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Liaoning Tongfang Law Firm, a large-scale law firm in Northeast China known for its leading size and high level of specialization, has consistently regarded banking and financial legal services as its core area of development. Relying on an elite team of more than 380 professionals and a service network covering the entire Northeast region, the firm has established a dedicated Banking and Financial Specialized Committee, with Senior Partner Attorney Sun Zhiqiang serving as its director. With over 20 years of deep expertise in banking and financial legal services, the team focuses on the diverse legal needs of financial institutions and corporate clients in complex market environments. Guided by the service principles of “professionalism, efficiency, and compliance,” the team has developed comprehensive, end-to-end service capabilities in areas such as handling financial loan disputes, innovating financial product designs, facilitating investment, financing, mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring, as well as risk prevention and compliance operations.

The team comprises senior partners, partners, experienced lawyers, and specialized support staff, with an average of over 10 years of professional experience. Its expertise in serving financial institutions spans a wide range of entities, including banks, insurance companies, and asset management firms. The team has provided ongoing legal counsel and specialized services to dozens of financial institutions, such as Shengjing Bank, Bank of Communications, CITIC Bank, GF Bank, Ping An Bank, and UOB Singapore. In recent years, the team has maintained a spotless record, with no valid customer complaints or industry sanctions, earning widespread market recognition for its rigorous professional ethics and high-quality services. Leveraging the law firm’s development platform focused on “scaling, specialization, and branding,” the team continuously strengthens its professional capabilities, deeply aligns with the practical needs of financial institutions, and delivers tailored, systematic legal solutions to its clients.

Business Type/Service Content/Scope

Financial Dispute Resolution and Litigation Collection

We provide end-to-end services—including pre-litigation mediation, evidence preservation, and enforcement recovery—for litigation/arbitration cases involving agency financial loan contracts, private lending disputes, and other similar matters, efficiently safeguarding the rights and interests of creditors.

Financial Product Innovation and Compliance Design

Provide legal support for designing new financial products (such as wealth management and asset management plans) for financial institutions, review transaction structures and risk disclosure clauses, and ensure product compliance and market competitiveness.

Investment, Financing, and Mergers & Acquisitions/Restructuring

Assist financial institutions and enterprises in completing investment and financing transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and restructuring activities; provide specialized services such as due diligence, drafting transaction documents, and risk assessment to ensure the efficient execution of transactions.

Financial Institution Compliance and Risk Prevention

Develop compliance management systems for financial institutions such as bank asset companies, review daily business contracts (such as loan agreements and guarantee agreements), conduct compliance training, and mitigate operational and legal risks.

Disposal of Non-Performing Assets

We provide services including bulk transfers of non-performing assets, design of collection and recovery plans, and debt restructuring, helping financial institutions to revitalize existing assets and improve asset quality.

Handling Criminal-Civil Overlap Issues in the Financial Sector

For criminal risks that may arise in financial business (such as illegal fundraising, embezzlement by office staff, and loan fraud), we provide representation in criminal-civil crossover cases, risk alerts, and the development of response strategies.

Ongoing Legal Advisory Services

Provide financial institutions with routine legal advice, review of legal matters, and legal analysis for major decision-making, thereby ensuring the stable operation of their business.

Representative performance

Shengjing Bank’s Long-Term Legal Counsel Project: Providing Shengjing Bank with routine services such as litigation and debt collection, contract review, and compliance training has earned high praise from the client.

Specialized services provided by multiple banking and financial institutions: We have offered specialized legal services—including financial product design, investment and financing, and M&A— to Shengjing Bank, the Liaoning Branch of the Bank of Communications, the Shenyang Branch of CITIC Bank, and the Shenyang Branch of UOB Singapore, among others. We have also completed review and risk assessment of transaction documents for numerous deals valued at hundreds of millions of yuan.

Efficient Resolution of Financial Disputes: Represented Shengjing Bank, the Shenyang Branch of GF Bank, and the Shenyang Branch of Ping An Bank in numerous financial loan contract dispute cases. Through pre-litigation mediation and swift enforcement measures, we have helped clients recover losses totaling over 500 million yuan.

Compliance System Development: Designed business compliance operating procedures for financial institutions including Shengjing Bank, Bank of Communications, and Liaoning Revitalization Bank, and assisted in establishing risk early-warning mechanisms to effectively reduce the incidence of legal disputes.