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Summit (Feng) Chen

Dacheng Law Offices

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Position: Senior Partner
Rating:
  • Highly regarded
Bar Admissions:
China
Practice Areas:
M&A
Jurisdictions:
Industry Sectors:
Automotive
Construction and materials
Languages:
Chinese
English
Biography

Summit (Feng) Chen is the senior partner of Dentons Shanghai Office. Mr Chen has extensive theoretical knowledge and experience in law and economics, with specialties in Insurance, M&A, Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency, Construction Engineering and Infrastructure, Banking, Finance, and Manufacturing (Automotive/Aviation). Besides, he possesses a wealth of experiences in dealing with difficult litigation cases.

Recent transactional highlights
  • Advised on the Allianz SE’s establishment of the first wholly foreign-owned insurance holding company in China;
  • Advised on the acquisition by a listed energy company of the Spanish Eolia Renovables de Inversiones, S.C.R, S.A.'s 33 solar and wind power plant portfolio projects;
  • Advised Shanghai Qingpu District government of the first Shanghai new urbanization PPP project (with an investment scale of 12 billion Yuan);
  • Represent Suning.com in its 17 Factoring Contract Disputes caused by Shanghai Mosan Fraud Case.
  • Advised Shanghai Lin-Gang Special Area Administration in its establishment of fund management company and a series of following up investment projects, such as AI industry fund, aviation science and tech industry und, biological medicine industry fund, international science and technology innovation fund and etc.
Practice areas
  • Banking
  • Project development
  • M&A
  • PPP/PFI
  • Private equity
Sector specialisations
  • Automotive 
  • Banking
  • Construction and materials
  • Energy
  • Insurance
Association memberships
  • Vice-Chairman of Shanghai Bar Association
  • Deputy to the 15th Shanghai People’s Congress
  • Representative of the 11th Shanghai Congress of the CPC
  • Legal adviser of United Front Work Department of Shanghai Municipal CPC Committee
  • Vice President of Shanghai International Chamber of Commerce
  • Vice President of Shanghai World Trade Centre Association
  • Vice President of the “Belt and Road” Legal Research Committee of Shanghai Law Society
  • Vice president of Case Law Research Association of Shanghai Law Society
  • Part-time Master Tutor of Fudan University Law School 
  • Distinguished Professor of Lawyer’s College of East China University of Political Science and Law 
  • Part-time Master Tutor of Shanghai University of International Business and Economics
  • Part time Tutor of Silk Road Law School of Shanghai University of political science and law
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  • Arbitrator at China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission
  • Arbitrator at Shanghai International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission
  • Arbitrator at Shanghai Arbitration Commission
  • Member of the Legal Expert Bank of Shanghai Municipal People's Congress 
  • Legal Counsel of the United Front Department of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee
  • Member of the Legal advisory panel of the Insurance Association of China
  • Special Supervisor of Shanghai No.2 Intermediate People's Court
  • Independent Director of J.P. Morgan Securities (China)
Academic qualifications
  • Qualification, Institution, (Year)
  • EMBA, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, 2017
  • Bachelor of Law, Anhui University School of Law, 1990
Address:
Shanghai
Tel:+86 21 5878 5888 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:https://www.dentons.com/en/chen-feng