Long Haitao

Practice areas

Bank and finance; Private equity and investment and financing; Corporate M&A; Family affairs and fortune management

Introduction

Long Haitao is a partner at Merits & Tree. Long graduated from the University of International Business and Economics, gaining an LLB and LLM.

Long’s main area of practice is bank and finance, private equity and investment and financing, corporate M&A, family affairs and fortune management, including trust, securities, fund subsidiary, asset securitisation, financial product innovation in bank-trust co-operation, traditional government-trust co-operation and innovative PPP [public-private partnership], financial risk asset disposal, and so on.

Long’s legal services mainly cover real estate, government platforms, car rental, internet finance, education and training, consumer goods and retail. He is currently serving many types of clients including joint-stock commercial banks, urban co-operative banks and other banking and financial institutions, trust companies, securities companies, fund companies, fund company subsidiaries, insurance companies and their asset management companies and other non-bank finance institutions, private equity funds (including corporate funds, partnership funds and contract funds), large state-owned enterprises, factoring companies, and local financial assets exchanges.

The structured finance business team of Merits & Tree, led by Long, won the 2018 and 2020 China Business Law Awards, and ranked Tier 1 in the field of Securitisation & Derivatives in Legalband 2018-2020 China Top Law Offices. Long ranked Tier 2 in Legalband 2018-2020 China Top Lawyers, and also won 2018 Legalband Top 10 Asset Management Lawyers.

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