Practice areas

Dispute resolution; Restructuring & insolvency

Introduction

Zhang Jianjian is a partner of Haiwen & Partners with more than 14 years’ legal experience, and is widely recognised by clients and industries.

Focused on bankruptcy and reorganisation, he has participated in consolidation and corporate reorganisation of numerous industrial and aviation groups including Bohai Steel, Founder Group, Hainan Airlines Holding, Taihai Manoir Nuclear Equipment, Shenyang Machine Tool, Xinjiang KingTe Iron & Steel, Tong Hua Iron & Steel, China Aviation Erection Engineering (Beijing), one of the Top 10 representative cases issued by the Supreme People’s Court, and Beijing Taifeng Real Estate Development.

He also acted as instructing counsel for Jiangsu ChengXing Phosph-Chemical during its pre-reconciliation procedure, and legal counsel during its reconciliation procedure, the first domestic listed company reconciliation case successfully completed during listing.

In dealing with non-performing assets and loans he has assisted China Cinda Asset Management, China Huarong Asset Management, Shandong Financial Asset Management, Oaktree Capital, Bain Capital, China Bohai Bank and other clients in their disposal of non-performing assets.

One of his notable representative transactions was assisting China Huarong Asset Management exercise a put option and resale of the Xinhualian bond, and the related debt restructuring, which was the first representative case of its kind in the bond market.

Zhang is a director of the China Banking Law Society, member of the Financial Security and Financial Law Committee of the China Banking Law Society, standing director of the Beijing Bankruptcy Law Society, as well as researcher of the Bankruptcy Law Research Centre at Renmin University of China, and the Financial Institution Risk Disposal Research Centre at China University of Political Science and Law.

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