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Lu Xiaocheng

Attorney Lu’s practice focuses on major commercial litigation and arbitration. With a solid foundation in legal theory and the ability to quickly understand and learn various business models, she has participated in numerous high-value, major, and complex cases. She has accumulated extensive experience in cross-border dispute resolution, including multiple litigation and arbitration cases involving the application of Hong Kong law, BVI law, U.S. law, among others, and has collaborated closely with overseas counsel to maximize client interests.

She has been involved in cases adjudicated at various levels of courts and major domestic and international arbitration institutions, including the Supreme People’s Court, various High People’s Courts, the Hong Kong High Court, the Shanghai International Arbitration Centre, the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration, among others.

Li Tongyu

Attorney Li specializes in the resolution of complex commercial disputes, with extensive litigation experience in areas such as corporate disputes, contract disputes, and guarantee disputes. Since entering practice, Attorney Li has been responsible for handling dozens of cases with claim amounts ranging from tens of millions to several billion RMB. She is particularly skilled in managing major and challenging cases, having on multiple occasions represented clients in turning unfavorable outcomes in first and second instance proceedings into victories. She also has successful experience in securing retrials and favorable judgments for clients from the Supreme People’s Court.

Diao Xingyin

Attorney Diao’s practice focuses on litigation for financial institutions and civil and commercial litigation cases. He primarily handles banking and financial litigation, covering the entire process including due diligence, litigation, enforcement, notarization of debt instruments, and enforcement objections. He has considerable experience in handling bank loan recovery cases, providing legal services such as loan recovery and asset disposal to multiple Chinese and foreign banks. He has also led or participated in several cases where financial institutions were defendants, such as fund manager liability disputes and sales contract disputes. Additionally, he is adept at handling enforcement objection cases.

Chen Shuyuan

Attorney Chen’s practice focuses on major commercial litigation and arbitration, with extensive practical experience in litigation involving corporate, investment and financing, intellectual property, and financial cases. He also has considerable non-litigation legal experience in the fields of corporate law, investment and financing, mergers and acquisitions, and restructurings. His clientele includes a large number of financial institutions, listed companies, and well-known state-owned enterprises.

Zhou Wei

Attorney Zhou specializes in dispute resolution within the banking and finance sector. She previously worked in the Asset Protection Department of Ping An Bank, where she gained substantial insights and extensive practical experience in the timely recovery of bank loans and in protecting banks from reducing non-performing and bad debts. In the area of bank litigation, she has long provided legal services to multiple banking and financial institutions, including China Minsheng Bank, Ping An Bank, and Shanghai Pudong Development Bank.

Zhang Weng

Attorney Zhang specializes in major commercial litigation. He has long provided dispute resolution legal services for various types of conflicts to numerous state-owned enterprises, listed companies, and financial institutions, with particular expertise in handling commercial disputes such as equity investment and financing, corporate deadlock governance, damages to company interests, and financing trade. He also has extensive experience with emerging financial disputes, having successfully handled over a hundred cases in areas including asset management, trusts, funds, letters of credit, and financial leasing.

With a solid legal foundation and rich practical experience, he is familiar with the internal workflows of courts at all levels and is especially adept at managing major, complex, and difficult litigation cases. 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. Proficient in comprehensive case-handling skills, he adeptly employs visualization techniques in dispute resolution to achieve persuasive results beyond expectations. Additionally, he possesses extensive experience and unique insights into various professional skills such as legal research, document drafting, and trial techniques, often identifying breakthrough points in cases with acuity and developing thorough litigation strategies around them.

He currently serves as a member of the Law Firm Regulation and Development Committee of the Shanghai Lawyers Association, a member of the Civil and Commercial Litigation Professional Committee of the Shanghai Lawyers Association, a member of the Cross-Border Bankruptcy Business Research Committee of the Shanghai Association of Bankruptcy Administrators, and a practical lecturer at Fudan University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Wang Yang

Attorney Wang specializes in complex commercial and financial litigation and arbitration, with particular expertise in litigation legal practice within the fields of banking, finance, asset management, and investment exits. She possesses experience in non-litigation legal practice related to banking, finance, and asset management. Her primary clients include, but are not limited to, commercial banks, trust companies, insurance institutions, private equity funds, securities companies and their subsidiaries, fund companies and their subsidiaries, among others. She has extensive experience in various types of lawsuits against banks, suitability obligation and manager liability cases that may arise from the fundraising side of asset management products, disputes related to pursuing counterparties and guarantees on the transaction side of asset management products, securities misrepresentation disputes, and various types of investment exit disputes. Additionally, in providing legal services related to dispute resolution to multiple financial institutions or quasi-financial institutions, Attorney Wang can timely identify potential dispute risks and offer targeted prevention and resolution strategies. Focusing on major financial dispute resolution, she is also well-versed in the product structures and investment logic of major financial sectors, enabling her to provide clients with effective dispute resolution legal services efficiently.

Wang Xue Chao

Attorney Wang’s practice focuses on major commercial dispute resolution and arbitration, with particular expertise in resolving real estate, construction project, and various corporate commercial disputes. She has long provided legal services to numerous renowned domestic and international real estate enterprises and state-owned enterprises, handling a wide range of complex and difficult dispute resolution cases, including real estate cooperative development disputes, construction project contract disputes, corporate equity disputes, as well as investment and merger projects with transaction values reaching several billion RMB. With years of in-depth experience in the fields of real estate, construction projects, and corporate investment and mergers, Attorney Wang possesses extensive expertise in the entire process of real estate development and construction, corporate governance, and dispute resolution. She excels at accurately identifying clients’ key challenges and pain points, thereby achieving outstanding results for them.

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.

Liu Feng Chang

Attorney Liu specializes in cross-border dispute resolution and commercial litigation and arbitration. The types of cases she handles include, but are not limited to, contract disputes, Sino-foreign joint ventures, cross-border unfair competition, equity transfers, corporate control, financial products, cross-border recognition and enforcement of judgments/arbitral awards, and preservation measures, with the total value of cases involved amounting to tens of billions of RMB. Her experience includes arbitration cases conducted under the rules of institutions such as the Shanghai International Arbitration Centre, Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration, and the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, as well as numerous significant first-instance cases in intermediate and high people’s courts.

Attorney Liu has also assisted clients in handling the recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards in Mainland China and in applying to Mainland courts for preservation measures in support of Hong Kong arbitration proceedings. She excels at managing commercial disputes involving multiple jurisdictions and has been listed as a recommended lawyer in the dispute resolution field in *Chambers Greater China Region Guide 2024* and *Chambers Global Guide 2024*.

Attorney Liu is admitted as a solicitor of the High Court of Hong Kong and is one of the very few lawyers who comprehend and practice dispute resolution in both Mainland China and Hong Kong.

She currently serves as a member of the International Law Business Research Committee of the Shanghai Lawyers Association, an external lecturer at the Law School of Fudan University, and is the head of the international practice at Hongqiao Zhenghan.

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持股 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示范 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 Ren Jian

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.