Contact
Tel: +86 10 5759 0607
Email: yeshan.cao@dentons.cn
Practice areas
M&A; Restructuring & insolvency
Introduction
Cao Yeshan graduated from the University of International Business and Economics with a Master’s degree in law, and is a partner at the Beijing office of Dentons China. With rich practical experience in the field of bankruptcy, he has participated in more than 20 corporate restructuring cases or risk disposal projects in the past decade – including listed companies, delisted companies, large corporate groups and financial institutions – as an administrator, creditor’s representative or investor’s representative.
In recent years, Cao has been responsible for several restructuring cases including Peking University Founder Group, Tsinghua Unigroup, HNA Group, Shenyang Machine Tools (Group), Qingdao Shipyard, and Jilin Haorong Group. Cao also has rich experience in debt restructuring projects and financial institution risk disposal projects.
Cao has received awards from the Supreme People’s Court and local courts for many of his projects, including Top 10 Commercial Cases of National Courts in 2021, selected by the Supreme People’s Court; nomination among the Top 10 cases of 2021 promoting the rule of law process in the new era; China Business Law Journal’s Deals of the Year 2021; and one of the National Bankruptcy Classic Cases in 2021.
As a member of the Supreme People’s Court national bankruptcy restructuring information platform construction team, Cao has taken the lead in drafting judicial documents such as the Provisions on Information Disclosure in Enterprise Bankruptcy Cases (for trial implementation), the Measures on the Use of Bankruptcy Administrator’s Working Platform in Enterprise Bankruptcy Cases, Rules, Data and Cases, as well as the Report on the Reorganisation of Large Enterprises in Northeast China. He has also has participated in drafting professional books including Case Report on Restructuring of Listed Companies; Disposal of Delisting Risks of Listed Companies – Rules, Data and Cases; and Case Report on Restructuring of Large Enterprises in Northeast China, and others.
