Huazhen Huang

Representative Matters

• Representative projects include China Life - China Communications Infrastructure Investment Fund, China Shipbuilding Offshore Platform M&A Fund, AGI Bank New Energy Debt to Equity Conversion and Gansu Power Investment Infrastructure Debt Scheme.

• Selected equity investment projects
• Legal services for CLIC (China Life Insurance Company Ltd.) Assets-$8 billion strategic equity investment project in State Grid Corporation
• CLIC – Shou Zhong Parking Infrastructure Equity Plan Project (this project was the first insurance equity plan investment in infrastructure in China. The project was the first insurance equity scheme in China to invest in infrastructure projects. The project was a pioneering proposal to the regulator to revamp the equity scheme reporting process and was approved by the regulator. This project was also the first project in China where the investor was involved in advance at the design stage of the project, and the investor would bear all the investment risks, creating a model of active management of insurance funds investment in infrastructure)
• CLIC - CCCC Infrastructure Master Fund Project (RMB 80 billion) Post-investment Management Legal Services
• Post-investment management legal services for CLIC - Beijian Water Infrastructure Master Fund (RMB 50 billion)
• China Xiong' An Infrastructure Fund Project (RMB10 billion) (This project was the first attempt by an insurance company to invest in the infrastructure of the Xiong' An area in the form of real equity after the new capital management regulations)
• Agricultural Bank Financial Assets Investment Limited - Debt-to-equity project of a new energy power enterprise (10 new energy companies and 25 new energy projects) Legal services (this project was a debt-to-equity project)
• CLIC Investment - China Shipbuilding - CCB 7.5 billion debt-to-equity fund project (the underlying asset is a drilling rig SPV company) Legal services (this project was the first debt-to-equity project after the opening of market-based debt-to-equity transfer)
• Legal services for a China Communications Construction Group CO., Ltd perpetual debt project (the project created a precedent of using perpetual debt to invest in capital for infrastructure projects, and the project experience was successfully summarized and adopted by the legislature)

• Selected Insurance Debt Scheme Projects
• Ping An Insurance Group Company of China Pension - C&D Real Estate Perpetual Infrastructure Debt Investment Plan ($8 billion) Legal Services (successfully registered)
• CLIC - China Energy Conservation Group Infrastructure Debt Investment Plan (perpetual, successfully registered)
• Legal services for Hua An-Lingang Intelligent Equipment Park Infrastructure Debt Investment Plan (registered successfully)
• Life Asset-Shanxi Chiyu Coal Mine Infrastructure Debt Investment Plan Legal Services (registered successfully)
• Legal services for China Life Investment - COSCO Shipping Perpetual Debt Investment Plan Project (RMB6 billion) (successfully registered)
• Legal services for CII-Xiamen C&D Shantytown Infrastructure Debt Plan Project (successfully registered)
• Xinhua Asset – Shou kaizhongsheng Infrastructure Debt Plan Project (successfully registered)
• Great Wall Wealth - Wuhan Jingkai Building Real Estate Debt Scheme Project (successfully registered)
• Legal Services for Centennial Capital Management - Dongjin Commercial Building Real Estate Debt Investment Plan Project (successfully registered)

• Selected Trust Projects
• Special legal service for the project of National Life Assets Investment in China Debt Plus Yang Coal Group Combined Fund Trust Plan
• Special legal service for Guang Xin-Guang Qi-Kai Yun No. 1 Pooled Fund Trust Plan
• Life Assets Hua Xin-Xi nan 163 Project Special Legal Services
• Special Legal Service for CLIC Share Everlasting Trust of Everbright Hua Neng Group
• Legal services for a shantytown renovation and environmental improvement resettlement housing trust project of CLIC Investment-Zhong Guancun
• Evergrande Life Investment-Ai Jian Trust-Bo Ao Hospital Loan Pooled Fund Trust Project Legal Services

• Selected PPP Projects
• CLIC - China Railway Infrastructure PPP Fund Project Legal Services
• Legal Services for Kaili-Duyun Highway (Qian southeast border section) Project PPP
• China Re-assets-Legal Services for Tianjin Industrial Park PPP Project
• China Communications Construction - Gansu Province PPP Regional Fund Project (RMB 100 billion)
• China Communications Construction - Legal Services for a Contractual PPP Fund Project
• Legal services for a CCCC perpetual bond project
• ICBC Leasing-Legal Services for a Changchun Metro Extension Line Concession Project
• China Merchants Trust - Legal services for a highway PPP financing project
• Legal service for a PPP project of China PPP Fund for road network construction project in Li County (Phase I)

• Select Infrastructure Project
• Zhongjian-Shijiazhuang New National Exhibition Project (Ministry of Finance Model Bank Project) Full Process Legal Services
• Taishan- Guanghai Bay Infrastructure Project Full Process Legal Services (this project was the first domestic mining resources compensation project)
• Shenyang Zhong Dekai-China-German Industrial Park Infrastructure Project Full Process Legal Services (this project was the first batch of innovative projects for park development after the new infrastructure regulations)
• Legal services for the loan of the Chifeng Central Ring Road Rapid Improvement Project of China Development Bank
• Legal services for the loan of National Highway 508 infrastructure project of China Development Bank
• China Enfield - Zhuozhou Wastewater Treatment Plant Project Legal Services
• Legal services for the contracting stage of the China Construction - Chifeng City Two Halls and One Center Infrastructure Project
• Zhuo Zhou Municipal Government and Zhongke Guoyi in an administrative litigation dispute over franchise rights (the case was one of the first administrative litigation cases after the promulgation of the judicial interpretation of new administrative agreements in China, and won both the first and second trials)

Education Background

• J.D., Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
• LLM, China University of Political Science and Law

Professional Qualifications

• Bar admission in P. R. China

Recognitions and Affiliations

• Lawyer listed in 2022 The Legal 500 Asia Pacific list
• "IAMAC's Top 20 Most Popular Training Expert Lecturers"
• ALB "Top 15 Rising Stars of China Lawyers 2020" by Asian Law Journal
• A Expert of the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Finance's PPP (Public-Private Partnership) legal expert pool
• Member of the Legal Expert Group of China Insurance Capital Management Association
• Expert of the Clean Energy Fund of the Ministry of Finance
• Member of the Board of Directors of the Chinese Society of Behavioural Law
• A Lecturer of PPP Center of Tsinghua University
• Practice Mentor, Beijing University of Technology and Business
• A-LIST Legal Elite in Commercial Law

Selected Publications

• Author of "Finishing PPPs - a full domain analysis of financing and construction", Law Press, December 2016 edition.
• Author of "Rules and Insights - Interpretation and Application of the Rules for Concession PPP Adjudication", Beijing University Press, 2018 edition.
• Participated in the preparation of "Guide to the Use of Construction Contracts for Building Works (Model Text) (GF-2013-0201)", China Construction Industry Press, 1st edition, May 2013.
• Participated in the writing of REITS: The Road to China, People's Publishing House, 1st edition, 2021.