Shao Guozhong
Senior Partner
(邵国忠)
Tel: (86-10) 5706 8006
sgz@jtnfa.com
Shao Guozhong oversees an active practice encompassing real estate, banking and
finance, investment and M&A, bankruptcy, restructuring, and arbitration and litigation.
Mr. Shao has advised clients in the real estate and infrastructure construction
industries for many years and is an expert on the legal issues related to land
acquisition, planning, bidding, construction installation, supervision, sales and tenancy,
tax, real property management, franchising and project financing. Mr. Shao’s clients
benefit from his in-depth familiarity with the policies, systems, market practices and
business conventions of the real estate and infrastructure construction industries, as
well as from his strong working relationships with national and local real estate
governmental agencies and city planning bureaus.
Mr. Shao has significant experience in the banking and financial sectors, with direct
participation in many financing transactions including syndicated loans, structured
financing and project financing. He is an expert in area of bank regulation, foreign
exchange control, foreign debt and external guarantees. His close relationships with
China’s banking and foreign exchange regulatory bodies enables him to assist clients
with effective communication.
Mr. Shao also regularly advises clients on investment and M&A projects, and has
acted as special legal counsel for a great number of foreign enterprises and Chinese
enterprises in such matters.
In the bankruptcy and restructuring area, Mr. Shao advises many large-scale
enterprises on corporate liquidation, debt restructuring and asset reorganization
matters.
Mr. Shao also assists client with preparation for arbitration and litigation, including
the structuring of strategies tailored to specific cases.
Representative Experience
Real Estate
 Legal counsel to China South Military Industry Co in connection with its
development of the China Military Plaza
 Advised the MTR Corporation on its investments in mainland China
commercial real estate
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Represented the Beijing Science Park Development Co. in its real estate
development projects in Beijing
Legal counsel to the Beijing Yujing Real Estate Development Co. on the Yujing
Garden project
Advised Beijing Jiayuan Property on its model project, the No. 7 Block project
Advised the American Embassy in China on its purchase of real estate in
Beijing
Banking and Finance
 Acted as PRC legal counsel to the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) in its
syndicated loan and structured financing
 PRC legal counsel to the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd in its PRC loan
business
 PRC legal counsel to Natixis of France in its PRC equity pledge loan
transactions
Investment, M&A, Bankruptcy and Reorganization
 Represented Bloomberg in its investment in China
 Advised Italy’s Bernardi on its investment in highway construction machinery
 Acted as legal counsel to American Global Outsource Management LLC on its
investment in China
 Representation of the Oriental Hotel Holding Co. in the strategic
reorganization of 14 hotels under its control
 Represented the Beijing Science Park Development Co. in its negotiations
with Czechic ECM Real Estate Investment A.G. for the purchase of large
commercial and office buildings
 Represented Jiayuan Property Co., Ltd in its takeover of Jingda Kunlun Real
Estate Co.
 Acting as administrative trustee and liquidator for Asian Securities and
Centergate Securities, as retained by the China Securities Regulatory
Commission (CSRC) and the Securities Investor Protection Fund
Arbitration and Litigation
 Representation of a Chinese finance company in its suit against a securities
company on national debt custody (value RMB 800 million)
 Representation of a Beijing real estate company in a construction contract
dispute against a construction company (value RMB 150 million)
 Representation of a Beijing real estate company in an equity transfer contract
dispute against a company (value RMB 100 million)
 Representation of the Henan branch of the Agricultural Bank of China in a
deposit receipt dispute
 Representation of a Henan commercial bank in a loan dispute
 Representation of an Italian company in the arbitration of a dispute on
equipment purchase contracts
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Representation of a Beijing real estate company in a real estate trading
dispute arbitration
Representation of a Jordan oil company in a purchase and sales contract
dispute arbitration
Representation of a Guiyang real estate development company in a real
estate project transfer dispute arbitration
Education
China University of Political Law and Science, LLB, 1983
Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, International Law Department, LLM,
1986
Intern, Wessing Bernberg-Gossler Zimmerman Lange, Latham & Watkins LLP and
AHBR in the Federal Republic of Germany
Student, Max Planck Institute for International Private Law, Hamburg, Germany, 1988
Selected Professional and Business Activities
Member, Association of International Youth Attorneys
Member, Land Law Special Committee of the Beijing Lawyers Association
Publications
International Law (co-editor)
German Commercial Law (Marine Commercial) (translation)
Study on the Administrative Penalties in the Federal Republic of Germany
Languages
Mandarin Chinese, German, English