Zheng Xiaoxiao
Partner
Areas of practices

Corporation and Investment, Bank, Bankruptcy Liquidation and Restructure,

Practice experience

Since practicing law in 2009, Mr. Zheng Xiaoxiao has provided various legal services for many government departments, state-owned enterprises, foreign-funded enterprises and financial institutions, focusing on state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises, financial compliance, and commercial transactions.

At present, the customers served include but are not limited to financial institutions, government departments, central enterprises, local state-owned enterprises, foreign-funded enterprises, private enterprises, etc. Mr. Zheng Xiaoxiao has been assisting state-owned assets regulatory authorities in formulating regulatory regulations for many years, and is good at analyzing various risks that state-owned enterprises may face from the perspective of supervision, and is also good at considering the requirements of relevant regulatory authorities from the perspective of compliance operation of state-owned enterprises, and can provide complex, innovative and compliant legal services for different types of clients.

In addition, Mr. Zheng Xiaoxiao is deeply engaged in the field of banking financial legal services, providing many banks with diversified legal services such as syndicated loans, innovative factoring, public opinion handling of "guaranteed delivery buildings", and disposal of non-performing loans. Due to the rigor and professionalism of Mr. Zheng Xiaoxiao in the process of practice, his business ability has been recognized and trusted by many clients.

Work experience
Mr. Zheng Xiaoxiao joined Gao Peng Law Firm in September 2009 and worked as a lawyer and partner at Gao Peng (Shanghai) Law Firm
Educational background
Bachelor of Laws, Jilin University
Master of Laws, Xiamen University

Social positions
Practical teaching tutor of Xiamen University Law School
Member of Shanghai Bankruptcy Administrators Association

Awards
Outstanding Non-litigator of Shanghai Jing'an District 2012-2014
Company professional level assessment certification
Financial securities insurance professional level assessment certification
Intermediate title lawyer

Representative cases
Bankruptcy, liquidation and reorganization / Investment and financing / Banking and Finance / State-owned assets and state-owned enterprises /
  • Served as the person in charge/team leader of bankruptcy and compulsory liquidation cases of a number of enterprises

  • As creditor lawyer, he represented a number of subsidiaries of Sino-Ocean Group, HNA, Unigroup, Alstom Power Grid Company, Shanghai International Business Company, and Shanghai Tongye Coal Chemical Company in bankruptcy liquidation cases

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  • Provided a series of complex and difficult special legal services such as due diligence, project compliance, equity financing, restructuring and mergers and acquisitions, and debt dispute resolution for a well-known Taiwan-funded commercial real estate developer in Zhejiang, Guangdong and other real estate development projects

  • Provided special legal services for a well-known domestic investor to invest in Tencent RMB co-investment fund, providing special legal services such as transaction structure demonstration, due diligence, legal document compliance review, etc., with an investment amount of more than 200 million yuan

  • In the equity project of Alibaba Group's investment in a game company, he represented the game company in business negotiations, investment document review and special legal services with Alibaba Group, with an investment amount of more than 400 million yuan

  • Served as perennial legal counsel for a listed company, and participated in the equity investment of a potash fertilizer company project and a lithium battery company project in a certain place to provide special legal services such as transaction structure demonstration, due diligence, legal document compliance review, etc., with a total investment amount of more than 500 million yuan

  • Provide perennial and special legal services for the professional platform of a national legal technology and dispute resolution service provider, including but not limited to the top-level system design of the platform and subsidiary equity structure, the design, construction and improvement of equity incentive model, the selection and risk assessment of foreign investment projects, the risk prevention and dispute resolution of equity disputes between the platform and subsidiaries, etc

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  • He served as the special legal counsel of the head office of China Development Bank and Shanghai Branch, Bank of Communications and Shanghai Branch, Postal Savings Bank of China Shanghai Branch and other banking and financial institutions, and provided diversified special legal services such as syndicated loans (with a total target of tens of billions of yuan), disposal of non-performing loans, resolution of bill disputes, compliance demonstration of innovative financial projects, resolution of major public opinion risks, and liability for damages

  • Represented a state-owned bank (one of the six major banks) in a financial loan litigation dispute with CEFC Group, with the subject matter of the litigation exceeding 1.2 billion yuan

  • He provided special legal services for the whole process of "fundraising, investment, management and withdrawal" for dozens of fund products issued by multiple private equity fund managers and served as the lead lawyer, including but not limited to project transaction structure design, project due diligence, legal document compliance review, etc

  • Served as legal counsel for a number of local gold exchange projects, involving investment income right projects, directional financing plans, etc., the main services include conducting due diligence, issuing preliminary review reports and issuing legal opinions, and the project has raised tens of billions of yuan

  • The non-litigation method is for a natural person investor to resolve a high-risk wealth management product dispute with an internationally renowned foreign bank, and obtain the best result of full loss of principal and compensation for interest in the same period

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  • He served as the perennial legal counsel of Shanghai Foreign Investment Promotion Center, Shanghai Jing'an District State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, Shanghai Jing'an District Investment Promotion Office and other governments and related departments, and provided special legal services such as revision of major state-owned assets regulatory documents, compliance support for property rights registration projects, and legal support for important state-owned assets approval projects

  • It has provided perennial and special legal counsel for Shanghai and district state-owned enterprises such as Shanghai Ocean Shipping Co., Ltd. of China COSCO Group, Shanghai Urban Investment Highway Investment (Group) Co., Ltd. (three wholly-owned subsidiaries), Shanghai Jing'an State-owned Assets Operation Co., Ltd., Shanghai Jing'an Investment (Group) Co., Ltd., Shanghai Jingtou Equity Investment Fund Management Co., Ltd., Shanghai Guozhi Smart City Equity Investment Fund Co., Ltd., and Guozhi Intelligent Parking Management (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. As the lead lawyer, he served as the lead lawyer, including government industrial fund due diligence, bond issuance, major investment and state-owned asset transfer (including the acquisition of pharmaceutical industrial parks, the free transfer of several state-owned enterprises, the public transfer of state-owned assets, etc.), liquidation and exit, mixed reform of state-owned enterprises and other projects

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Thesis and books
Associate Editor of Banking Law Lawyer Practice (published by Law Press)
"Cross-default clauses under cross-border syndicated loan contracts" (Shanghai Lawyer Magazine, September 2014)
"Research on the Legal Issues of Structured Deposit Pledge of Foreign Banks" (Shanghai Lawyer Magazine, November 2011)
"Research on Legal Issues Related to Financial Asset Trading Platforms" (Shanghai Lawyer Magazine, February 2015)
"A Brief Analysis of "Property Rights Private Equity Fund" (Shanghai Lawyer Magazine, April 2018)
The "Gaopeng Law Review" public account published a number of professional articles

Working language
  • Chinese
  • English
News
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