The banking and finance team at Merits & Tree Law Offices is home to experts in structured finance and wealth management, as well as asset securitisation, financial tech application, and supply chain, green, pension, real estate and infrastructure financings. The Beijing-based practice also acts for domestic financial institutions on overseas financings. The group’s principal figures are Yang Wu, a specialist in banking and finance, family affairs and wealth management; and Kailun Li, whose workload includes tech, consumer and supply chain finance.
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Key clients

  • Cinda Capital Management Co
  • Industry and Commercial Bank ofChina
  • Bank of Communications Co Hong Kong Branch
  • Morgan Stanley Bank China
  • BNP Paribas
  • Bank of Beijing
  • Bank of Chongqing
  • Minmetals International Trust Co
  • Riverhead Capital Investment Management Co
  • Guotong Trust Co
  • Sinosure Credit Service
  • China General Technology (Group) Holding Co

Work highlights

Advised General Technology BRICS (Xiamen) Investment and Development Co on a syndicated loan project involving the headquarters of the BRICS New Industrial Revolution Partnership Innovation Base.
Acted for a bank (as PRC counsel) on its sale of shares in Hong Kong Life Insurance.
Acted for the Bank of Beijing on an acquisition loan that was provided to a Shanghai Stock Exchange-listed borrower.

Practice head

Yang Wu; Haitao Long; Kailun Li

Other key lawyers

Pengxiang Zhao; Yanjiao Zhang; Sun Jingjing