Real Estate and Construction

JunHe’s real estate and construction team is one of China’s premier legal service providers in the sector. The real estate and construction team is committed to providing quality services to clients who intend to expand their businesses and invest in China’s real estate market, and those clients with businesses in the area of construction, asset-backed securities and publicly offered infrastructure REITs. In a commercial and regulatory environment that is complex, evolving and often local, we make every effort to deliver clear professional legal solutions. Our solutions are designed to be acceptable to the authorities, thereby meeting our clients’ commercial needs and assisting them in accomplishing their business goals.


Our Team


JunHe’s real estate and construction team is composed of more than 30 lawyers, including over 10 partners who work from our Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Chengdu offices. Many of our lawyers are internationally educated and have long-term significant experience in the real estate and construction industries from working with reputable global law firms and multinational companies. They also include locally trained professionals with experience and expertise in representing clients in numerous complex real estate projects.


The partners leading JunHe’s real estate and construction team are highly regarded within the industry and Chambers Asia-Pacific, Asia Law & Practice and The Legal 500 have consistently recognized more than one third of our partners as Band 1, leading or recommended lawyers.


Our Core Areas of Practice


  • Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) and investment in the real estate sector, including the financing, management, leasing, sale and purchase of real estate projects and properties.

  • Primary land development, land consolidation, urban renewal and urban redevelopment.

  • Tendering, bidding, designing, constructing and supervising construction works.

  • REITs, ABS, ABN.

  • Litigation and arbitration.


One-stop Service


JunHe’s unified internal management mechanism allows us to promptly mobilize our team of legal professionals from different offices and practice areas to provide a one-stop, quality and creative legal solution in large and complex real estate investment projects. In addition to the real estate and construction team’s leading role, JunHe’s banking and finance team can input their expertise and experience on any potential financing issues, proving particularly valuable when designing the transaction structure. If required, other teams such as taxation, infrastructure, M&A and dispute resolution are available to ensure the smooth and successful completion of a real estate investment project.


Effective Teamwork


JunHe can organize a large team of lawyers from its offices around the world within a short period of time. It is able to effectively mobilize its professional resources, enabling the firm to represent clients in large acquisitions comprising of numerous projects, and to arrange the appropriate division of labor to facilitate due diligence, the drafting of documents and negotiation.


Committed and dedicated partners


A considerable part of JunHe’s legal services is provided by the partners themselves. Our partners have many years of experience in legal services and are able to provide clients with timely, efficient and comprehensive legal services. The personal participation of our partners ensures the quality of our services and helps clients better balance business opportunities with legal risks.