Tao Jiang

Practice Areas

Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Reorganization, Debt Restructuring & Non-performing Assets, Chinese Mainland Capital Markets

Professional Memberships

Member, Bankruptcy and Restructuring Committee of Qingdao Lawyers Association

Researcher, Bankruptcy Law Research Center of Qingdao University

Executive Director, Enterprise Business Law Office of Shandong Law Society

Arbitrator, Zibo Arbitration Commission

Director, Law Professional Committee of Debt Restructuring of Shandong Mergers & Acquisitions Federal Association

Director, Shandong Regional Economics Association

Publications

“Optimization of the Non-Performing Assets Transfer System in Bankruptcy Proceedings” in the Bankruptcy Law of Tea (Volume V), Law Press, 2022

“Review and Analysis of 100 Cases of Trade Secrets and Guide to the Construction of Enterprise Confidentiality System”, coauthored with Qinglin Tang, Weihong Huang, and Jun Lin, China Legal Publishing House, October 2014

“A Preliminary Study of the Methods of Determining and Calculating Losses in the Crime of Trade Secret Infringement”, third prize in the papers competition hosted by Shandong Lawyers Association, April 2015

Personal

Mr. Tao Jiang, once an executive of a large group company, is well versed in corporate debt restructuring, bankruptcy reorganization and enterprise turnover management. He is a master at applying legal insights to enterprises, industries, and operation management, and has profound practical experience in debt bankruptcy and restructuring of large enterprise groups. Mr. Jiang has been vigorously promoting factorized bankruptcy, non-bankruptcy restructuring, bankruptcy prevention and other approaches to bankruptcy that can effectively rescue enterprises from their distress. He combines debt restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy reorganization, industrial investment and disposal of non-performing assets with fund management, and uses a variety of financial instruments and legal tools to secure funding for distressed enterprises and promote industrial development, thereby providing integrated solutions for enterprise rescue.

Work Highlights

Acted as restructuring investment advisor for the consolidated bankruptcy reorganization of Yanggu Xiangguang Copper Co., Ltd. and 18 other companies. The reorganization was of an enormous scale as it involved more than CNY 60 billion of debts and 19 companies, which was further complicated by the fact that the target was a nonferrous metal smelting company and therefore entailed considerable complexities in terms of environmental compliance, investment risk due diligence and so on

Advised on the consolidated bankruptcy settlement of Haihui Group Co., Ltd. and 32 other companies, where settlement, an approach rarely used in addressing debt risk involving nearly CNY 10 billion, was explored and employed, so that as many creditors as possible were involved to the maximum extent, thereby mitigating the impact of the debt risk on local business environment

Advised on the consolidated bankruptcy reorganization of Qixing Group Co., Ltd. and 26 other companies, involving CNY 15 billion and representing one of the earliest examples of consolidated reorganization

Advised on the consolidated reorganization of Shandong Guangyuan Energy-saving Materials Co., Ltd. and four other companies, involving CNY 4 billion

Advised on the consolidated reorganization of Yangxin Eurasia Group Co., Ltd. and 22 other companies, involving CNY 2.6 billion

Advised on the bankruptcy liquidation of Shandong Huicheng Chemical Co. Ltd.

Advised on the bankruptcy settlement of Xiwang Group Co., Ltd., with the entire process being completed within 41 days. The case is the first in China where large debt defaults were innovatively resolved through settlement and got selected as one of the ten typical bankruptcy cases of Shandong province

Advised on the consolidated bankruptcy settlement of Yuhuang Group and 31 other companies, involving CNY 42 billion of debt and completed in 39 days. The case is included as one of the typical bankruptcy cases of Shandong province and so far one of the largest bankruptcy settlement cases in China

Advised on the consolidated bankruptcy reorganization of Shandong Jinsheng Non-ferrous Group Co., Ltd. and 4 other companies, involving more than CNY 10 billion of debt. The case entailed coordination of local key guarantee providers and had a highly positive impact on the local job market and economic development

Advised on the debt restructuring of Shandong Changhua Machinery Technology Co., Ltd.

Advised on the debt restructuring of Shandong Shouxin High Molecular Materials Co., Ltd.

Advised on the debt restructuring of Kingenta Ecological Engineering Group Co., Ltd.

Advised on the bankruptcy reorganization of Yantai Taihai Group Co., Ltd.

Advised on the bankruptcy reorganization of Yantai Taihai Manoir Nuclear Equipment Co., Ltd.

Advised on the debt restructuring of Huasheng Jiangquan Group

Advised on the out-of-court restructuring of Shandong Ruiying Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd. and its affiliated companies

Advised on the debt restructuring of Shandong Ruifeng Stainless Steel Co., Ltd. and its affiliated companies

Advised on the bankruptcy reorganization of Jinan Zhonghai Carbon Products Co., Ltd., involving private fundraising and with a total debt amounting to CNY 1.6 billion

Advised on the debt restructuring of Qingdao Jipai Food Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd.

Advised on the debt restructuring of Sino-Ally International Trade Co., Ltd.

Advised on the debt restructuring of Jinan Xinmao New Materials Co., Ltd.