Recently, ALB (Asian Legal Business), the legal media under Thomson Reuters, announced the “2025 ALB Annual Asia Dispute Resolution Lawyers” list. Lawyer Min Xi, a post-90s partner at Shanghai Hongqiao Zhenghan Law Firm, was honored with a place on this annual list for his continuous dedication and professional performance in the dispute resolution field.
This selection focuses on dispute resolution lawyers’ comprehensive capabilities and industry influence in areas such as handling complex disputes, improving dispute resolution mechanisms, and maintaining commercial order. It also pays attention to lawyers’ ability to provide clients with holistic solutions that are both enforceable and commercially viable in cross-border and multi-jurisdictional disputes, combining international rules with local judicial practice.
It is worth noting that Lawyer Min Xi may be one of the youngest lawyers on this list. As a representative of the “new generation” in the dispute resolution field, Lawyer Min Xi not only inherits Hongqiao Zhenghan’s profound professional heritage in complex litigation but also demonstrates the strong commercial acumen and technical adaptability of the new generation of partners. In the current market characterized by intricate cases and multi-jurisdictional overlaps, he showcases the professional edge of Chinese young lawyers with exceptional responsiveness and solutions from a global perspective.
Representative cases handled by Lawyer Min Xi include:
• **[First Case Applying for Patent Recognition as Evasion of Capital Contribution]** During the execution of a contract dispute case representing a state-owned enterprise against a dairy company, through a separate lawsuit, he accurately identified and proved that the opposing shareholder had withdrawn capital by converting non-patented technology, which had been injected into the company as capital, into a personal patent. Ultimately, he successfully added the shareholder as a person subject to enforcement, making them bear joint and several liability within the scope of the withdrawn capital.
• **[Supreme Court Second Instance Remand]** Represented a golf sports company in a land lease contract dispute with a town government in Shanghai, involving controversial issues such as the validity of golf land use contracts. After the first instance in a High Court, he secured a remand for retrial in the Supreme Court second instance, and the client ultimately obtained full compensation exceeding 150 million yuan.
• **[Second Instance Turnaround Victory]** Represented a state-owned enterprise in a series of construction project contract dispute cases against a local private enterprise in a basic-level court in Inner Mongolia. After the client’s main claim for the final project payment was dismissed in the first instance, and the counterclaim for a full refund was fully supported, he took over the second instance representation. Starting from flaws in the first instance appraisal report and the determination criteria for impossibility of fulfilling the construction contract’s purpose, and combining authoritative expert opinions, detailed legal and similar case research reports, and highly effective visual charts, he ultimately completely reversed the outcomes of both the main and counterclaim cases, turning defeat into victory.
• Represented a district-level urban investment company and a land development center in Shanghai in a series of cases and projects arising from land acquisition and storage against a private group company. Through a combination of mediation execution and bankruptcy disposal, the acquisition and storage were completed, with a total subject amount exceeding 1.3 billion yuan.
• Represented a subsidiary of a privately listed metal group in a series of trade financing cases against a steel trading company, with an involved subject amount exceeding 820 million yuan. Through a strategy of using criminal pressure to promote civil resolution, he successfully achieved mediation and obtained full repayment through debt offsetting.
Lawyer Min Xi’s selection this time reflects the industry’s high recognition of his professional ability, practice standards, and client service quality, and further demonstrates Hongqiao Zhenghan’s continuous accumulation and steady competitiveness in the dispute resolution business field.
Facing the trend of increasing dispute complexity during economic transformation, Hongqiao Zhenghan will continue to adhere to the case-handling advantages of its corporate integrated model, providing clients with professional and exceptional legal services.
