PEI Debao |
Partner, Attorney at Law
Mr. PEI graduated from Fudan University with degrees of Juris Master in Law School and Bachelor of Finance in International Finance Department of School of Economics.
Mr. PEI ever worked for several well-known multinational corporations and law firms, and joined Leezhao Law Office in August, 2005. Mr. PEI passed the National Bar Examination in 2004 and then obtained the Lawyer License (License No.: 1310120********41), currently as the partner of Leezhao Law Office.
Mr. PEI once acted as the counselor for many multinational corporations and foreign invested enterprises with background of Japan, European countries, the USA, Hong Kong or Taiwan, which cover such areas of industry as finance, chemical manufacturing, medicine, electronic products, new energy, semiconductor, warehousing and logistics, automobile, steel, elevator, catering, etc., with areas of practice involving banking & securities, investment, M&A, bankruptcy and liquidation, commercial business, real property, foreign exchange, laboring and litigation/ arbitration, etc., and has accumulated abundant experience therefrom.
Mr. PEI specializes in dealing with legal issues arising from daily operations of financing institutions like banks, finance companies and lease finance companies and has provided legal service for several well-known foreign-invested finance institutions for a long term, as well as providing legal services about Chinese laws for oversea finance institutions. Mr. PEI is proficient in the traditional banking business such as loans and deposits, negotiable instruments, and has extensive experience in legal practice related with banking business such as guarantee, foreign debt, letter of credit, foreign exchange, and is also familiar with comprehensive banking business like structured deposit, trade finance ( forfaiting, export negotiation, refinancing, etc.), asset securitization, cross-border RMB settlement, products relying on cooperation between bank and trust company, as well as having knowledge on the general operations of the finance market concerning the interbank market, OTC market ( including OTC loan, ISDA), foreign exchange market etc..
Typical cases Mr. PEI dealt with include: providing legal services on structural reform of a branch of one foreign bank into a foreign-invested bank; designing, drafting, reviewing, negotiating for standard documents of banking business including loan agreements, consigned loan agreement, draft discounting/acceptance agreements, letter of guarantee, factoring, forfaiting, etc; providing long-term legal services on the design and development of new financing products for a foreign-invested bank; providing legal service in whole course for a foreign-invested bank as the leading bank in a syndicated loan; providing legal support for bond underwriting in the interbank market for a foreign-invested bank; providing legal services on Chinese laws about providing international commercial loans, cross-border guarantees to domestic companies in China for several oversea banks; providing legal support for legal issues concerning compliance and anti-trust arising from the merger of several branches in China for an oversea finance institution; participating in the bankruptcy and liquidation procedure as the agent in the whole course for a foreign invested bank who is the major creditor and assisting in recovering the loan; negotiating as the agent of all participating banks in a syndicated loan, providing solutions and assisting in recovering the loans with a huge amount.
Simultaneously, Mr. PEI is proficient in legal issues arising from the operation of corporation. Typical cases Mr. PEI dealt with as the leading lawyer include: dealing with several kinds of merger cases in China by foreign companies, foreign-invested company (including due diligence, designing solution of merging, drafting legal documents, handling administrative formalities, etc.); providing legal supports for the business integration in China for several multinational company groups; providing legal services on designing the compliance system, executing supervisions and handling cases in China for several multinational companies; acting as the agent for a corrugated paper packaging enterprises in a litigation case of “applying for the voidance of the arbitration clause with a foreign company”(participated in the first half of the case. This case is listed in China Arbitration as one of the top 10 influential arbitration cases in the year 2014); acting as the agent for one foreign-invested elevator manufacturing company on an arbitration case of technology contracts brought by one well-known elevator tractor manufacturing company (this case involves large sums of money, and many intellectual property rights problems); acting as the agent for one NASDAQ listed company(US-invested company) handling the case of equity transfer with one Singapore company (This case experiences three trials during three years, intervened with a transfer of share of a third party, and finally won outright); acting as the agent for a large multinational chemical enterprise completed the declaration of operator concentration with summary procedure.
Mr. PEI recently has as well been providing expert legal services for the growing Chinese private enterprises, covering the industries of biotechnology, new energy, industrial products manufacturing, internet, agriculture, etc. In addition, as of the year 2013, Mr. PEI officially started to practice in the capital market business like NEEQ, etc. Typical cases of him as the leading lawyer include: the affair of Petro Hose& Piping listing in NEEQ; the affair of Shanghai Huilan Agriculture listing in NEEQ; the affair of Dongfu Intelligence listing in NEEQ.
Mr. PEI is a member of the 9th and 10th Banking Business Research Committee affiliated to Shanghai Bar Association.
Mr. PEI’s working languages are Chinese and English.