Zhang Xin

Introduction

Zhang Xin is a qualified PRC lawyer and England and Wales solicitor, having obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in law from Xiamen University as well as his LLM and PhD in Law from London University. He provides legal services for Chinese and international banks and investors in relation to debt financing, corporate investment and M&A, and dispute resolution, with an extensive coverage of the finance, energy, power, real estate and natural resources sectors.

In banking and finance, Zhang has represented most Chinese and international banks, international financial institutions, and export credit agencies (ECAs) active in the market. He has advised on syndicated loans, project financing, structured trade financing, vessel and aircraft financing, export credit loans and financial derivatives. In corporate work, Zhang has represented a number of industrial investors in investing in Chinese petrochemical, renewable energy, power, telecommunications and other traditional manufacturing sectors by way of greenfield investment or M&A. He also provides legal support to Chinese state-owned enterprises, banks, investment funds and ECAs for their overseas investment, financing and insurance projects. In the area of dispute resolution, he has handled a number of cases involving investment disputes, derivatives, international trade, shipbuilding and financing.

Zhang sits as an arbitrator at the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission, the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration, the Xiamen Arbitration Commission, and the Shanghai Arbitration Commission. He also serves at the legal experts committee, the financial derivatives experts committee and the trading experts committee of the National Association of Financial Market Institutional Investors, as well as a registration expert of the association’s interbank bond market non-financial enterprises’ debt financing instruments. He has for years been researching and practising laws of the Chinese interbank market.