Practice areas

Banking & finance; Securitisation & structured finance; Family law and private wealth management; Investment & financing

Introduction

Long Haitao is one of the founding partners of Merits & Tree Law Offices. Before establishing M&T, Long was an attorney at Zhong Lun Law Firm and a managing partner at Hawkhigh Law Firm.

Long’s main practice areas include banking and finance, PE/VC, M&A, family law and wealth management. His legal services mainly cover trust, securities dealer asset management, fund subsidiary asset management, asset securitisation, financial innovation products co-operation of bank and credit, traditional co-operation of government and credit, innovative infrastructure investment and financing, and financial risk asset disposal business. The industries involved mainly include real estate, government platforms, automobile rental, internet finance, education and training, consumer goods and retail.

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

Long’s structured finance group has won the annual “Securitisation and Structured Finance” awards from leading international legal media, including China Business Law Journal, and he has been ranked as a top lawyer in this field for many years.

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