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  • Jian WANG

    Equity Partner / Beijing

  • Tel +86-10-5957-2128

    Email wangjian@zhonglun.com

  • Practices

    Financial Products & Trusts, Compliance & Investigation, Debt Restructuring & Non-performing Assets

  • Industries

    Banking & Financial Services

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Jian WANG

Mr. Jian Wang practices in financial regulation and compliance, international economic sanctions, corporate governance of financial institutions, cross-border financing, financial derivatives, establishment, joint ventures and M&A of financial institutions. He mainly represents Chinese and foreign financial institutions such as banks, wealth management companies, financial leasing companies and AMCs. Tapping on his extensive experience in financial sanctions and compliance, Mr. Wang advises many financial institutions on complicated cross-border financial supervision and compliance issues, including cross-border sanctions and anti-money laundering compliance, disposal of risky financial institutions and large non-performing assets, retainer-based legal services for financial institutions, data security and personal information protection compliance. Mr. Wang frequently provides training and representations as an outside expert to financial institutions on anti-money laundering, financial sanctions, data security and personal information protection.

Mr. Wang has been consistently ranked as a "highly regarded" lawyer by IFLR1000, the world's leading financial and corporate practice rating guide for law firms.

Representative Matters

International economic sanctions

  • Represented a major PRC policy insurance company in connection with its U.S. and EU economic sanction and export control project

  • Represented an electronic information state-owned enterprise to resolve its U.S. sanction risks

  • Conducted an analysis of sanction risks in sensitive transactions for a major PRC policy bank

  • Assisted a major PRC state-owned bank in responding to an investigation by New York Department of Financial Services

  • Assisted a major PRC state-owned bank in responding to an investigation by OFAC

Disposal of risky financial institutions and non-performing assets

  • Represented a large United Arab Emirates bank in connection with debt restructuring of totaling over USD 430 million

  • Represented a major PRC financial leasing company in connection with the disposal of aircraft financial leasing in the United States

  • Represented Deposit Insurance Fund Management Co., Ltd. in the debt restructuring and bankruptcy of Baoshang Bank

Establishment, M&A and joint ventures of financial institutions

  • Represented a PRC wealth management company in connection with its establishment of the first foreign controlled Chinese wealth management joint venture with a major European asset management company

  • Represented an European financial institution in connection with establishing a bank, an independent fund sales agency and a private fund manager in China

  • Represented a major PRC financial leasing company in connection with the establishment and equity transfer of its overseas shipping and aviation subsidiary

  • Represented a major PRC automobile finance company in connection with its organizational restructuring and acquisition of 100% equity in a car rental company

  • Represented a major PRC state-owned bank in connection with its acquisition of 27 community banks

Financial compliance legal services

  • Provided financial compliance legal services to several policy banks, commercial banks and wealth management companies on a retainer basis

  • Provided several banks and other financial institutions with personal information and data compliance legal services

  • Represented a major PRC payment institution in connection with anti-money laundering compliance of its cross-border payment module

  • Provided a PRC major fintech company with financial compliance legal services

Related

  • Bar Admissions/Professional Qualifications

    PRC Bar
    North Carolina State Bar

  • Education

    J.D., Duke University School of Law
    B.S. in Mathematics, Peking University

  • Professional Experience

    Partner, Zhong Lun Law Firm, 2018 to present
    Partner, JunHe LLP, 2010 - 2018

  • Languages

    Chinese
    English