Weidong Wang
Wang Weidong Senior Partner
Corporate and M&A
Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Insolvency
Dispute Resolution
Finance
Detailed introduction
Mr. Weidong Wang is a senior partner at Dentons Shanghai Office and the managing partner at Dentons Zhuhai Office. He graduated from East China University of Political Science and Law. He is a seasoned transaction lawyer with more than twenty years of experience in banking and finance, and has provided professional, innovative and strategic legal services for many large investment institutions and international financial institutions and banks. He has rich practical experience in disposal of non-performing assets and debt restructuring of listing companies. In addition, as one of the first PRC lawyers focusing on the golf sector, he has deep knowledge of and rich experience in the golf sector. He also has abundant experience in providing legal services for hotel financing.
Banking and Finance
Mr. Wang has provided legal services for a number of major foreign and domestic banks. He acts as lead counsel to the Bank of East Asia. He advises banks on design of financial products, business compliance, debt collection and disposal of non-performing assets. Recently, in the increasingly important project financing area, he has represented lenders and project sponsors as their legal counsel in the entire process of their large infrastructure and manufacturing projects. He also represented commercial banks in the negotiation and formation of a number of Sino-foreign auto financing joint ventures. His representative clients include: Bank of East Asia (China), CCB (Shanghai), ICBC (Shanghai), ABC (Shanghai), HSBC (China), Hang Seng Bank (China), DBS (Shanghai), Asia Commercial Bank (China), Nanyang Commercial Bank (China), BOC (HK), BOC (Macau), CCB (Macau), Wing Lung (Macau), Bohai Bank (Dalian), China Guangfa Bank, Shenzhen Development Bank, Zhuhai Rural Commercial Bank, Morgan Stanley (China), etc.
Non-performing Assets Disposal, M&A and Restructuring
Mr. Wang has extensive resources and practical experience in the areas of non-performing assets disposal and asset restructuring. He has advised the earliest asset management companies in China, including China Cinda Asset Management Co., Ltd. and Guangdong Utrust Asset Management Co., Ltd. In addition, He has handled many major bankruptcy and restructuring cases, including the bankruptcy of Guangdong International Trust and Investment Co., Ltd. (the first bankruptcy case of a PRC financial institution), the restructuring of Zhuguang Group, M&A and restructuring by Gree of Haixing Tech (600185), and the bankruptcy and restructuring of Chengde Dalu Co., Ltd. (the first listed private enterprise in PRC). In these cases, Mr. Wang had led his team to develop M&A and restructuring plans, conduct due diligence, and issue legal opinions. Currently he is handling the 181 Square Project in Chongqing, Chunxi Building Project in Chengdu, bankruptcy of Huaibei Mining Group, and the asset restructuring and arrangements of other major projects.
Hotels
As Mr. Wang has long served the aforementioned financial institutions, he has conducted due diligence in the hotel industry according to the financing needs of lenders, especially providing legal services for the financing of InterContinental Hotels Group and AccorHotels Group, including their respective hotel brands. In addition, he has also participated in DaysInn's brand promotion in China.
Leisure and Sports
Due to his passion for golf, car racing and other high-end sports, Mr. Wang is amongst the first PRC lawyers focusing on leisure and sports. In particular, he is extensively involved in legal services for golf and real estate related to golf, and has participated in the construction and operation of many leading golf courses and circuits in China. In the field of golf sports, he provided full legal services for golf courses in respect of their project initiation, review, design, financing and construction. After completing the construction of golf courses, Mr. Wang, who is well versed in golf operation, is good at assisting golf courses in membership management, protection of their or their members’ rights, right of operation, overall transfer, disinvestment and other matters.
In recent years, he has advised Shanghai Nangongguan Golf Club on its transfer of members, Shanghai Yintao Golf Club on a dispute over its ownership, and a golf course on its reorganization. In addition, he served as the asset manager of Hainan Nanyanwan Golf Course in its operation as a representative of the foreign party. He has a profound understanding of the operation of golf courses. Compared with other external lawyers, he is better at assisting golf courses to resolve legal issues by fully considering the relevance of related plans to their actual operation and greatly enhance the operability of their plans. In the field of car racing, he represented Zhuhai International Circuit in the entire negotiation process with FIA on hosting the Chinese Formula 1 Grand Prix. His representative clients include:
Shanghai Sheshan Golf Club, Shanghai Tianma Golf Club, Shanghai Yintao Golf Club, Shanghai Nangongguan Golf Club, Zhuhai International Golf Club, Zhuhai Jinwan Golf Club, Zhuhai Cuihu Glof Club, Taizhou Oversea Chinese Town Golf Club, Hainan Nanyanwan Golf Club, Kunming Minzhen Golf Club, Kunming Shilin Golf Club, Chengdu Mumashan Golf Club, Zhuhai International Circuit, Beijing Gold Harbor Circuit, Shanghai Tianma Circuit, Zhuhai International Street Racing Committee.
Real Estate
With extensive experience in project financing, Mr. Wang also has provided professional legal services for a number of real estate and infrastructure companies through the entire process of their project development and acquisition. His representative clients include: China Construction Third Engineering Bureau Co., Ltd., CRCC19, Jiangsu No.1 Construction Corporation, Nanjing No.2 Construction Corporation, Shanghai Evergrande Group, Hutchison Whampoa Shanghai and Zhuhai, Gree Development, Taizhou Oversea Chinese Town, Huafa Industrial Share, Gemdale Group, Sunco (China), Sunac (China), etc.
- Senior Partner/Head of Finance Practice, Dentons Shanghai
- Managing Partner, Dentons Zhuhai
- Executive Partner, Shanghai Jinchengshengheng Law Firm
- Partner, Guangdong Jingchengyueheng Law Firm
- Notary, Zhuhai Notary Office
- PRC licensed lawyer
- The Application of Piercing the Corporate Veil Theory to Recognition and Enforcement of Judgement from Taiwan, Shanghai Lawyer, April 2006
- Analysis of Application of Res Judicata Theory to Judgement and Ruling, Global Law Review, December 2007
- Claim-confirming Proceeding-The Proceeding Between Civil Action and Administrative Proceeding, Shanghai Lawyer, July 2008
- Arbitrator of Zhuhai Arbitration Commission
- Arbitrator of Ningbo Arbitration Commission
- Member of the Finance Committee and the Banking Committee of Shanghai Bar Association
- Member of Shanghai Entrepreneur Association
- Executive member of Shanghai Association of Micro-credit
- Senior member of Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce in China
- Vice President of the Alumni Association of the Overseas Education College of Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Member of International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency & Bankruptcy Professionals