许明思 Lawyer

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Personal Introduction
Xu Mingsi

Attorney Xu’s practice focuses on providing legal services to various types of enterprises, including central state-owned enterprises, state-owned enterprises, and foreign-invested companies. He possesses extensive experience in resolving commercial disputes related to equity investment and financing, financing trade, construction projects, factoring, and negotiable instruments, among others. In multiple cases, he has been engaged by clients during the second instance or retrial stages and successfully secured reversals of previously unfavorable judgments for them.

Represented a company in Guizhou (assignee of factoring creditor's rights) in an arbitration case involving a factoring contract dispute with the factoring seller and guarantor. The amount involved was approximately 100 million RMB, resulting in a favorable arbitral award.

Participated in a joint venture agreement dispute between a Shanghai state-owned enterprise and a private enterprise, arbitrated at the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre. The project company involved was valued at over 5 billion RMB, resulting in a favorable arbitral award.

Represented a subsidiary of a central state-owned enterprise in handling the first instance, second instance, retrial, and prosecutorial protest proceedings of a construction engineering design contract dispute with a design unit, which had been remanded for retrial. A favorable judgment was ultimately obtained.

Represented a Shanghai-based trust company in handling a financial loan contract dispute with a listed company and its subsidiary, involving a lack of resolution for the listed company's guarantee, ultimately resulting in a settlement.

Represented a subsidiary of a central state-owned enterprise in a lease dispute enforcement case, successfully adding shareholders as judgment debtors, securing a settlement agreement for the client, and achieving full compensation.

Participated in the second instance, retrial, and prosecutorial protest proceedings of a construction project contract dispute between a subsidiary of a central state-owned enterprise and the project owner. The unfavorable first-instance judgment was overturned, and the revised ruling dismissed the opposing party's claims.

Participated in a tort liability dispute between a state-owned enterprise and a central state-owned enterprise's testing institution. The case was remanded for retrial, and a favorable judgment was obtained in the first instance.

Acting as defense counsel for one of the top ten shareholders of a listed company, participated in the review and prosecution phase as well as the trial phase of a case involving allegations of securities market manipulation (the China Securities Regulatory Commission had already imposed administrative penalties). Ultimately succeeded in securing a suspended sentence.