Founded in 1992, Commerce & Finance Law Offices is
active in key areas of transactional law, especially in the overseas capital markets. Headquartered in Beijing, the firm also has branch offices in Shanghai and Shenzhen.
Commerce & Finance’s core practice areas cover securities, investment, banking and finance, and M&A. It has a traditionally strong IPO practice and is
recognised as a market leader in this area. The firm has
participated in many landmark listings and
reorganisations of state-owned and private enterprises.
Commercial and Finance Law Offices provided legal services on various significant bond issuances, including advising the People's Government of Guizhou Province on a special bond issuance by the Agricultural Bank of China Guizhou Branch, assisting Taiwan Cement Corporation in issuing its first international green equity-linked securities and advising China
Xiongan Group on a public offering of green corporate bonds.
Throughout the research cycle, the firm garnered positive peer feedback for their expertise in the overseas IPO market and proficiency in domestic capital markets, highlighted by their completion of notable deals such as the groundbreaking HKD 120 billion (US$15.36
billion) listing of J&T Express in Hong Kong, marking the first IPO project in the logistics sector in Hong Kong with a Weighted Voting Rights structure in 2023.
The firm’s notable clients include NIO, China Energy Engineering, Ningbo Zhoushan Port, Guizhou Branch of Agricultural Bank of China, Yunnan Branch of Agricultural Bank of China, the Export-Import Bank of China, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Chengdu Branch of Agricultural Bank of China, BOCOM Financial Asset Investment and International Alliance Financial Leasing.
