- Banking and Finance
- Investment Fund
- Family Law and Fortune Management
- Private Equity/Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions
- Real Estate and Infrastructure
- Securities Capital Markets
- Dispute Resolution
- Intellectual Property
- Special Assets and Bankruptcy Restructuring
- Regulatory and Compliance
- Antitrust/Competition
- Human Resources and Labor Relations
- Tax
Banking and
Finance
Banking and
finance is one of Merits & Tree’s core strengths. Merits & Tree
provides general or tailored legal services to international and domestic banks and
non-bank financial institutions, and has accumulated extensive experience and a
broad client base in the industry. Catering to the characteristics of the industry
and the complex legal and regulatory environments to which it applies, Merits &
Tree has, through long-term practice, performed systematic research and market
segmentation. We analyze and review new business models and financial innovations,
in order to ensure our banking and financial institutions team stays connected and
familiarized with the market. With its extensive hands-on experience, Merits
& Tree has advised banks, trusts, insurance companies, securities brokers, asset
managers, financing lease companies (including financing lease companies, pilot
Chinese-funded financial leasing companies and foreign-funded financial leasing
companies), commercial factoring, financing companies, funds and other financial
institutions with regard to many complex financial transactions, and has been a
market leader and pioneer in providing legal services to banks and financial
institutions.
Scope of
Services:
● Bank, trust,
asset management, insurance
- Provide
general legal services to domestic and international commercial banks and non-bank
financial institutions
- Provide legal
services to domestic and international commercial banks and non-bank financial
institutions with respect to investment and financing, restructuring and mergers and
acquisitions
- Provide
project based legal services to banks, trusts, securities brokers and their
subsidiaries, asset management companies and their subsidiaries, futures brokers and
their subsidiaries, insurance companies and other financial institutions with
respect to legal due diligence, transactional structure design, drafting and
negotiating transactional documents, issuing legal opinions, etc.
- Provide
analysis and training on financial regulatory policies and compliance developments
to domestic and international commercial banks and non-bank financial
institutions
● Asset backed
securities (ABS), Reits
- Provide
comprehensive legal services for various securitization products (including credit
asset securitization, corporate asset securitization, insurance asset
securitization, ABN and REITs) and quasi-securitization products (including pre-ABS,
quasi-REITs, structured products, property rights trusts, etc.), including legal due
diligence, transactional structure design, drafting and negotiating transactional
documents, issuing legal opinions, etc.
● Distressed
assets and special situations
- Provide
comprehensive legal services to commercial banks, non-bank financial institutions
and non-financial institutions with respect to disposal of distressed assets,
including project selection, legal due diligence, transactional structure design,
bidding, restructuring, debt to equity conversion, asset securitization, etc.
- Provide
comprehensive legal services with respect to special situations investments in
distressed real estate and distressed enterprises, including legal due diligence,
restructuring planning, negotiation, drafting restructuring documents, implementing
restructuring plans, etc.
● Financing
lease and commercial factoring
- Provide
comprehensive legal services to financing lease companies and commercial factoring
companies with respect to formation and mergers and restructuring, including legal
due diligence, transactional structure design, providing financing lease solutions,
drafting transactional documents, negotiation and dispute resolution.