Mingxia (Grace) LIAO

Representative Matters

• Representative clients in the field of State-owned Assets
• State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the People’s Government of Shenzhen Municipality
• Shenzhen Investment Holding Co., Ltd.
• Qianhai Financial Holding Co., Ltd
• Shenzhen Bay Technology Development Co., Ltd.
• Shenzhen Bay Laboratory (initiated by Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government)
• Southern University of Science and Technology
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Advised Shenzhen Investment Holdings Co., Ltd. to acquire the listed company ZTE (000063)'s asset
• Advised Shenzhen Investment Holding Co., Ltd. to acquire the equity of Shenzhen Foreign Trade (Group) Co., Ltd., held by China Oriental Asset Management Co., Ltd. (debt-to-equity swap and repurchasing project)
• Advised Shenzhen Urban Transport Planning and Design Research Center and Shenzhen Comprehensive Transportation Design and Research Institute Co., Ltd.  on mixed-ownership reform
• Advised Shenzhen Investment Holdings Co., Ltd. to acquire the equity of Tianyin Holdings
• Advised China Merchants Group on its acquisitions
• Advised China Southern Power Grid Electric Vehicle Service Co., Ltd. in equity acquisition project
• Advised Chongqing Changan Industry (Group) Co., Ltd. in joint venture project
• Advised Shenzhen Expressway Co., Ltd (00548) in Guizhou M&A project
• Advised listed company Huafeng Microfiber (300180) to issue shares and conduct assets reorganization and merger project
• Advised Beijing Zhaoyi Innovation Technology Co., Ltd (603986) in its project in Shenzhen
• Advised China Overseas Real Estate Group for the "Shenzhen Contemporary Art Museum and Urban Planning Exhibition Hall" project
• Advised Huaqiang Group (including Huaqiang, 000062) in the restructuring project
• Finance
• Advised the listed rescue fund, win-win equity investment fund, which is led by Shenzhen state-owned assets
• Advised Strategic and policy funds invested and established by the Shenzhen municipal people's government (Shenzhen Angel Guidance Fund)
• Advised China Construction Engineering Group Co., Ltd. in ABS project
• Advised Guangdong Yuecai Asset Management Co., Ltd, the professional asset management platform subordinate to Guangdong provincial people's government
• Acted as perennial legal counsel of China Merchants Pingan AMC, the first AMC of Shenzhen, and advised it in fund, trust, bad assets acquisition and reorganization project
• Advised Guangdong Yuecai Fund Management Co., Ltd in investment project
• Advised China Development Bank, Pingan Bank, China Merchants Bank, Nanyang Commercial Bank and other financial institutions
• Acted as legal counsel of China Merchants Renhe Life Insurance Co., Ltd
• Advised Evergrande life in equity investment project
• Acted as perennial legal counsel of Qianhai Leasing Co., Ltd
• Acted as perennial legal counsel of Shenzhen Qianhai Shenzhen Hong Kong fund Town Development Co., Ltd
• Cross-border Investment & Finance
• Advised Swissport International Ltd in investment in China
• Advised Nortek Security & Control in investment in China
• Advised LJ INTERNATIONAL INC in the investment in China
• Advised Shenzhen Antaike Building Technology Co., Ltd in M&A project in France
• Acted as perennial legal counsel of Shenzhen Investment International Capital Holdings Co., Ltd (Silicon Valley)
• Advised Shenzhen Jian'an (Group) Co., Ltd. in the investment in Vietnam
• Advised Shenzhen Investment Holdings Co., Ltd. in establish the first Bayern (Shenzhen) football school with Bayern Munich Football Club
• Advised a leading mobile payment service provider in investment around the world
• Advised clients from LIAU HO & CHAN SOLICITORS & NOTARIES in investment in China

Education Background

• Southwest University of Political Science & Law, Bachelor of Law (1989）
• Southwest University of Political Science & Law, Bachelor of Law , Master of Law（1992）
• Washington College of Law, American University, Master of Laws in International Commercial Law（2005）

Professional Qualifications

• Bar admission in P.R. China

Professional Background

• Ms. Liao went to study in Canada and the USA and had work experience in an international law firm. She is the co-head of Cross-Border Transaction Committee and DeHeng's Banking & Finance Practice Group and has served as managing partner of DeHeng Law Offices (Shenzhen) for many years.

Recognitions and Affiliations

• "Lawyers in the National List of Top 1,000 International Lawyers in China" published by Ministry of Justice of PRC
• Leading lawyers specializing in foreign-related matters in Guangdong Province
• Leading lawyers specializing in foreign-related matters in Shenzhen
• Arbitrator of Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration(also known as South China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission, SCIA)
• Professional Judge of the M&A Competition of China M&A Association
• President of Shenzhen Southwest University of Political Science and Law Alumni Association
• Director of Shenzhen public welfare academic forum "Gele Mountain Lecture Hall"

Selected Publications

• Books
• Being a Lawyer from Scratch, China Legal System Publishing House (2017)
• So Said the Barrister, Law Press China (2018)
• The Breach of Law and Discipline in the Official Activities - The Limits and Punishment of Crimes and Non-Crimes, Chinese People's Public Security University Press (1998)

• Articles
• "Thinking on Rescue Fund of Listed Companies"
• "On the Representative Litigation System"
• "On the Agency System"
• "On the Merger of Enterprises"
• "Discussion on Several Issues of the Civil Procedure Law"