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Allen Zhao has over 17 years of legal practice experience. His main area of expertise includes financial asset management, investment, mergers & acquisitions, corporate governance, litigation and arbitration, and the industries covered include real estate and infrastructure, insurance, and renewable energy.
In the field of financial asset management, Allen has been long-term focused on the research and practice in insurance asset management, private equity funds, trusts, asset securitization, and other asset management businesses. Allen provides legal services to clients in various aspects of investment instrument structuring, establishment, fund raising, investment, restructuring, and operation.
In the field of investment and mergers & acquisitions, Allen, as the leading counsel, has successfully represented domestic and foreign investment institutions in over 1000 investment and M&A projects. In the field of non-performing assets, Allen has provided legal services for multiple investment institutions in investment, acquisition, restructuring, financing, and disposal of non-performing assets. Allen has successfully handled a series of major and complex non-performing asset investment and financing projects. In the field of dispute resolution, Allen excels in civil and commercial litigation and arbitration cases involving finance, real estate, and corporate mergers and acquisitions.
Work Highlights
Real Estate
Representing an insurance private equity fund for its investment in a large-scale complex project in Shanghai, with a total investment exceeding RMB 30 billion
Representing a leading insurance company for its investment in multiple large-scale commercial office projects in Beijing (Lize, Fengtai), Wuhan, and other cities
Representing a leading insurance company for its direct or indirect investment in several long-term rental apartment projects in Shanghai, Nanjing, Beijing, and other cities
Representing an insurance private equity fund for its investment in a healthcare real estate project in Shanghai
Representing JD Capital in its investment in a large-scale complex project in Putuo, Shanghai, with a total investment exceeding RMB 10 billion
Representing Mitsui & Co. for its establishment and formulation of an industrial and logistics real estate platform through offshore structure
Representing DNE in its investment in the Galaxy No.1 Intelligent Industrial Park project in Jinshan, Shanghai, with a total investment of approximately USD 1.5 billion
Representing DNE in its investment in a large logistics park project in Beijing Comprehensive Bonded Zone
Representing Sino-Ocean Capital in its investments in multiple IDC projects in Yanjiao, Chengdu, Wuhan, and other cities
Renewable Energy
Representing Jinko Solar, State Grid Corporation, Shenergy Group (600642), JA Solar, Trina Solar for their investment in projects in new energy industries, including new energy materials, photovoltaic equipment and related components, and research and development, production, and industrialization of energy storage and related monitoring and control systems)
Representing Jinko Solar for its domestic investment and development of new energy power station projects, including centralized photovoltaic power stations, distributed photovoltaic power stations, wind power stations, and energy storage power stations
Representing YEIG for its acquisition of a photovoltaic asset portfolio from GCL, which involves hundreds of photovoltaic power stations with a total installed capacity of nearly 1GW
Representing Akcome for its sale of domestic photovoltaic asset portfolio, which involves dozens of photovoltaic power stations with a total installed capacity exceeding 400MW
Representing a private fund manager in initiating the establishment of a private equity fund and investing in a commercial and industrial distributed photovoltaic asset portfolio project, which involves nearly 300 projects with a total installed capacity of nearly 600MW
Financial Asset Management
Representing an insurance company in its issuance of non-fixed-term bonds and capital supplementary bonds
Representing a private fund manager of an insurance group for its initiating the establishment of a private equity fund project focusing on investments in high-tech, medical, and new energy sectors
Representing an insurance private fund for its investment in a private equity fund in order to indirectly invest in a new energy asset portfolio
Representing an insurance asset management company for its initiating the establishment of several private equity funds (including new infrastructure funds, inclusive finance funds, public REITs funds, etc.)
Representing an insurance asset management company for its initiating the establishment of a new energy infrastructure debt investment plan
Representing a real estate asset management company and a well-known real estate development enterprise for their exit from investments in Shanghai and Nanjing through initiating an asset support special plan
Representing a trust company for its initiating the establishment of several property rights trust plans
Representing a trust company for its initiating the establishment of the first service trust plan with the theme of rural revitalization and zero-carbon communities
Non-Performing Asset, Litigation and Arbitration
Representing Avenue Capital for its acquisition of multiple non-performing loan projects in Beijing, Shanghai, Zhuhai, Xiamen, Huizhou, and other cities in China
Representing DNE for its acquisition of a logistics warehousing project in Shanghai through the bankruptcy reorganization process
Representing Sino-Ocean for its establishment of a non-performing asset investment platform and acquisition of an industrial park project in Jiading, Shanghai through such platform
Representing a real estate investment institution in arbitration regarding equity repurchase disputes between the institution and its counterparties in Tianjin and Changchun
Representing a global energy company (photovoltaic manufacturer) in a procurement contract dispute case with a new energy company
