Projects and energy: PRC firms in China

‘Xiaofeng Tang’s team is mainly involved in the energy sector, particularly the natural gas sector. The team’s greatest strength is its professional expertise in the energy sector.’

‘Xiaofeng Tang not only has a wealth of experience of legal services for the natural gas industry, but also has a very agile and logical mind with very strong knowledge of the fundamentals of law. He is an excellent lawyer. The team’s quality of service is very high. Qianhui Tang provides rapid everyday contract review services with very high quality, and she is very professional and meticulous in her legal consultations. When the company experienced an emergency, Yi Peng provided dispute resolution services. He is very responsive and was able to quickly help the company control the situation.’

‘Miller Wang (Minglang Wang) has a high level of professional expertise. He is able to make effective use of his knowledge and legal skills, and he is very familiar with the renewable energy industry and wind power in particular. He is able to comprehensively answer client questions and solve problems, as well as offering his experience as a reference. He is very responsive, professional and focuses.’

‘An increasingly mature and specialist mainland team with real PRC outbound experience of both projects and international disputes. The team is probably unique in being a mainland PRC legal team with genuine ability and maturity to handle major intentional energy work. The lawyers are often recruited from science or engineering backgrounds, encouraged to think legally, and have good English skills. It also works well with international counsel. They are very good with PRC clients.’

‘Xianfeng Zhou is one of the strongest and most creative legal and strategic problem solvers, great with clients, and excellent at recruiting young, talented lawyers. He is a delight to work with, and understands how to work with international counsel.’

‘As one of China’s top law firms, JunHe has partners and specialist lawyers with unbeatable expertise in the engineering project and energy sectors. They have a wealth of experience of providing services for all kinds of engineering project and investment businesses, both in China and abroad.’

‘Xianfeng Zhou has a background in both engineering and law, as well as a wealth of experience in engineering and construction fields including large public buildings, industrial production lines, energy and infrastructure. Yipeng Zhang has an academic background in both law and finance, as well as many years’ experience of working in top international law firms.’

‘The team is exceptional because of their industry knowledge and commercial/ business-like approach to legal issues.’

‘Bill Qin and Xianfeng Zhou are stand out partners. Bill Qin is intellectually brilliant and a highly knowledgeable lawyer. Xianfeng Zhou is a very good lawyer with an engineering background which makes him excellent as a specialist construction lawyer’

‘Bill Qin has a wealth of experience and is able to come up with solutions from the client’s perspective.’

‘The team has a deep understanding of industry practice and is able to call upon his understanding of the industry to provide expert legal services.’

‘Wenjing Zhang has a wealth of industry experience and very solid and professional knowledge of the law, as well as practical experience. He is able to deal with complex, wide-ranging commercial issues in a highly efficient manner, and we were particularly impressed with how he was able to effectively integrate legal solutions into Chinese project practices and locally implement them in a workable way.’

‘Zhong Lun lawyers include Sun Fanglong and Yu Luping. Judging from our experience cooperating with them, these two lawyers have rich legal and industry knowledge in the field of real estate and infrastructure construction. With good communication skills, both lawyers have extensive experience in court trials. From the two lawyers representing our unit’s litigation cases, they performed well in case communication and produced good results.’

‘The team led by Jie Chai provided very professional and meticulous work. Jie Chai has rich experience in overseas investment and mergers and acquisitions, anti-monopoly, corporate governance and other fields. He is highly professional, independent and objective, and seeks truth from facts. He is especially able to actively consider the interests of clients and remind risks. As a senior partner, he still does everything personally and deeply participates in the project throughout the whole process. This is something that many lawyers cannot do.’

‘Xiaodong Zhu impressed us the most. He not only has a solid legal professionalism, but also has the ability to perceive the needs of the other party. More importantly, he has the ability to quickly grasp the key points in the complex information and the skills to express opinions clearly and concisely. Professionalism, enthusiasm, flexibility and courage are our overall impression of Xiaodong Zhu.’

‘The team provides customized legal solutions for companies on overseas engineering contracting projects, and cooperates with overseas lawyers to help companies straighten out the legal structure of transactions.’