IPeak (Intellectual Property End) teaNEO-ARK LAW FIRM has formed a professional team of lawyers focusing on the niche market in the field of construction engineering. The team is led by infrastructure investment and financing experts and general counsel of large central enterprises, with years of experience in legal services in the field of construction engineering in large central enterprises and state-owned enterprises, and has outstanding achievements in bidding, legal risk control in the process of engineering construction and legal dispute handling in engineering construction, and has handled He has handled many domestic and foreign infrastructure, engineering and construction, investment and financing projects, with precise policy interpretation, and can provide professional, high-quality and efficient legal services to clients.
The firm focuses on the fields of transportation, water conservancy, environmental protection and municipal utilities, and specializes in the whole process of infrastructure project creation, financing, construction and operation as well as special legal services. Our infrastructure investment and financing legal services include: infrastructure project financing legal services, infrastructure project land acquisition legal services, infrastructure project construction and operation management legal services, and infrastructure project investment and M&A legal services.
Legal Counsel / Services
(I) Special legal counsel services
✔ Collecting background legal and policy documents related to basic investment and financing on a regular basis, and informing clients regularly;
✔ Visiting project sites for field inspections according to actual needs;
✔ Participating in consultations and negotiations of major meetings of infrastructure projects at the request of clients;
✔ Providing legal advice, opinions or recommendations on matters related to government procurement and bidding processes;
✔ Providing legal opinions on matters such as overall project transaction structure model, contract system design, risk control of project operation process, project company formation, and appropriateness of financing;
✔ Assisting in drafting and reviewing core agreements of projects, including consortium agreements, preliminary agreements for infrastructure projects, infrastructure and utility concession agreements, cooperation agreements, articles of incorporation, general construction contracts, etc;
✔ Providing legal opinions or preventive treatment measures on possible problems in the process of project investment and construction, etc;
✔ Issuing legal opinions on project compliance.
(II) Year-round legal advisory services
✔ Establishing information sharing mechanism, informing the project company regularly of the information it has on investment projects, and assisting clients in screening projects;
✔ Answering legal inquiries and providing legal advice in accordance with the law;
✔ Participating in the argumentation, negotiation and consultation in the preliminary stage of infrastructure projects;
✔ Providing feasibility, legal risk prediction and countermeasures for infrastructure investment and financing projects;
✔ Informing the project company of the latest laws and regulations, especially information on the latest laws and regulations on infrastructure investment and financing;
✔ Providing legal basis and legal opinions for the legality, feasibility, risk prediction and countermeasures of major decisions in production, operation and management of the project company;
✔ Assisting in drafting, formulating, reviewing or revising legal documents such as daily contracts of the company;
✔ Conducting large-scale legal literacy training for the project company every year, and relevant personnel of the project company may participate in various professional salons and trainings on infrastructure investment and financing organized by our firm free of charge;
✔ Upon separate entrustment, participating in negotiations of new investment projects and other major economic projects of the project company in infrastructure investment and financing, preparation, modification and witnessing of contractual documents, formulation of legal countermeasures, due diligence, issuance of legal documents such as legal opinions on various major matters;
✔ Upon separate entrustment, acting for the subsidiaries, foreign branches and other affiliated enterprises in which the project company holds or participates in legal affairs;
✔ Upon separate entrustment, representing project companies in special cases involving economic, civil, intellectual property, labor, administrative, criminal and other legal procedures that must enter into litigation or arbitration.
Legal service projects in which the firm has participated (partial):
▲ 2022-2023, Shenzhen Longgang Street Hongwei Area Urban Renewal Project Special Legal Services;
▲ 2022-2023, Standing legal advisor standing for the head office and subordinate Guangdong region Nansha Lingshan Island Tip Area Comprehensive Development Project, Shunde High-tech Zone Western Launch Area Project, Zhongshan (Shiqi) Headquarters Economic Zone Urban Comprehensive Development Project, Zhuhai Hengqin New Area Comprehensive Development Project, Shunde East New City Urban Comprehensive Development Project, Huizhou Tonghu Ecological Wisdom Zone PPP Project of CCCC Urban Investment Construction Co. Legal consultancy services;
▲ 2022-2024, standing legal counsel services for the West Lot of Foshan Bailan Chunxiao Project;
▲ 2021, special legal advisor service for land cooperative development project in Pengzhou Munyang New City, Chengdu;
▲ 2020, Shaoguan Cang Shi Zhai Tourism and Leisure Resort Comprehensive Development Project legal advisor;
▲ 2016-2023, Standing legal advisor for Foshan Metro Line 2 PPP+EPC+TOD Project, with total project investment of RMB 21 billion, the largest single infrastructure project in the history of Foshan City;
▲ 2018, PPP Project of Tongcheng Sports Park, Hubei Province;
▲ 2018, PPP projects for the new construction of highway from Shicheng Town to Fulin Ring of Great Yunwu Mountain in Yunfu City Yunan District, the reconstruction of highway from Nansheng Entrance and Exit of Yuncheng District Shenluo Expressway to Fulin Town (Yunan Section) in Yunan District and the new construction of transit highway in Fulin Town in Yunfu City Yunan District;
▲ 2018, Dongsheng Internet of Things Town PPP Project, Meizhou City, Meijiang District;
▲ 2018, PPP project of urban integrated public buildings and transportation infrastructure in Fogang County;
▲ 2018, participation in the legal service of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge project;
▲ 2017-2018, Road Traffic PPP Project in Lishi District, Lvliang City, Shanxi Province;
▲ 2017-2018, Liujiawan and other black smelly water bodies remediation PPP project in Lvliang Lisi District, Lvliang;
▲ 12 villages/communities habitat improvement PPP projects in Longhu District, Shantou City, 2017-2018;
▲ 2017-2018, PPP Project for Construction of Basic Education and Supporting Municipal Roads in Shidian County, Yunnan Province;
▲ Special legal service and permanent legal service for the construction of China Village PPP project in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, 2017-2023;
▲ 2017, Field Inspection and Risk Control Legal Services for PPP Project of Huadu Special Town in Guangzhou;
▲ 2017, special legal consultant service for the development of Huilai Bijou Park project;
▲ 2016-2017, Guangsheng Group Hubei Xianning City Tongshan County Cultural and Sports Center PPP Project, which was selected as the fourth batch of PPP demonstration projects by the Ministry of Finance;
▲ 2016-2017, PPP Project of Road Drainage Reconstruction Project of Nantou Road, Potou District, Zhanjiang;
▲ 2016-2017, 52 town and village domestic waste transfer stations construction PPP project in Wuhua County, special legal service;
▲ 2016, Legal Consultation and Bidding for Capacity Cooperation Project of Jizan Economic City in China-Saudi Arabia;
▲ 2016, special legal service for the transformation of three old dormitories of units in Baiyun District;
▲ 2016, PPP special lecture for the executive meeting of Shaoguan Municipal Government and Lechang Municipal Government for the study of the general law;
▲ 2010-2016, legal advisor of Shaoguan Hongxia Real Estate Company for Environmental Protection Bureau and Commercial Bureau land parcels;
▲ 2015, legal advisor of social capital party of Nanxiong City National Fitness Plaza Project;
▲ 2010-2015, legal advisor to the governmental land storage PPP project for the transformation of three old buildings in the south of Yang Shan City;
▲ 2013-2015, legal affairs of bidding and government negotiation for the project department of the northern expansion project of Guangzhou Baiyun Airport;
▲ 2006, Chongqing Fuling Yangtze River Second Bridge BOT Project, representing the investor in negotiations and contract amendments with the government;
▲ 2005, Nanning North Bridge and Taoyuan Bridge BT Project, negotiating with the owner and contract drafting and revision on behalf of the construction party;
▲ 2004-2005, Guangming Expressway BOT Project, negotiating with the government and contract revision on behalf of the investor;
▲ 2003-2004, Hunan Xiangtan Liancheng Four Bridges B0T Project, negotiating with the government and contract amendment on behalf of the investor;
▲ Legal review service of contract of municipal highway construction project PPP in Qingyuan City.