Feng Jiajia
Position：Senior Partner
phone： 020-85608818
fax： 020-38988393
mailbox：jennifer@gdjnj.com
Global Trust Establishment
Global Assets and estate Planning
US investment related Litigation
Companies, Mergers & Acquisitions and Disposal of Assets
Over 17 years of practice experience
One of the Guangdong Leading International Legal Professionals (totally 316 leading lawyers selected from over 40,000 lawyers in Guangdong)
TEP Full member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (“STEP”), holding the International Trust Management Diploma jointly issued by the STEP, the International Trust Companies Association and CLT International
Admitted by CA Bar, USA （执业证号：342145）
CFA II candidate
An honorary certificate issued by the California state assembly for awarding her outstanding contribution for international business
One of the talent pool of foreign related lawyers of Guangdong province
Graduated from the Law School of Southwest Normal University (now Southwest University) in 2000
Lawyer FENG got the Lawyer’s License of the PRC in 2005 and got the Certificates of International Trust Management and Bonds identified by STEP since 2016.
Work as the legal counselor of China International Chamber of Commerce Guangzhou Branch
Work as the legal counselor of Guangdong Cross-Border E-Commerce Industry Association
Typical Achievements in Assets Protection for High-net-worth Clients
Ms. Feng cooperates with well-known trust institutions to assist Chinese clients in establishing family trust, insurance trust, assets protection trusts, foreign grantor trust, dynasty trust, etc., in offshore countries and regions such as Singapore, Hong Kong, the Cayman Island, Jersey Island and USA. She advises on the clients’offshore trust structure, trust deed and other instruments.
Ms. Feng advises, together with the tax and estate planning lawyers from U.S., Singapore and other countries, on assets protection and estate planning of high-net-worth clients’ assets in different jurisdictions.
Ms. Feng advises clients on the offshore ULs, Private Placement Life Insurance (PPLIs), and other legal instruments related to private assets management.
Ms. Feng often addresses lectures such as “tax planning for high-net-worth family” and “Influence of CRS and FATCA”, etc. to high-net-worth clients, together with family offices, ANZ, Singapore Bank, DBS, Harvest Fund and other famous financial institutions, as well as foreign tax lawyers.
Typical Achievements in investment immigration by High-net-worth Clients
Ms. Feng has advised high-net-worth clients on investment immigration since 2008.Due to the long experience in this industry, she has extensive connections with wealth management companies, immigration agencies, insurance agencies and private banks in both China and overseas.
Ms. Feng provided legal services to investors from China, Vietnam, Argentina, Australia and other countries who applied for the Employment-based Fifth Preference (US Investment Immigration or EB-5) since 2008. She handled a large number of EB-5 related cases and are familiar with the latest policy and adjudication standards of USCIS, which greatly improves the success rate of applications. She has successfully assisted more than one thousand families to get approval from United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”).
a) She advised for the investors who received the Request for Evidence (RFEs) or the Notice of Intent to Deny (NOIDs) from the USCIS, and successfully assisted them to respond USCIS’s question and get approvals finally.
b) She represented a client whose I-526 application was rejected by USCIS due to the sudden policy standard change to appeal. she issued a legal opinion together with a well-known Chinese legal expert to USCIS and successfully assisted the client to get his approval from USCIS.
c) She represented a client whose immigrant visa was rejected by Consulate General Guangzhou because of the failure of background investigation. Ms. Feng responded to the Consulate by issuing a legal opinion letter and assisted the client to obtain her immigrant visa.
Overseas Disputes Settlement
Ms. Feng is playing an active role in the investor protection activities related to the EB-5 immigration pilot in the USA, and is representing or represented several influential litigation cases in the USA, including:
She organized and represented more than 50 Chinese investors, acting as the plaintiff team’s leader lawyer and coordinator, to select and retain the qualified US litigation, bankruptcy, and securities lawyers to file a security fraud lawsuit in the federal court against the relevant defendants involving in the Palm House project at Palm Beach, Florida, USA. She coordinated and supervised the legal team that consists of Chinese lawyers and US lawyers, took part in making the litigation strategies, and worked as a bridge between the Chinese clients and the US lawyers. She cooperated with US SEC, FBI and local law enforcement department for securities fraud and criminal investigation. She has successively assisted the plaintiffs to obtain a favorable judgement which granted compensation up to more than 90 million US dollars in 2022 and retreated around 10 million US dollars. Several defendants had been arrested by FBI and convicted of guilty.
She represented around ten Chinese investors to select and retain the US lawyers to file a securities fraud lawsuit against several defendants who involved in the EB5 apartment building construction project in Cincinnati, the United States. The clients obtained a favorable judgement for more than 6 million US dollars in 2020.
She is representing the Chinese investors to select and retain the US lawyers to participate the bankruptcy procedure of a Seattle EB-5 real estate development project, and to bring a civil lawsuit against the related parties of the project for breach of fiduciary duty.
She successfully represented tens of EB5 investors who already obtained their conditional green cards to negotiate with the GP (regional center) in New York for redeployment of EB5 investment funds. The GP promised that they would not redeploy the EB5 fund to a borrower unless the loan is secured by the first priority mortgage.
She is representing tens of EB5 investors who invested in a real property development project in North Carolina as a coordinator and leader counsel to assist the investors to select and retain the qualified litigation lawyers in the United States, and to file a civil fraud lawsuit in the state court.
She is representing tens of EB5 investors who already obtained their permanent green cards to retain the qualified US lawyers to file a lawsuit against the regional center and related parties for the cause of breach of fiduciary duty and other legal basis, seeking for refund of the EB5 funds as earlier as possible.
She successively represented several EB5 investors who already obtained their permanent green cards to negotiate with the EB5 project party and regional center for refunding their investment funds.
Companies, Mergers & Acquisitions and Disposal of Assets
Ms. Feng served or is serving as a daily legal advisor to Jatco (Guangzhou) Automatic Transmission Ltd. (an affiliated enterprise of Nissan), Delta Faucet (China) Co., Ltd., Guangzhou Office (a US-funded company), Jabil Circuit (Guangzhou) Limited (a US company), Longsha Group, Pepsi, Toyota Tsusho, Dailojake Company (Canada), and other large multinational enterprises, providing daily compliance review and legal advice.
Ms. Feng assisted a number of well-known multinational companies (including Valeo Auto Lighting Co., Ltd., Yamato (China) Transport Co., Ltd., Nissan, etc.) in establishment of foreign-invested enterprises or branches of foreign enterprises in China.
Ms. Feng advised on a joint-venture project of SINOTRANS Limited and a well-known US logistics company and drafted the joint-venture legal instruments.
Ms. Feng did due diligence for a Hong Kong listed company’s acquisition of a hotel in Changsha; and revised the acquisition contract and other legal documents.
Ms. Feng did due diligence for a well-known Italian building materials company’s acquisition of a well-known building materials company in Guangzhou and revised the acquisition contract and other legal documents.
Ms. Feng did due diligence for a British company’s acquisition of a labor protection products company in Guangzhou and revised the acquisition contract and other legal documents.
Typical Achievements in Infrastructure:
Ms. Feng worked as a member of the annual legal counsel team of the Coordination Office for the Preliminary Work of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge between 2004 and 2006, doing kinds of legal research. During 2007 and 2009, she acted as an important role in the annual legal counsel team of Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Authority to provide legal advice for the project.
Ms. Feng advised for the equity transfer project of Guangdong-Jiangxi Highway and Guangdong Fokai Expressway Co., Ltd.
