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Hylands assists The CCCC First Highway Engineering Group to acquire Hunan Yizhong Water Conservancy Construction Co. Ltd.

2019-05-24

On May 22, 2019, The CCCC First Highway Engineering Group Water Engineering Co. Ltd. was officially unveiled, formerly known as Hunan Yizhong Water Conservancy Construction Co. Ltd. On April 26, 2019, CCCC First Highway Engineering Group Co. Ltd. signed an agreement with the original shareholders of Hunan Yizhong to formally accept 51% of the equity and realized the holding since then.

The acquisition was an important measure taken by CCCC First Highway Engineering Group Co. Ltd. to implement the ‘double-hundred action’ and its first breakthrough in promoting mixed-ownership reform. At the same time, it’s also a powerful measure to keep up with the country’s huge water conservancy market demand and improve the comprehensive competitiveness of the CCCC First Highway Engineering Group and was the inevitable course for the CCCC First Highway Engineering Group to transform and upgrade.

Hylands Law Firm was engaged as a special legal adviser for the acquisition project of CCCC First Highway Engineering Group Co. Ltd. to provide relevant legal services. The acquisition project was undertaken by attorneys Miao ZHANG (partner) and Zhoujian PEI, as well as assistant lawyer Jiaqi FAN of the Real Estate, Construction Engineering, and PPP Team.


Introduction to Hylands’ Real Estate, Construction Engineering, and PPP Team

As one of the earliest law firms in China involved in the field of real estate legal services, Hylands has rich experience in providing various types of legal services for major participants in the related fields of real estate and construction engineering. Our clients include the Fortune Global 500 companies and large and medium-sized state-owned enterprises, including but not limited to China Railway Group Limited, China Huadian Engineering Co. Ltd., CCCC First Highway Engineering Group Co. Ltd., China Railway Construction Engineering Group, Datang International Power Generation Co. Ltd., Beijing Construction Engineering Group, Sino-Ocean Land Property Development Limited, Beijing Dongfang Yinzuo Plaza Co. Ltd., etc.

Hylands is committed to providing quality services to enterprises that intend to expand the market in the real estate industry and related investment areas and have business needs for construction projects in China. Hylands can provide full-process legal services of the real estate and construction industries to all types of clients in a complex and relatively localized commercial and regulatory environment. Hylands also strives to provide clients with professional, understandable, and acceptable solutions to relevant authorities, and tries its best to prevent legal risks, meet clients’ business needs and help clients achieve their goals.