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Jian Guan

Partner of WFW Global LLP and a Foreign Legal Consultant (PRC) in WFW’s Hong Kong office · Watson Farley & Williams

Hong KongAsset Finance, Structured FinanceMandarin, Cantonese, English

About

Partner of WFW Global LLP and a Foreign Legal Consultant (PRC) in WFW’s Hong Kong office. Practice focuses on transactional and contentious matters in shipping and offshore energy sectors, including asset and structured finance, leasing, restructuring, shipping joint ventures, and cross-border litigation and arbitration.

Practice areas

Asset FinanceStructured FinanceShippingOffshore EnergyLeasingRestructuring and WorkoutsShipping Joint VenturesCommercial LitigationArbitrationEnforcement and Winding-up

Office

Expertise

Transactional and contentious matters in shipping and offshore energy sectorsAdvising shipowners, charterers, energy companies and financiers on cross-jurisdictional projectsAsset and structured finance, leasing transactions, restructurings and work-outsShipping joint venturesConstruction, sale and purchase, chartering and operation of vessels and offshore assetsCross-border litigation, arbitration, enforcement and winding-up actions in Mainland China, London, Hong Kong and Singapore

Education

  • LLM, University College London, UK (2007 – 2009)
  • LLB, Dalian Maritime University, PR China (2003 – 2007)

Admissions

  • Foreign Legal Consultant (PRC) with the Hong Kong Law Society

Languages

MandarinCantoneseEnglish