Real Estate, Construction and Energy

Dacheng’s real estate, construction and energy practice areas include the following sectors: real estate, construction engineering, infrastructure, energy, minerals and natural resources, new energy, environmental protection and dual carbon. Our skillful and versatile professionals have a deep understanding of the sectors. With reasonable division of labor and efficient coordination, Dacheng not only sustains its leading edge in traditional practice areas such as real estate and construction engineering, but also has made notable achievements in exploring and practicing new business areas such as new energy, environmental protection and dual carbon. We focus on both sectors and practices and track the development of the country and the industry. Besides, we fufill the work with insight into market changes and the ability to conduct frontier legal research, timely introduction of professional solutions to meet the new needs of clients, and the advantage of rapid formation of cross-regional and cross-disciplinary teams to provide prompt, accurate, efficient and high-quality legal services to clients.


In the realm of real estate, Dacheng has borne witness to China’s new urbanization and the evolution of China's real estate. Therefore, we are familiar with the entire life cycle of real estate, as well as serve all kinds of new business and new modes of real estate development, providing legal services and solutions for the following entities:  governmental departments at all levels, the top 100 real estate developers, commercial operation enterprises, hotel management companies, project management companies, banks, securities companies, trust companies, insurance companies, domestic and overseas real estate funds, asset management companies, etc.


In the realm of construction engineering, with our thorough understanding to the sector and regulations, coupled with meticulous examination of specific cases, we not only adeptly safeguard the interests of our clients in challenging and complex cases, but also deeply engage in and support all stages of the construction engineering business realm, providing customized legal services for construction enterprises, planning and design institutes, cost consulting agencies, intermediary agencies, etc. based on their needs and requirements.


In the realm of infrastructure, our professionals boast a wealth of research accomplishments and hands-on experience, serving as longstanding perennial legal advisors to the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the People’s Republic of China, the Ministry of Natural Resources of the People’s Republic of China, and other state ministries and commissions, as well as many local governments and departments at all levels, large-scale construction-related central enterprises, local state-owned enterprises and well-known private enterprises. We provide our clients with professional, high-quality and efficient legal services for the integration of investment, construction and operation in engineering construction and infrastructure projects. Our lawyers are extensively and deeply engaged in the legal services of investigation, design, construction, supervision, bidding, construction costing and whole-process consulting of domestic and overseas engineering projects, as well as in the entire process or part of pre-planning of infrastructure projects, project approval, planning, land use, demonstration of investment and financing modes, review of investment and financing schemes, procurement of social capital parties, signing of cooperation agreements, formation of project companies, review of project construction or general contracts, performance supervision and consulting of construction and operation, engineering changes and claims, completion acceptance, completion settlement, performance evaluation, debt issuance, real estate securitization and related dispute resolution, so as to satisfy clients’personalized legal service needs.


In the realm of energy, minerals and natural resources, Dacheng bases itself on traditional energy sources such as oil, natural gas, LNG, coalbed methane, hydropower, coal power and nuclear power; mineral resources, such as non-ferrous metals and non-metals, emerging energy sources such as wind energy and solar energy; carbon emissions trading, carbon asset management and other energy and natural resources realm. Besides, we follow closely the prevention and control of environmental pollution, protection of biodiversity, response to climate change, resource development and utilization, ecological environment management and services and other related environmental areas. In addition, we study the business model, profit model of clients in the energy, natural resources and environment industry, as well as the laws, regulations and policy trendsinvolved, and track the political, economic, technological, social and ecological environments of our clients, and are committed to targeting the needs of our clients in the midst of the changes in the socio-economic environment and the marketcollaborating together with the practice teams to provide unparalleled and highly value-added experiences for our clients.


In the realm of environmental protection and dual-carbon, we have legal exports boasting years of dedicated experience. We have a long history of providing advice on policies to environmental protection administrations at all levels, as well as providing legal support and advice on the environmental protection system, emergency management and internal training for enterprises. Many environmental protection disputes we have handled are the most exemplary ones and have been included in the guiding cases by the Supreme People’s Court of the Peoples Republic of China. As one of the earliest law firms to engage in dual-carbon legal services, Dacheng has experience in providing services regarding basic rules and system construction of carbon trading for exchanges, governments, etc., as well as full-process practice in the development, management and trading of domestic and overseas carbon assets for various types of enterprises. We are one of the few law firms that can provide full-process and comprehensive dual-carbon services.



Practice Areas and Services

Our services include but are not limited to:


1. Raw land development

  • Increase in urban building land and the decrease in rural building land

  • Expropriation of land and compensation

  • Land consolidation

  • Bid invitation, auction and listing of land

  • Development of theme parks, including industrial park projects

  • Urban renewal business

 

2. Real estate development

  • M&A and restructuring of equity of real estate companies

  • Acquisition and transfer of real estate projects

  • Real estate project financing, including bank loans and asset securitization

  • Real estate cooperative development and agent-construction management

  • Pre-sale and sale of commodity houses

  • Property transfer and property rights registration

  • Legal services for onsite property delivery

  • Property investment and lease, including commercial real estate and office buildings

  • Real estate transfer, lease and use

 

3. Development and operation of cultural and tourism projects

  • Land use of cultural and tourism projects

  • Acquisition of cultural and tourism projects

  • Negotiation for hotel management contract and hotel asset management

  • Development of characterized town

  • Development and construction of scenic spot

  • Rural revitalization and land transfer of construction sites


4. Legal services for the whole process of construction projects

  • Bidding and tendering  

  • Complaints and counter-complaints for bidding and tendering

  • Selection of cooperation mode in construction projects

  • Project application and construction

  • Claims and counterclaims in construction projects

  • Infrastructure construction and operation

  • New infrastructure construction projects

  • Consultation on construction engineering process

 

5. Property

  • Property fee recovering

  • Handling of illegal construction and infringement

  • Resolutions of owners' meeting

 

6. Government

  • Infrastructure REITS

  • Cooperation between government and social capital

  • Legal services for EPC+F/PC+F model (Legal services for various models of the integration of investment, financing and construction)

 

7. Real estate registration and confirmation

 

8. Dispute resolution and mediation of real estate and construction projects

  • Disputes over construction settlement

  • Disputes over construction quality

  • Disputes over real estate acquisition and equity transfer

  • Disputes over mortgage defaults/outages of commercial properties

  • Disputes over reservation/sale contract of commercial housing

  • Disputes over real estate cooperative development

  • Other types of disputes regarding real estate and construction

  • Investment and M&A in the environmental protection sector

  • Ecological environment infringement litigation

  • Due diligence for environment, safety and occupational health

  • Green industry financing

  • Green bonds

  • Law enforcement and regulation for customs import and export environment

  • Global new chemicals registration

  • Labor disputes caused by occupational contraindications

  • Environmental credit repair

 

 


Honors and Awards
Relevant Articles
Media Commentaries

Dacheng Law Offices possesses a standout real estate and construction team. The practice is widely known for its expertise in handling disputes in the construction area. The team offers strong support for PPP projects and is also recognised for its activity in land acquisition and project development. Its client roster includes a range of domestic developers and construction companies such as China Resources Land and Shanghai Building Decoration Engineering Group, as well as asset management firms and insurers including PingAn Trust.


Dacheng Law Offices fields a notable team that advises on project and infrastructure projects. The firm is experienced in handling PPP projects and related disputes, and has been particularly active in highway, transportation and waste water-related projects of late. It is sought after by a number of domestic construction and engineering groups that often act as social investors in projects. Clients benefit from the firm's strength and knowledge in the construction sector. Key clients of the firm include China Railway Culture and Tourism Investment Group, Zhejiang Construction Engineering Group and China Civil Aviation Airport Construction Group.


Dacheng Law Offices is highlighted for its significant national footprint and experience in cross-border transactions. The team advises on M&A, outbound investment and restructuring matters, often acting on behalf of big-name domestic and multinational energy and natural resources clients as well as investment and private equity firms. It is equally equipped to advise on domestic investments in the energy sector and also active in the renewable energy space. The law firm is capable of handling disputes arising from energy and natural resources transactions. Its key clients include AcBel Polytech, GCL Smart Energy (Suzhou) and Nouryon Chemicals (Ningbo).


——Chambers Greater China Region Guide 2024

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