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Real Estate

Real estate has been our pillar practice since the firm was founded in 1993, garnering widespread recognition as a market leader. We house considerable expertise and a deep bench of professionals - the most prominent in this field, with many preeminent practitioners still active in practice and deeply trusted by our clients. We provide full-process, all-around, and whole-industry-chain real estate legal services for a variety of clients, including government agencies, investors, developers, builders, financial institutions, users, and real estate funds. We have been pioneering a wide breadth of real estate legal services, covering the four main sectors - traditional real estate, urban infrastructure, transportation and logistics, and cultural, tourism, and hospitality, and covering 12 sub-sectors, including, among others, commercial, residential, industrial, rest home, infrastructure, logistics, cultural, tourism, and hospitality real estates. Our competitiveness is best reflected in the numerous honors we have received in the rankings from many well-respected legal rating agencies. Most notably, we have been consistently recommended as Band 1 practice in real estate and awarded Real Estate Law Firm of the Year by Chambers; the Real Estate Law Firm of the Year by ALB; and Band 1 practice in real estate by The Legal 500.

Scope of Services

Dispute Resolution

Various types of arbitration involving real estate matters
Various types of litigation, including administrative litigation, among others, involving real estate matters
Out-of-court restructuring, bankruptcy reorganization, and bankruptcy liquidation of real estate companies
Disposal of non-performing assets of real estate companies
Resolution of real estate-related disputes by other methods

IPO & Refinancing of Real Estate Companies

Onshore and offshore initial public offerings of real estate companies
M&As and restructuring of listed real estate companies
Refinancing of listed real estate companies
Establishment and listing of REITs

Real Estate Investment & Financing

General financing of real estate companies
Private equity investment in and financing for real estate projects
Trust financing or financing with insurance funds for real estate projects or project companies
Financing of real estate companies by issue of bonds
Securitization of real estate assets
Other methods of financing

Real Estate Investment Solicitation & Operations

Solicitation of property investment
Legal and tax issues relating to operations of property
Property leasing and operations

Real Estate M&As

Legal structuring for real estate M&As
Legal due diligence
Drafting and negotiation of M&A legal documents
Government approval and registration
M&A-related tax matters

Real Estate Development

Joint development of real estate projects
Establishment of real estate companies
Acquisition, grant, and transfer of state-owned land use rights
Pre-sale and sale of property
Property management
Property delivery
Merger and demerger of real estate companies or project companies

Land Investment

Business models, legal risk assessment, and cooperation conditions for land investment
Land investment and land transaction agreements
Land expropriation, and housing demolition and resettlement compensation
Comprehensive land development and PPP
Urban renewal