Tang Yong, senior partner of Shanghai K-Insight Law Firm, was one of the first graduates of the Law Department of the College of Liberal Arts, Shanghai University with a Master’s Degree in Law. He has served as a full-time lawyer since October 1986.

Major Honors

• Awarded the title of “National Excellent Lawyer” in December 2011;
• Awarded the title of “Excellent Lawyer in Shanghai” in March 2011;
• Inducted into the National Talent Pool of Excellent Lawyers created by the Ministry of Justice;
• Two-time recipient of the title of “Advanced Individual in Shanghai Judicial Administration System (Third-class Merit)”;
• Awarded the title of “Leading Talent” by Jing’an District Committee and Jing’an District People’s Government, Shanghai

Major Social Titles

• Director of the 8th and 9th Administrative Committee of the Shanghai Bar Association
• Director of the First and Second Jing’an District Work Committees of the Shanghai Bar Association
• Vice Director of the Criminal Research Committee of the Shanghai Bar Association
• Appointed as the“Law Enforcement Supervisor of Shanghai Public Security Bureau” in August 2013

Professional Specialty

• Non-litigation legal services:

1. Corporate legal consulting, reorganization and liquidation, restructuring, merger and restructuring

Tang Yong, along with his team of six members, currently serves as the legal advisor for dozens of groups or joint-stock companies as well as large and medium enterprises, providing high-quality and efficient professional services regarding routine legal affairs.

Tang Yong possesses extensive working experience with respect to practices such as outbound investment, equity transfer, corporate liquidation, contract review, equity dispute and corporate management. He provided a full range of legal services for the proprietors of the Citibank building located at Lujiazui finance and trade zone, with the underlying assets amounting to over one billion dollars. Together with his team, Tang Yong rendered comprehensive legal services for the corporate liquidation of an overseas-funded subsidiary of TVSN, and managed to cooperate closely with such accounting firms as PwC. Furthermore, he provided comprehensive legal services for Lord Corporation in its transfer of land and assets by accomplishing a series of legal procedures, including drafting contracts, transforming corporate nature, promoting foreign exchange settlement by the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, and seeking approval from the Chamber of Commerce, which has earned him high recognition and reputation among clients at home and abroad. Tang Yong also succeeded in assisting a chairman of the board of a listed company in regaining control and management rights which were illegally encroached by the company’s vice chairman and general manager.

2. Banking and financing

Tang Yong has not only assisted corporate financing with professional services, but also utilized his professional expertise in the area of syndicated loans in major municipal projects such as“Pudong Section of the Mid Ring Rd.”and“North-Channel Project for Pudong International Airport”. The legal services he provided include reviewing and revising loan contracts, conducting due diligence, reviewing documents, drafting legal opinion letters and consulting suggestions from CBRC. The cases he dealt with involved more than twenty financial intuitions (including banks) and the underlying assets amounted to over 13 billion yuan. Tang Yong provided efficient and specialized legal services for the issue of corporate bonds by Pudong Development Group, the largest state-owned enterprise in Pudong, with underlying assets valuing over 5 billion yuan. He also participated in the trust financing venture project under the “East City Garden Villa Phase II Project”, in which the underlying assets amounted to more than one billion yuan.

What’s more, he has collected overdue loans for financial institutions such as ICBC Pudong Branch, BCM Pudong Branch and RCB.

3. Real estate and construction projects

Tang Yong is currently serving as the legal advisor for over ten property and building engineering firms. With working experience accumulated over fifteen years, Tang Yong has made outstanding achievements within practice areas such as collaborative development of property, project transfer, land transfer, property trust, business property management, engineering quality and property management. He has participated lately the land transfer project between Shanghai Pudong Land Holding (Group) Co., Ltd. and Tomson Group with objects of over one billion yuan; provided Pudong Development Group with comprehensive legal services for various property collaborative ventures it took part in; provided professional legal services for Ybon Group’s 800 thousand square meters business property project; issued a legal opinion letter for the dispute resolution of the collaborative project concerning 1,400 acres of land at Tangzhen, Pudong; and led his professional team to provide over ten property firms with highly efficient services for their routine business management.

• Litigation legal services

1. Criminal litigation

Tang Yong, a prestigious Shanghai criminal barrister, is extolled by the public of his incisiveness, eloquence and dedication. He has also gained reputation in the Shanghai judicial circle and lawyer community by countless classic litigation cases including the successful defense for Cai XX’s corruption case, Li XX’s fraud, Ye XX’s corruption case, Xi XX’s professional embezzlement, Xu XX’s tax evasion case, Xu XX’s professional embezzlement case, and Sun XX’s issue of false VAT invoices. After Tang Yong lodged an appeal plead for Cai XX (defendant) during his corruption case where Cai XX was sentenced to 5-year imprisonment in the first instance, the case was withdrawn and underwent retrial, which ended up a success without the accused being further prosecuted. The professional embezzlement case of Xu XX and Ye XX’s corruption case, where the two defendants were sentenced to more than ten years of imprisonment by the public prosecution organs, both resulted in an acquittal after Tang Yong plead for the defendants’ innocence and his arguments were accepted by the court.

2. Civil litigation

Tang Yong is experienced in litigation and arbitration with regard to areas such as real estate and corporate law. He was the plaintiff’s attorney of the first case where the shareholders lodged an appeal on the invalidity of the resolution of the directorate nationwide, which was favored by the court. His arguments in the Weicon equity dispute arbitration case, the land development case between East Shanghai and Shanghai Tukong, SAS Institute Inc.’s liable suit, as well as the real estate dispute case of the cooperative development between Urban Construction Investment &Development Co., Ltd. and AHI Company Limited, were entirely supported by arbitration institutions and courts.