环球律师事务所

As the pioneer in the fields of debt restructuring and corporate liquidation/bankruptcy legal services in China, we have extensive experience covering all aspects in this regard which mainly include designing debt restructuring strategy and plan, solving corporate debt crisis, processing corporate liquidation issues (mandatory liquidation and voluntary liquidation), and undertaking bankruptcy cases (including bankruptcy liquidation, reorganization, reconciliation, preliminary reorganization, etc.), serving as bankruptcy case administrator, bankrupt enterprise investor’s and creditors' legal counsel, providing legal opinions and guidance for corporate liquidation cases and processing related derivative disputes.

In recent years, we undertook dozens of complicated bankruptcy and restructuring matters, including several milestone cases, which attract significant attention by general public and intensively reported by media.

Currently, GLO debt restructuring and corporate liquidation/bankruptcy team is composed of dozens of partners and lawyers with practical experience and extensive law enforcement experience, providing efficient and high-quality legal services for a large number of clients in banking and finance, business services, chemical engineering, construction and materials, engineering, energy, internet, manufacturing and mining.

As a member on the manager list of the Beijing High People's Court, we are honored to serve as the first member unit of the Beijing Municipal Association of Bankruptcy Administrators and assume the role of supervisor.

We have undertaken many projects related to this field and accumulated rich experience. Our services mainly include:

serving as administrator in bankruptcy cases, liquidation group member in company mandatory liquidation cases
serving as legal counsel of creditor, reorganization party, investor, etc. in bankruptcy cases, providing a range of comprehensive legal services including bankruptcy application, creditors' rights declaration, investment analysis, etc.
accepting delegation of distressed companies, conducting investigation and analysis about debt restructuring matters, and putting forward bankruptcy prevention and related plans
providing legal risk investigation services for proposed bankruptcy/liquidation/restructure enterprises
processing derivative proceedings related to company liquidation, bankruptcy and restructure
accepting delegation of regulators or relevant parties to participate in risk disposal of financial institutions
other businesses related to liquidation, bankruptcy and restructuring

Representative deals

Represented an international top-tier functional beverage company to apply mandatory liquidation of its joint invested Sino-foreign company
As administrator, we processed the bankruptcy and liquidation project of Global Zhida Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., during which we helped the court convene the first online creditors' meeting of Beijing court system
Represented a financial institution regarding the bankruptcy and restructuring project of Yunnan Coal Chemical Industry Group system companies (including Yunwei Company) to handle the creditors' rights of over several billions of RMB
Represented a central enterprise in the arbitration case related to bankruptcy and restructuring project of Bohai Steel system enterprises involving millions of yuan

Awards & Rankings

Awards

2024, Nominated in Asia Legal Awards 2024: Restructuring and Insolvency Matter of the Year - HNA Group's split and reorganization, American Lawyer Media (ALM)
2023-2024, Nominated in Asia Legal Awards 2023: Restructuring and Insolvency Deal of the Year - HNA Group’s restructuring, American Lawyer Media (ALM)
2022, Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific Awards 2022: Impact Case of the Year - HNA Group’s reconstruction, Benchmark Litigation
2023, Nominated in Asia-Pacific Awards 2023: China - Restructuring firm of the year, Deals of the year: Restructuring - HNA Group’s restructuring, IFLR
2023, Nominated in Regional Impact Deals: Shanghai - Restructuring and insolvency - Wuyang Construction Group for $120M bankruptcy reorganization investment, IFLR1000 China
2022, Nominated in Regional Impact Deals: Beijing - Restructuring and insolvency - HNA Holding consolidated restructuring, IFLR1000 China
2021, Nominated in Asia-Pacific Awards 2021 - Restructuring Deal of the Year - Tianqi Lithium, IFLR
2020, Impact Deal Awards (Tianjin) - Bohai Steel Group insolvency, IFLR1000 China
2022-2023, Nominated in Team of The Year - Restructuring and Insolvency, IFLR1000 China
2021, Team of The Year - Restructuring and Insolvency, IFLR1000 China
2020, Nominated in Team of The Year - Restructuring and Insolvency, IFLR1000 China
2021, Deals of the year 2021 - HNA Group restructuring, Tewoo Group’s USD44bn reorganization, China Business Law Journal
2017-2024, Nominated in Insolvency & Restructuring Law Firm of the Year, Asian Legal Business
2022, Nominated in Insolvency & Restructuring Law Firm of the Year: East China - Non-local, Asian Legal Business
2022, Nominated in Insolvency & Restructuring Law Firm of the Year: East China - Non-local, Asian Legal Business
2022-2023, Nominated in Insolvency & Restructuring Law Firm of the Year: South & Central China - Non-local, Asian Legal Business
2014, Nominated in Insolvency and Restructuring Law Firm of the Year, Asian Legal Business

Rankings

2022-2024, Recommended firm in Restructuring and insolvency, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific
2017-2024, Recommended firm in Restructuring & Insolvency, asialaw
2020-2024, Recommended firm in Insolvency and Restructuring, LEGALBAND
2021-2024, Recommended firm in Insolvency and Restructuring, IFLR1000
2022-2024, Recommended firm in Restructuring and insolvency (Beijing & Shanghai), IFLR1000 China
2021-2024, Recommended firm in Insolvency (Asia-Pacific Dispute Resolution List), Benchmark Litigation

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