Zhenghan Law Firm Secures Reversal in Foreign-Related Contract Dispute Appeal, Selected as a 2025 Typical Case by the Shanghai International Commercial Court
Typical CaseForeign-related CommercialSecond-Instance Judgment Reversal
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 the Tide: Zhenghan Law Firm Resolves the 1.5 Billion Yuan “Circular Fund Transfer” Rashomon Effect
Billion-Level DisputeAuthenticity of LoanFinancial Loan DisputeTurning Defeat into VictoryCase Remanded for RetrialCircular Fund Transfer
In a financial loan dispute involving over 2.5 billion yuan that should have been “without suspense,” the court of first instance dismissed all claims of the financial institution on the grounds of “circular fund transf...
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, ...
Supreme Court Retrial! Zhenghan Law Firm Assists a Listed Company in Resolving “Atypical Guarantee Liability”
Hundred-Million-Yuan DisputeRetrial by the Supreme People's CourtAtypical GuaranteeEquity RepurchaseJudgment Confirmation of Mediation AgreementMajor Transaction of Listed CompanyNon-compliant Guarantee of Listed Company
This case involves a financial loan contract dispute with an amount in controversy of nearly 400 million RMB. Spanning seven years, it went through the first instance at the Intermediate Court, second instance at the High Court, retrial ...
Who Can Initiate a Shareholder Derivative Suit? Application of the “Clean Hands Doctrine” in a 700 Million Case
Shareholder Derivative SuitClean Hands DoctrineInterest in LitigationPrinciple of Good Faith
In the field of commercial dispute resolution, a shareholder derivative suit is a vital legal remedy granted to shareholders to safeguard the interests of a company. However, in the complex practice of corporate governance, shareholders ...
Second-instance victory against all odds: Zhenghan Law Firm assists in overturning the finding of equity “nominee holding” in a family enterprise.
Turning Defeat into VictoryShareholder Qualification ConfirmationEquity Nominee HoldingFamily Enterprise
Recently, in a shareholder qualification confirmation lawsuit heard on second instance by the Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court, represented by the Guangzhou Office of Zhenghan Law Firm, the first-instance judgment was reversed,...
Zhenghan Law Firm Represented Valuation Adjustment Mechanism (VAM) Buyback Dispute Selected as Shanghai Court Excellence Case
Valuation Adjustment Mechanism (VAM)Equity Buyback Right
In a VAM transaction, if an investor has not fully contributed capital, do they have the right to demand that the founding shareholders repurchase the equity based on the VAM clauses? In practice, there are few reference cases for such s...
Turning Defeat into Victory: Revealing How Zhenghan Law Firm Reversed the Determination of “Equity in Name but Debt in Substance” in Private Equity Fund Investment (with Search Report Attached)
Second-Instance Judgment ReversalEquity in Name but Debt in SubstanceTurning Defeat into Victory
Last year, Zhenghan Law Firm released a brief news item — “The Firm Won a Second-Instance Reversal at a High People’s Court in a Private Equity Fund Exit Dispute”. The second-instance judgment of this case successfully ...
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
Retrial by the Supreme People's CourtTurning Defeat into Victory
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...
