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Yang Run Lai

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 Yu Gang

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梳理, 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.

Ni Wei

Attorney Ni’s practice focuses on major commercial litigation and arbitration. As a seasoned arbitrator, she 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, she has specialized in resolving complex and difficult commercial disputes, consistently receiving various awards from internationally renowned legal rating agencies and domestic industry regulatory bodies.

She 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.

Ma Ming Wei

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 he represented have become benchmarks for adjudication standards within the field. The over-10-billion RMB equity transfer dispute he 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 he 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 he 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 he 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.

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 he excels at handling complex legal matters related to the reform, operation, and risk management of large state-owned enterprises. He 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, he 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.

He 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, having handled a substantial number of complex and high-stakes cases with significant amounts in dispute. The total value of cases managed amounts to hundreds of billions of RMB. His clientele includes Chinese and foreign financial institutions, listed companies, large state-owned enterprises, and high-net-worth individuals, among others. Leveraging extensive experience and professional expertise in complex disputes, Attorney Wang is adept at proposing highly innovative and breakthrough solutions, consistently delivering results that exceed expectations.