DeHeng Lawyer Awarded 2020 ALB China Top 15 Female Lawyers

2020-10-21

Partner Liao Mingxia of DeHeng's Shenzhen Office entered the list of 2020 ALB China Top 15 Female Lawyers announced by Asian Legal Business (ALB) on October 20, 2020. 

Ms. Liao Mingxia, a senior partner at DeHeng Law Offices, an executive member of DeHeng's Cross-border Investment Committee and Banking & Finance Committee; is on the top 1,000 foreign-related lawyers in China list released by the Ministry of Justice, a leading lawyer specializing in foreign-related matters in Guangdong Province, and an arbitrator of Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (also known as Shenzhen Arbitration Commission, South China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission). Liao is specialized in M&A and cross-border investment and financing.   

In the past year, Ms. Liao has been focused on state-owned assets related legal affairs and has made breakthroughs in many business areas. She has extensive experience in legal affairs related to state-owned assets, and has achieved many breakthroughs in this area. She has completed many complex projects, including policy-backed debt-for-equity repurchase program: Shenzhen Investment Holdings' equity acquisition project on a group company held by Orient Assets, China Southern Power Grid's layout of new infrastructure and other large M&A restructuring projects, Shenzhen Tens of billions Angel Mother fund, listed company bailout fund, guide fund re-evaluation and other major and innovative financial projects, as well as Overseas investment projects of a number of well-known state-owned enterprises, and helping clients successfully apply for recognition and enforcement of Chinese arbitration awards abroad.

Talking about her successful experience, Liao says: "first, lawyers should have solid professional ability, hard drive and persistent professional spirit to deal with innovative and complicated projects. They should be both professional and dedicated. Secondly, besides understanding law, I also need to understand the industry and have certain business thinking. Finally, innovative business requires multi-dimensional and multi-perspective questions and analysis to solve problems."

Asian Legal Business (ALB) is a leading legal media of Thomson Reuters focusing on the law firms and deal information in the corporate law area in Asia. The ALB China's Top 15 Female Lawyers list recognizes 15 Chinese female lawyers with outstanding achievements in their respective areas based on comprehensive analysis of all the candidates' notable achievements, major deals or cases they have represented, the main deals and clients in the past 12 months, and other awards.