Feng Qu

Practice Areas

Banking and Finance

Capital Market

Commercial Banks and Investment Banks

Derivatives and Structured Finance

Financial and Capital Markets Regulatory

Financial Arbitration and Dispute Resolution(China)

Securities and Corporate Finance

Securitization and ABS,REITs,CMBS

Career

Senior Partner, Board Director, Head of Finance Department, Dentons China, 2001 - Present

Senior Foreign Lawyer, DACHENG WONG ALLIANCE LLP (Singapore), 2011-2015

Senior Foreign Lawyer, DACHENG CENTRAL CHAMBERS LLP (Singapore), 2010 - 2011

Professional Memberships

Admitted to Practice PRC Law (1998)

Singapore Registered Foreign Lawyer (2009)

Certificate of Security Qualification

Certificate of Futures Qualification

Publications

Monograph "China Futures Legal Practice”

Monograph "The Basics of Futures Law”

Financial Dispute Resolution: The Nature of Substantial Default, Expected Default and Cross-Default of Bonds and Litigation Recovery Practice

The Impact of the Implementation of the Futures and Derivatives Law from the Perspective of Derivatives Business of Banks

Analyzing the Extraterritorial Effect of the Futures and Derivatives Law and Cross-border Compliance Legal Issues

Highlights of the Futures and Derivatives Law

Overview of Fund Management Licenses under Singapore Law

Explaining the Highlights of the Futures and Derivatives Law

A Brief Review of the Compliance Management Guidelines for Chinese Enterprises Operating Overseas

New Opportunities for Overseas D-share Issuance and Listing of Chinese Enterprises

Issuance and Listing of GDRs under the Shanghai-Lunan Tong Mechanism

Legal Path for Foreign Traders to Participate in China's Futures Trading Markets

Practices of Overseas D-share Issuance and Listing for Chinese Enterprises

Financial and Legal Practices of Corporate Asset Securitization from CMBS Mode

Legal Path for Foreign Traders and Foreign Brokerage Institutions to Participate in China's Crude Oil Futures Market

Opportunities and Challenges for the Development of Carbon Financial Market with the Establishment of Carbon Emission Right Trading Market

Legal Practice of Syndicated Loans from a Case Study

Feasibility Study Report on the Establishment of China Carbon Sink Industry Investment Fund

The Significance and Prospect of CTA Fund Operation of Futures Innovation in China.

Personal

Attorney Frank (Feng) Qu, the senior partner of Dentons, the leader of Dentons Financial Industry (China Region) and the director of Shanghai Office’s Financial Practice Department, is a leading commercial lawyer in China. Frank is admitted in both Chinese and Singapore bar with securities and futures qualifications. In his 26-year legal practice, he has provided many famous enterprises and financial institutions with extremely high-quality legal services with his outstanding professional ability and has won plenty of compliments.

Apart from his legal education, Frank has a Ph.D. in Business Administration and a Master's degree in Finance. Frank is a distinguished legal expert in the legal fields of finance and capital market, especially in asset securitization and financial derivatives, securities and futures, financial and capital markets regulatory, asset management and trust business, etc.. From both commercial and legal perspectives, he is always able to promote clients’ commercial purposes with professional legal advice and serve clients’ interests. In academic area, in fields of futures, options, and financial derivatives, he has obtained remarkable achievements. Served as the adjoint professor in Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, he has written several treaties including Legal Practice in China Futures. Frank has also published more than 20 professional articles in Futures Daily, China Business News, China Securities Journal etc., reflecting his legal interests in both practical and academic area.

Clients

Banks: China Development Bank, China CITIC Bank, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, China Merchants Bank, , Shanghai Rural Commercial Bank，China Zheshang Bank Intesa Sanpaolo, Nanyang Commercial Bank (China), Bank of Singapore, Bank SinoPac (China), Mizuho Bank, State Bank of India,

Exchanges: China Financial Futures Exchange, Shanghai Futures Exchange, Shanghai International Energy Exchange, Dalian Commodity Exchange, Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange, Guangzhou Futures Exchange, Shanghai Clearing House, Hainan International Clearing House, China Europe International Exchange, Shanghai Environment and Energy Exchange

Securities: BOC International (China), Chasing Securities, Caitong Securities, Southwest Securities, Guotai Junan Securities, Haitong SecuritiesOthers: Dianguang Explosion Protection Technology Co., Ltd., Suzhou Thvow Technology Co., Ltd., Raffles International Education Group (China), AUX.

Work Highlights

Frank’s leading cases include but are not limited to:

Green ABN project: Providing specialized legal services for China Three Gorges Renewables (Group) Co., Ltd. to issue green ABN projects. This is the first carbon-neutral ABN in the country with the national new energy subsidy as the underlying asset. The scale of this issue is as high as CNY 2 billion.

Establishment of CEINEX: Providing specialized legal services for China Financial Futures Exchange (the “Client”), Shanghai Stock Exchange and Deutsche Börse to jointly establish the China Europe International Exchange (“CEINEX”). The cooperation agreement for this project was reached under the joint witness of the Premier of China’s State Council and the German Chancellor. The project has been awarded as the Deals of the Year by China Business Law Journal.

Issuance and Fund-Raising of A Shares and H Shares of Bank: Providing legal service for the issuance and Fund-Raising of A Shares and H Shares of Bank of Qingdao for ISP’s capital increase by way of share allotment. ISP is the largest bank in Italy and a European banking giant with a history of more than 400 years. The final aggregate proceeds of the Rights Offering of A Share and H Share are HK $ 5.134 billion (approximately RMB4.196 billion). This project has been awarded for many honors such as the Asia Legal Awards, China Business Law Journal and legal band and so on.

OTC financial derivatives transaction: Providing specialized legal services for Bank SinoPac (China) in its financial derivatives transaction with a non-banking enterprise. This transaction is the first time that the Client has adopted the OTC financial derivatives transaction structure in mainland China.

ABCP Project: Providing specialized legal services for Ping An Dianchuang International Financial Leasing Co., Ltd. (the “Client”) in its registration and issuance of Asset-backed Commercial Paper (“ABCP”). ABCP is a new financing instrument recently launched by the National Association of Financial Market Institutional Investors. The Client’s successful issuance provides a typical example for other enterprises to adopt the same way for financing in the future.

Cross-border financing project: Providing special legal services for debt restructuring of syndicated loan of China Development Bank Co., Ltd. Shanghai Branch in New Zealand Yellow Pages Group (about 2.2 billion AUD), including legal research, legal compliance, special consultation, egal opinion, etc..

Famous financial futures dispute: Served as the legal counsel for China Financial Futures Exchange for its disputes among Everbright Securities, Shanghai Stock Exchange, individual investor. The case was heard by the First middle court of Shanghai and the final judgment is favorable to Frank’s client. This case is unprecedented and has been reported by the media as the largest incident in the Chinese capital market to date. It attracted widespread market attention and had huge warning effect on entire capital market.

Industry Sector Expertise

Frank Qu specializes in banking and finance, futures options and derivatives, securitization and structured products, dispute resolution, project finance and corporate finance, capital market and investment funds, financial market regulatory. His main experience focus on the fields of finance and capital market, especially in asset securitization and financial derivatives, securities and futures, asset management and trust business, etc..

Expert in these Jurisdictions

The People's Republic of China

Singapore

Languages Spoken

Mandarin

English

Experience

Frank Qu joined Dentons in 2001. He is the co-head of financial practice and sector and leader of financial derivatives group in the China region. He has extensive experience in advising domestic and international clients on both inbound and outbound transactions. Till now, he has assisted numerous clients in successfully completing the issuance of BOND,ABS, public REITs, CMBS, ABCP and other financial instruments.

Furthermore, he has also served as the director of the Futures Law Professional Committee and the deputy director of Financial Instruments Committee of the Shanghai Bar Association, the director of the Financial Law Research Association of the Shanghai Law Society, and a member of the China Financial Futures Exchange Case Review Committee, etc..

Education

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