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Professional Experience
Zheyuan Jin is a partner at Merits & Tree. Prior to joining Merits & Tree, Mr. Jin worked in DS Avocats Paris and Shanghai City Development Law Firm.

Mr. Jin has extensive experience in the development, construction, investment and financing of projects. Mr. Jin has served many giant contractors and investors and participated in legal consultations for dozens of projects or housing, manufacturing plants and infrastructures, handling dispute resolution and risk prevention during the whole process of projects development. Mr. Jin represents the project owners including local governments, real estate developers, manufacturing enterprises and projects financier to provides litigation and non-litigation legal services for construction projects. Mr. Jin assists many well-known real estate developers in various stages of projects such as greenfield development, co-enterprise and joint venture, financing, sales, mergers and acquisitions and project exit.

Mr. Jin was a member of the consulting experts in the field of construction and engineering in the World Bank's "Doing Business" report from 2018 to 2020; he has also participated in the drafting of the "General Contracting Contract Model Text for Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development" and the review of the 2020 revision of the Construction Law.

Honor & Awards
Mr. Jin was selected as recommended lawyer in construction field by Legal500 from 2022 to 2025 and was one of the winners of LegalBand "Chinese Legal 30 Under 30" in 2020
Mr. Jin is the member of “Real Estate Expert Council” of Shanghai Bar Association
Mr. Jin was elected in 2025 as the “Top Ten Uprising Lawyers” in Changning District, Shanghai

教育
Master in Economic Laws, SciencesPo Paris
LL.B., Tsinghua University

执业领域：不动产与基础设施、争议解决、银行与金融

工作经历：

金哲远律师是植德律师事务所合伙人。金哲远律师在不动产与基础设施的 开发、建设、投资、融资领域经验丰富。金哲远律师协助多家知名地产开发商 与投资方进行房地产开发、销售、收并购项目，项目类型涉及住宅、商业地产 、仓储物流、长租公寓、产业园区与城市更新，也曾协助各种类型的项目融资
方对地产项目完成投融资、收并购、退出以及争议解决事项。金哲远律师服务 过多家大型承包商、地方政府、地产开发商、制造业企业在内的项目业主方进 行建设工程诉讼与非诉法律服务。

教育背景：法国巴黎政治学院，经济法硕士

清华大学，法学学士

陈先生曾在中国、美国、香港、新加坡和澳大利亚工作，在房地产投资和融资、房地产投资信托基金、私募股权基金管理和资产管理、房地产开发、规划和设计以及国际业务运营方面拥有广泛而多元的经验。.

陈先生是FOG资本及资产管理有限公司（即Fields of Gold Corp.，一家总部位于中国上海的专注于房地产投资及资产管理的公司，也是哈佛中国基金的合作伙伴超过十年）的董事长兼首席执行官，同时也是越秀房地产投资信托基金（2005年在香港上市，是全球首家上市房地产投资信托基金，主要投资于内地物业）的独立董事。他曾担任全球排名前十的房地产投资基金的中国区发展主管，以及香港最大的上市蓝筹房地产开发集团之一的高级管理人员。此外，他还曾在美国马萨诸塞州波士顿一家国际建筑事务所担任高级建筑师。.

陈先生是长江商学院（CKGSB）的客座教授，长江商学院是中国顶尖商学院之一。他曾担任中国人民大学MBA项目的导师。他还在清华大学、北京大学、上海交通大学和同济大学教授房地产和资本市场相关课程。在美国生活期间，陈先生曾任波士顿建筑中心（BAC）客座讲师，教授建筑设计和规划工作室课程。.