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Fang Biao

Attorney Fang’s practice area is major financial litigation. He has long provided legal services for various types of litigation and defense cases for numerous Chinese and foreign financial institutions. He possesses extensive practical experience in all stages of financial cases, including litigation, property preservation, and enforcement.

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

His clientele includes, but is not limited to, major financial institutions such as Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, China Construction Bank, Bank of Communications, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, China CITIC Bank, Huaxia Bank, Bank of Beijing, China Merchants Bank, HSBC, Huaxin Trust, Lujiazui International Trust, Yunnan Trust, Central China Securities, Shenwan Hongyuan Securities, and China Merchants Wealth Management. He has handled numerous cases with claims amounting to billions, demonstrating extensive experience in managing major and complex cases. His abilities in argumentation, communication, and expression—all-around attorney competencies—are particularly outstanding.


“Fang Biao has considerable knowledge in trust plans and products, and is regularly instructed to act in related litigation. He is frequently instructed by clients in the financial services sector.”

“Fang Biao has extensive practical experience in dispute resolution and solid legal skills. He always responds efficiently to the legal service needs of our company.”

“He has long been deeply involved in the field of financial law, possessing profound legal knowledge and extensive practical experience in handling cases.”

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

Xiao Yi

Attorney Xiao’s primary practice focuses on civil and commercial matters, particularly in the resolution of major commercial disputes in the areas of contracts, corporate law, finance, and insurance. She has handled a significant number of litigation cases, including those at the Supreme People’s Court and various intermediate and higher-level courts, as well as arbitration cases adjudicated by institutions such as the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration, Guangzhou Arbitration Commission, Shanghai Arbitration Commission, and Shanghai International Arbitration Centre, with a total claim amount exceeding tens of billions of RMB. She has provided litigation, arbitration, and enforcement services to numerous well-known domestic and international enterprises in disputes involving commercial contracts, real estate development, equity and corporate control, torts, real estate, and trade secret infringement, among others. In many second-instance or retrial cases she has handled, favorable reversals were achieved after multiple rounds of proceedings. Through his casework, she has established strong mutual trust with adjudicators and has received high praise from clients.

Attorney Xiao has previously served as a dispute resolution advisor for large state-owned enterprises, has been appointed as a lecturer for commercial dispute litigation practice courses at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Fudan University, and has been invited on multiple occasions to provide legal training for entities such as the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of Guangdong Province and its provincial 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 Xuechao

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. He 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.

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.

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.