Jihong Wang

Ms. Wang’s focal practice areas are infrastructure, construction, real estate, environment, energy and resources. She leads an experienced team that has won many awards.

As a renowned legal expert on urban infrastructure, her collective experience advising Chinese and foreign clients exceeds RMB 100 billion in terms of project investment amount. In the past dozen years, she advised on expressways, railways, subways, bridges, airports, ports, docks, stadiums, water plants, sewage treatment plants, power plants, river, public utility and hazardous waste treatment facilities, and projects in the natural gas, oil and chemical industry, with a particular insight and experience in concession projects in the modes of BT, BOT and PPP. She has represented domestic and foreign investors in these infrastructure projects with respect to deal structure design, contract negotiation, bidding procedure, construction, transfer, and operation of the project. She also assisted in project financing in terms of bond issuance, government sub-loan, financial leasing, collective trust, loan scheme, etc. Upon completion of the project, she is able to continue her legal support on project operation and can assist project owners to work with strategic partners from home and abroad and in matters such as capital increase, M&A and assets securitization.

Acting for domestic and foreign real estate developers and project owners, she was deeply involved in a number of landmark architectures and Olympic related projects such as CCTV New Site, National Museum of China, and National Indoor Stadium. She was also involved in a series of real estate development and merger projects. She is familiar with every stage of a project including the selection of the development mode, financing, project company establishment, M&A, tendering and bidding, contract negotiation and execution, acquisition of land user’s right, engineering project claim and counter-claim, and post-construction lease, sale and operation. She advised on real estate projects for diversified purposes, i.e. for commercial, residential, public, tourist, industrial, office and diplomatic use and in airport-adjacent areas. As one of the first lawyers to legally bridge insurance fund financing with infrastructure and real estate projects, she has expertise in land development project, urban city project development, urbanization projects and in combining real estate projects with infrastructure or real estate development projects with land leveling. She protects clients’ interests and ensures project success through effective coordination of related parties.
Ms. Wang started her environmental, resources and energy practice at an early stage. She was involved in all kinds of environmental projects. She was/is the legal advisor for the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau, the China Environmental Protection Foundation and several other environmental organizations from home and abroad. Ms. Wang participated in the discussion and deliberation of several significant environmental administrative and reconsideration cases including the Songhua River incident. She provided full legal support for Beijing’s first environmental assessment hearing. She also advised on a number of resources and energy projects with respect to financing, M&A and dispute resolution. Her clients include Chevron, CNOOC, China Gold International Resources Corp. Ltd., Sinochem, and National Institute of Clean-and-Low-Carbon Energy.

Ms. Wang is an active participant in legislation. She was invited to participate in the drafting and revision of a series of laws and regulations in her focal areas, such as Construction Law, Environmental Protection Law, Atomic Energy Law, Air Pollution Prevention Law, Law on Environmental Impact Assessment for Planning, Renewable Energy Law, Energy Conservation Law, Solid Waste Pollution Prevention Law, the Provisions on the Management of Construction Market, Interim Measures on Public Participation in Environmental Impact Assessment, Rules on Environmental Impact Assessment of Planning, and Administration Measures on Joint Venture Railways, Rules on the Construction Market and the Transit Administration Regulations of Tianjin Municipality. She was also engaged in a number of research studies such as Issues in the Construction and Operation of Large Scale Municipal Infrastructure, and Research on the Discretion of Administrative Penalty in Radioactive Pollution Prevention. As a bidding evaluation expert, she has participated in property transaction evaluations in Beijing and Tianjin. Presiding/co-hearing cases at arbitration institutions, she has accumulated rich experience in arbitration.