Xingzhong Zhang

Clients

Hwabao Trust Co., Ltd., Ping An Asset Management Co., Ltd., JIC Trust Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Yaojiang Industrial Group Co., Ltd., Xiangsheng Industrial Group Co., Ltd., Xiangsheng Industrial Group Co., Ltd., Wolong Resource Group Co., Ltd., Topchoice Medical Co., Inc., WanFeng Aviation Industry Co., Ltd., Hangzhou Shangyan Keling Private Equity Fund Management Co., Ltd.,etc.

Practice Areas

Mr. Zhang's legal expertise commenced in 1993 and has engaged in civil, administrative and criminal cases. In 1994, he focused on providing comprehensive legal services in the real estate field, and served as a perennial legal adviser to multiple enterprises, institutions and government departments, across many different industries. Since 2000, he has provided specialized in corporate restructuring, initial public offerings (IPOs), mergers and acquisitions, and capital market debt strategies. He also has provided legal services for trust companies and insurance fund management companies, in trust assets management and trust investments, as well as family wealth management. Since 2015, Mr. Zhang has been in charge of a number of influential projects relevant to the internal control rights competition of listed companies among major shareholders, and has been known as a forerunner in the field of hostile acquisitions. He has participated in many disputes involving illegal information disclosure of listed companies and insider trading. Mr. Zhang has also gained a deep insight of compliance affairs and dispute solutions for listed companies.

Professional Memberships

Member of the All-China Bar Association

Work Highlights

Since 2000, Mr. Zhang has been in charge of various key projects，such as the IPOs, follow-on equity offerings, and bond issuances for Wolong Real Electric Group Co., Ltd.. Mr. Zhang was also involved in re-organizing and listing of Zhejiang Hangmin Corp., Hangzhou Hangyang Corp., Hangzhou Advance Gearbox Group Corp., Hangzhou Zhongheng Electric Corp, Zhejiang Jinke Peroxidex Co., Ltd. and Zhejiang Jiansheng Group Co., Ltd. Other projects include Chengbang Eco-environment Co., Ltd.’s re-organizing and listing and Zhejiang HangKe Technology Incorporated Company’s restructuring and IPO. During this period, Mr. Zhang also provided legal services for many investors in their pre-IPO projects. Mr. Zhang has provided comprehensive legal services for companies such as Zhejiang Yaojiang Industrial Group Co., Ltd., Xiangsheng Industrial Group Co., Ltd., Wolong Real Estate Group Co., Ltd, China Enterprise Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. and other large-sized real estate enterprises. Mr. Zhang acted as legal counsel for Shangyu District People’s Government in Shaoxing City during its management of the financial crisis of Zhejiang Jindun Holding Group Co., Ltd. It has since become a landmark case for the management of enterprise crises in Zhejiang Province. As for the field of the re-organization of state-owned enterprises and property transfer, Mr. Zhang has provided legal services during Zhejiang Yaojiang Group’s re-organizing, the acquisition of Yinchuan Transformer Factory by Wolong Real Electric Group Co., Ltd., and other projects involving equity mergers regarding multiple state-owned companies and corporations. He has provided legal services for well-known state-owned enterprises including Zhejiang Energy Group Company Ltd., Zhejiang Materials Industry Group Corporation, Zhejiang Commercial Group Corporation and Hangzhou Oxygen Plant Group Co., Ltd.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Capital Markets and Corporate, Asset Management and Real Estate, Securities Compliance and Dispute Resolution

Languages Spoken

Mandarin and English

Industry Sector Expertise

Mr. Zhang's primary practice domains encompass the capital market (including company listings, refinancing of listed companies, mergers and acquisitions of listed companies, asset restructurings of listed companies, and competitions for control of listed companies), corporate affairs (such as perennial legal counseling, mergers and acquisitions of companies, reorganizations of companies, and equity structure designs of companies), asset management (trust funds, insurance funds, fund investment and financing). Real estate (land primary and secondary development, real estate development and financing, real estate sales, property management), responses to corporate financial crises, family wealth management, etc., as well as dispute resolution representation in the afore mentioned fields.

Experience

After graduating in 1990, Mr. Zhang served as a prosecutor in the People’s Procuratorate and was engaged in investigations regarding duty-related criminal cases. After six months, he was promoted to the position of assistant procurator due to his outstanding professional ability. In 1993, Mr. Zhang taught constitutional and administrative law at Zhejiang’s Management College of Politics and Law. In 1994, he served as the director of the administrative law teaching and research department and was the head of the student affairs office. He then began to practice law part-time. In 1996, Mr. Zhang started work as a partner in a law firm before joining King & Wood Mallesons as a partner in September 2005. In August 2019, Mr. Zhang joined JunHe as a partner.

Since the beginning of his legal career in 1994, Mr. Zhang has been involved in a range of civil, administrative and criminal litigation cases. Since 2000, he has introduced pre-IPO projects for many investors and provided legal services for investors during the pre-IPO stage. Since 2002, he has provided comprehensive legal services for many enterprises in real estate and has also provided legal services for family wealth management. Since 2015, Mr. Zhang has hosted several well-known projects relevant to control rights competition among the major shareholders of public companies and participated in many disputed cases.

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