Banking and Financial Institutions

JT&N’s banking and financial institutions practice is comprised of over 20 lawyers with broad experience in all facets of banking and finance. The firm is a recognized leader in this field and regularly advises China’s major banks and financial institutions including China Development Bank, the Bank of Beijing, China Agriculture Bank, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), International Financial Capital (IFC), Founder Securities Co., Xinda Asset Management Company as well as many US, European and Asian banks and financial institutions. The firm prides itself on maintaining a consistent ability to support our clients with high-quality legal services on matters ranging from bank regulatory, leveraged and asset-based financing, resolution of non-performing loans and distressed assets, and complex transactions and financial products. JT&N lawyers have extensive experience in the design, trading and risk management utilization of financial products.

JT&N represents finance companies, investment and merchant banking firms, private investment funds, insurance companies, pension funds, and other institutional lenders and investors, as well as purchasers, borrowers and issuers of securities, in a wide range of financing transactions. The firm also regularly advises banking clients on M&A, regulatory and general operational legal issues, and we add particular value in the area of relationships with banking regulators in China. The firm’s client benefit from our well-established relationships with key general and local government regulatory agencies, in particular the China Bank Regulatory Commission (CBRC). JT&N lawyers are regularly called upon to advise regulators and other government bodies.

The firm advises clients on a wide range of banking and financial matters:
  • Acquisition financing
  • Leveraged and asset-based financing
  • Syndicated and bilateral lending
  • Project financing
  • Derivatives
  • Commercial banking
  • Investment fund creation
  • Securitizations
  • Subordinated debt and mezzanine financing
  • Bond issue financing
  • Private placements of debt and equity
  • Venture capital financing
  • Privatization-related financing
  • M&A financing
  • Restructuring
  • Real estate development and construction financing
  • Electronic banking and payment
  • Debtor-in-possession and bankruptcy exit financing
  • International trade financing
  • Insolvency
  • Syndicated credit facilities
  • Trade management products
  • Letters of credit and other credit enhancement devices