Starting practising as a lawyer in 1999, Ms Zhang Junli has been providing perennial/special legal services to various local governments and large/medium-sized state-owned enterprises. With trust and praises from clients, she’s been serving different organisations as legal consultant for over 13 years.

With extensive professional experience in corporate business, mergers and/or acquisitions, as well as the finance industry, Ms Zhang Junli has participated in lots of large projects in coal, coking, steel, gold, and electric industries, covering mergers/acquisitions, asset integration, investment/financing, and transaction structure design, optimization, bankruptcy liquidation, and major dispute resolutions. The clients she serves include Shanxi Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, Shanxi Provincial People's Government State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, China’s State Grid Shanxi Electric Power Company, China People's Property Insurance Co., Ltd. Shanxi Branch, Shanxi Cultural & Tourism Investment Holdings Group Limited, Shanxi Provincial Investment Group, Shanxi Guoxin Group, etc.

1998-2002 Shanxi University, Bachelor’s degree

2015-2016 Peking University, Law School

1998-2002 Shanxi Provincial Government Legal Service Centre, Shanxi Fudong Law Firm

2002-2012 Founding Partner, Shanxi Yingze Law Firm

2012-2019 Senior Partner, Shanxi Xietiancheng Law Firm

2019-present Senior Partner, Tahota (Taiyuan) Law Firm

The Environmental Resources and Energy Law Research Association, Shanxi Law Society, Executive Director

Shanxi Provincial Government Procurement Database of Experts, Expert

PPP Expert Database, the Shanxi Provincial Department of Finance, one of the first experts

Shanxi Province Outstanding Lawyer

1. Participation in over 100 projects of the provincial SASAC's review of state-owned enterprise supervision system and/or project compliance.

2. Responsible for the merger and integration of coal mines in the Linfen region by the Linfen Coal Transportation Corporation, involving over RMB 10 billion.

3. Responsible for the merger and integration of coal mines located respectively in Jincheng, Shuozhou by an investment group company.

4. Legal service on the asset regrouping of a group company.

5. Legal services for a group company on system reform;

6. Legal service on liquidation and disposal of “Separation between Main and Auxiliary industries” by some company, for which the value is over RMB 10 billion

7. Liquidation and disposal of “Zombie Enterprises” affilated to some company, over 100 companies and several billion RMB.

8. Legal services provided for some city's underground integrated pipeline PPP project, involving 590 RMB million.

9. Legal services for a city's Sponge City PPP project, involving 780 million RMB.

10. Legal services for the establishment of National Forest City PPP project in a county, involving over RMB 99 million.

11. Legal services for for the PPP project of the integrated heating system, 2nd phase, of a city’s central area, involving RMB 1.52 billion.

12. Legal services for the PPP project of the rail transit line 2, 1st phase Part B, of a city.

13. Professional legal services for the PPP project of a county's road infrastructure and environmental facilities renovation project.

14. Legal services provided for the 1st phase maintenance of a county’s sewage treatment plant and the PPP project of the 2nd phase construction project;

15. Participation in the integration and reorganization of the coking industry in the Shanxi Province, and preparation of the Coking and Reorganization of the Coking industry, 2013

16. Hosting and participating in the investigation, drafting and discussion of legislation on the Regulations on the Supervision and Administration of State-Owned Assets of Enterprises in Shanxi Province, 2012.

17. Presiding over compilation of “Policy Research on Accelerating the Green and Low Carbon Development of Shanxi Industry”, entrusted by the Shanxi Provincial Economic and Information Technology Commission, 2014.

18. Assisting in the formulation, discussion and interpretation of the “Regulations on the Protection of Electric Power Facilities in Shanxi Province”, 2013.

19. Participation in the "Big Data Research Report on the System-wide Litigation Cases of Shanxi Electric Power Company", Nov. 2016.

20. Compilation of “Report on “1+N” Policy System for Promoting the Reform of State-Owned Enterprises in Shanxi Province”, December 2017.

21. Participation in the legislation on the Measures for the Development of Big Data Industry in Shanxi Province, June 2018.

22. Presiding over the formulation of the “Research on Legal Issues Related to Marketization of New Energy Power Generation”, December 2018