts of dozens of commercial banks and undertaken many international and domestic syndicated and large-scale financing projects, investment banking, venture capital projects and aircraft finance leasing projects. Meanwhile, Ms. Zhang has gained significant achievements in litigation and arbitration. She has also represented many difficult and complex litigation cases heard by the Supreme People's Court of the PRC and has recovered tens of billions for her clients. The instances she represented were selected and compiled in the Supreme People's Court's "Civil Trial Guidance and Reference". She also participated in drafting China's first group standard on evaluating the effectiveness of the compliance management system of small and medium-sized enterprises, the group standard "Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Compliance Management System of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises".

Ms. Zhang has also served as Legal Advisor for large state-owned enterprises under the direct control of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, such as Beijing State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission and National Development and Investment Corporation. She has gained significant achievements in corporate restructuring, reorganization and M&A. At the same time, as a registered tax attorney, Ms. Zhang provides legal services such as tax planning in M&A and restructuring.

Professional Memberships

Master tutor of Southwest University of Political Science and Law; Chinese certified tax agent; New York state foreign legal consultant; Beijing third-party supervision and evaluation expert of corporate compliance; Supreme People's Procuratorate "Excellent Civil Consulting Expert"; the third council of Beijing Bankruptcy Law Society executive director.

Publications

"Rebirth of Financially Distressed Enterprises --- Out-of-Court Non-Bankruptcy Debt Restructuring Practice"

"Creditor's Action Strategy --- Legal Practice Operation Guide for Debt Collection"

"Defense Guide and Risk Prevention in the Financial Crime Context"

Personal

Bachelor of Law (LLB), Southwest University of Political Science & Law;

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Peking University;

Master's Supervisor, Southwest University of Political Science & Law;

Candidate for Doctor of Management, Hong Kong University;

Certified Tax Agent of China;

Foreign Legal Consultant of the State of New York, USA.