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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.

Represented a privately held company in a commercial bank equity transfer dispute with an asset management company, with the value of the equity involved exceeding 12 billion RMB.

A financial loan contract dispute between a trust company and an industrial company and a group company, with the amount involved reaching 3.5 billion RMB. This was the case with the highest claim amount accepted by the Shanghai Financial Court at that time.

A contract dispute between a real estate investment company and a real estate enterprise, with the amount involved reaching 3.4 billion RMB.

A financial loan contract dispute between a joint-stock bank and an investment company, with the amount involved reaching 1.5 billion RMB.

A financial loan contract dispute between a trust company and an industrial company, with the amount involved reaching 1 billion RMB.

A contract dispute between a real estate investment fund and a real estate enterprise, with the amount involved reaching 580 million RMB.

A contract dispute between a real estate investment company and an international group company, with the amount involved reaching 430 million RMB.

A share transfer dispute concerning control of a listed company between two natural persons, with the amount involved reaching 220 million RMB.

A contract dispute between two natural persons regarding the ownership of shares in a listed company, with the amount involved reaching 150 million RMB.

A financing trade dispute between a state-owned enterprise supply chain company and a state-owned enterprise group company, with the amount involved reaching 150 million RMB.

A financial leasing contract dispute between a financing leasing company and a construction group company, with the amount involved reaching 130 million RMB.

A contract dispute between an investment fund and the actual controller of a Hong Kong-listed company, with the amount involved reaching 100 million RMB.

A financing trade dispute between a state-owned enterprise marketing company and another company, with the amount involved reaching 85 million RMB.

A trade dispute between two Fortune 500 companies, with the amount involved reaching 30 million RMB.

A copyright dispute between two major domestic internet companies, involving the simultaneous filing of thousands of cases. A strategy of "litigation to facilitate negotiation" was employed, ultimately achieving a result satisfactory to the client.

First Case in Which a Domestic Arbitration Institution Applied the International Cotton Industry ICA Rules