Bankruptcy, Reorganization and Liquidation
JunHe’s restructuring and insolvency team has years of experience in providing integrated legal services for governmental working groups, bankruptcy administrators, shareholders, creditors, debtors and investors. Our award-winning lawyers are experts in out-of-court debt restructuring, risk management for financial institutions, bankruptcy reorganization (including pre-packaged reorganization), bankruptcy reconciliation, voluntary liquidation, compulsory liquidation and winding-up. JunHe is named on the list of court-appointed bankruptcy administrators in cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen and holds a first-class bankruptcy administrator qualification. JunHe has rich experience in areas such as the bankruptcy reorganization of listed companies, the consolidation bankruptcy of group companies, administrative takeovers of risky financial institutions and bankruptcy management. Several of the bankruptcy cases where JunHe lawyers have acted as bankruptcy administrators were recognized by various people's courts as typical cases, and subsequently named as deals of the year or classic cases of the year by many domestic and foreign rating agencies.
Our Team
JunHe's restructuring and insolvency team is composed of over 15 partners and legal counsels, with more than 50 associates, paralegals and secretaries. The partners and legal counsels each have over a decade of experience in restructuring and insolvency practice. The team includes lawyers that have been named 'Best Lawyer in Restructuring and Insolvency practice' by Chambers Asia-Pacific, lawyers experienced in the restructuring of listed companies and taking over distressed financial companies, and an individual administrator selected to the local court’s bankruptcy administrators list. JunHe uses integrated staff management and specialized practice management through its corporate structure, which allows it to flexibly assign staff members from all offices and practice groups at any time to serve large and complex bankruptcy projects, according to the project’s needs.
Due to our outstanding performance and reputation, our restructuring and insolvency team has consistently been recognized as a 'Leading Law Firm' in restructuring and insolvency practice in China by Chambers Asia-Pacific, a world-renowned rating agency for commercial lawyers.
Comprehensive Business Law Services
Thanks to the integrated management, broad coverage of practices and competitive professionals of the firm, JunHe’s restructuring and insolvency practice can fully integrate with other legal fields such as M&A, capital markets, finance, litigation, labor and taxation. Our lawyers can identify risks from multiple perspectives and propose solutions that balance all respective interests in an accurate and timely manner, to finalize and efficiently implement restructuring plans.
Potential Commercial Resources
As a leading full-service firm, JunHe has extensive influence in the business field with rich commercial resources. Numerous Global 500 and China’s top 500 enterprises are loyal, long-term clients of JunHe. JunHe has positive cooperative relationships with many domestic and overseas financial institutions, as well as financial and industrial investors. In restructuring and insolvency projects, our firm provides professional legal services, and empowers clients, projects and cases by leveraging our social resources. We can assist enterprises to discover industrial investors, identify financial investors and seek partners, so as to increase their chance of successful restructuring or to generate the best proceeds from asset disposal.
Outstanding Cross-Border Insolvency Service Capabilities
We are committed to providing high-quality global legal services to our clients. A significant number of our lawyers can communicate and work in English, German, French, Japanese, Korean and other languages, and are able to provide foreign legal services in cross-border insolvency cases in multiple languages. They have represented overseas liquidators, investors, creditors, bond trustees and other relevant entities in a number of cross-border insolvency projects and undertaken complex cross-border insolvency cases as bankruptcy administrators appointed by Chinese courts.
Core Areas of Practice
Appointed by the People’s Court as the bankruptcy administrator，presiding over the debtor's bankruptcy liquidation, reorganization, and settlement proceedings
Designated by the People’s Court as the liquidation committee，presiding over the compulsory liquidation proceedings
Retained by administrators or liquidation committees as legal counsel, providing specialized legal services
Retained by debtors or their shareholders, advising on the self-management of assets and business affairs under the administrator’s supervision during bankruptcy reorganization proceedings
Retained by debtors, assisting with negotiated restructuring, pre-reorganization, bankruptcy reorganization proceedings
Retained by domestic and foreign creditors, representing their interests in bankruptcy liquidation, reorganization, debt settlement, out-of-court restructuring, voluntary liquidation and compulsory liquidation proceedings to protect the lawful rights and interests
Retained by shareholders, providing legal services for the dissolution and liquidation of invested companies or representing shareholders in related restructuring, reorganization, debt settlement, liquidation, out-of-court restructuring, voluntary liquidation and compulsory liquidation proceedings to safeguard their lawful rights and interests
Retained by investors, assisting in target selection and representing them in the acquisition of reorganized enterprises or bankrupt estates
Retained by financial regulators, advising on or organizing the trusteeship, wind-down, closure and liquidation of distressed financial institutions
Retained by creditors, debtors or liquidation obligors, advising on and assisting with the filing of bankruptcy petitions
Retained by creditors, debtors, shareholders or investors, representing them in pre-reorganization proceedings; or serving as provisional administrators or advisors, providing legal services during the pre-reorganization proceedings
Retained by foreign investors, advising on the dissolution and liquidation of domestic invested entities
Retained by foreign liquidation/administrators/receivers, representing them in application to the people’s court for recognition of their status and authority and assisting in the takeover of assets within China
Retained by domestic entities, representing them as shareholders or creditors in foreign bankruptcy proceedings or as investors in the acquisition of distressed foreign enterprises
Retained by stakeholders, advising on all kinds of litigation and arbitration related to dissolution, bankruptcy and liquidation
Collaborating with domestic and international organizations, industrial associations and academic societies, conducting research on insolvency and reorganization issues
