Weiyong CHEN Partner
- Beijing Office
- Language：Chinese, English
- Expertise： Banking & Finance Dispute Resolution Compliance & Government Regulation
- Tel：86 10 6502 8835
- Fax：86 10 6502 8866
- Email：chenweiyong@hylandslaw.com
Basic Profile
Work Experience
1997-present | Hylands Law Firm | Senior Partner, Member of the Management Committee, Director of Urumqi Branch
1987-1997 | Beijing Municipal Commission of Urban Planning | Deputy Director of Legal Affairs Department
Professional Qualification
Chinese Bar Qualification
Qualification of Securities lawyer
Professional Background
Weiyong,Chen graduated from the Law School of Renmin University of China in 1987 with a bachelor's degree in law, and then studied finance at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He was admitted to the Chinese bar in 1989, and was qualified as a securities lawyer in 2000. Mr. Chen joined the Beijing Municipal Planning Commission in 1987 and later served as deputy director of the Legal Department; he started practicing as a lawyer in 1997, and now he is the senior partner, a member of the management committee and the director of Urumqi Branch.
Mr. Chen was selected into the database of 1000 foreign-related lawyers of the Ministry of Justice, and has served as a member of the Securities Law Committee of Beijing Lawyers Association, a distinguished expert of National Association of Financial Market Institutional Investors, a committee member of filing and inspection center in China Credit Assets Registry&Exchange Co.,Ltd, an adjunct professor of Beihang University Law School, an external independent member of China Development Bank, an independent director of Wuqiao Heavy Industry Group Co., an independent director of Tang shan Guoliang Refractory Co.,Ltd., and the secretary-general of the Association pour le Développement des échanges France-Chine. In 2022, Mr. Chen was also recommended as a "Notable Practitioner" by IFLR1000 in the field of banking and capital markets (structured finance and securitization).
Mr. Chen was selected into the database of 1000 foreign-related lawyers of the Ministry of Justice, and has served as a member of the Securities Law Committee of Beijing Lawyers Association, a distinguished expert of National Association of Financial Market Institutional Investors, a committee member of filing and inspection center in China Credit Assets Registry&Exchange Co.,Ltd, an adjunct professor of Beihang University Law School, an external independent member of China Development Bank, an independent director of Wuqiao Heavy Industry Group Co., an independent director of Tang shan Guoliang Refractory Co.,Ltd., and the secretary-general of the Association pour le Développement des échanges France-Chine. In 2022, Mr. Chen was also recommended as a "Notable Practitioner" by IFLR1000 in the field of banking and capital markets (structured finance and securitization).
Social Activities
2020-present | Secretary General | Association pour le Développement des échanges France-Chine
2019-present | Member of Professional Committee of Constitutional Administrative Law | All China Lawyers Association
2017-present | Member of the Audit Committee | Banking Credit Assets Registration and Transfer Center Limited Company
2015-present | External Independent Member | China Development Bank
2014-present | Distinguished Experts | National Association of Financial Market Institutional Investors
2013-present | Independent Director | Wuqiao Heavy Industry Co., Ltd
2021-present | Independent Director | Hebei Guoliang New Materials Co., Ltd
2012-present | Adjunct Professor of Law School | Beihang University
2010-present | Member of the Securities Commission | Beijing Lawyers Association
2019-present | Member of Professional Committee of Constitutional Administrative Law | All China Lawyers Association
2017-present | Member of the Audit Committee | Banking Credit Assets Registration and Transfer Center Limited Company
2015-present | External Independent Member | China Development Bank
2014-present | Distinguished Experts | National Association of Financial Market Institutional Investors
2013-present | Independent Director | Wuqiao Heavy Industry Co., Ltd
2021-present | Independent Director | Hebei Guoliang New Materials Co., Ltd
2012-present | Adjunct Professor of Law School | Beihang University
2010-present | Member of the Securities Commission | Beijing Lawyers Association
Honors and Awards
2022 | Notable Practitioner in Banking & Capital markets: Structured finance and securitization | IFLR1000
2020 | Selected into the database of foreign-related lawyers of the Beijing Lawyers Association | Beijing Lawyers Association
2018 | Selected into the database of 1000 foreign-related lawyers of the Ministry of Justice | Ministry of Justice
2017 | Excellent Service Award" of Banking Credit Assets Registration and Transfer Center Limited Company | Banking Credit Assets Registration and Transfer Center Limited Company
Representative Cases
- Compliance & Government Regulation
- Dispute Resolution
- Banking and Finance
- Perennial Legal Adivisor of Beijing Municipal Commission of Planning and Natural Resources and its Shijingshan District, Xicheng District, Dongcheng District, Tongzhou District, Economic-Technological Development Area and Changping District Branch
- Perennial Legal Adivisor of Planning and Finance Bureau, Cyberspace Administration of China
- Perennial Legal Adivisor of China Earthquake Disaster Prevention Center
- Perennial Legal Adivisor of Shunyi District People's Gvernment of Beijing Municipality
- Perennial Legal Adivisor of Beijing Urban Construction Archives
- Perennial Legal Adivisor of Beijing Insititute of Surveying and Mapping
- Perennial Legal Adivisor of Beijing Urban-Rural Integration Department Construction Leading Group Office
- Acting as an attorney on the Supreme Court's retrial protest case of the construction contract dispute between Yingkou Economic and Technological Development Zone Jincheng Technology & Trade Co., Ltd. and Dalian Zhongyi Construction Group Co., Ltd.: the first instance of this dispute occurred in 2002, and during 18 years, the requests of Yingkou Jincheng Company to Bayuquan Court, Yingkou Intermediate People's Court and Liaoning High People’s Court for the first-instance, second-instance and retrial were not supported. Under this circumstance, Chen represented Yingkou Jincheng Company to participate in the retrial protest stage of the case, and provided professional legal research and services for Yingkou Jincheng Company from the aspects of sorting out the evidence and summarizing the reasons for the protest. Finally, he won the winning judgment of the Supreme Court and won the rights for the clients.
- Acting for the equity transfer disputes between China Development Fund Co., Ltd. and Hulunbeier North Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.: As the attorney of China Development Fund, Chen and his team participated in all stages of the first-instance, second-instance, retrial and execute program of the case, provided legal services for financial institutions in the whole process of litigation cases, and won legal rights for financial institutions.
- Acting as an attorney on a case of financial loan contract dispute between China Development Bank and Hulunbeier North Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.: This dispute involves bank liquidity loans and medium-and long-term loan projects, and belongs to a series of cases, with a target amount of more than 1.1 billion yuan. As the attorney of China Development Bank, Chen's and team finally reached a mediation agreement with the defendants to push the case into the execution stage as soon as possible, saving time and cost for clients
- Acting for Beijing Municipal Commissioin of Planning and Natural Resources to participate in administrative reconsideration and administrative litigation cases: Chen has provided perennial legal advisory services for Beijing Municipal Commissioin of Planning and Natural Resources and its predecessor, Beijing Municipal Commission of Urban Planning and Land Resources Management Commission, for more than 20 years. During the legal advisory service, Chen has represented Beijing Municipal Commissioin of Planning and Natural Resources and its predecessor to participate in more than a thousand administrative reconsideration and administrative litigation cases, and has rich experience in resolving disputes in administrative law.
- Perennial Legal Adivisor of China Development Bank
- Perennial Legal Adivisor of Postal Savings Bank of China
- Perennial legal Adivisor of Agricultural Bank of China Xinjiang Branch, Xinjiang Construction Corps Branch and Qingdao Branch.
- Provide legal services for Zhongyingwanjia’s Multi-phase Personal Housing Mortgage Securitization Trust Project of Bank of China from 2015 to 2022.
- Provide legal services for comprehensive credit project of African Export-Import Bank of China Development Bank.
- Provide legal services for CCCC First Highway Engineering Group Co, Ltd's Marina City Project in Manila, Philippines.
- Provide legal services for a transfer project of equity and creditor's rights of Great Wall Xinsheng Trust Co., Ltd.
- Provide legal services such as share reform, IPO, refinancing, etc. for many listed companies such as GD Power Development Co., Ltd.(600795), Foton Motor Co., Ltd.(600166) and Yili (600887).
- Provide foreign-related legal research services on country-by-country reporting projects on five Nordic countries, four Middle Eastern countries, four African countries and three Southeast Asian countries.s.
- Provide foreign-related legal research services on sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union.