Top-tier firm JunHe is ranked ‘Outstanding’ across various practice areas, including banking and finance, capital markets, competition/antitrust, corporate and M&A, labour and employment, and tax. Key figures include partner Hui (Nelson) Zhou for banking and finance, Jiang (Joe) Chen for corporate and M&A, Yingling Wei for competition/antitrust, Weining Zou ang George Wang for dispute resolution, Dongpeng Wang for labour and employment, and Chumeng (Jessica) Xu for IP. The firm also welcomed partners including Zhijun Lin, Libin Shi, Zhen Han, Sophie Chen, Sipei Lu, and Xiangyang Ge in 2022 to enhance its practice.
Client feedback
“The legal terms of the Round D financing contract are good to our company. JunHe always provided feedback on the revised contract in time.” – Capital markets
“Professional and responsible. They always consider their clients.” – Capital markets
“Perfect work.” – Capital markets
“The firm provides detailed consulting advice to the client. They are especially good at providing legal advice in a business view, and their advice is quite practical.” – Corporate and M&A
“Professional, responsive, sophisticated, always meets deadline.” – Corporate and M&A
“The firm provides professional insight about HGR-related consultation.” – Corporate and M&A
“The JunHe team has good business sense and understands our business models well. Their advice is very professional and strategic which helped our company to make a quick decision in a rational manner.” – Corporate and M&A
“Extremely good at co-counselling with international disputes lawyers, very strong strategic and legal judgement, excellent industry and client knowledge.” – Dispute resolution
“JunHe assigned appropriate lawyers with good experience and lawyering skills to accommodate our legal demands, and JunHe lawyers provided legal advice to the maximum extent to serve our business needs.” – Dispute resolution
“The firm demonstrated extreme professionalism, diligence, and hard-work ethic. They advised in a timely manner with clear articulation on PRC legal knowledge and practices.” – Investment funds
“They have rich knowledge on the legal fields, and their expertise and practice experience help clients.” – Privacy and data protection
“Professionalism, timely response, swift execution and one-stop solution.” – Real estate
“They have expertise on privacy and provide practical recommendations on potential risks.” – Regulatory
“Comprehensive and complete advice and suggestions.” – Technology and telecommunication
“JunHe is a top-tier law firm in handling complex work. JunHe has strong expertise in many highly regulated industry sectors such as telecommunication and cloud services that involve the most complex issues. They always deliver high-quality work products and provide creative solutions for the most difficult regulatory and contractual issues.” – Technology and telecommunication
Wei Chen
“Chen understands the client's needs and the pharmaceutical industry very well. Chen can provide full service to the client professionally and timely.”
Kevin Cui
“Cui manages the team to provide service. Cui consults other lawyers to solve specific problems like tax issues.”
Ning Liu
“She understands clients’ needs and requirements well and is very customer-friendly. For any urgent matters, her team could complete them to meet deadlines by hard-working overtime.”
Rui Ma
“With his help, the legal terms of the Round D financing contract are good for the company. He always provided feedback on the revised contract in time.”
“Rui can quickly familiarise himself with my business, and he is good at providing legal services while focusing on business purposes. And, of course, his professional knowledge is good.”
“Ma Rui is a very professional and responsible lawyer. He is proficient in various products and services in the field of capital markets, such as IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, etc. In his cooperation with me personally and our fund, he is professional, enthusiastic, and has strong customer service awareness. He always carefully analyses problems, prepares materials, and has demonstrated rich experience in many material issues. When communicating with clients, he can put himself in their shoes and consider their needs and propose constructive solutions. When providing capital market legal services to our fund and invested companies, he has won much praise from our partners and CEOs.”
Shiming Shang
“Shang is extremely responsive and has problem-solving skills and creativity.”
Carol Sun
“Sun considers our various needs, even in supporting us for better engagement with the business team.”
Yongqiang Yu
“Very talented and experienced in capital markets, M&A, VC/PE.”
Elvis Zhou
“Zhou is an extremely experienced construction lawyer with excellent judgement and talent for creative problem-solving. Zhou is a delight to work with.”
Frank Zhou
“Timely, responsive, detailed and patient.”
Nelson Zhou
“Zhou is professional. Zhou offers timely response, swift execution, and one-stop solution.”
Weining Zou
“Weining is an excellent lawyer. He acted as our external counsel for over five years. He quickly responds to our legal inquiries, understands our business needs, sets up appropriate lawyer team, delivers his legal advice in a timely manner, and his legal advice is practical and workable.”
Work highlights
Assisted CPE to participate in the Series B financing of $800 million of JD Smart Industry Development Group.
Advised GAC Aion on its Series A financing in an amount of Rmb18.3 billion.
Advised ReiStone Biopharma on its Series A financing.
Key clients
China Life Healthcare Fund, Degron Therapeutics, Hahn & Company, RNAimmune, Wuxi AstraZeneca CICC Venture Capital Partnership.
Work highlights
Represented Kelsen Group in a lawsuit against invalidation decisions against a Chinese mark.
Assists Newsoara BioPharma in their exclusive collaboration agreement with Jumpcan Pharmaceutical.
Represented Cryofocus in conducting an intellectual property due diligence investigation for its listing in Hong Kong.
Key clients
Belching Beaver Brewery, Beijing Central China Era Culture Development, Haichang Ocean Park, Harbour BioMed.
Work highlights
Represented a large state-owned bank in its successful dispute with a bankruptcy administrator over the cancellation of repayments of Rmb560 million.
Assisted Golden Arches to win the second instance of a lawsuit concerning environment protection and public welfare.
Represented a Singapore trading company before a Chinese court in a litigation case concerning a dispute between the Singapore company and a China company over the purchase and sales contracts.
Work highlights
Advised Jiangxi Modern Industry Government-guided Fund on investing in several funds.
Advised National Council for Social Security Fund on its investment in Hillhouse PE Fund III.
Advised CICC Private Equity and CICC Capital on multiple funds formation.
Key clients
BlueRun Ventures, Broad Vision Capital, GL Capital Group, Longpan Capital, National Manufacturing Transformation and Upgrade Fund, Source Code Capital.
Work highlights
Advised Hengkang Medical on its successful restructuring.
Appointed as bankruptcy administrator for Dongying Fangyuan Nonferrous Metals and advised the firm to achieve significant results in its reorganisation and relief work.
Advised Wilson Associates on its global insolvency and bankruptcy project. The firm coordinated and supervised the lawyers in Shanghai, New York, London, Paris, Dubai and Singapore to provide legal services to the client involving Chinese law, US law, British law and laws of other jurisdictions.
Key clients
COAMCI, Hebei Anfeng Iron & Steel, Tianjin Lishen Battery Joint-Stock.
Work highlights
Advised INEOS on a series of acquisitions and joint venture agreements with Sinopec worth $7 billion.
Advised GAC Aion on its Series A financing with an amount of Rmb18.3 billion ($2.51 billion).
Advised China Power to acquire SPIC’s 2.16 million KW of clean energy assets.
Key clients
Magnum Opus Acquisition, PAG, Ping An Bank, Publicis Groupe, Sonova, Zibo Jiangtu Hengsong Holdings.
Work highlights
Advised InventisBio on its listing on the STAR Market in Shanghai.
Advised China Merchants Port Holdings on its private offering of A shares and strategic investment in Ningbo Port.
Advised People’s Government of Hainan Province on its first Issuance of offshore RMB local government bonds.
Advised Hinova Pharma on its successful STAR Market IPO.
Advised Jiarong Technology on its IPO on the GEM Board of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.
Key clients
China Merchants Bank, CLSA, CICC, CITIC Bank, Geovis Technology, Pharma Studies.
Work highlights
Advised HSBC on the provision of the first loan facility for the Construction of the Hainan Island Tourism Highway.
Advised a syndicate led by Bank of China (Hong Kong) and Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank on providing a $4.5 billion overseas sustainability-linked syndicated loan for Syngenta Group.
Advised 51job on its privatisation.
Advises China CITIC Bank on its issuance of financial bonds.
Key clients
Bank SinoPac Company, CICC, CLSA, China Merchants Securities, Huobi, OCBC Bank, United Overseas Bank.
