Siyu Zhao joined Han Kun Law Offices in April 2019. Mr. Zhao's main practice areas cover aviation and aviation finance, banking and finance, fintech and general corporate matters.
Mr. Zhao regularly represents numerous domestic and foreign aircraft leasing companies, domestic airlines and financial institutions in various aircraft and aviation equipment financing and leasing transactions, providing full lifecycle legal services for aircraft acquisition, leasing, and financing. His work includes structuring transactions, drafting transaction documents, participating in project negotiations and completing aircraft-related registrations. The transaction types involved include operating leases, finance leases, lease novation, sale-and-leasebacks, PDP financings and aircraft mortgage financings. He has also participated in multiple cross-border and offshore aircraft and aviation equipment leasing and financing projects.
In banking finance, Mr. Zhao advises numerous financial institutions and domestic/foreign borrowers on domestic and cross-border syndicated loans, bilateral fixed-asset loans, M&A loans, working capital loans, factoring, and other financing projects. He assists clients with structuring transactions, conducting legal due diligence, participating in negotiations, drafting legal documents, issuing PRC legal opinions and handling domestic registrations and filings, including NDRC registrations for medium and long-term foreign debt, SAFE registrations for onshore-guaranteed offshore loans and perfection registration of various security interests.
Mr. Zhao has assisted internet companies including Tencent and Xiaomi with legal issues arising from daily financial businesses, providing advisory legal opinions or advice on compliance with financial licenses, data collection, sharing, migration, information disclosure, and other compliance matters.
