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Min Xi

Attorney Min specializes in major commercial litigation and arbitration, with in-depth research and extensive practical litigation experience in areas including finance, investment and financing, supply chain, corporate equity and governance, real estate and construction projects, as well as the intersection of civil and criminal law. He has handled a series of influential and complex litigation and arbitration cases, including multiple instances of reversing unfavorable outcomes in second-instance or retrial proceedings, and cases that were remanded, revised, or accepted for retrial by the Supreme People’s Court. The cumulative claim amount of cases he has handled amounts to hundreds of billions of RMB. Attorney Min’s clients include numerous financial institutions, listed companies, and well-known state-owned enterprises. He also conducts long-term teaching on litigation practice at law schools of institutions such as Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Fudan University.

Felix Zhou

Attorney Zhou’s practice focuses on legal services in the fields of finance, asset management, investment and financing, mergers and acquisitions, and restructuring. He has led teams in actively participating in and completing numerous projects, including mergers and acquisitions of financial institutions, project financing, structured financing, debt protection plans, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, mergers and reorganizations of state-owned enterprises, non-performing asset debt restructuring, and mixed-ownership employee plans. He possesses mature strategies and strong control capabilities in designing transaction structures, conducting due diligence, negotiation, and government coordination for complex deals. He has long provided various legal services to Chinese and foreign banks, trusts, insurance companies and their asset management subsidiaries, private equity funds, and other financial institutions, as well as large state-owned enterprises. Through these services, he has accumulated extensive experience and has been responsible for handling many projects with significant social impact and industry value, earning consistent praise from clients.

He currently serves as an arbitrator at the Shanghai Arbitration Commission, an adjunct professor at Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, and a practical supervisor for master’s students at the Law School of Fudan University.

Zhong Renjian

Attorney Zhong’s practice focuses on major commercial litigation and arbitration. He is thoroughly familiar with the entire case-handling process at all levels of courts and arbitration institutions, and has handled numerous significant and complex commercial cases for various financial institutions and large state-owned enterprises. He possesses extensive experience and unique insights into major commercial litigation and arbitration.

With over 20 years of professional experience, Attorney Zhong has a solid legal foundation and rich practical experience in handling various types of major litigation cases. He is well-versed in the internal workflows of courts at all levels and is particularly adept at managing major, challenging, and complex litigation matters. He excels at fully integrating clients’ commercial needs with dispute resolution methods, providing comprehensive legal analysis and optimized overall solutions to help clients maximize their interests and deliver service quality that exceeds expectations.

Zhang Changqing

Attorney Zhang’s practice focuses on major commercial litigation and arbitration, with expertise in corporate securities legal affairs, investment and financing legal matters, and non-performing asset recovery legal affairs for financial institutions. He has extensive experience in dispute resolution within these related fields. Attorney Zhang has long provided legal services to multiple financial institutions as well as large state-owned and private enterprises, and was appointed as an expert on the Expert Advisory Committee of Ping An Bank. He has handled a substantial number of commercial litigation and arbitration cases with dispute amounts ranging from hundreds of millions to several billion RMB.

He currently serves as a specially appointed expert in the Special Asset Management Department of Ping An Bank’s Head Office.

Ye Zheng Wei

Attorney Ye’s practice focuses on real estate, construction projects, and corporate legal affairs. He is particularly skilled at designing transaction solutions for clients that meet their commercial needs while minimizing legal risks. With over 20 years of experience in legal services for real estate and construction projects, her successful cases encompass land expropriation, urban village redevelopment, cooperative development, bulk real estate transactions, commercial housing sales, real estate mortgages, property leasing and management, hotel operations, and property management. He specializes in representing property owners by providing full-process legal services for construction projects, especially offering solutions for construction project bidding and project management to financial institutions.

Attorney Ye also customizes family wealth succession solutions for entrepreneurs, achieving family legacy through overseas family trusts, corporate control structures, family property agreements, insurance, and funds. He provides solutions for matters involving marriage, inheritance, and property disputes among family members.

He currently serves as a council member of the Legal Branch of the Shanghai Real Estate Chamber of Commerce and as a practical course instructor at the Law School of Fudan University.

Yao Huiyun

Attorney Yao specializes in complex financial and commercial litigation and arbitration. To date, Attorney Yao has participated in over 300 court hearings, with more than 160 publicly searchable judicial documents, and has cumulatively handled cases involving amounts totaling tens of billions of RMB. Skilled in designing multi-dimensional dispute resolution pathways for clients to win cases, the practical course “Strategy Formulation for Complex Commercial Dispute Resolution,” which she created based on case-handling experience, has been widely praised by clients, legal peers, and university students. Attorney Yao also possesses unique insights into second-instance and retrial cases, having repeatedly helped clients turn unfavorable outcomes into victories during second-instance and retrial proceedings.

The unfair competition case represented by Attorney Yao was selected as one of the “50 Typical Intellectual Property Cases of Chinese Courts in 2020” and one of the “Top 10 Intellectual Property Judicial Protection Cases in Shanghai Courts in 2020.” It was also included in the renowned legal media *China Business Law Journal* as an “Outstanding Deal/Dispute Resolution Case of 2021” and received the “Golden Thread Innovative Legal Technology Judicial Case Award.” The case was extensively covered by media outlets such as East Money, Shanghai Legal News, Tencent, and The Paper.

She currently serves as a mediator at the Shanghai Oriental International Commercial Mediation Institute, a part-time mediator at the Shanghai Banking and Insurance Dispute Mediation Center, and a practical course instructor at Fudan University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Yang Runlai

Attorney Yang specializes in long-term risk management of major transactions and the resolution of significant, complex commercial disputes. Additionally, he possesses extensive experience and unique insights into cases involving economic crimes and the intersection of civil and criminal law. He is well-versed in Party discipline and national laws, as well as compliance and risk control, and has a precise grasp of legal and policy boundaries. He is also skilled in combining legal and investment banking perspectives to create commercial value through legal means. He has provided legal support for transactions and cases totaling hundreds of billions of RMB for numerous Fortune 500 companies and large state-owned and private enterprises.

Benny Xu

Attorney Xu Cheng’s primary practice areas are banking and finance, debt restructuring, and major dispute resolution. With over 18 years of extensive professional experience, he is highly familiar with matters involving banking, trusts, insurance, and foreign exchange management. Attorney Xu possesses rich experience in financial regulation, innovative finance, foreign exchange management policies, non-performing asset resolution, and major risk control. Leveraging his substantial financial background and business experience, he also frequently provides legal services for major risk control, debt recovery, litigation, arbitration, and other dispute resolution matters, including supply chain debt resolution, debt restructuring, bankruptcy reorganization, and debt-to-equity conversion transactions for enterprises.

He currently serves as a member of the Banking Business Research Committee of the Shanghai Lawyers Association, a member of the Cross-Border Bankruptcy Business Research Committee and the Planning Rules and Industry Development Committee of the Shanghai Association of Bankruptcy Administrators, and a practical supervisor for master’s students at the Law School of Fudan University.

Wu Yugang

Attorney Wu specializes in major commercial dispute resolution. He has provided comprehensive legal support to foreign-invested enterprises, large state-owned enterprises, and government departments, covering all key stages of modern corporate governance. He has particularly accumulated extensive experience in areas such as corporate governance and contract disputes. The industries he serves primarily include automotive and components, industrial automation, chemicals, real estate, among others. He excels at integrating industry characteristics with judicial practice to deliver forward-looking and effective dispute resolution solutions for clients.

Qian Qian

Attorney Qian’s practice focuses on major commercial dispute resolution and arbitration, with long-term involvement in handling significant commercial dispute resolution cases. She has represented numerous financial institutions, listed companies, large state-owned enterprise groups, and private enterprise groups in hundreds of various litigation matters, possessing extensive courtroom representation experience.

Attorney Qian specializes in transaction disputes and various emerging financial dispute cases. She represented the nation’s first financial test case at the Shanghai Financial Court, involving central counterparty centralized clearing defaults for financial derivatives. Both the regulatory framework and the dispute itself were highly innovative and groundbreaking. Attorney Qian excelled in the preparatory work, issue, and court proceedings, earning praise from all parties involved. The case was awarded the Second Prize of the Shanghai Financial Innovation Achievement Award and the inaugural Excellent Case Award of the Shanghai Lawyers Association. In another case, she represented a resource group company in a contract dispute with a Hong Kong company, which was selected as a Supreme People’s Court Gazette case. She also represented a listed company in a securities misrepresentation case, which was chosen as a typical securities dispute case by the Guangdong courts.


“Qian Qian has a growing reputation for her skilful handling of banking and finance disputes, especially those related to financial markets. She often acts for domestic and international financial institutions in both litigation and arbitration.”

“She is professional, dedicated, and has strong communication and coordination skills.”

“Qian Qian has excellent practical experience, especially her experience in court hearings, and she can control the rhythm of court sessions well.”

Ni Wei

Attorney Ni’s practice focuses on major commercial litigation and arbitration. As a seasoned arbitrator, he possesses extensive experience in adjudicating commercial disputes and is thoroughly familiar with the entire case-handling processes of courts at all levels and arbitration institutions. For over 20 years, he has specialized in resolving complex and difficult commercial disputes, consistently receiving various awards from internationally renowned legal rating agencies and domestic industry regulatory bodies.

He currently serves as an arbitrator at the Shanghai Arbitration Commission and the Shanghai International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission, a member of the Law Firm Regulation and Development Committee of the Shanghai Lawyers Association, and a specially appointed professor at the Lawyer’s College of East China University of Political Science and Law.


” Ni Wei is a widely acclaimed expert in commercial disputes, with extensive experience in both litigation and arbitration. He has a particular strength in significant disputes in the financial and real estate sectors. “

“He is always quick to grasp the key and propose precise solutions in complex cases. He is calm and confident, logical and rigorous, with strong professionalism and adaptability.”

“Ni Wei is able to gain insight into client needs, quickly grasps the key to solving problems and formulates accurate solutions to solve problems in complex environments and complex situations.”

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Ma Mingwei

Attorney Ma has years of professional experience handling major, complex, and difficult commercial disputes, with particular expertise in resolving corporate-type conflicts such as equity investment and financing, corporate deadlock governance, damages to company interests, and shareholder qualification confirmation. To date, the total claim amount of corporate disputes handled exceeds 30 billion RMB. Several of the corporate dispute judgments she represented have become benchmarks for adjudication standards within the field. The over-10-billion RMB equity transfer dispute she represented was awarded the *China Business Law Journal* 2023 Transaction of the Year Award (Dispute Resolution category).

Attorney Ma also possesses substantial experience with emerging financial disputes, having successfully handled over a hundred cases in areas including asset management, bonds, trusts, and financial leasing. Many of these cases have received special recognition: for example, the business trust dispute case she represented for a financial institution against a trust company stood out among over 370,000 disputes in Guangzhou that year, cumulatively securing over 1.9 billion RMB in substantial compensation for the client. The case received the Guangzhou Lawyers Association’s “Business Achievement Award,” won the Third Golden Thread Judicial Case Award – Finance and Investment category, and was also selected as a *China Business Law Journal* 2022 Outstanding Deal. The deficiency payment guarantee dispute case she represented for a financial institution against a listed company received the Fourth Golden Thread Judicial Case Award – Finance and Investment category. The private equity fund dispute case she represented for a listed company was listed among the Top 10 Financial Adjudication Cases of the Jiangsu Courts (2021–2023). Additionally, Attorney Ma has achieved significant results in cases represented at the Supreme People’s Court, with two cases successfully accepted for retrial by the Supreme Court and one case receiving full support after a revised judgment by the Supreme Court.


“Ma Mingwei is a highly skilled commercial litigation lawyer within the team. Her expertise in disputes relating to equity transfer, financial fraud and loan contracts is sought after by many domestic banks.”

“She is an expert in handling complex legal matters with impressive professionalism and dedication.”

“Mingwei always solves problems efficiently and accurately. The quality of service is particularly impressive. She is not only responsive but always able to provide support in the most empathetic way.”

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Jiang Hong

Attorney Jiang has 24 years of legal practice experience and has long provided professional legal services to multiple central enterprises and key state-owned enterprises under the Shanghai municipal government. His work aligns closely with national strategies and state-owned assets regulatory requirements, and she excels at handling complex legal matters related to the reform, operation, and risk management of large state-owned enterprises. She is well-versed in the entire process of real estate project acquisition, development, construction, leasing, sales, and property management, and is highly experienced in handling various real estate-related investment, financing, and merger and acquisition projects.

As the risk management director of the firm and a member of the Professional Ethics and Practice Discipline Committee, she has a deep understanding of the laws and regulations governing professional ethics and practice discipline essential for law firms, the legal profession, full-time lawyers, and administrators. With a strong sense of responsibility and risk awareness, he is capable of independently addressing complex compliance issues, ensuring the standardized operation of the firm, legal practice, and the fulfillment of administrative duties.

She currently serves as an External Master’s Supervisor at Shanghai University of International Business and Economics and is a member of the Professional Ethics and Practice Discipline Committee of the Shanghai Association of Bankruptcy Administrators.

Wang Zheng

Attorney Wang specializes in major commercial litigation and arbitration. As a partner of Zhenghan Law Firm, he has long been engaged in the field of high-end commercial dispute resolution and has undertaken a large number of difficult and complex commercial litigation and arbitration cases with huge amounts in dispute, handling cases totaling tens of billions of RMB. He has extensive experience and insight in major commercial litigation and arbitration, serving clients including Chinese and foreign banks and financial institutions, listed companies and large state-owned enterprises, etc.


“Wang Zheng is good at integrating the resources of the legal team to provide us with more comprehensive services, which is extremely important for solving the complex problems we encounter.”

“Wang Zheng offers expertise in commercial and real estate-related disputes. He attracts mandates from large state-owned enterprises and private companies.”

“He’s very practical, solution-oriented and user-friendly. He always thinks about what the client needs and comes up with a strategy to advance that.”

Comments from the research report of  Chambers and Partners Great China Region