Yongxing Chen

Practice Areas

Since 2004, Mr. Chen has been practicing law, specializing in commercial real estate and related investment and financing areas, mergers and acquisitions of listed companies and other legal services. Mr. Chen is also the deputy director of the Real Estate Committee of the Shanghai Lawyers Association. In his social positions, he serves as the deputy director of the Political Consultative Committee of the Shanghai Lawyers Association and the deputy director of the Hongkou District Lawyers Association, which is quite influential in the industry.Mr. Chen is particularly outstanding in the field of commercial real estate legal services. His service scope covers various types of commercial and industrial real estate development and operation, including malls, office buildings, industrial parks, high-tech enterprise incubation centers, IDC data centers, serviced apartments, and hotels.

Career

2023-Present, East & Concord Partners, Director of the Administrative Committee of Shanghai Office

2013-2023, Zhonglun W&D Law Firm, Senior Partner, Head of Shanghai Office

2002-2013, Everbright Law Firm, Partner, Attorney

Clients

Mr. Chen serves as the main benchmarking commercial real estate companies and clients. Among his projects in Hongkou, there are "CapitaLand Group" for the CTF Office Building and CapitaLand Hongkou Commercial Center in Beiwai Bank Street, "Shui On Group" for the Shanghai K11 Art Mall and Shanghai K11 Design Block, as well as Nike, Vanke Group, Hopson Development, Link Real Estate Investment Trust, Lee Kum Kee Group and dozens of other Fortune 500 companies and domestic funds or overseas Reits. He has also represented many commercial real estate enterprises to negotiate and develop with industry top hotel groups such as Accor, Intercontinental and Huazhu to provide relevant professional legal services. He has rich practical experience in the field of construction engineering and related dispute resolution. He has represented many listed companies, large multinational enterprises to handle numerous difficult and complex cases and achieved satisfactory results for clients.

Work Highlights

Mr. Chen is particularly outstanding in the field of commercial real estate legal services. His service scope covers various types of commercial and industrial real estate development and operation, including malls, office buildings, industrial parks, high-tech enterprise incubation centers, IDC data centers, serviced apartments, and hotels.

Mr. Chen has been listed in Chambers & Partners for many years in the field of real estate. He is selected as the recommended lawyer in Shanghai China by The Legal 500. At the same time, he is also the first Outstanding Young Lawyer of Huangpu District; and he has been awarded the 2020-2021 Individual Award for Outstanding Contribution to Investment Promotion in Huangpu District.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

China

Languages Spoken

Chinese, English