Nick Bai

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Xue Bai

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Tammy Chen

Chen has engaged in legal researches and services in financial leasing and commercial factoring for over 10 years.

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Chen providing legal consulting services for clients’ daily operations, special legal services on projects involving financial leasing and factoring, and litigation and/or arbitration services on disputes over financial leasing and factoring transactions. In addition, with the development of financial leasing and factoring businesses, Chen also provides legal services relating to the financing and capital market of financial leasing companies and factoring companies in accordance with clients’ demands.

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Binhong Chen

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Hong Chen

Chen has been providing legal services for Japanese enterprises for many years and has accumulated abundant practical experience. She specializes in such areas as foreign investment, enterprise mergers and acquisitions, enterprise reorganization, corporate business, anti-monopoly and overseas investment. She provides legal consulting services for lots of foreign and domestic enterprises by responding to various consultations made by clients in their daily operation and offering advice on risk prevention and control. In addition, she also gives enterprises compliance trainings to help them prevent and avoid legal risks.

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Chen has been providing legal services for Japanese enterprises for many years and has accumulated abundant practical experience. She specializes in such areas as foreign investment, enterprise mergers and acquisitions, enterprise reorganization, corporate business, anti-monopoly and overseas investment. She provides legal consulting services for lots of foreign and domestic enterprises by responding to various consultations made by clients in their daily operation and offering advice on risk prevention and control. In addition, she also gives enterprises compliance trainings to help them prevent and avoid legal risks.

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Feng Chen

Feng Chen began his private legal practice in 1986, and specialized in financial leasing from 1987 and has engaged in the practice and study of financial leasing for more than thirty years.

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Chen is regarded as the most experienced lawyer in financial leasing area. He has provided legal services including transaction structure planning, drafting, reviewing of legal documents for nearly a thousand financial leasing projects and represented clients in litigation and arbitration for more than one hundred financial leasing cases.

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Li Yayun

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Dangdang Cao

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Lifei Chen

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Fengming Cui

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Yuan Cui

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Yang Chen

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Kathryn Cui

Kathryn's main areas of practice include corporate finance, cross-border M&A, capital markets, compliance and dispute resolution.

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Kathryn Cui has more than 20 years of experience in legal practice. Kathryn is qualified to practice law in Mainland China (1989), Hong Kong SAR （2004）and England and Wales (2005).

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Yan Deng

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Yuzhi Ding

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Science and Technology Bureau of Gongshu District of Hangzhou City, Foreign-related public interest associate

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Guoping Du

Details and self-discipline determine success and failure.

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His clients include big state-owned enterprises such as State Development and Investment Corp, China Resources, China Galaxy Investment Management, Xinhua Asset and China Taiping, as well as well-known listed companies such as Shandong Sinocera Functional Material and VIVI Group.

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Liqun Fan

Diligent, Prudent, Modest and Placid

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Partner Fan focuses on foreign investment, construction disputes, debt recovery, intellectual property rights and other practices, serving as legal adviser of more than 40 listed Japanese enterprises in China.

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Jian Fang

Fang has been licensed to practice in securities and fund, and has been granted the certificate of senior corporate compliance officer. He excels in resolving civil and commercial disputes, providing corporate consulting and compliance management, as well as providing commercial legal services in relation to investment, financing and M&A. The corporate clients served by Fang include large state-owned enterprises such as Hubei Communications Planning and Design Institute Co., Ltd., Changjiang New Materials, Hubei Agricultural Development Group, Central South Survey Design Institute Group, Hubei Re-guarantee Group, China Development Bank Hubei Branch and China Cinda Asset Management Co., Ltd. Hubei Branch; listed companies or their subsidiaries such as Shenzhen Huafa A(000020), Goldwind (002202), China Mobile Games (00302), Pou Sheng International (03813) and Te Fa Services (300917); high-quality local private enterprises in Hubei such as Xinba Construction, Tianma Group, Hubei Zhongyi, Optics Valley Foreign Languages School, Hujin Restaurant, etc.

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Xiaoyan Fang

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Fang has participated in the establishment of a number of county funds, the withdrawal of secondary funds, the overseas VIE of industrial funds and the registration of private fund managers, and has also provided legal services for many investment companies in the whole process of funds raising, investment, management and withdrawal. Since she practiced law, Fang has represented clients in relation to many contract disputes between the live broadcast platform and the anchor, software copyright disputes, and online game computer copyright disputes, many of which were selected as typical cases. Fang has rich practical experience in intellectual property dispute resolution.

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Yinghui Feng

One of ALB Top 15 China Litigators.

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She has undertaken many major and complex cases. Some of these cases have entered into the Economic Trial Guidance & Reference published by the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China.

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Gui Fu

Mr. Fu Gui specializes in dispute resolution, and provides legal services for more than 20 Japanese companies such as Mitsubishi Estate, YONEX and DUNLOP. He is good at handling disputes over intellectual property rights, equity, contracts and labor.

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Mr. Fu has worked in ONYX Hospitality Group, and participated in the negotiations on commercial contracts with many well-known enterprises, such as Shui On Land, LEMEN INT’L, Sunac, China SCE Group Holdings, JLL and Savills. He has rich experience in commercial negotiation and corporate compliance control.

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Jassmine Fu

Her practice in the field of trademark, she also provided legal and translating service regarding patents, invalidity and infringement.

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Her practice in the field of trademark, she also provided legal and translating service regarding patents, invalidity and infringement.

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Xiangyang Ge

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Jason Gong

Devoted to IP for 18 years

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Representing a US-based chemical company in trademark enforecment, and advising for a R & D center affiliated to a famous European mdeicial equipement company in China.

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Jian Ning

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Xiaoyan Gong

Xiaoyan Gong

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She has provided legal services on mergers & acquisitions and investment for many multinational companies such as Toshiba, Kanebo and Daikin.

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Bing Guan

Customer success is our success

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a copyright infringement case filed by a record company against a catering and entertainment company in Beijing, which was chosen as one of the ten classic cases on intellectual property of Beijing in 2004.

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Gang Guan

Gang Guan, specializing in intellectual property and dispute resolution, started IP practice in 2003, served as a patent examiner at the China National Intellectual Property Administration for over 10 years and had rich experience in the hearing of intellectual property rights confirmation cases and administrative law enforcement cases.

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He has obtained the award of “the Star of Patent Examiners” of SIPO. Since his practice in law, he has represented clients to handle much major intellectual property right litigation. Guan excels in representing various cases concerning intellectual property rights and dispute resolution. He has handled lots of intellectual property litigation cases and provided non-litigation legal services to clients in the aspects of patents, trademarks, copyright, unfair competition, trade secrets, technology contracts, and licensing contracts. He is especially good at handing cases related to technology, and has accumulated abundant practical experience in this regard.

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Jiali Guo

Expert, Hubei PPP Expert Database
Member, the first group of young talented lawyers in the “Double Hundred” program for young lawyer training in Wuhan
Deputy director, PPP Professional Committee of Wuhan Lawyers Association
Professional level of lawyers in Wuhan in 2019 - Corporate Law
Professional level of lawyers in Wuhan in 2019 – Finance, securities and insurance

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Jiali Guo has provided legal services for many big and medium-sized enterprises, public institutions and listed companies in various industries, such as finance, real estates, insurance, logistics and media.

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Limei Guo

Focus on civil and commercial dispute resolution

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Her clients include big state-owned enterprises like State Development and Investment Corp, China Galaxy Investment Management, Sinohydro Group, State Grid;

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Cuijing Han

Partner Cuijing Han specializes in litigation, including civil and administrative disputes.

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she has handled issues concerning concealment of information, administrative reconsideration, administrative litigation and complaint letters and visits. Ms. Han also has much experience in dealing with issues related to art, M&A of domestic companies and foreign investment.

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Yanyuan Han

Yanyuan Han can always find more than one feasible plans to help his clients solve their complicated problems by putting himself in clients’ shoes, and he is highly appraised for his responsible and details-oriented working attitude.

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Yanyuan Han has handled numerous cases regarding the establishment, mergers & acquisitions, liquidation of foreign-funded enterprises with multiple industries;

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Cindy Hu

Ms. Hu was endorsed as a Leading Lawyer in Corporate and M&A by Asialaw Profile and was on the ranking list of China’s Top Lawyers (Corporate and M&A) by Legal Band.

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Ms. Hu has provided special services for many large state-owned enterprises and their subordinate business units, domestic and overseas listed companies, pharmaceutical and medical enterprises and industry investors in the aspects of M&A, reforming and restructuring, issuance and listing of stocks and bonds, compliance and legal risk prevention and control.

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Xiaodong Hu

Partner Xiaodong Hu is an expert in commercial law, and has vast experience in the areas of foreign direct investment, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, securities and capital markets, infrastructure and so on. Partner Hu works in both Chinese and English.

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Partner Xiaodong Hu is an expert in commercial law, and has vast experience in the areas of foreign direct investment, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, securities and capital markets, infrastructure and so on. Partner Hu works in both Chinese and English.

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Dan Hu

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Peng Huang

Mr. Huang is well recognized by his clients for his ability to help them solve problems. Mr. Huang was awarded Asia Pacific “Corporate/Commercial: East Coast: Zhejiang：Band 2 Lawyer” by Chambers and Partners in 2020 and 2021 consecutively. In 2020, he was awarded the Best Mergers and Acquisitions Lawyer of the Year by China Mergers & Acquisitions Association, and was rated as the Recommended Lawyer by The Legal 500 in two practice areas of “Regional Distribution: Hangzhou, Zhejiang” and “Private Equity”. Chambers commented that Huang “contributed outstanding abilities to law firms in various non-controversial areas such as private equity financing, mergers and acquisitions”.

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Suning Sports’ series A financing represented by Huang was rated as an Outstanding China-related Deal by China Business Law Journal in 2018. In addition, he represented American Superconductor Corp in a series of disputes against Sinovel Wind Group Co., Ltd., which was also rated as an Outstanding China-related Deal by China Business Law Journal in 2018.

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Chaoyi Ji

Mr. JI Chaoyi is a Partner of Beijing East & Concord Partners Law Firm, the Managing Partner of the Beijing office, the Head of the Dispute Resolution department, the arbitrator listed in China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission, the arbitrator listed in Chongqing Arbitration Commission, the neutral listed in APEC Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) Service, the specialist mediator appointed by Singapore International Mediation Center. Additionally, Mr. Ji serves as a Member of the Council of Beijing Chaoyang District Lawyers Association and the Director of the Committee for International Exchanges and Cooperation. Mr. Ji is also an expert on the List of Lawyers with Expertise in Foreign-Related Legal Services of the Beijing Lawyers Association. Mr. Ji has been invited as an expert invited by the World Bank in the Doing Business project from 2018 to 2021 in the field of small investor protection & enforcing contracts in China. Mr. Ji also serves as an independent director of the listed company (688503) in the Chinese stock market (The Science and Technology Innovation Board; STAR Market).

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Mr. Ji specializes in commercial arbitration and litigation. He has served as counsel for numerous Fortune Global 500 companies across a wide range of disputes, including PE/CV, real estate, energy, engineering, automobiles, and the quality of mechanical and electronic equipment. Some of Mr. Ji's clients include The Coca-Cola Company, IBM, Honeywell, GE, Tishman Speyer, DXC, Garrett Motion, Ameropa, ConocoPhillips, Carrefour, Hitachi, China CITIC Bank, CCB International, China National Building Materials and Equipment Import & Export Corporation, Harbin Electric Company Limited, Beijing Enterprises Group, Beijing Holding Group, China Tower, and China Traditional Chinese Medicine Holdings Co. Ltd. Mr. Ji actively practices in ICC, HKIAC, SIAC, CIETAC, SHIAC, BAC arbitration cases, and litigations in Chinese Courts including the Supreme Court. In addition, Mr. Ji serves as legal counsel for China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, China Traditional Chinese Medicine Holding Co., Ltd., and Beijing Enterprises Holdings Ltd..

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Cynthia Jiang

Ms. Jiang specializes in the areas of corporate, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property rights and private equity. The industry coverage of Ms. Jiang’s practice includes entertainment, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, international trade and etc.

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Ms. Jiang has represented many international and domestic clients including Ping An Health Cloud Company, Anheuser-Busch InBev, Ashland, Harman Kardon, Sanofi, Newmargin Growth Fund, L.P etc. as their external counsel in dealing with various legal affairs and disputes with respect to their daily operation and major transactions.

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Lixin Jiang

Lixin Jiang focuses on criminal defense, criminal charges, criminal legal risk prevention, corporate criminal legal counsel and other legal services. Moreover, he is in charge of criminal case defense, such as economic crimes, Internet and other new types of crimes. With extensive experience in a wide range of criminal legal, Jiang has achieved remarkable results in the this field. At present, many successful cases have been solved.

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Dawei Jing

One of Shanghai Top 10 Lawyers

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He has been doing legal practice in the field of financial leasing for nearly 20 years

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Jian Kang

Keep low key at life, keep high key at work.

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Jian Kang focuses on areas of banking and finance, capital markets and securities, and mergers and acquisitions. He provides regular legal advice for many domestic and foreign listed companies, state-owned and private enterprises, banks, trust, funds and consumer finance companies.

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Cangsong Li

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Dajin Li

“Senior ”or “ Old Hooligan“
Which one do you prefer?

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Since his legal practice from 1982, Li has been a legal counsel for hundreds of enterprises, public institutions and government agencies.

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Dongming Li

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Zheng Li

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Jian Li

Over 20 years of legal practice

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His current and past clients include: State Development and Investment Corp, China Travel Service (Holdings) Hong Kong Limited, Beijing North Star, Beijing Gas, Beijing Capital, CITIC bank, China Credit Trust, Chang’An Trust, SDIC Taikang, Galaxy Capital, China Huarong, VIVI Group，ConocoPhillips, Baodun, Ameropa, C. Steinweg, etc.

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Linlin Li

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Shaobo Li

Stick to high-quality legal service.

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His clients include many multinational companies in China, such as Wal-Mart, NEC, Toyota Denso, AEON, Olympus; big state-owned enterprises including State Development and Investment Corp, China Minerals Corporation, North China Branch of State Grid Corporation,

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Yanshan Li

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Wei Liang

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Livy Liu

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Jiahe Liu

Jiahe specialises in international sports arbitration (including disciplinary proceedings and disputes between clubs and foreign players) and providing legal services for large-scale events.

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Jiahe, as a former full-time legal counsel of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and former Deputy Secretary to the AFC judicial bodies (the AFC Disciplinary and Ethics Committee, the AFC Appeal Committee and the AFC Entry Control Body), was the first Chinese national to be employed by the AFC legal department. During her work in the AFC, Jiahe handled hundreds of sports disputes in relation to the AFC Champions League, the AFC Asian Cup and other AFC competitions involving such cases as competition manipulation, doping, discrimination, corruption and sexual assault, and represented the AFC for matters heard before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS)

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Yijie Lu

Ms. Lu has practiced as a lawyer for more than 10 years. Ms. Lu is legal consultant for many companies. Her clients include world famous luxury corporation, sanitary ware corporation, overseas automobile corporation, listed commercial real estate corporation, overseas medical devices corporation, overseas environment protection company, well-known medical service company, investment corporation, etc.. Ms Lu has participated in many domestic and overseas M&A projects, provided legal service concerning round-tripping investment, etc., Ms. Lu has also participated in various economic dispute resolution and has rich experience in litigation.

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Zhifang Lu

All-rounder in capital markets

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Minmetals, Bain Capital, Universal Picture, CDH, Goldman Sachs

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Honghai Ma

Ma mainly specializes in banking and finance, family and wealth management and corporate compliance.

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Ma has served as the general manager assistant of Zhongrong International Trust Family Office, the legal compliance director of SDIC Taikang Trust Co., Ltd. and the legal compliance director of CITIC Trust Co., Ltd., and has rich practical experience. Ma has obtained the qualifications for Associate Financial Planner, Senior Corporate Compliance Manager, Senior Private Wealth Manager and Senior Family Wealth Manager, and has provided clients with legal services related to financial investment and financing, wealth management and compliance management.

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Yali Ming

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Qinfeng Miao

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Xudong Ni

Xudong Ni is educated in both the U.S. and China’s legal systems with extensive knowledge and experience in all aspects of Chinese business law.

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With more than 25 years of extensive experience, Xudong has represented the government in China, as well as domestic and international clients, in many areas of China FDI, ODI, M&A, banking and financial law, regulatory issues, IP and IDR.

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Guofeng Pang

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Fu Peng

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Pingping Qiu

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Xinhua Ren

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Xiaoyu Shen

Ms. Xiaoyu Shen is the leading partner of the data compliance team of East & Concord Partners. In recent years, Ms. Shen has been focusing on data compliance legal services, assisting a number of multinational companies and large enterprises in legal affairs of data compliance and personal privacy protection, which involve insurance, credit investigation, retail, tourism, ticketing, technology, media, food and other industries.

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Ms. Shen is widely recognized by clients for being good at providing solutions for enterprises from both legal and commercial perspectives and was awarded “Recommended Lawyer” in Corporate and M&A by the Legal 500 Asia Pacific, a world-renowned legal media, and “Best Lawyer” by Jiemian News, a reputable original financial news media in China, in 2020. She was also listed among Who's Who Legal (WWL) 2020 China's leading business lawyers for Data (China),

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Xin Tian

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Lishan Teng

Teng, specializing in banking and financial legal affairs, has the qualifications of banking, securities, fund industry, Certified Financial Planner and senior corporate compliance manager.

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Rui Shi

Shi has a solid and profound knowledge on criminal law, as well as years of practical experience in frontline judicial work. He can provide clients with comprehensive and high-quality legal services, predict, avoid and handle various criminal risks. In 2022 and 2024, he was twice nominated for “the Special Issue: China Top 15 Lawyers - Commercial Crime & Criminal Compliance” by LEGALBAND, and won the “2023 GRCD China Compliance Award” for outstanding compliance lawyers in the criminal field.

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Shi is now the head of the Criminal Department of East & Concord Partners, providing compliance services for many domestic and overseas listed companies and representing clients for a number of major cases, including but not limited to: the bribery and abuse of power case of Wang, the former president of China Credit Trust; the bribery and abuse of power case of Mu, the former Chairman of Beijing Environmental Sanitation Group; the bribery case of Tang, the former Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the Board of Directors of China Resources Land Co., Ltd.; the bribery case of Wang, the former deputy general manager of Chinatex Corporation Ltd.; the case of misappropriating public funds of Wu, the former senior vice president of Dong'e E-jiao Group; the fund-raising fraud case of Credit Harmony Wealth; the case of illegally absorbing public deposits of Red Fortune; the case of illegal operation of Zhao, the former chairman of a NASDAQ listed company; the case of "11.05" extra-large network loan fraud cracked down on by the Ministry of Public Security. Shi is especially good at handling major, difficult and complicated cases.

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Feng Sun

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Ying Sun

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Yunzhu Sun

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Jun Tong

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Qi Tan

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Xiaodan Wan

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Zheng Wei

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Analysis and Practical Extensions of Grounds for the Revocation of Arbitration Awards, Law Press China (The proof copy has been released and the publication is expected in September 2024.) On the Application of Artificial Intelligence in Commercial Arbitration, Asia-Pacific International Arbitration Journal, No.1 June 2024 (ISSN:3006-7235)

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Dongfang (Alber

Albert is licensed in China and the State of New York; he also has Securities Practitioner Qualification (SPQ) in China. Before joining East & Concord, Albert worked as the Greater China Legal Head at a U.S. public company with 19th-century roots.

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Albert works closely with Fortune 500 companies, startups, investment firms, and family offices in the manufacturing industry, computer science and technology, real estate, biochemistry, fashion, new media, e-commerce, logistics, textiles, and international trade. Albert also helps clients tackle pressing issues relating to personal data protection, cross-border fraud investigation, and joint venture restructuring. He has been recognized by his clients, which has led to him becoming a recommended attorney in the field of data compliance by The Legal 500, a leading legal rating agency, in 2023.

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Dong Wang

Wang is a capital partner of the firm. Wang graduated as a bachelor of laws from China University of Political Science and Law and as master of laws from Renmin University of China.

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He has been in charge of a great number of dispute cases on infringement, contract, securities and finance for big state-owned enterprises and financial enterprises.

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Na Wang

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Dongdong Wang

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Vivian Wang

Ms. Vivian Wang is the Leading Partner of the Trade Remedy Team. Ms. Wang began to practice trade law since 2001. Her practice area is Trade Policies, Anti-Dumping, Countervailing, Safeguards and WTO related laws. Chambers and Partners accredits Ms. Wang a ranked lawyer for International Trade/WTO for years;

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Ms. Wang has represented more than 170 Chinese companies in responding to trade remedies investigations of the European Union, Canada, Australia, Eurasian Economic Union, Turkey, Ukraine, USA, India, Pakistan, Thailand and Mexico, etc.

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Benqiao Wang

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Shanghai Bar Association, Member
All China Lawyers Association, Member

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Jianrui Wang

Trust in the law

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Mr. Wang participated in initiation of China’s biggest industry fund – Yangtze River Industry Fund and has long provided service for it as the legal counsel and expert consultant of the Management committee.

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Rick Wang

The devil is in the details

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He specializes in foreign investment and finance, as well as foreign/domestic mergers and acquisitions of power projects, oil storage/dock/shipyard projects, aircraft financing and leasing projects, land, and air logistics projects.

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Tao Wang

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Taili Wang

Professional integrity

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Wang works as the legal counsel for many assets management companies and investment companies, as well as high-tech companies and Internet start-ups, involving in various projects such as investment, financing and acquisitions.

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Xiangyang Wang

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Mark Wang

Yupeng (Mark) Wang is a partner with East & Concord Partners and specializes in financial leasing, commercial factoring, equity investment and other investment and financing businesses as well as related dispute resolution. Wang provides a full range of legal services including transaction structure design, drafting transaction contracts, due diligence, supervision and approval, legal opinions and daily legal counselling to Chinese financial enterprises and foreign-invested enterprises in trade financing and project financing. His clients include investment enterprises set up by many Fortune 500 multinational companies, state-owned and private enterprises. Furthermore, he participated in gathering opinions from legal pundits regarding the drafting of the Supreme People’s Court’s Interpretation on the Issues of Applicable Laws in the Trial of Disputes over Financial Leasing Contracts and the Financial Leasing section in Civil Code.

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Lynn Wang

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Lixin Wu

Risk management specialist in financial institutions

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Wu has led many influential projects of risk disposition in financial industry.

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You Wu

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Shuo Wu

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Junwei Wu

To be trusted, to be faithful

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Mr. Wu practices litigation and arbitration for major, complex real estate and construction matters. In addition to dispute resolution,

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Tian Xiang

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Fei Xing

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Dorothy Xing

Dorothy Xing specializes in areas of banking and finance, capital market and securities, mergers and acquisitions. She has been leading in the markets of financial legal services and foreign investments for over 10 years.

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Her clients include large state-owned enterprises like CITIC Group, China Resources Enterprise and State Development & Investment Corporation, banks like China CITIC Bank, China Construction Bank and foreign venture capital and private equity companies like Sequoia Capital

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Zhengyu Xiao

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Shuiling Xu

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Bin Xu

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Lun Xue

Mr. Xue specializes in patent mining, application, management and protection

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patent warning systems, patent analysis, drafting and translation of patent applications, overseas patent applications, patent transfers, patent invalidation and civil/administrative patent litigations.

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Moon Yan

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China Agricultural Bank, China Great Wall Asset Management, China Galaxy Investment Management, CSGI, China Jiangsu International Economic and Technical Cooperation Group, State Development & Investment Credit Trust Co., Ltd, China Resources Machinery Minmentals (Group) Co., Ltd

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Xianrui Yan

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Yingzhi Yang

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Bin Yang

Stick to high standards and keep improving

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His clients include NIKE, Starbucks, Waterstone, Changjiang National Shipping Group, Routon, Tuna Corporation and Wuhan Douyu.

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Quan Yang

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Danni Zheng

Prior to joining E&C as a Partner, Ms. Danni Zheng has worked for 8 years in an international organization, a “Magic Circle” international law firm, as well as leading Chinese law firms. Her practice areas include domestic and cross-border equity investment and financing, ESOPs, M&A, general corporate, ESG and social enterprises, and dispute resolution. She has provided legal services to various start-ups, investment funds, multinational companies, public companies, SOEs, NGOs, and international organizations covering industries such as finance, TMT, consumption, life sciences, carbon neutrality, food, education, culture and media, architectural engineering, and social innovation. She has professional qualifications in funds and securities.

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Danni has both international vision and public interest sentiment. She was selected into the Cutting-edge Talent Pool of Guangdong Lawyers Engaged in International Practices. She coauthored the first “Impact Terms Guide” (available on Toniic’s website), and won the 2021 Social Enterprise Youth U35 and 2023 ESG Pioneer Award. She was the Editor-in-Chief of a best-selling book “Tomorrow of Law Students: 16+N Career Possibilities” by Peking University Press.

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Yu Zeng

Zeng has presided over or participated in many research projects of China Law Society, the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Education, and edited or participated in editing many textbooks of Health Law and the Science of Health Law.

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Yi Yao

Yi Yao, one of the founding partners of East & Concord Partners, graduated from Renmin University of China (with a LL.B and LL.M) and University of Melbourne(with a LL.M). She has practiced law for 29 years, specializing in corporate law and project finance. She has extensive experience in foreign investments in China, Chinese investments outside China, merger and acquisitions, company restructuring, corporate finance and public offering, and infrastructure projects. She is a PPP expert in the PPP Expert Databases established by the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Finance.

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She has an extensive experience in foreign investments in China, Chinese investments outside China, merger and acquisitions, company restructuring, corporate finance and public offering, and infrastructure projects. She is a PPP expert in the PPP Expert Database established by the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Finance.

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Wen Ye

Ms. Ye Wen obtained the lawyer's qualification in 1990, was the long-term legal advisor for various large-medium size stateowned enterprises and companies.

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She specializes in corporate law and litigation and arbitration. Her vast experience extends to areas of foreign investment, merger and acquisition, real estate investment and development, labor contracts and disputes, in particularly, arbitration and litigation of civil and commercial matters.

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Peng Ye

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Yao Yu

Yu specializes in dispute resolution, real estate and construction, government law & policy.

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Since starting his practice, Yu has represented a number of class-action lawsuit cases for pre-sale commercial housing contracts and construction project contracts for many large-scale real estate enterprises, as well as cases of land and housing expropriation, administrative punishment, administrative enforcement disputes for governmental organs, and other major complex cases, and achieved favorable results for clients. In addition to real estate enterprises, Yu also served as legal counsel for several pharmaceutical and entertainment media enterprises, providing legal services on new drug R&D, investment and financing, performance contracts and other matters.

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Bei Yuan

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Dongmei Yuan

Ms. Yuan Dongmei, a partner of East & Concord Partners, has extensive experience in legal practices, and is capable of applying various legal methods for commercial operations, she is appointed as the legislative advisory expert of the Standing Committee of the Beijing People's Congress, and was formerly the first director of the merger, acquisition and restructuring professional committee in the Beijing Municipal Bar Association.

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Her legal expertise covers investment financing, corporate and company, restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, real estate and infrastructure development, project evaluation, and other areas of law.

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Qing Zhang

Zhang specializes in corporate legal consulting, tax compliance, tax dispute resolution, responding to tax audits, government legal affairs, investment promotion legal affairs, resolving government procurement disputes, corporate equity transfer, mergers and acquisitions, private equity investment funds, private equity and industrial fund operations, as well as bankruptcy and restructuring.

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Zhang career spans various roles including auditing, capital verification, and asset evaluation at an accounting firm. Within a tax bureau, she has been instrumental in tax collection, management, inspection, and regulatory affairs. Zhang is recognized as an expert in tax inspection at both provincial and national levels, distinguished as one of China’s pioneering tax professionals. She has served as a public lawyer at municipal tax and finance bureaus, and contributed as a member of the administrative reconsideration advisory committee at a municipal justice bureau. Her extensive experience encompasses finance, taxation, administrative reconsideration and litigation, marking her as a seasoned specialist in her field.

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Fei Zhang

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Dorje Zhai

To Be the Best Golden Lawyer in Public-Private Partnership (PPP)

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Since 2014, as the annual legal counsel and project lawyer of Beijing Capital Co., Ltd., Beijing Enterprises Water Group Limited, and Huakong Seg Co.,Ltd., China Railway Seventh Group Co., Ltd. and China Railway 16th Bureau Group Co., Ltd. and other construction enterprise.

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Liyang Zhong

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Expert Committee for the Reform and Construction of Guangdong Province's Digital Government, Member,
Beihai Court of International Arbitration, Arbitrator

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Weinan Zheng

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Fei Zhang

Lawyer Zhang Fei has been practicing law since 2008. Over the years, he has mainly provided perennial legal advisory services for corporate clients in the areas of corporate governance, intellectual property and trade secret protection, anti-unfair competition, economic contracts, labor and employment, anti-fraud, and business compliance.

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He also provides specialized legal services such as mergers and acquisitions, equity financing, information disclosure of listed companies, brand overseas expansion, and agency services for corporate-related disputes. He is responsible for his clients, works meticulously, and can maintain long-term service relationships with clients.

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Hefu Zhang

Foreign Direct Investment, M&A, Overseas Investment, Anti-Trust, Labour Law

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He mainly works on Japan-related legal areas. During the past 30 years, he has undertaken hundreds of cases including both Japanese companies’ investment in China and the other way round

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Jiazheng Zhang

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Jiachun Zhang

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Jennifer Zhang

Jennifer was selected as “Rising Star of the Year 2021” by IFLR1000, “Special Issue: China Top 15 Lawyers – Asset Management” by LEGALBAND, “China Rising Lawyers 2017” by ALB, “Leading Lawyer of the Year 2016” and “Rising Star of the Year 2015” by asialaw Profiles.

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Jennifer is currently in charge of the Finance Department of East & Concord Partners. For more than 15 years, Jennifer has been focusing on providing legal services on public offering of REITs, investment and financing, asset securitization, bond issuance and capital markets to financial institutions under the supervision of China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission and China Securities Regulatory Commission. Jennifer specializes in new infrastructure industries, new energy, Fin Tech and intelligent manufacturing.

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Meiying Zhang

engages in legal works in the areas of company law, securities law, trust and private equity fund investments, mining investments, and foreign investments.

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She has extensive experience, and has undertaken numerous legal work relating to corporate restructuring, merger and acquisition, setting up of private equity funds, creation and issuance of enterprise shares and listing, re-financing of listed companies, and other aspects of law.

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Qinghua Zhang

Devoted to learning, communicating and handling cases

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Zhang has handled trademark cases of many Japanese companies, including CASIO and NSK, and has worked as the long-term legal counsel for many companies as well.

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Allen Zhang

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Shujie Zhang

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Song Zhang

Zhang has undertaken nearly 1000 patent applications for a dozen Fortune 500 companies

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In addition, Zhang has provided legal support on intellectual property rights for many overseas government agencies and non-governmental organizations, such as the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan, and Japan External Trade Organization.

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Tianwu Zhang

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Xiuchao Zhang

Xiuchao Zhang mainly focuses on areas of business negotiations, mergers and acquisitions, foreign investments, banking and finance, corporate restructuring, and corporate businesses

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Since her law practice, Zhang has always been widely recognized by clients, which include a great number of big central enterprises, foreign invested companies, private companies, banks like CCB and ICBC, and venture capital funds as well as private equity funds.

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Yichi Zhang

Ms. Zhang, a partner of East & Concord Partners, specializes in general corporate matters, M&A, antitrust practice, and international dispute resolution.

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She advises international companies on general corporate issues, labor law issues, and the establishment of representative offices, joint-venture companies and wholly foreign-owned enterprises as well as M&A deals involving both strategic and financial investors.

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Shujie Zhao

Mr. Zhao was awarded the “Outstanding Legal Consultant” by CCTV

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Lawyer Zhao serves as legal adviser to several large enterprises, including Beijing Holding Group Limited, the largest municipal state-owned enterprise in Beijing.

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Xiaosong Zhao

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Michelle Zhong

Michelle Zhong focuses on the areas of corporate M&A and restructuring, state-owned enterprise reform, banking and finance, and the capital market and securities, with rich experience and outstanding performance.

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Michelle has provided legal services for many financial institutions, listed companies, state-owned enterprises and industrial groups, including CR Cement (01313.HK), China Orient Asset Management, China Cinda Asset Management, Sichuan Trust, Citic M&A Fund Management, Minsheng E-commerce, the subordinate company of Jilin SASAC, the ex-subordinate company of Yichuan County, Luoyang, Henan Province, China Jinggong (parent company of 3 listed companies: Jinggong Steel Building Group 600496, Jinggong Science & Technology 002006, and Kuaijishan Shaoxing Wine 601579), Yidian Holding Group, and Junsheng Group etc

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John Zhou

Live up to trust with full devotion.

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Zhou’ s clients include China Datang Corporation, China Datang Overseas Investment Corporation, Air China Co., Ltd, China East Air Holding Company.

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Mengjue Zhou

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Qi Zhou

One of ALB Top 15 China Litigators

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Zhou has provided legal services for lots of companies, including ConocoPhilips, Microsoft, BHP, Tishman Speyer, Standard Chartered Bank, Lafarge, CITIC Group, China Resources, State Development and Investment, Sinosteel, China National Agricultural Development Group, and COSCO Shipping, and gained widely recognition

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Jing (Conny) Zh

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Xiangming Zhu

Zhu is a partner at the Shanghai Office of East & Concord Partners. Graduated from East China University of Political Science and Law and the University of Hong Kong, Mr. Zhu is a licensed lawyer in China, and is also a senior enterprise manager, senior compliance engineer and data compliance officer. In addition, he has qualifications to engage in business related to securities and fund management.

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Since 2005, Zhu has provided enterprise compliance legal services to foreign-invested enterprises, central enterprises, large private enterprises and financial institutions, and has accumulated rich experience and developed distinctive expertise in areas such as intellectual property, investment and financing, finance and taxation, labor and personnel, production safety, and environmental protection. He excels in designing compliance and capital operation strategies that support the sustainable development of enterprises, earning widespread acclaim from his clients. He was recommended as an excellent lawyer selected by clients in the event of "Excellent Lawyers & Law Firms Recommended by General Counsels of China's Famous Enterprises". In 2024, he was on the rankings of the “Client Choice: Top 15 Compliance Lawyers” by LEGALBAND.

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Yue Zhu

Zhu has been engaged in various litigation and arbitration legal affairs, and specializes in the defense of important and major criminal cases and litigation in the field of construction engineering.

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He has handled a series of influential major cases such as the bribery of Liu Ruiyang, deputy director of the Vehicle Department of the Transportation Bureau of the Ministry of Railways, the bribery of Ma Li, deputy general manager of the Data Department of China Mobile, the bribery of Zhong Qiangnian, deputy director of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the People’s Government of Beijing Municipality, the corruption of Cao Shujie, deputy director of the General Office of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the loan fraud of Zhongdan Guarantee Company, the smuggling of grand pianos of Beijing Wuzhou Huacai Company, and the QVOd case.

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