Selected areas of work
These areas are designed to work together, because business and legal needs rarely stay within a single category. Corporate & commercial establishes, governs, contracts and finances the company; asset management, restructuring and distressed assets address value in complex or difficult situations; commercial disputes protect the client's position when arrangements are tested; and cross-border business supports matters that reach beyond China.
The result is continuity: the same understanding of a company, its capital, its documents and its rights carries across a financing, a transaction, any distress, and any dispute. Select an area to learn more.
The practice is based in Changsha and the majority of matters involve companies, investors and entrepreneurs doing business in Hunan Province — a manufacturer restructuring its shareholding, an investor pricing a non-performing exposure, a joint venture whose board procedure has broken down, a group facing enforcement against a subsidiary. Working locally matters in ways that are easy to underestimate from a distance: registration practice, the expectations of local counterparties, and how a matter is likely to be received procedurally all vary by region, and they shape what advice is actually useful.
Cross-border capability is a supporting strength rather than the starting point. Where a matter reaches beyond China — a foreign investor on the other side, documents governed by foreign law, or a client whose in-house team works in English — the PRC-law elements can be handled and explained in English, in coordination with the client's own foreign counsel.
Most engagements begin with a narrow question and a deadline. A useful first step is usually a short assessment of the position and the practical options, which often clarifies whether the matter belongs in one of these areas or in more than one. Where the answer depends on documents — articles of association, a shareholders' agreement, security documents, a financing agreement — it is worth having them to hand, because the answer frequently turns on their drafting rather than on the general rule.
Corporate governance, commercial contracts, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate finance — venture capital, private equity, equity and debt financing, capital markets and structured finance — for companies, state-owned enterprises and financial institutions.
Asset management, distressed and non-performing assets, restructuring, and construction, real estate and overseas-project matters for investors and creditors.
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Shareholder disputes, commercial litigation, arbitration and enforcement — protecting commercial positions when arrangements are tested.
International trade, foreign investment, cross-border transactions and English-language legal support for clients whose business crosses China's borders.
Published analysis is drawn from the kinds of matters described above, anonymized where the underlying work was confidential. It gives a concrete sense of how each area is approached in practice.