Guantao is one of the earliest law firms that established real estate department, could provide full and whole industry legal services to all kinds of clients, including government agencies, development enterprises, construction groups, financial institutions, real estate REITs, etc. Legal services of Guantao team not only contain traditional real estate development projects, such as land development (land first-level development, land use right transfer and land comprehensive development), M&A and restructuring of real estate projects, construction projects management (contracting and subcontracting, design and performance of construction contracts, final acceptance of construction projects, settlement of construction payment, etc.), sale and leasing of commercial properties, property management and operation (services to property leasing and property companies), guarantees and mortgages, but also expand into rising fields of infrastructure PPP projects, tourism real estate, collective industry land and city complex, real estate financing, foreign investment, etc.
Guantao provides perennial, special and litigation legal services to domestic and overseas clients including but not limited to Beijing Financial Street Investment Group Co., Ltd., Villagers' Committee of Baipenyao Village Hua Town Fengtai District, Beijing Baipenyao Tianxing Investment Management Corporation, Beijing Decheng Xingye Real Estate Development Co., Ltd., Beijing Decheng Zhidi Real Estate Development Co., Ltd., Hutchison Whampoa Limited, CK Hutchison Holdings Limited, Beijing NJSTAR Investment Management Company, Management Committee of Rising High and New Technology Industry Development Area, Wenzhou Financial Assets Exchange Center Co., Ltd., Tahoe Real Estate Group Company Ltd., Tianjin Beijing-Tianjin Expressway Co., Ltd., HSBC, Tishman Speyer, Singapore WBL Group, China Development Bank, Beijing Huarong Infrastructure Investment Co., Ltd., etc.
Guantao Real Estate Department, led by Meng Lei, represented Beijing NJSTAR Investment Management Company to negotiate with AEON Mall, which is the largest shopping mall in Fengtai District invested by Beijing NJSTAR Investment Management Company. Involved parties have major disputes over construction and leasing matters. After repeated negotiations lasted for over two years, both parties finally made the cooperation agreement in amount of RMB1.74B.
Based on traditional real estate development projects, Guantao team possesses deep bench of professionals in the fields of real estate financing, collective industry land and city complex, as well as tourism property recently.
"With broad range of skills, the team attracts numerous mandates from domestic developers and large state-owned real estate developers."
Chambers
"In real estate area, they can offer insightful legal opinion, draft consummate contracts and project plans, and help clients solve legal problems."
Clients say