Partner of Antitrust Compliance Business, Bachelor of Laws, Wuhan University | Master of Economic Law, East China University of Political Science and Law (ECUPL)

Mr.Chen Xinsong has long specialized in legal services for the energy sector. He possesses extensive practical legal experience in the industry, along with a combined knowledge background spanning energy, finance, and corporate management. Well-versed in the practical application of policies and laws, he has a keen insight into the management and service needs of enterprises. With years of working experience in a large-scale energy enterprise, he excels at dispute resolution for PPP and franchise rights, antitrust compliance, corporate mergers, acquisitions and restructuring, as well as infrastructure investment, financing and construction.

The types of natural gas projects he has advised on mainly include natural gas long-distance transmission pipelines at all levels, inter-provincial connecting pipelines, underground gas storage facilities, LNG receiving terminals, LNG liquefaction plants, urban pipeline gas projects, natural gas distributed energy projects, gas stations, LNG refueling stations, and LNG on-site supply vaporization stations.

His service scope covers the following aspects: legal services for project due diligence and investment transactions; signing of projects involving franchise rights, mid-term evaluation, government negotiations, public opinion response, and dispute resolution; dispute resolution related to direct supply for large users and LNG on-site supply; legal services for domestic and international natural gas purchase and sale contracts; handling of antitrust and price compliance issues; settlement of natural gas accident compensation and investigation of gas theft cases; and research on policy and legal topics. The clients Attorney Chen serves mainly include various upstream, midstream and downstream enterprises in the oil and gas industry chain, local governments, industry associations, industrial investment funds, and financial leasing companies.

Chen Xinsong founded and manages the WeChat Official Account Natural Gas and Law, which has now become the most influential self-media platform in this field. He is the chief editor of published works including Legal Practice in the Natural Gas Industry, Legal Practice in the Natural Gas Industry II, and Legal Practice in the Natural Gas Industry III. He has also participated in a number of national-level research projects, such as Self-Regulatory Guidelines for Fair Competition in the Gas Industry, Research on Franchise Operation in the Energy Industry in the New Era, Regulations on Natural Gas Administration, and Post-legislative Evaluation of the Measures for the Administration of Franchise Operation of Municipal Public Utilities.