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Chenyao（Charles）Wu
Wu Chenyao Senior Partner
Real Estate, Construction and Energy
Corporate and M&A
Dispute Resolution
Finance
Detailed introduction
Charles Wu, attorney at law, with more than 27 years of practice, has been deeply involved in the real estate field and has become a domain expert in the field. For years, he has been listed in Chambers Global Guide, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific Guide, LEGALBAND and Who's Who Legal. He has specialized in commerce, residence, hotel and leisure, urban complex, outstanding historical building conservation, industrial real estate, business incubation space, youth apartment, small towns with distinctive local features, property management, renovation and conversion, urban renewal, real estate crowdfunding, urban infrastructure projects (BOT \ BT \ PPP), etc. Charles Wu has been providing whole life cycle services of real estate business such as fund raising, planning, land acquisition, development, financing, construction, operation, leasing and selling. He has been providing full range of services including transaction structure design, structured financing scheme, risk management, equity incentive, in-depth due diligence, negotiation, taxation, M&A, restructuring, domestic and overseas REITs, crowdfunding, funds and cross-border dispute resolution. His clients include domestic and foreign leading real estate enterprises and financial institutions. Charles Wu has witnessed the development of Chinese real estate market for the past decades. He has a very clear and sharp macro and micro understanding and judgment on the current situation and future development trend of the real estate industry.
M & A
- Representing Longfor in the acquisition of Industrial building in Hangzhou
- Representing Ping An Real Estate in GLP’s acquisition
- Representing IMC in the acquisition of Vanke Jade Park
- Representing Taikang in the acquisition of Greenland pension project in Minhang District
Financing
- Syndicated loan of Sunac’s subordinate companies
- COFCO office building share redemption financing
- Ping An Real Estate Debt Investment and Mezzanine Financing
Leasing
- Advising on SWFC Project
- Advising on Infinity Building Project
Dispute Resolution
- Representing Dafa to resolve dispute of demolition and relocation against with Western Group. The judgment successfully reduced the amount of appeal from 106 million yuan to over 40 million yuan
- Representing Bojin to resolve dispute of land transfer fee against with Minhang District Planning and Land Administration Bureau
- Representation of an award-winning NYC urban documentarian in an action against a large cable television network for copyright infringement of his video footage covering an infamous NYC motorcycle club. The television network settled with a substantial cash payment to the client.
Development and Construction
- Representing Charoen Pokphand Group on Luoyang Zhengda Square and Citizen Center Project
- Advising on Shanghai North Bund financial Center Project
Sales
- Advising on China Resources Land: xinjiangwan Jiuli and Sheshan Jiuli Project
- Advising on Vanke Lingang Project
- Advising on Longfor Tianpu Project
- COFCO: Advising on Pengli Haijing No. 1, Qiantan No. 1, Nanqiao No. 1, Jing'an Xinyuan Project
Logistics and Warehousing
- Representing Ping An Real Estate in GLP’s acquisition
- Advising on Singapore Baring Fund Project
Urban Renewal and Characteristic Industries
- Urban Renewal: Advising on Vanke Zhongxing Road phase IV Project
- Elderly Care: Advising on Taikang Home Project
- Industrial Town: Advising on Changzhou Modern Textile Industrial Park Project
- Cultural Tourism: Advising on Fuhua Group’s Hangzhou Jingshan Temple Maqiao Cultural Site, Longkong Group’s Oriental Salt Lake City Project
Long-term Rental Apartments
- Advising on LongforGuanyu Project
- Advising on Vanke Lingyu apartment Project
- Advising on China Resources Chengfang Apartment Fund Project
- 1990 - 1994 East China University of Political Science and Law Bachelor of Law
- 2000 - 2003 East China University of Political Science and Law Master of Law
- 2003.8 - 2006.1 Shanghai QianHe Law Firm Full-time Lawyer, Partner, Deputy Director
- 2006.1 - 2010.8 Shanghai DeQin Law Firm Chief Partner, Director
- 2010.8 - present Dentons Shanghai Senior Partner
Lawyer's Practising License
- “Why Investors Look down on the Pension Real Estate Market”, China Real Estate, 2015
- “Introduction to Tax on Chinese Real Estate”
- “Construction of Government-subsidized Housing system with Chinese character”
- “Design of the Structure of Real Estate Investment and Financing”
- The first batch of part-time government legal adviser of the Shanghai Judicial Bureau
- Part-time legal adviser of the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Planning and Natural Resources
- Legal adviser of the Government of Nantong
- Arbitrator of the Shanghai International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (Shanghai International Arbitration Center)
- Arbitrator of the Shanghai Arbitration Commission
- Arbitrator of the Nantong Arbitration Commission
- Specially appointed legal adviser of Shanghai Real Estate Trading Center
- Vice president of the first council of City Renewal and Existing Building Remodelling Branch of China Real Estate Chamber of Commerce
- Expert in legal and litigation related contradictions of Subcommittee for Political and Legislative Affairs of CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee
- Supervisor of master's degree in law of East China University of Political Science and Law
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