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Huang Zhenda (Anthony)

Senior Joint Partner

huangzhenda@deheng.com

Title:

Senior Joint Partner
Executive Director
Director of Corporate Business Center


Qualifications:

Registered Foreign Lawyer of Hong Kong Bar Association
Master of Laws; Director of Economics
Certified Six Sigma Black Belt certification in Business Management of the American General Electric Group (GE Company) Aero Engine Training Center; Certified Hospitality Supervisor Certification of the American Hotel and Lodging Association, etc.
Participated in legal skills, corporate control and compliance business skills training in Hong Kong, Germany, the United States, and Russia.
Selected into the training courses for young and middle-aged cadres organized by the Organization Department of Hainan Provincial Party Committee.
Served as the general counsel of a domestic enterprise group (Fortune Global 500) as well as an executive of an industrial group and an executive of a listed company for a long time.


Areas of Expertise:

1. Extensive experience in corporate restructuring and reorganization, mergers and acquisitions, operation and management, especially in commercial air transport enterprises, civil airport companies, international and domestic tourism companies, high-star hotel properties, commercial real estate, and commercial property operation and management.

2. Extensive experience in investment and development, construction and operation of real estate companies, and project management of construction companies.

3. Extensive experience in litigation, enforcement, arbitration, corporate control, and compliance practices of difficult criminal and civil economic dispute cases.


Practice Experience:

From 1999 to 2013, Dr. Huang served as Chief Legal Counsel of an Aviation Group and served in senior management positions in its heaquarter and affiliates, responsible for organizing and managing the legal works of all member companies of the group, as well as the internal audits and risk control management of the companies. The business involves aircraft introduction (purchase, leasing) of aviation companies, mergers and acquisitions between aviation companies, hotel groups mergers and acquisitions, tourism group mergers and acquisitions, airport group mergers and acquisitions, airport reconstruction and expansion projects, commercial group mergers and acquisitions, corporate listing and post-listing business Restructuring (involving 8 listed companies), litigation handling of major difficult cases, etc. The business scope covers Hong Kong, Europe, Beijing, Haikou, Xi'an, Taiyuan, Changchun, Guangzhou, Shandong, Hubei and other provinces and cities.

Dr. Huang also served as the general manager of the audit and legal affairs department of the headquarter of a well-known enterprise group, the general manager of the project investment department (mergers and acquisitions), the general manager of the airport infrastructure management department (airline comprehensive base construction, airport reconstruction and expansion), and the group human resources department General manager, as well as the president of the hotel group under the group, the president of a provincial tourism group company, the chairman and party secretary (provincial state-owned department-level enterprise), the real estate group CEO (real estate development, golf course construction), and the vice president of the property holding group (senior management positions such as commercial real estate mergers and acquisitions.

Since 2014, Dr. Huang has been a full-time practicing lawyer. Acting as the main legal counsel for many large enterprise groups on compliance, risk control and major and difficult special matters. At the same time, Dr. Huang provides services for investment and development, construction and operation, property transformation and property transformation of many investment companies and real estate companies. The business scope covers Hong Kong, Beijing, Tianjin, Hainan, Guangdong, Shandong, and Northeast China. Business types include investment mergers and acquisitions, listed company restructuring, and legal proceedings, including two listed companies in Hong Kong.

Dr. Huang served as director and supervisor for a number of listed companies in China and a listed company in Hong Kong, familiar with the capital market.


Representative Legal Matters and Non-litigation Projects:

1、Responsible for the merger and reorganization of state-owned enterprises China Xinhua Airlines, Shanxi Chang'an Airlines, and Shanxi Airlines for a listed company, completing all the work of corporate restructuring, restructuring, historical issues, case handling, etc., as the legal project leader.

2、Responsible for all major legal projects of an aviation group from 1999 to 2013, including dispute resolutions and special legal services, including, but not limited to, the legal services for aircraft import (purchase, financial leasing, operating lease, etc.) of a famous airline for consecutive years (review agreements, etc.),the legal services for airline hangar construction project, legal services for aviation base construction project (1500 acre land planning, construction and operation), flight simulator training center construction, and Spanish government loan special legal services for simulator equipment (4 simulators), etc.

3、Represented an aviation group company to settle and enforce a 2 billion yuan loan guarantee dispute between an aviation group company and a provincial airport group company, successfully realized debt-to-equity swaps, and realized the objective of the principal to sharehold and operate Sanya Phoenix International Airport.

4、Responsible for the establishment of the Sanya Aviation Tourism Vocational and Technical College, including application for land acquisition, school permit preparation, recruitment of teachers, overall campus planning, construction and operation, etc. The college was rated as a national key private technical college and a model of international cooperation in running schools (part of the colleges and departments cooperated with Austria).

5、Responsible for assisting a private company in Hong Kong to purchase 3 private business jets and operate and manage them (total price of the aircraft was 600 million yuan).

6、Represented an airline and an aviation leasing company in a foreign-related arbitration dispute over the operating lease of three Boeing aircrafts, with a dispute of 300 million yuan.

7、Successfully bidded for the core enterprise of China's central enterprises: Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Global Lawyer Bank, and plans to provide international legal compliance services for large aircraft projects.

8、Responsible for the acquisition of a provincial state-owned enterprise: Jilin Province Tourism Group Co., Ltd. special legal consultation included restructuring and reorganization and transitional operation.

9、Responsible for the special legal services for the transformation and upgrading of a group company's Sanya seaside property hotel, with a total investment of 1.2 billion yuan. All work involving small owners' voting, repurchase, replacement, project demolition, construction, approval, and operation.

10、Responsible for the special legal services for the development of Sanya high-end residential apartments for a group company. The total investment was sum up to 500 million yuan.

11、Responsible for legal services of commercial operation for a joint venture company with a Canadian company.

12、Responsible for resolving a legal dispute between an aviation group and the Gome in respect of a 5.75 billion yuan project. Successfully forced the Gome to take the initiative to withdraw the lawsuit and finally settle the case.

13、Represented a listed company in coordination the unblocking and certifying work of the judicial seizure of its commercial real estate in Shenzhen. Completed the commission as quickly as possible (the value of the disputed case was 30 million Yuan).

14、Representing a listed petroleum engineering company in the international arbitration of an overseas Iraqi engineering contract dispute (LCIA is in progress and the bid value is US$30 million).

15、Representing a petroleum engineering company in an international arbitration case (ICC, in progress) on a loan dispute with its American shareholder.

16、Representing a listed company in the arbitration of a loan guarantee dispute (Shenzhen International Arbitration Court is in progress, the disputed case is worth 100 million yuan).

17、Acting as an agent in the execution of a dispute over a certain group company's fund investment repurchase obligation with an air travel group company (in progress, the value of the disputed subject matter is 250 million yuan).

18、Representing a fund management listed companyin fund liquidation and internal shareholder disputes.

19、Represented a listed bank in a loan guarantee dispute with a listed company and an aviation tourism group, with a disputed subject matter of 500 million yuan (in progress).

20、Organizedandrepresentedadomesticlistedcompanytoissuesharesbasedonprivateplacement, and assisted in the issuance and review of legal opinions in six countries including Pakistan, UAE, Iraq, Chad, and Kazakhstan.

21、Serving as a special legal advisory consultant for aircraft procurement and sales contracts and joint venture contracts between a state-owned enterprise group and Airbus Europe, and issuing legal opinions.


Articles:

Master thesis "Research on Anti-Money Laundering Crimes".

PhD thesis "Comparative Study on Circular Economy-A Case Study of Hainan Island".

Translated articles such as "Research on Drug Crimes in the United States" for Peking University Law Journal.

acla.org.cn "The Impact of the Epidemic in Wuhan on Aviation Consumers", "Legislative and Judicial Research on China's Civil Aviation Industry", "Study on Legal Practices of Civil Aircraft Judicial Execution", "A Preliminary Study on Legal Research on Contract Purposes", etc.

The Wechat official account of Deheng Law Group and Defayuan published "Legal Impact of the Boeing 737MAX Incident", "Legal Proposals on the Core Key Points of Civil Air Transport Enterprise Mergers and Acquisitions", "Lecture Notes on Corporate Compliance Ecological Control System from the Perspective of Public Law and Private Law", "Research on Policies and Laws Related to Civil Aircraft Trade in Hainan Free Trade Port", etc.

Third Prize of the First Academic Annual Conference of Deheng Law Group.

Took an interview with the "O-Square" magazine sponsored by the Supreme People's Procuratorate; the article "Huang Zhenda: Those Legal Matters on the Plane" was published in the "In the World" section of "O-Square" magazine (published in mid-February 2020).


Social Positions:

Visiting scholar at the Institute of Rule of Law, Hainan University

Member of China Aviation Law Society

Arbitrator of Hainan International Arbiration Court

Part-time Professor at the MBA/EMBA Center of School of Ecomomics and Management, Northwestern University