An Eight-Year Legal Battle: Breaking the “Possession Equals Ownership” Rule to Protect 120 Million RMB in Private Equity Fund Assets
Breakthrough JudgmentSupreme People's Court Retrial ReviewCases exceeding 100 millionIndependence of Fund PropertyAction of Objection to EnforcementInsurance ClaimsPrivate Equity DisputesCivil-Criminal Intersection
Zhenghan Law Firm represented a private equity asset management company acting as the fund manager for two tranches of accounts receivable investment private equity funds. In a complex context involving overlapping criminal and civil pro...
Zhenghan Law Firm Secures Reversal in Foreign-Related Contract Dispute Appeal, Selected as a 2025 Typical Case by the Shanghai International Commercial Court
Second-Instance Judgment ReversalForeign-related CommercialTypical Case
Zhenghan Law Firm worked closely with Quinn Emanuel, a world-leading dispute resolution firm, to represent a Shanghai-based Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprise (WFOE). After a first-instance defeat left the client facing potential claims wor...
Turning Defeat into Victory: Second Instance Revokes Original Judgment and Remands for Retrial, Helping a Joint-Stock Bank Reverse and Settle a Dispute Over 100 Million Yuan in Financing “Support Fees”
Turning Defeat into VictoryUnjust EnrichmentBank SuedFinancial LoansCharacterization of Support Fees and Interest SubsidiesModification of Contract through Actual PerformanceSecond Instance Reversal and Remand for Retrial
Keywords: Financial Loans, Unjust Enrichment, Characterization of Support Fees and Interest Subsidies, Modification of Contract through Actual Performance, Second Instance Reversal and Remand for Retrial, Bank Sued, Turning Defeat into V...
Supreme Court Remands for Retrial: 20-Year Land Acquisition Battle Recovers Over 100 Million Yuan for Taiwan-Funded Enterprise
Foreign-Related CaseLand DisputesLand Acquisition CompensationSupreme Court Remand for RetrialDisputes over Contract ValidityProtection of Reliance InterestsClauses Promoting Contract EffectivenessCase Involving Over 100 Million Yuan
Zhenghan Law Firm represented a Shanghai-registered foreign-invested sports club and its offshore parent company registered in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) in a litigation against a town-level People’s Government. The dispute, ...
High Court Reversal: Dissenting Creditor’s Bankruptcy Claim Confirmation Lawsuit Remanded for Retrial
Bankruptcy ReorganizationBankruptcy Claim ConfirmationPriority Right of Compensation for Construction Project Payments
Zhenghan Law Firm represented a state-owned enterprise (SOE) in applying for a retrial regarding a bankruptcy claim confirmation lawsuit within a bankruptcy reorganization project involving assets valued at over one billion yuan. After a...
Breaking Through Multi-jurisdictional Disputes! How Zhenghan Law Firm Reversed a Litigation Dilemma in Hong Kong
Jurisdictional DisputesOverseas Litigation for Chinese EnterprisesCross-jurisdictional Legal ServicesForum Non ConveniensCross-border Rights Protection for EnterprisesHong Kong Cross-border LitigationCross-border Commercial DisputesMulti-jurisdictional Litigation
As the national “Going Global” strategy continues to advance, cross-border commercial disputes have increasingly become a practical challenge for Chinese enterprises. In this context, the deep involvement of mainland law firm...
Zhenghan Law Firm’s Top 10 Outstanding Cases of 2025
Top 10 Cases
In 2025, Zhenghan Law Firm remained steadfast in its original mission. Leveraging deep professional foundations, innovative strategic thinking, and a resilient professional spirit, we continued to achieve breakthroughs in the field of co...
Zhenghan Law Firm, After Seven-Year Rights Defense, Obtains Supreme Court Support, Setting a Precedent for Enforcement Objection Litigation in Cases of “No Written Distribution Plan”
Retrial by the Supreme People's CourtTurning Defeat into VictoryObjection Lawsuit Regarding Enforcement Distribution PlanProcedural JusticeCase Remanded for RetrialPriority Creditor Protection
Zhenghan Law Firm represented Bank A in a seven-year rights protection campaign against the enforcement court’s unauthorized distribution of case funds without preparing a written distribution plan during the enforcement distributi...
Turning Defeat into Victory: Zhenghan Law Firm Breaks the “Rashomon” in an 8-Year Dispute Over a 100-Million-Yuan Villa
Retrial by the Supreme People's CourtCivil-Criminal IntersectionHouse Sale DisputesCriminal Risk Resolution
Recently, the “100-Million-Yuan Villa Sales Contract Case” represented by Zhenghan Law Firm Law Firm has come to a conclusion. The Supreme People’s Court ruled in a retrial to dismiss all the opposing party’s appl...
Dispute over the Transfer of Equity in a Commercial Bank Valued at Over 12 Billion Yuan | Supreme People’s Court: Transfer of More Than 5% of Equity in a Commercial Bank Without Prior Approval Is Ineffective, and Splitting to Avoid Approval Is Not Allowed
Turning Defeat into VictoryRetrial by the Supreme People's Court
Recently, the Supreme People’s Court issued the Civil Ruling ((2024) Supreme Court Civil Application No. 2152), ruling to dismiss Zhongjing’s application for retrial. With this, the nearly four-year-long dispute over the equi...
First Domestic Large-Scale Claim Case for Reliance Interest: Innovative Argumentation Strategy Helps Client Avoid 300 Million Yuan in Compensation
Scope of Application and Definition of Reliance InterestInfringement of Creditor's Rights by a Third Party
This case is the first domestic large-scale claim case for reliance interest, involving the legal characterization of this niche business and the identification of third-party reliance interests. There are no clear provisions in laws and...
Overseas Equity Battle for Assets Worth 10 Billion Yuan: Innovative Judicial Practice Filling Legal Gaps
Injunctive Relief in Cross-Border Commercial CasesAdjudication of Overseas Equity Disputes by Domestic Courts
This case involves cutting-edge judicial practices in cross-border dispute resolution, such as overseas equity disputes, parallel litigation, and injunctive relief (injunctions). In the context of existing overseas proceedings for the ov...
Involving Insider Trading and Market Manipulation, Multi-Jurisdictional and Multi-Case, Comprehensive Resolution of Administrative and Criminal Risks
Insider TradingFalse StatementsMarket ManipulationIntersection of Administrative and Civil Procedures
This case involves disputes over insider trading and market manipulation, covering multi-jurisdictional administrative penalties, administrative litigation, the interface between administrative and criminal procedures, and criminal inves...
Full Reversal on Appeal: Rules for the Examination and Determination of Legal Relationships in Private Equity Fund Exit Disputes
Equity in Name but Debt in SubstancePrivate Equity Fund Equity InvestmentMixed ContractJudicial Disposition of Stocks
In a dispute over the exit of a private equity fund investment, the core controversy was whether the transaction in question constituted “equity in name but debt in substance”. Zhenghan Law Firm thoroughly sorted out the inve...
Against “Zero-Yuan Acquisition” to Help Client Realize Project Value: A Dispute over Equity Transfer of a Data Center
Peer CollaborationData Center ProjectEquity Transfer DisputeTurning Defeat into Victory
The client transferred the equity of a data center project company to a company, but after the project construction was hindered and suspended, the client was sued by the company for a “zero-yuan acquisition”. Entrusted to re...
Innovatively Protecting Rights Through a “Non-Harassment Agreement” to Help Client Recover Listed Company Shares
Listed Company Equity Dispute"Non-Harassment Agreement"
The actual controller of a listed company once signed a “non-harassment agreement” with a natural person, agreeing to create commercial opportunities for the natural person to obtain the company’s shares in exchange for...
Complex Financing Trade Case Involving Civil-Criminal Intersection and Bankruptcy: Precise Positioning and Interlocking Measures to Realize Client Interests
Bankruptcy LiquidationCivil-Criminal IntersectionFinancing Trade
This case is a complex financing trade dispute successfully represented by Zhenghan Law Firm. In this case, the client, as the fund outflow party, needed to recover funds through litigation. The case not only involves the complexity of f...
From Pressure to Surprise: The Road to Reversal in a 1.3 Billion Yuan Guarantee Contract Validity Lawsuit
Determination of Contract Effectiveness ConditionsPreliminary Consent to Continue GuaranteeGuarantee ContractCivil-Criminal Intersection
In this case, the client provided a trust loan to the debtor, and a local state-owned enterprise acted as the guarantor to provide guarantee. It signed clauses such as “preliminarily agreeing to continue providing guarantee for the...
400 Million Yuan in Compensation, 6 Years of Struggle: Zhenghan Law Firm Helps Client Win Case of Connected Transaction Damaging Company Interests
Judicial AppraisalDetermination of Actual ControllerDamaging Company Interests Through Connected Transactions
Case Review
In 2018, Lin, the actual controller of a state-owned shareholding company (hereinafter referred to as the “shareholding company”), was subject to mandatory measures on suspicion of multiple crimes including duty e...
Four Appearances in High People’s Court, All Securing Favorable Rulings: Obtaining Huge Surety Bond Insurance Claim in an Insurance Claim Dispute
Civil-Criminal IntersectionPerformance Bond InsurancePrivate Equity Fund
The fund manager, on behalf of the fund, filed a dispute over a huge insurance claim and finally obtained a full victory judgment after seven years. This case involves complex legal relationships, including accounts receivable transfer a...
