Practice areas

Litigation; Project finance; Real estate; Natural resources & infrastructure

Introduction

Song Zhongchun is deputy director of City Development Law Firm and director of its Beijing office. He also serves as deputy director of the Asset-backed Securities Research Center of the China Real Estate Association, an expert in the arbitration and mediation expert committee of the China Academy of Arbitration Law.

Song is also a practising arbitrator for various arbitral institutions, including the Hangzhou Arbitration Commission, Changsha Arbitration Commission and others. With a good reputation in construction law, Song has been recognised by multiple authoritative ranking entities as one of the top construction and infrastructure lawyers in China, including Band 3 in that field by Chambers & Partners for the past 10 years.

As a specialist lawyer with extensive practice experience in non-litigation and dispute resolution services in infrastructure, construction, real estate, real estate finance and urban renewal, Song provides expertise for numerous Fortune 500 companies, including China Vanke; China Jinmao; Golden Arch (China); Shanghai Construction Group; Shanghai Tunnel Engineering; and Shanghai Pudong Development Bank. The scope of assignments he serves includes infrastructure investment, construction and operations, industrial plot development, urban regeneration, PPP projects, life circle construction, construction claims and dispute resolution, legal risk prevention, standard contracts for companies, hotel projects and others.

In addition, Song has participated in a number of significant research projects for the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and published several works with a wide influence in the field, such as Construction Contract Signing and Risk Control, Construction Project Construction Contract (Demonstration Text) (GF-2013-0201) User Guide, Integration of Viewpoints on Court Trial of Construction Cases, Integration of Viewpoints on Court Trial of Real Estate Cases, etc.

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