Long Haitao

Introduction

Long Haitao, a graduate of the University of International Business and Economics, serves as the founding partner and director of Merits & Tree. His professional accomplishments have earned him high recognition in the industry. He has been recognised as a “recommended lawyer” for banking and finance by The Legal 500, and the projects he led have been repeatedly named on China Business Law Journal‘s “Deals of the Year” list. He has been consistently listed in CBLJ‘s “The A-List Legal Elite” over the years, and his team was awarded the journal’s “Law Firm of the Year” in the field of structured finance and asset securitisation.

Long specialises in banking and finance, PE/VC, M&A, family law, and wealth management. His legal services mainly cover trusts, securities dealer asset management, fund subsidiary asset management, asset securitisation, financial innovation products co-operation of bank and credit institutions, traditional co-operation of government and credit, innovative infrastructure investment and financing, and financial risk asset disposal business. These involve industries such as real estate, government platforms, automobile rental, internet finance, education and training, consumer goods and retail.

His clients include banking and financial institutions (such as joint-stock commercial banks and city co-operative banks), non-bank financial institutions (such as trust, securities and fund companies, fund company subsidiaries, insurance firms, and their asset management companies), private equity investment funds (including corporate, partnership and contractual funds), large state-owned enterprises, factoring companies, and local financial asset exchanges.

Long participates in the design and provision of comprehensive legal services within his primary practice areas. The total scale of asset management products that have been raised under his involvement has reached hundreds of billions of renminbi. He possesses extensive experience in servicing projects with various complex structures, including equity, debt, hybrid equity-debt arrangements, and mezzanine financing.