Financial Business
Finance and related businesses have become one of the traditional core and advantageous businesses of Dentons since its establishment. Dentons Guangzhou office provides special or comprehensive legal services for many domestic and foreign banks, non-bank financial institutions, insurance companies, etc., relying on its rich experience and extensive client base in financial field. The business focuses on financing, financial market supervision and compliance business, financial non-performing asset business, financial derivatives, Internet financial platform services, litigation and arbitration and risk prevention for various insurance types, wealth management and other comprehensive legal services.
Our clients are mostly well-known financial institutions and listed companies that are very active in the international financial market and commercial fields, including Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, China Construction Bank, Bank of China and its overseas branches and subsidiaries, four major financial asset management companies in China, Standard Chartered Bank, Santander Bank and its Hong Kong branch, HSBC Bank Canada, Deutsche Bank, First Abu Dhabi Bank, Kazakhstan RBK Bank, Turkey Odea Bank, Minsheng Bank Hong Kong Branch, China Guangfa Bank, Huatai Finance, JP Morgan, HSBC Nan Fung Fund, Dongxing Securities, Wanlian Securities, Evergrande Group, Changxing International, Guangdong Mingzhu, CITIC Prudential Life Insurance, etc.
Key services
From leading and participating in regulatory changes to providing innovative financing solutions for the most complex and cutting-edge transactions in the market, Dentons Guangzhou office has won many awards in regard to banking and financing, and is at the forefront of this highly developed market.
As a leading firm serving this field, we provide the following services for banks, other financial institutions, corporate borrowers and guarantee providers on various banking, financing transactions, government supervision and other issues.
In the field of banking and financial market supervision, we have extensive experience in servicing financial market supervision departments. We assist banks and non-bank financial institutions to conduct a full range of business compliance reviews and propose constructive solutions. We also assist banks to prepare standard documents, and conduct regular reviews and updates in accordance with the development of the law and changes in market practice. In addition, we often assist in foreign strategic investments in Chinese banks.
We provide the following services for banks, securities institutions, financial investors, fund companies, insurance companies, asset management institutions, auto finance companies, financial leasing companies and trust companies:
Legal service for the disposal of non-performing assets is one of Dentons Guangzhou office’s core and advantageous services. We provide the following services for China’s four major financial asset management companies, China’s state-owned commercial banks, domestic non-performing asset investors, large-scale overseas financial institutions, investment banks, overseas private equity funds, real estate funds, etc.:
Dentons Guangzhou office pays close attention to the development of China’s financial derivatives market and maintains good communication with relevant regulatory authorities. By doing so we can accurately determine how the existing structure continues to develop in practice, and more accurately analyze net settlement, collateral, termination and solutions.
The banking and finance group of Dentons Guanghzou office is good at using existing legal structures (such as deposits, private equity, ISDA master agreements and annexes, China inter-bank market financial transport products and assistance agreements, national inter-bank foreign exchange market RMB and foreign exchange derivatives master agreements, credit supporting documents and confirmations, trusts, funds, etc.) to introduce broad and innovative structures to realize derivative transactions under the current regulatory framework in China.
We provide the following services for banks, securities institutions, financial investors, fund companies, insurance companies, asset management institutions, etc.:
The banking and finance group of Dentons Guanghzou office has explored and practiced since long ago the Internet financial model represented by third-party payment, P2P online credit platform, Internet financial management platform, Internet small loan, crowdfunding platform, cloud computing, big data, etc., and has accumulated rich experience.
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