2022.07.20
JunHe Partner YANG, Li was named in Asian Legal Business’s “2022 ALB China Top 15 Rising Lawyers” list released on July 20, 2022.
Mr. Zheng Zhibin, Vice President of Beijing Bankruptcy Administrator Association, commented, “Mr. YANG, Li has focused on bankruptcy and reorganization since 2007, and has extensive practical experience in advising many influential transactions. In recent years, he has actively explored new methods for delivering legal services in bankruptcy and reorganization and has achieved outstanding results. In the area of bankruptcy and reorganization, Mr. Yang is holding a solid lead over other lawyers born in the 1980s.”
“Mr. Yang brings his extensive practical experience in bankruptcy and reorganization to guide clients through complicated and challenging issues. He has expertise and experience gathered from when he acted as a bankruptcy administrator or represented the creditors’ committees of financial institutions in the bankruptcy proceedings of borrowers. Mr. Yang assists banks to improve risk prevention in the front-end phase such as pre-lending due diligence, credit approval and post-lending management.”
With more than 16 years’ experience in bankruptcy and reorganization, Mr. Yang has acted as an administrator (a member of a liquidation group) and counsel for financial creditors’ committees, reorganization investors, debtors and controlling shareholders. Dozens of bankruptcy and reorganization cases represented by Mr. Yang have been compiled in the reports of court work or selected as model cases by the Supreme People’s Court and provincial high people’s courts. He also has leading experience in representing a broad range of financial institutions, including securities companies, trust companies, financial leasing companies and banks, as legal counsel to onsite risk monitoring teams, trust teams, receivership teams and administrative liquidation teams. He has also worked as a member of liquidation teams or bankruptcy administrators, in the disposal of risky financial institutions and risky financial assets. Mr. Yang has accumulated rich experience in the bankruptcy and reorganization of listed companies, the merger and bankruptcy of groups of companies, out-of-court debt restructuring and bankruptcy acquisition. Below is a summary of his recent representative cases:
• Represented China General Technology (Group) Holding Co., Ltd. (as reorganization investor) in its acquisition of the companies of Dalian Machine Tool Group Corporation in 2019
• Acted as deputy head of the administrators in the bankruptcy and reorganization of Xiamen XGMA International Trading Co., Ltd. in 2019
• Represented Jiangyin Zhongnan Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. in its bankruptcy and reorganization through self-administration in 2020
• Represented the reorganization investor, a subsidiary of C&D Inc., in its acquisition of the controlling interest in Samson Paper Holdings Ltd. in 2021
• Represented the vice chairman of the committee of financial creditors in the merger and restructuring of HNA Group and 321 affiliates in 2021
• Represented the administrator in the bankruptcy and reorganization of Hengkang Medical Group Co., Ltd. in 2022
As the head of JunHe’s bankruptcy and reorganization practice group, Mr. Yang plays an active role in bankruptcy law research. He participated in a research seminar held by the legislature body regarding the implementation of the current enterprise bankruptcy law, and research seminars held by NDRC, stock exchanges and the National Social Science Fund of China regarding the liquidation of zombie companies and the bankruptcy and restructuring of listed companies.
Mr. Yang has been recognized by a wide variety of leading legal media journals. In 2020, he was listed by Who’s Who Legal as a leading business lawyer in China. In 2021, he was recognized by IFLR1000 as a highly regarded lawyer in bankruptcy and restructuring in China and won the “Lawyer of the Year” award in bankruptcy and restructuring in Beijing, China. In 2022, he was highly recommended by Legal 500 and was named among China Business Law Journal’s 2022 Rising Stars.
This welcome recognition is encouragement to JunHe and Mr. Yang to continue their excellent work in financial risk management and assist companies in distress.
