Jennifer Cheng Senior Partner
Changchun
0431-81802906
xiaoyan.cheng@dentons.cn
  • Cross-Border Investment and Trade
  • Corporate and M&A
  • Criminal Law
  • Compliance and Risk Management
  • Working Language:
  • Chinese
  • English

Introduction

Cheng Xiaoyan,  born in January 1968,  doctor of Civil and Commercial Law of Jilin University, first-class lawyer, the senior partner and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Beijing Dacheng (Changchun) Law Firm, the vice president of the sixth Changchun Lawyers Association, the legal adviser of Jilin Provincial People's Government and the legal adviser of Changchun Municipal People's Government. Due to the training experience of foreign lawyers and fluent English communication skills, the main business field is foreign-related legal affairs, I have participated in the negotiation and establishment of more than 10 Sino-foreign joint ventures and wholly foreign-owned enterprises over the years, involving clients from different countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Australia, Spain, Greece and so on. I have been involved in a number of foreign mergers and acquisitions, equity transfer, corporate restructuring, and international technology transfer cases, involving a capital of more than several billion yuan. In commercial litigation and arbitration legal services, I have recovered hundreds of millions of yuan of economic losses for clients. I have served as the legal counsel for many foreign enterprises and high-tech enterprises, providing high-quality legal services to clients. Since 2008, I have served as an arbitrator of Changchun Arbitration Commission, Dalian International Trade Arbitration Commission and Liaoyuan Arbitration Commission. I have served as the chief arbitrator and adjudicated nearly 100 commercial disputes, so I have rich experience in resolving commercial disputes.

Admissions and Qualifications

  • PRC Licensed Lawyer

Honors and Awards

  • A list of thousands of foreign-related lawyers in China(2019), Ministry of Justice, People's Republic of China
  • Leading talent pool of foreign-related lawyers of All China Lawyers Association(2018), Ministry of Justice, People's Republic of China
  • Changchun City outstanding contribution lawyer(2018), Changchun Bureau of Justice
  • Excellent lawyers of the province(2015), Jilin Provincial Department of Justice
  • Five projects outstanding individual(2015), Jilin Provincial Department of Justice
  • March-Eighth Red-Banner Pacesetter of Changchun(2021), Changchun Women's Federation

Representative Projects/Matters

Foreign-related business: Since my practice, I have handled hundreds of foreign-related legal affairs and corporate cases. Over the years, I have assisted enterprises in joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions with foreign-funded enterprises from the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Australia, Spain, Greece and other countries, attracting billions of foreign investment and recovering hundreds of millions of economic losses.

Typical dispute resolution cases: Changchun Hella Lamp Co., Ltd. and Hella (Changchun) Precision Mold Co., LTD; Contract disputes between Changchun Rongcheng Intelligent Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd. and Northeast Securities Co., LTD.; Jilin Yuxin Construction Engineering Co., Ltd. and Cui Shimin Construction Engineering dispute cases; Blue Cactus Co., Ltd. and Jihua Group Jilin City Nebula Chemical Co., LTD., international goods sale contract dispute cases.

Typical non-litigation cases: Assisting hundreds of school-owned enterprises of Jilin University to restructure, divest, liquidate and close; Assist FAW Group Company to issue RMB 10 billion medium-term notes; Assisting Monsanto Technologies Limited in dealing with seed theft; Assist Bayer (Beijing) Panel Co., Ltd. in dealing with economic disputes; Assist Changchun FAW Fusheng Group Co., Ltd. to deal with the asset-to-departure business with Bosch China.

Activities and Affiliations

  • Graduate School, Jilin University , Co-tutor
  • Latvian Working group of the Belt and Road Lawyers Alliance , Coordinator
  • Jilin Law Society foreign-related Law Research Institute , Executive vice president
  • Jilin Province new social stratum federation , Chairman of the board of supervisors
  • Changchun Municipal People's Government , Legal adviser
  • Jilin Provincial People's Government , Legal adviser
  • The sixth session of Changchun Lawyers Association , Assistant Guild Master

Academic Achievements

  • Supervision of Social Insurance Funds from the Perspective of Private Rights
  • On the Enforceability of Chinese Company Law
  • Independence of trust property and transaction security

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