Guofei Lu

Real Estate; Construction; Infrastructure; PPP; M&A; Disputes Resolution.

Mr Lu specialises in urban and rural development and construction, investment and financing, and related dispute resolution. He has a wealth of experience in comprehensive legal services and the ability to resolve difficult and complex commercial disputes, and has twenty-two years of experience in the field:

Real estate: land consolidation and reserve, various property development and operation, comprehensive development of parks and districts, and various types of urban renewal.

Construction engineering: construction engineering, infrastructure construction, energy project construction, and EPC engineering, FIDIC contract.

Project Investment and Financing: corporate M&A, project M&A, PPP projects, private equity investment, insurance investment, various types of debt issuance, real estate asset securitisation and REITs.

State-owned Assets and Enterprises: enterprise state-owned assets transactions, state-owned enterprises restructuring, state-owned assets compliance, government procurement

Commercial Dispute Resolution: Litigation, arbitration and commercial mediation in the fields of contract, property rights, security and company law.

Managing Partner of Shanghai Bangxinyang Law Firm, Director of National Real Estate and Construction Engineering Practice Committee, Senior Lawyer, Construction and Real Estate Lawyer, graduated from East China University of Political Science and Law, majoring in Economic Law in 2002, and joined Shanghai Bangxinyang Law Firm (former Shanghai Zhongjian Law Firm) and has been practicing since then.

Arbitrator of Shanghai Arbitration Commission, Mediator of Shanghai Economic and Trade Mediation Centre, Member of Legal Expert Pool of Huangpu District Committee of the Communist Party of China, Director of Shanghai Lawyers Association, Director of Discipline (Discipline) Committee and Practice Dispute Mediation Committee of Shanghai Lawyers Association, Director of Law Society of Huangpu District of Shanghai, Legal Advisor of Dafeng District Government of Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province, External Career Mentor of Lawyers College of East China University of Political Science and Law, Director of Shanghai Real Estate Association of Federation of Industry and Commerce, Director of Shanghai Economic and Trade Mediation Centre, Chairman of Legal Branch of Shanghai Real Estate Association Director of the Shanghai Real Estate Chamber of Commerce of the Shanghai Federation of Industry and Commerce, Deputy Director of the Youth Working Committee of the Shanghai Economic and Trade Mediation Centre, Member of the Legal Committee of the Shanghai Real Estate Economics Association, and many other professional positions in the industry.

Current Situation and Suggestions of Advance Notice Registration (Co-author: Xi Zhenghui); The Legal Fate of Land Reserve from the "Return" of Expropriation; Legal Reflections on the Restriction of Transfer of Industrial Land--Annotation on the Legal System of Industrial Land; Exploration of Legal Issues Related to the Right to Use Construction Land for Multiple (co-author: Qin Rui); "Theoretical and Practical Discussion on the Transfer of Construction Land Use Right" (co-author: Li Gang), respectively published in the core publication of legal science-CSSCI source journals, China Real Estate Law Research, vols. 6, 7, 8, 10 and 12, sponsored by the School of Civil and Commercial Law of Southwest University of Political Science and Law and published by Law Press.

Mr Lu has been listed as one of the leading lawyers in the field of construction and engineering in China by the internationally renowned legal rating agency Chambers and Partners for seven consecutive years since 2018, Band 2 in Construction Engineering, Band 2 in Real Estate, and also listed in China Business Law Journal's " The A-List Legal Elite" in 2023-24, 100 Chinese wise leaders, The Legal 500 recommended lawyers in the field of real estate and construction engineering, Benchmark Litigation construction engineering and real estate dispute resolution stars, etc.; won the Supreme People's Procuratorate Civil and Administrative Procuratorate Expert Consultation Network Outstanding Expert in Civil Consultation in the Second Period (2022); awarded "Shanghai's Fourth Outstanding Young Lawyer" by Shanghai Lawyers Association in 2011; awarded Special Contribution Award in 2016, Legal Service Achievement Award in 2017, and Outstanding Worker Award in 2020 by Shanghai Real Estate Chamber of Commerce of Industry and Commerce. He was awarded the Special Contribution Award in 2016, the Legal Service Achievement Award in 2017, the Chamber of Commerce Outstanding Worker Award in 2020, and the Chamber of Commerce Outstanding Worker Award in 2021-2023.