Jia (Amy) ZHAO
Partner Title:Partner of DeHeng Nanjing Office
Tel:13915963227 / +86 25 58993266/68
Email:zhaojia@dehenglaw.com
Working Language: Chinese/ English
With over 15 years of practice experience, Ms. Zhao specializes in cross-border investment cooperation, international trade, and compliance management. She is also experienced in many mergers & acquisitions, compliance review projects, and bankruptcy reorganization cases.
Representative Matters
- Investment cooperation and trade
- Acted as legal counsel for Allmed Medical’s investment project in Indonesia;
- Acted as legal counsel for the Nanjing Metro- Tel Aviv Light Rail project
- Acted as legal counsel for CJI Group in its import and export dispute with Nordu companies;
- Acted as legal counsel for the China Development Bank Jiangsu Branch in a cross-border financing guarantee of a photovoltaic base project;
- Represented stop+go Systemzentrale GmbH in a cooperation dispute arbitration case with a Chinese local company in CIETAC;
- Acted as legal counsel in restructuring project of CEEG Yangzhong Industry Park.
- Enterprise compliance management
- Acted as legal counsel in the compliance management system construction project for Jiangsu Grain Group Co., LTD;
- Acted as legal counsel in the compliance management system construction project for Jiangsu Jiaokong Talent Development Group Co., LTD;
- Acted as legal counsel in the compliance management system construction project for Jiangsu Tongyu Real Estate Development Co., LTD;
- Acted as legal counsel in the compliance evaluation of import business for the CJI Group Foreign Trade branch;
- Acted as legal counsel in the compliance rectification project for a state-owned enterprise‘s subsidiary in the city of Rugao, Nantong.
- Bankruptcy reorganization
- Acted as a key member of the bankruptcy administrator team in CEEG reorganization cases in the Nanjing Intermediate People's Court;
- Acted as legal counsel for the liquidator in the reorganization case of Suzhou Rentai Commercial Housing Development Co., LTD
- Acted as a key member of the bankruptcy administrator team in the restructuring of Nanjing Dongfang Datang Real Estate Co., LTD
- Acted as a key member of the bankruptcy administrator team in the reorganization of Zhenjiang Power Station Auxiliary Machinery Factory Co., LTD
Education Background
- Bachelor of Laws, Southeast University (2003)
- Master of International Business Law, University of East Anglia, UK (2004)
- GDL Programme at De Montfort University, UK (2005)
Professional Qualifications
- Bar admission in P.R. China
Recognitions and Affiliations
- Deputy Director of the Cultural, Entertainment and Sports Law Committee of the 9th Council of Nanjing Lawyers Association (2025)
- Deputy Director of the Corporate Compliance Law Committee of the 9th Council of the Nanjing Bar Association (2024)
- Deputy Director of Cross-border Investment Cooperation Law Committee of the 8th Council of the Nanjing Bar Association (2019)
- Named as "One Thousand Cross-border Lawyers" of Ministry of Justice (2018)
- Named as "Lawyer with Specialty in Cross-border Legal Matters" of Jiangsu Province (2018)
- Awarded as the “Outstanding Lawyer of the year of 2016-2017” by the Lawyer’s Association of Jiangsu Branch (2017)