Real Estate & Infrastructure

Yingda Law Firm's Real Estate and Infrastructure Team is one of the leading legal service teams in the region, boasting a wealth of industry experience and professional knowledge. We provide comprehensive legal solutions to a variety of clients including real estate developers, investors, financiers, builders, design institutes, property management companies, and government agencies. Our team is proficient in all stages and areas of the real estate market, including land granting, development and construction, mergers and acquisitions, financing and leasing, property operations, dispute resolution, and PPP projects, offering efficient, innovative, and practical legal services to help clients navigate market fluctuations and regulatory challenges and achieve their business goals.

Extensive professional experience

Yingda Law Firm's Real Estate and Infrastructure Service Team has long served as legal advisors or provided specialized legal services related to real estate and infrastructure for dozens of real estate development and infrastructure construction and operation units. Our clients include Hubei Chutian Intelligent Traffic Co., Ltd., Hubei Province Transportation Investment Group Co., Ltd. and its affiliated companies, China Wuhuan Engineering Co., Ltd., Hubei Xudong (Group) Co., Ltd., Baibuting Group, Hubei Hongtai Baibuting Investment Management Co., Ltd., Wuhan Rural Commercial Bank, Hubei Gaite Real Estate Development Group Co., Ltd., Wuhan Hongjing Real Estate Development Co., Ltd., Hubei Binhu Real Estate Development Decoration Engineering Co., Ltd., Wuhan Anju Engineering Development Co., Ltd., Huatian Construction Group Co., Ltd., and more.

We provide clients with one-stop services from the project initiation, approval, contracting, subcontracting, construction, financing, to the completion and acceptance of development land. We have participated in handling a large number of disputes in construction engineering, real estate joint ventures, cooperation, investment, etc., and have been involved in multiple comprehensive redevelopment projects of urban villages. We represented clients in key transaction negotiations and dozens of large-scale litigation activities, achieving good social and economic benefits. Yingda also provides comprehensive M&A legal services to numerous state-owned, listed, foreign, and private real estate enterprises, including due diligence, contract drafting and negotiation, asset delivery, and property project development. In designing M&A schemes, Yingda leverages its rich M&A experience to meet the diverse and personalized needs of clients.

Yingda is one of the first law firms in Hubei Province to provide legal services for infrastructure construction projects. The firm and five of its lawyers have been selected for the PPP expert databases of the Provincial Finance Department and the Provincial Development and Reform Commission. We actively explore and provide full-range services for BOT, BT projects in regional infrastructure construction for our clients, and have successfully participated in several municipal government-invested fund-supported infrastructure construction PPP projects in Yichang, Huangshi, Zhangjiajie, Xiangyang, etc., such as the BOT project for optical cable laying of China Unicom Enshi section invested by a military communication unit, the BT project for the Huangshi highway section, the PPP project for the Huangshi Olympic Sports Center, etc. Among them, the Huangshi Olympic Sports Center project was selected as a national PPP demonstration project.

Lawyer Team

Led by more than ten partners, the Yingda Real Estate and Construction Engineering Team comprises lawyers with diverse backgrounds and expertise. This includes seasoned attorneys who have held significant positions in renowned law firms or the real estate industry, as well as outstanding lawyers trained in prestigious domestic law schools. Our partners are highly respected in the industry, and our core business areas include:

Land Granting and Development
Real Estate Mergers and Acquisitions
Real Estate Financing and Leasing
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), Asset-Backed Special Securities (ABS), and Asset-Backed Notes (ABN)
Architectural Design and Construction
Property Management and Operations
Real Estate Dispute Resolution

Leveraging its well-structured internal management system, Yingda can swiftly mobilize cross-functional teams of professional lawyers for large-scale and complex real estate projects. Operating under unified coordination, we provide clients with one-stop, high-level, and creative legal services. Beyond the primary work undertaken by our Real Estate and Construction Engineering Team, Yingda's other specialist teams (such as bankruptcy and liquidation, banking and finance, taxation, infrastructure, corporate M&A, dispute resolution, etc.) are ready to join projects when relevant expertise is required, offering comprehensive support for the successful completion of projects.

Direct Involvement of Experienced Partner Attorneys in Business Handling

Most legal services are directly provided by partners. With years of legal service experience, they offer timely, efficient, and comprehensive legal solutions to clients. The direct involvement of partners ensures the quality of services, helping clients better balance business opportunities and legal risks.

Real Estate and Infrastructure

Litigation and arbitration

Real estate, construction projects, and infrastructure investment / construction disputes resolution are traditional area of strength for Yingda Law Firm. We have represented numerous well-known state-owned and private large and medium-sized real estate developers and construction companies in litigation and arbitration matters at various levels of People's Courts, achieving notable success. Our team possesses extensive experience in the field and excels in assisting clients to prevent and resolve legal disputes, achieving the maximization of their lawful interests with minimal costs. Consequently, we have become the preferred law firm for clients in various significant matters.

Real Estate Development

Land granting, auctions, transfer of land use rights, land reserves, land consolidation, and land reclamation.
Project initiation, planning approval, construction permit processing, project bidding, contract signing, and execution for construction projects.
Handling of commercial housing pre-sale permits, contract signing and fulfillment for commercial housing sales, and delivery and acceptance of commercial housing.
Property management contract signing and execution, collection of property management fees, and dispute resolution.
Return of commercial housing quality guarantee deposits and handling of quality disputes.

Real Estate Mergers and Acquisitions

Due diligence for projects, designing transaction structures, drafting contracts, and negotiations.
M&A transactions through equity transfer or asset transfer.
Cross-border M&A transactions involving overseas companies or assets.
M&A transactions involving state-owned enterprises or state-owned assets.
M&A transactions involving publicly listed companies or their subsidiaries.

Real Estate Financing

Bank loans, trust loans, bond issuance, and asset securitization.
Design and implementation of security methods such as mortgages, pledges, and guarantees.
Cross-border financing transactions involving overseas loans or issuance.
Financing transactions involving state-owned enterprises or state-owned assets.
Financing transactions involving publicly listed companies or their subsidiaries.

Real Estate Leasing

Leasing of commercial, residential, and industrial properties.
Drafting and negotiating leasing contracts, rent collection and adjustment, determination and extension of lease terms, maintenance and upkeep of leased property, and return and compensation of leased property.
Cross-border leasing transactions involving overseas properties.
Leasing transactions involving state-owned enterprises or state-owned assets.
Leasing transactions involving publicly listed companies or their subsidiaries.

Infrastructure Construction

Infrastructure construction projects in fields such as highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, ports, railways, urban transit, water conservancy, electricity, telecommunications, and environmental protection.
Project initiation, planning approval, construction permit processing, project bidding, contract signing, and execution.
Infrastructure construction projects involving government procurement.
Infrastructure construction projects involving PPP models.

Infrastructure Operation

Operation of infrastructure projects in areas such as highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, ports, railways, urban transit, water conservancy, electricity, telecommunications, and environmental protection.
Drafting and negotiating operation contracts, collection and adjustment of operation fees, determination and extension of operation terms, maintenance and upkeep of operational assets, and return and compensation of operational assets.
Cross-border operation transactions involving overseas properties.
Operation transactions involving state-owned enterprises or state-owned assets.
Operation transactions involving publicly listed companies or their subsidiaries.

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