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Jerry ZHOU
Equity Partner / Guangzhou
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Tel +86-20-2826-1715
Email jerryzhou@zhonglun.com
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Practices
Construction & Project Development, Private Equity & Investment Funds, Litigation & Arbitration
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Industries
Real Estate, Education & Training
Jerry ZHOU
Lawyer Zhou Zheng has long focused on legal services in real estate and construction, M&A, investment and financing fields, etc. He has undertaken lots of M&A transactions of large-scale real estate projects, and he is especially skilled in dealing with projects under complicated backgrounds such as cross-border foreign M&A, restructuring of non-performing assets and debts, asset securitization, etc. As project's resident lawyer, he has participated in the whole process service of many large-scale construction projects, and settled compliance and dispute resolution in these fields. Besides, as one of the earliest lawyers engaged in urban renewal legal services in Guangdong, he has undertaken joint development, M&A and financing services of several urban renewal projects in cities around Greater Bay Area, including some whole process project of Old Village transformation which are representative. Additionally, he has also provided legal services and dispute resolution to multiple private equity fund managers for fund raising, investment, management and exit.
Representative Matters
M&A and Joint Development of Real Estate Project
Provided special legal advisory work of Guangzhou Knowledge City (which is a major project of Guangdong Province, assisted Guangdong Goverenment and state enterprises under it in cooperating with Goverenment and entities of Singapore to develop level of land and construct modern city)
Provided legal services for Link Asset Management Limited on its takeover project of Guangzhou Happy Valley Shopping Centre
Provided legal services for Capitaland on its takeover project of Greenland International Financial Center's skirt buildings toward Greenland Group, and construction of its first shopping mall in Guangzhou
Provided legal services for Capitaland on its takeover project of Lefeng Mall, which is a shpping mall in Guangzhou
Provided legal services for Guangdong Guoxiang Real Estate Co., Ltd. on its selling project of Joyful City, which is a large-scale shopping centre project in Jiangmen
Provided legal services for China Xinda Asset Management Inc., Ltd. on its takeover and reorganization project of Guangzhou Zhongdai Mall
Provided legal services on takeover Country Garden's project of ECO Industrial Park Project in Tianhe, Guangzhou
Provided legal services for Warburg Pincus Capital on its takeover project of a logistics project in Zhongshan
Urban Renewal ("Three Old" Transformation)
Provided legal services on transformation project of Xiankeng Village, which is the first old village transformation project in Luogang, Guangzhou, and is one of the earliest projects which finish the whole process of transformation in Guangzhou
Provided legal services for Guangzhou Runpu Investment Co., Ltd. on its joint development project of transformation project of Xinxi old village and old town with an affiliated enterprise of China Resources Group and Ping An Real Estate
Provided legal services for an affiliated enterprise of Yuexiu Property Urban Renewal Group on its investment on the transformation project of Nanyang Electric Appliance Factory and its surrounding areas
Provided legal services for Guangzhou Xuhui Urban Renewal Investment Development Co., Ltd. on its investment on an old village transformation project in Huangpu District
Provided legal services for Sunshine City Real Estate (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd. on its investment on the transformation project of Yuangang Village in Huangpu District
Providing legal services for an affiliated enterprise of Science City (Guangzhou) Investment Group Company Limited on its investment on the transformation project of Hetangxia Village in Huangpu District
Provided legal services for Ping An Trust on its investment on the transformation project of Guangzhou Xiaoxintang Village developed by Poly Real Estate
Providing legal services for an affiliated enterprise of China Railway Construction Investment Group Co., Ltd. on its investment on the transformation project of an old village in Shenzhen
Provided legal services for Realway Capital on its investment on the transformation project of Xinqiao Wei
Construction Project
Provided the whole process legal services in respect of construction on Guangzhou International Sports Arena (which is the basketball arena of the Guangzhou Asian Games, 2010)
Provided legal services in respect of construction for Dongguan Minying Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. on the urban complex project of world trade centre, in which total building area is 1.1 million ㎡, would become a landmark building in Dongguan
Providing legal services on Guangzhou Knowlege City Square EPC project.
Providing legal services for Guangdong Yuedian Yangjiang Offshore Wind Power Co., Ltd. on several offshore wind power EPC project in Yangjiang, Zhuhai and Qingzhou
Providing legal services for an affiliated enterprise of Guangzhou Gas Group Co., Ltd. on its LNG Storage EPC project
Provided legal services in respect of construction for Guangzhou Knowledge City Investment Holding Co., Ltd. on Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Macao Entry-exit Building
Providing legal services in respect of construction for Guangzhou Yuanchuang Investment Development Co., Ltd. on Knowledge city industrial agglomeration Service Center Matou Village TOD project
Private Equity Fund and Risk Investment
Provided legal services on raising of Innovation Works Phase III CNY (Guangzhou) Fund
Provided legal services for GDD Holding Group on raising fund and investment on XPENG
Provided legal services for Guangzhou Technology Venture Capital Co., Ltd. on the raising, management and exit of its fund
Provided legal services for Guangzhou Development Zone Urban Development Fund Management Co., Ltd. on the raising of its fund and investment on Guangzhou Luxvisions Innovation Technology Limited.
Provided legal services for Guangzhou Nansha Shipping Industry Investment Fund Management Co., Ltd. on the raising of its fund and investment on the project of Guangzhou Offshore Port Wharf
Provided legal services for Guangzhou Nanyue Fund Management Co., Ltd. on its investment on the project of Science and Technology Town in Zengcheng, Guangzhou
Memberships & Affiliations
Director, Information and Communication Law Society of Guangdong Province Law Society
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Bar Admissions/Professional Qualifications
Lawyer Qualification Certificate
Fund practitioner qualification certificate (AMAC) -
Education
Master of Laws, Law School of Sun Yat-Sen University
Bachelor of Laws, Law School of South China Normal University -
Professional Experience
Equity Partner, Non-equity partner, Associate, Zhonglun Law Firm
Trainee lawyer, GFE Law Office -
Languages
Chinese
English