INTRODUCTION
Mr. Liu Yilong is a partner lawyer of Corporations and Securities Department of Guantao Law Firm. He is an expert in the following professional filed: capital market; M&A and reorganization; private placement, investment and financing; reorganization and liquidation; reformation of state-owned enterprises; real estate and construction engineering, civil and commercial litigation and arbitration.
During all the years of practice, lawyer Liu has provided very professional legal service for customers both in and abroad China. Owing to his spirit of promptitude, circumspection and dedication and the professional skills with efficiency, pragmatic and high-quality, lawyer Liu is greatly praised and highly commented by his customers and colleagues. Furthermore, lawyer Liu has participated in many momentous, complex and influential cases and projects relating to corporation listing,M&A and reorganization, private placement, investment and financing, reformation of state-owned enterprises, insolvency liquidation and reorganization, dispute resolution, etc. For instance, lawyer Liu was once fully involved in handling the project of thereorganization, division and listing of Hutchison Whampoa and Yangtze River Industrial owned by Mr.Li Jiachen which is well known as “ Grand Century Reorganization”. Besides, lawyer Liu also participated in the insolvency liquidations of many famous securities corporations like the SouthernSecurities, Hantang Securities, Min’an Securities, Dapeng Securities, Minfa Securities, Guangdong National Trust Investment Co., LTD and so on.
Lawyer Liu is also a part-time professor of the faculty of law in the university. Lawyer Liu actively summarizes his abundant experiences of handling cases, and has achieved fruitful results. Several theses of lawyer Liu have been published in the core journals, including an article which somehow has a certain impact on the practice of court trial and the subsequent interpretation of Law of Corporations:Research on practical disputes about qualification confirmation of dormant shareholders of unlisted corporation limited—study on the qualification confirmation of dormant shareholders of Jiangsu Bank, published on the Review of Law of Corporations (pressed by the people's court and sponsored by the Civil Adjudication Tribunal NO.2 of the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China, chiefly edited by the presiding judge Song Xiaoming who is the Civil Adjudication Tribunal NO.2 of the Supreme People’s Court , and subordinately edited by Xi Xiaoming, who is the vice president of the Supreme People’s Court ) for the first edition in September 2011.
MAJOR PROFESSIONAL FIELD
Capital Market; M&A and Reorganization; Private Placement, Investment and Financing; Reorganization and Liquidation; Reformation of State-owned Enterprises; Real Estate and Construction Engineering, Civil and Commercial Litigation and Arbitration.
MAIN ACHIEVEMENTS
Capital Market:
• Participated as legal counsel about Chinese law in theproject of the reorganization,division and re-listing on the Hong Kong Exchange of Li Jiacheng’s Yangtze River Industrial (Group) and Hutchison Whampoa in 2015.
• Participated fully in the successful listing on the Shanghai Stock Exchange of the China Building Material Test & Certification Group Co., LTD (hereinafter called the “China Test Group”, Stock Code: 603060 ) ,such as the reformation of the whole-people-owned enterprise, and the reorganization, establishment and listing of China Test Group. Concretely, lawyer Liu was responsible for the legal due diligence of Guangdong subsidiary companies of the China Test Group.
• Served as a special legal counsel in the Inspection NO.1 of Chinese Securities Regulatory Commission Guangdong Bureau in 2014. And participated in many illegal inspection rectification projects of unlisted corporations like Dongguan Kingsun Optoelectronic Co., LTD (Stock Code: 002638), etc.
• Served as a special legal counsel in listing on National Equities Exchange and Quotations for many enterprises, such as Foshan Happy King Energy Saving & Environmental Protection Technology Joint Stock Co., LTD (Stock Code: 832750), Meishan Dexin Aviation Equipment Co., LTD(Stock Code: 835638), Guangzhou Gipex Mobile science and Technology Co., LTD (Stock Code: 838041), HOMBO Technology Public Limited Company（Stock Code:835657）and so on.
Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) and Reorganization;
• Authorized as Chineselegal counselby Guangdong Yueyun Transportation Company Limited (HK. 03399), and accomplished its acquisitions of Shaoyun Group, Qingyuan AutomotiveTransportation Group, Chaozhou Changyun, etc.
• Authorized as Chineselegal counselby Guangdong Yueyun Transportation Company Limited (HK. 03399), and accomplished its acquisitions of the 100% equity interests ofGuangdong Nanyue Logistics Enterprise Co., LTD.
• Authorized as a special legal counselby Qingyuan Yueyun Transportation Co., LTD, and accomplished its acquisitions of Qingyuan Qingxin Transportation Service Co., LTD.
• Authorized as a special legal counsel for the mergers, reorganizations of the whole, and management of Zhongshan Everlasting Culture Communication Co., LTD, Beijing Excellent Parents Culture Communication Co., LTD, New Family Tradition (Beijing) Culture Communication Co., LTD, Zhongshan Co-intelligence Dasheng Enterprise Management ConsultingCo., LTD and other enterprises.
Private Placement, Investment and Financing
• Served as a special legal counsel and has assisted the registrations of private equity fund managers and other registrations of important changes of dozens of Companies in Asset Management Association of China successfully since January 1st, 2016.
Reorganization and Liquidation
• Authorized as a lawyer in trustee in bankruptcy team, and participated in the insolvency liquidations or reorganizations of many famous enterprises, such as the Southern securities, Dapeng securities, Hantang securities, Minfa securities, Min'an securities, Guangdong National Trust Investment Co., LTD, Shenzhen MINSK Aircraft Carrier World Industrial Co., LTD, Guangzhou Shuangling Iron Industrial Co., LTD, Shenzhen Residential Engineering Development Co., LTD, etc.
• Authorized as a lawyer in trustee in bankruptcy team, and participated in the reorganization (debts restructuring and acquisitions in particular) of Guangdong Sunrise Holding Co., LTD (000030. SH),.
Reformation of State-owned Enterprises or Risk Assessment
• Participated in the risk assessments and expert analyses project about the real estate development on the Yangxi station plot for Guangdong Yueyun Langri Co., LTD, which is an affiliated enterprise of State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, the People’s Government of Guangdong Province.
• Participated in the risk assessments and expert analyses project about Jiangluo—Chaohui highway for Guangdong AutomotiveTransportation Group Co., LTD, which is an affiliated enterprise of State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, the People’s Government of Guangdong Province.
Civil and Commercial Litigation and Arbitration
• Authorized as a special attorney by Foxconn Technology group (The ninth business group—machine and optoelectronic business group: Foshan Pulihua Technology Co., LTD) in 2013 to solve the disputes about strike and the compensation for dis-solutions of labor contracts of hundreds of employees via litigation, in which lawyer Liu was in favoredboth in the first and second instance.
• Authorized as a special attorney by America NU SKIN Group (NYSE:NUS) to issue legal opinions for its suspected of pyramid selling case in China in 2014.
• Authorized as an attorney by Guangzhou Sport University and won the trademark infringements disputes against Li-ning (China) Co., LTD and Anta (China) Co., LTD.
SOCIAL APPOINTMENTS AND PART-TIME JOBS
• Professor of Department of Law, School of Politics and Law, Guangdong University of Technology.
• Consultant and trustee of Guangdong Investment Chamber of Private Enterprises (Guangdong Federation of Industry & Commerce Immediate Member)
• Consultant and trustee of Guangdong Overseas Youth Chamber of Commerce.
QUALIFICATION OF PRACTICE
Became a lawyer of the People’s Republic of China since 2007.
OCCUPATION HISTORY
• Practice attorney assistant in King & Wood Mallesons (Guangzhou)Law Firm from February, 2008 to December 2008.
• Lawyer in Beijing Zhonglun (Shenzhen) Law Firm from March 2009 to November 2012.
• Lawyer and partner lawyer in Guantao (Guangzhou) Law Firm from December 2012 until now.
EDUCATION BACKGROUND
• Bachelor of Law (full-time), Department of Law, Faculty of Law, Shantou University from September 2002 to June 2006.
• Master of Law (full-time), majored in Constitutional and Administrative Law (Administrative Law orientation), China University of Political Science and Law from September 2006 to June 2009.
LANGUAGE SKILL
English, CET 6, proficient.
Putonghua, native language.
Cantonese, native language.
RESEARCH ON PRACTICE
• Research on practical disputes about qualification confirmation of dormant shareholders of unlisted corporation limited—study on the qualification confirmation of dormant shareholders of Jiangsu Bank, published on the Review of Law of Corporations(the first edition in September 2011 and the eighteen edition together)(pressed by the people's court and sponsored by the Civil Adjudication Tribunal NO.2 of the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China, chiefly edited by the presiding judge Song Xiaoming who is the Civil Adjudication Tribunal NO.2 of the Supreme People’s Court , and subordinately edited by Xi Xiaoming, who is the vice president of the Supreme People’s Court ) .
• Research on bankruptcy liquidation of “shell company”, published on Journal of Shanxi Politics and Law Institude for Administrators, the twenty-third volume, 2009.
• Punitive interests, such as default interests, compound interests or liquidated damages for breach of contracts does not belong to the credit of bankrupt – study on loan contract disputeabout XX company's claim against the debtor,published on Shenzhen Lawyers, the thirty-fifth edition, September 2011.
• Research on tort supplementary liability -- take security obligation as the research subject, published on Journal of Heilongjiang Administrative Cadre Institute of Politics and Law, the fourth edition, 2012.
AWARDS
• Guangzhou Lawyers Association Theoretical Achievement Award, 2012.
• Guangzhou Lawyers Association Theoretical Achievement Award, 2013.