Qinghua Liang

Practice Areas

Customs & Import/Export, Chinese Mainland Capital Markets, Financial Products & Trusts

Professional Memberships

Member, the Lawyer Advisory Group of Guangdong State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission

Publications

“Pre-acquisition Transaction Structure Design and Key Terms Arrangement of New Energy Projects”, Zhonglun Research Institute, 2022

“Brief Discussion on Enterprise Import Compliance Risk under the New Solid Waste Prevention Law”, Zhonglun Research Institute, 2022

Personal

Before joining Zhong Lun, Mr. Qinghua Liang acted as Secretary of Customs Commissioner and head of legal department of Guangzhou Customs and as in-house counsel of Guangzhou Metro Corporation, and such experience familiarized him with compliance policies applicable to state-owned companies and compliance requirements of the Customs. Mr. Liang is well-versed in risk prevention relating to international trade and customs and skilful at handling customs investigation and defending clients in criminal cases of smuggling.

Mr. Liang has extensive experience and profound knowledge in the areas of M&A, cross-border transaction, IPO, securitization, and corporate bonds. He has represented a large number of local and international clients on dozens of transactions across a wide range of sectors. He is astute at coming up with efficient and creative solutions based on in-depth dissection of intricate legal issues from the perspective of an experienced lawyer.

Work Highlights

. Import / Export & Customs Legal Matters

Advised Guangzhou Customs and its subordinated companies, Nansha Free Trade Zone Customs on their legal affairs and compliance

Acted for dozens of auto traders in the franchise fee cases

Advised numbers of multinational companies on the smuggling cases and investigation process conducted by Chinese Customs

Advised numbers of multinational companies on the classification and evaluation of products sold in China

Advised on dozens of customs inspection and investigation cases

Advised numbers of enterprises on the customs' protection of intellectual property

Advised an international logistics company in Qingdao in a criminal litigation case of international express smuggling

Advised an international logistics company in Foshan in a criminal litigation case of cross border E-commerce

Advised an international supply chain company in Zhuhai in a criminal litigation case of cross border E-commerce

Acted for Mr. Li for a criminal litigation case of waste smuggling

Acted for Mr.Zhan for a criminal litigation case of waste smuggling

Acted for Mr. Xie for a criminal litigation case of Oily sewage smuggling

Acted for Mr. Huang of a criminal litigation case of cigarette smuggling

Acted for Mr. Shao of a criminal litigation case of fruit smuggling

Acted for Mr. Xiao of a criminal litigation case of waste plastics

Acted for Mr. Zhang of a criminal litigation case of steel scrap

Advised Mr. Lin in an special legal consulting project of the Crime of Smuggling Ordinary Goods

2. Investment Projects and Mergers & Acquisitions

Advised Yudean Group Guizhou Co.,Ltd. on its acquisition of dozens of wind power projects in Dezhou of Shandong province, Jingbian county of Shanxi province, Liaoning province and Yunnan province

Advised Upper Horn Investments Limited on its acquisition, investment and construction of dozens of wind power projects in Yancheng and Ningjing of Jiangsu province

Advised Guangdong Electricity Development Company on its acquisition of dozens of agricultural photovoltaic and fishery photovoltaic complementary power generation project in Qingyuan, Suixi county，Leizhou, Lianjiang, Maoming

Advised Guangdong Xindian New Energy Co.,Ltd. on its acquisition of dozens of photovoltaic power station project, roof distributed photovoltaic power generation project in Foshan and Baoji

Advised Zhuhai Power Development Group Co.,Ltd.on its acquisition of dozens of photovoltaic power generation project in Wuqing district, Tianjin

Advised Guangdong Electricity Development Company on its acquisition of dozens of photovoltaic power project in Changzhou, Niqiu county in Hebei province, Shangyi county, Chenzhou and Guiyang county

Advised Yudean Group Guizhou Co.,Ltd. on its acquisition of dozens of photovoltaic power generation project in Dongying of Shangdong province, and Panzhihua

Advised CPI Southern Power Co.,Ltd.on its acquisition of Jiuzhou New energy photovoltaic power generation project

Advised Zhuhai Gangchao New Energy Technology Group Co., Ltd.on its acquisition of the shares of Quzhou New Energy company

Advised Guangdong Yuedean Qujie Wind Power Generation Co., Ltd on its investment and construction of the offshore wind power project in Wailuo, Zhanjiang Province

Advised Tongdao Yuexin Wind Power Co., Ltd on its investment and constructure of the Tongdao Dagaoshan wind power project

Advised Yudean Group Guizhou Co.,Ltd. of dozens of its investment and constructure of the Xianrenshan, dadingshan, and dabangshan wind power project in Guizhou province

Advised Guizhou Yuedean Congjiang Wind Energy Co., Ltd on its investment and constructure of the Xiutang wind power project in Guizhou province

Advised Hunan Xupu Yuefeng New Energy Co., Ltd on its investment and constructure of the wind power project in Xupu county, Hunan province

Advised Upper Horn Investments Limited on its investment and constructure of dozens of photovoltaic power generation projects and agricultural photovoltaic complementary power generation projects

Advised Guangdong Yuedean Dapu Power Generation Co., Ltd on its investment and constructure of dozens of photovoltaic power generation projects and agricultural photovoltaic complementary power generation projects

Advised Guangdong Yudean Xinhui Power Generation Co., Ltd on its investment and constructure of the photovoltaic power generation project of Jiangmen Xinhui Power Generation Co., Ltd.

Advised Linfen Zhaocheng Yuefeng New Energy Co., Ltd on its investment and constructure of Hongdong agricultural photovoltaic complementary power generation project in Linfen, Shanxi province

Advised Lianjiang Yuefeng New Energy Co., Ltd on its investment and constructure of Lianjiang Dongsheng Farm agricultural photovoltaic complementary power generation project, Changshan Farm agricultural photovoltaic complementary power generation project, Liming Farm agricultural photovoltaic complementary power generation project

Advised Guangzhou Yajule Solid Waste Treatment Co., Ltd on its acquisition of the shares of dozens of garbage treatment companies, solid waste disposal companies and sewage treatment companies in Hunan, Henan, Shandong

Advised Guangxi Investment Group Co., Ltd. on its merger and acquisition of Asia Aluminum Industry Co., Ltd.

Advised Guangdong Yudean Finance Co., Ltd. on its acquisition of the shares of China Huarong Trust Company

Advised Guangdong Yudean Group Co., Ltd. on its acquisition of the shares of Guizhou Yueqian Power Co., Ltd.

Advised one energy group company on its investment of a nuclear power project

Advised Guangdong Yudean Group Co., Ltd on its investment of Jordan APCO oil shale mine electricity joint venture project

Advised Upper Horn Investments Limited on its investment of the Invincible Colliery Coal Mine Project in New South Wales, Australia

Advised Upper Horn Investments Limited on its investment of the MLA 2008 coal mine project, the Cullen Valley coal mine project in Australia

Bio can be found here: https://en.zhonglun.com/team/liangqinghua.html

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Experience

Partner, Zhong Lun Law Firm, 2010 to present

Partner, Guangdong Teamwin Law Firm, 2001 to 2010

Secretary of Customs Commissioner and Head of Legal Department, Guangzhou Customs, 1997 to 2001

In-house Counsel, Guangzhou Metro Group Co., Ltd., 1995 to 1997

Languages Spoken

Chinese

English