Yao Zhou

Practice Areas

Banking and finance, foreign direct investment, merger and acquisition, private equity and venture capital investment.

Career

Yao Zhou is a senior partner at banking & finance department of Dentons Beijing. She is the executive director of the Financial Leasing Law Research Center of the Financial Committee in Dentons Beijing. Before joining Dentons Beijing, she worked at another international law firm and focused her practice in general corporate and venture capital financing transactions. Mrs. Zhou joined a PRC law firm in May 2010 and started to focus on banking and finance, foreign direct investment, merger and acquisition and private equity and venture capital investment, in which she has accumulated extensive experience.

Professional Memberships

In 2015, Mrs. Zhou was appointed as a member of the China Contact Group by the Aviation Working Group, an international institution in the aviation financing and leasing industry, to recognize her experience and achievements as one of the few leading lawyers in China who are able to provide highly expertized legal services in this field；

In 2018, Mrs. Zhou was selected for the talent pool of foreign-related business lawyers that was established by the Ministry of Justice of China and was selected for the list of A Thousand Foreign-Related Business Lawyers of China;

In 2020, Mrs. Zhou was selected for the talent pool of foreign-related business lawyers that was established by the Beijing Lawyers Association;

In 2022, Mrs. Zhou was invited, as an individual, to be a member of ASBAA (Asian Business Aviation Association)’s China Commission, and participated in the work of the professional commission of “Aviation Law Tax/Assessment/Finance”;

In 2023, Mrs. Zhou was invited to be a career observation mentor in the Maritime and Aviation Group of the Qingzhu Plan jointly launched by Dentons Beijing and China University of Political Science and Law, to provide pre-employment training and guidance for graduate law students and young lawyers.

Publications

Participated in the edition and publication of the Chinese law portion of the Aviation Finance and Leasing section of Getting Your Deal Through in the year of 2016;

Published at Legal Inquiry for Finance an article titled The Influence of New Measures on Registration of Pledged Accounts Receivables;

Published at Daily Civil Aviation IFLY an article titled Guide on Foreign Assets of General Aviation Access;

Published at Daily Civil Aviation IFLY an article titled Is the Registration of Corporate Aircrafts Registered Overseas Hard?

Published at Daily Civil Aviation IFLY an article titled Ownership Share: Corporate Aircrafts Can be Purchased In This Way;

Publish professional articles on Dentons global website and LinkedIn titled Airline Bankruptcy and Aircraft Retrieval -- from Chinese Perspective;

Mrs. Zhou’s personal views on the exercise of the lessor’s right of recovery in respect of HNA Group’s restructuring when being interviewed by Airfinance Journal are quoted in the article titled Analysis: Will Lessors Retriever Aircraft in HNA Restructuring? by Airfinance Journal;

Published at ALB and LexisNexis, respectively an article titled Can Non-foreign Related Contracts be Governed by Foreign Laws and Can Parties thereto Choose Foreign Arbitration;

Published a professional article at Dentons’ WeChat public account titled "Brief Description regarding Equity Pledge and its Risk Points of Establishment";

Published a professional article at Dentons’ WeChat official account titled An Understanding of the Main Rules of China’s Foreign Debt Supervision -- Starting from the Update of Foreign Debt in Early 2020;

Published a professional article titled Analyzing the Effectiveness Review of Company Providing Guarantee to External Parties from “Jiumin Minutes” at Dentons’ WeChat official account;

Published at Daily Civil Aviation IFLY an article titled Things About Business Jet Trading and Financing;

Published a professional article at Dentons’ WeChat official account titled Enlightenment of Changes on the Guarantee of Civil Code to the Development of Aircraft Financing Projects;

Published a professional article at Dentons’ WeChat official account titled Regulations on Foreign Exchange of Cross-border Guarantee and Registration Operation;

Published a professional article at Dentons’ WeChat official account titled Regulatory Review and Prospect of Finance leasing Companies -- Starting from the Implementation of the New Regulation Supervising Finance Leasing Companies by the China Bank & Insurance Regulatory Commission;

Published a professional article at Dentons’ WeChat official account titled Analyzing Hainan’s New Policy on Free Trade Port from the Perspective of Aircraft Financial Leasing Business;

Published a professional article at Dentons’ WeChat official account titled New Situation of Foreign Investment in General Aviation Area -- Starting from the 2020 Negative List of Foreign Investment;

Published a professional article at Dentons’ WeChat official account titled Enlightenment from the Changes in the Guarantee Field of the Civil Code to the Aircraft Financing Project (II) -- on the Interpretation of the Supreme People’s Court on the Application of Guarantee (Exposure Draft);

Published a professional article at Dentons’ WeChat official account titled Discussion on Cross-border RMB Investment and Financing from Notice on Further Improving Cross-border RMB Policy to Support Stabilizing Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment;

Published a professional article on Dentons Beijing Law self-media platform titled Brief Discussion on the Dilemma of judicial Auction System and Suggestions on Legislation and Judicial Practice -- Starting from the Current situation of Legal Auction Aircraft;

Published a professional article on Dentons Beijing Law self-media platform titled Suitability Analysis of Construction under Construction as Leasehold in Financial Leasing Project;

Published a professional article on Dentons Beijing Law self-media platform titled A Brief Analysis and Practical Discussion on Common Chinese Legal Issues Involved in Cross-border Asset Financing Projects.