Practice areas

Bankruptcy & insolvency; M&A; Restructuring & insolvency; Dispute resolution

Introduction

Nafisa Nihmat is an equity partner at the Shanghai office of Zhong Lun Law Firm. Nafisa has extensive experience and expertise in bankruptcy restructuring and liquidation, distressed M&A, out-of-court debt restructuring and pre-packaged restructuring, and PR for debt crisis. She also serves as an arbitrator of the Shanghai Arbitration Commission, a member of the International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Professionals (INSOL International), a director of the Bankruptcy Law Research Society of the Shanghai Law Society, a director of the Beijing Bankruptcy Law Society, a member of the Bankruptcy and Non-performing Assets Committee of the Shanghai Lawyers Association, a member of the Publicity Committee of the Shanghai Bankruptcy Administrators Association, a lecturer at the Qingdao Lawyer Institute, an expert listed in the “National Civil and Administrative Case Consulting Expert Database” of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate.

Nafisa has handled a number of complex bankruptcy restructuring and distressed M&A cases, which induced wide influence both at home and abroad, such as Shandong Tranlin Group and its 22 affiliates’ consolidated bankruptcy restructuring, Fengli Group and its 28 affiliates’ consolidated bankruptcy restructuring, Zhoushan Haozhou Group and its 11 affiliates’ consolidated bankruptcy restructuring, Jiangsu Akcome Industrial Group’s bankruptcy restructuring, Hangzhou Yuhang Financial Holdings Group’s bankruptcy restructuring, Sun Edison, China Solar, etc, and she is committed to co-operation with bankruptcy law insiders in various jurisdictions regarding bankruptcy restructuring. As an initial practitioner in the bankruptcy field and one of the lawyers who grew up with Chinese bankruptcy legislation, Nafisa is the first to extend the concept of non-performing assets from “non-performing bank loans” to other diversified assets and provides clients with whole-range one-stop legal services.

Nafisa is honoured as “Recognised Practitioner – Restructuring/Insolvency (PRC Firms)” by Chambers Asia-Pacific, “The A List: China’s Top 100 Lawyers” by China Business Law Journal, “Up and Coming Lawyer” by Chambers Greater China Region Guide, “ALB China Top 15 Female Lawyers” by Asian Legal Business, “Deals of the Year 2016” by China Business Law Journal, and “Rising Star of the Year” by IFLR1000.

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