Practices

As the only SRA regulated local English law firm with full Chinese legal service capability, Zhong Lun London is uniquely positioned to serve clients in cross-border corporate, M&A and other investment projects between China and the UK. Since its establishment, various sizes of Chinese companies in diversified industries have relied on Zhong Lun London to provide legal support to their investments, entry to the UK and their UK operations. With the rapid development of Chinese outbound FDI into the UK, Zhong Lun London has acted for a number of internationally well-known Chinese and foreign clients, such as a number of large state-owned Chinese enterprises and listed companies, in a series of complex, often business-critical and sometimes transformational transactions, such as the cross-border greenfield investments, M&As and group restructurings.

Alongside the cross-border M&A track record, Zhong Lun London has also assisted various Chinese companies in setting up their UK subsidiaries or branches and advised on their day-to-day operational matters. Zhong Lun London has extensive experience in advising UK and Europe-wide investments and M&As in disparate industries and sectors, having achieved consistent excellence in answering the clients’ most complex challenges and delivering legal certainty to our clients in an often challenging roadmap from China to the UK.

Our representative clients include Chinese state-owned and private enterprises, commercial and investment banks, and government institutions. The industries and sectors in which we have significant expertise include oil and gas, mining, renewable energy, railway and transportation, telecommunications, manufacturing, retail, blockchain and virtual currency, etc.