Premium full-service law firm Zhong Lun has a solid track record in handling a wide range of domestic and overseas litigation and arbitration matters. The team houses a highly reputable group of practitioners with expertise spanning a range of industries including banking and financial services, energy, real estate and manufacturing. Prominently active in significant cross-border dispute cases, the firm is also known to have appeared in the largest number of cases before the Supreme People’s Court of China. The firm also provides a top-tier international arbitration service seated across the globe.
Key figures include commercial disputes star Lijun Cao, insolvency lawyer Shengfeng Xu, regulatory expert Gary Gao, international arbitration specialist Huawei Sun, employment focused Carol Zhu and construction lawyer Yueping Zhou. Other notable lawyers include Changyu Fu, Baosheng Zhang and Wei Bao.
In the commercial space, the firm represented WUYIGE Certified Public Accountants in misrepresentation civil suits. This case is China’s first case of a civil compensation dispute over fraudulent issuance of company bonds and the first case applying representative litigation system in securities misrepresentation disputes. In another case, the firm represented Qingdao West Coast Development (Group) in a contract dispute against Beijing Huiju Technology Industry Development.
In construction, the firm represented Nanjing GCL-Gas Thermal Power in a construction contract dispute against a power construction company of China Energy Construction Group. The firm also acted for Zhejiang Kangyu Real Estate in a series of pre-sale contract disputes against an individual and 21 other owners.
In the government and regulatory space, the firm provided comprehensive compliance legal services for Gopher Asset Management, the top private equity funds management under Noah Holdings. This case is the first regulatory supervision case after the promulgation and implementation of the government’s regulations on strengthening the supervision of private investment funds.
In insolvency, the team is advising Nanjing Construction Industry Group, the largest private construction group in Nanjing, and its 24 affiliated companies in their substantive merger and insolvency reorganisation. This case is the first pre-insolvency reorganisation case of a large-scale private enterprise group and one of the largest substantive merger and insolvency reorganisation cases accepted by the Nanjing Intermediate People’s Court.
In international arbitration, the firm represented CPMC Investment Company, a subsidiary of Chinese state-owned food processing holding company COFCO, in two HKIAC arbitration cases against the joint venture in Guangdong province and two affiliates of JDB group in Hong Kong.
Notable clients include China Development Bank, Hubei Road & Bridge Group, Ping An Bank, Shenzhen Feima International Supply Chain, Vale Minerals China and Xinyin Wealth Management.
Client feedback
“Lawyers of the firm are kind, patient and professional. They always provide explicit suggestions which solve the problems sufficiently. Meanwhile, the customer experience of the firm is really good. Whenever our company is in need, we can always count on the lawyer to give timely feedback.” – Commercial and transactions
“This firm is dedicated, earnest and meticulous, and works fast and well.” – Commercial and transactions
“In this case, the firm made a detailed explanation of the limits and value of property preservation through various means of legal visualization, which left a deep impression on us and the court. The firm also actively mobilised its resources to sort out and complete the evidence materials and other work in this case, and implemented the preservation of the properties of all five defendants…Finally, in the enforcement process of this case, we believe that the firm still upholds its spirit of excellence, and has properly completed the enforcement of the property, including the stocks of listed companies and civil aircraft, under the very complicated situation of the properties, and through this it also reached a number of the firsts in Sichuan Province, setting an example for other law firms and companies and courts to enforce similar properties.” – Commercial and transactions
“This case involves complex and professional asset management disputes, covering almost all disputes that fund managers may face in asset management disputes. Zhong Lun Law Firm has established a professional team for financial disputes. In the process of representing us in this case, the firm has demonstrated outstanding professional ability, rich experience and teamwork spirit, and finally helped us obtain a winning judgment in first instance.” – Commercial and transactions
“They developed an excellent strategy, worked tirelessly on it, and delivered amazing results.” – Commercial and transactions
“Zhong Lun Law Firm represented two litigation cases related to partnership disputes. In both litigation cases, the firm assisted us in organising and submitting relevant evidence and lawsuit documents in the fastest and most efficient manner after receiving our presentation of the case. The firm also communicated with us in a timely manner on the basis of independent and rigorous litigation considerations. Because the partnership agreement involves both civil code and partnership law, the firm also conducted litigation visualization work during the preparation and trial of the lawsuit, so that the judge could understand the litigation ideas most intuitively. In particular, in the second case, we sued the court to set aside the arbitration decision, and the judge needed to understand the background of the case and the problems with the decision as quickly as possible, and we believe that the firm did a good job of doing this. In its due diligence service, the firm continues its excellent service quality and enthusiasm. It is able to accomplish all research in a complete, efficient and error-free manner.” – Commercial and transactions
“The case is a loan dispute, but the merits of the case are more difficult. The most valuable security measure in this case is the pledge of equity, but the pledges were made by three Caymanian companies, and the pledged shares were the shares of Hong Kong listed companies. Therefore, it involved more complicated legal application issues, especially the pledge contract explicitly agreed to apply Hong Kong law. By mobilising its internal resources, Zhong Lun Law Firm completed the study of the issues related to Cayman law and Hong Kong law and determined the litigation ideas in a very short period of time, and its business ability was excellent. It is hard for us to imagine that we can find such high-quality service in the Sichuan area.” – Commercial and transactions
“Zhong Lun Law Firm is always on our side when providing our company with legal services whether it is due diligence, financing, or permanent legal services, and always defends our company's interests and suggests all kinds of risks in the process of the project. The firm pays attention to details in the implementation process and offers a high quality of service. What other law firms do not have is the ability to understand our business objectives and strategies based on our years of working with them, and to tailor a complete package of services and litigation strategies. It has a very good structure in terms of seniority; no matter the level, they're very competent in terms of language skills and legal knowledge.” – Commercial and transactions
“The lawyers are very professional and have done a good job. They have safeguarded the interests of our company to the greatest extent.” – Commercial and transactions
“The service provided by the firm is very professional and has solved the problem for us very well.” – Construction
“Disputes concerning construction contracts are highly professional and tedious, involving a large number of engineering technology, engineering management and financial issues. The lawyers demonstrated their professionalism in legal and engineering management well.” – Construction
“This law firm has a professional team in the construction area, which can provide professional legal advice regarding our company's different situations and make us as winners in a set of legal disputes and litigations.” – Construction
“The lawyers of the firm are very professional. They have rich experience in securities regulatory cases. They are very responsible to this case. They sorted out the complicated facts and found an effective response plan. Through their perfect work, I am the only person against which the CSRC changed the finding and penalty in this case.” – Government and regulatory
“They do well in all the aspects of intellectual property rights and disputes resolution.” – Intellectual property
“The firm is very experienced in IP issues in China, and always can deliver good outcomes with high quality.” – Intellectual property
“Excellent knowledge base in specialist areas, as well as litigation skills.” – Intellectual property
“Zhong Lun Law Firm has always been able to complete the relevant defence and fulfil our needs as soon as possible when new circumstances arise in our complex and intricate case, and we are very satisfied with its performance in each procedure. Although the case is still in the execution stage, the firm has handled all the obstacles with high quality, and we believe that the case will be smooth in the future due to the firm’s efforts.” – International arbitration
“The law firm provided professional advice and different options for us to choose from the beginning of the engagement. The follow up service and action are very efficient and clear too.” – International arbitration
“Very client-driven and business-driven.” – International arbitration
“Extremely professional service. Always patient to my case. The result was satisfying.” – International arbitration
“The case involves whether the parties could claim overpayment of the project when they have already made cumulative monthly progress settlement in the engineering case. In this case, to clarify the current situation of the payment, Zhong Lun Law Firm confirmed the actual amount of construction work by sorting through the construction drawings and changing the visas of both parties in the engineering case. The case also involved complex engineering appraisal issues and arbitration proceeding issues, and all of these problems were well resolved by the firm, and it has effectively prevented the case from being unduly prolonged.” – International arbitration
“Rich experience, smooth communication, positive and responsible working attitude.” – International arbitration
“They are excellent in every task. Partners and lawyers plan and arrange in an orderly manner, actively promote the progress of the project, have a strong sense of responsibility and professional business level; the efficient cooperation and complementary advantages of the team members have laid a solid foundation for the smooth implementation of the project base. In addition, the firm’s internal offices work closely together to meet our legal service needs across China, as well as at home and abroad.” – Real estate
Xinfan Chen
“I am very satisfied with Chen’s services. He successfully helped me to cope with the owner's schedule claim in this case, and formulated a negotiation plan and represented me in the settlement negotiation with the owner, which ultimately helped me to create great benefits. In fact, he has also been providing legal services for our company, and his professional ability and reputation are obvious to all. We can say that as long as he helps us to intervene in disputes, there is a great possibility of success. We trust Zhong Lun Law Firm very much.”
Yonghong Wang
“Professional competencies.”
Fangrong Wu
“Highly professional with good communication skills.”
Kun Wu
“The lawyer has safeguarded the interests of our company to the greatest extent, with great professional skills and virtue.”
Yiheng Xu
“When providing legal services for this case, this attorney was always able to closely follow the progress of the court and the defendant's movement, provide timely feedback to our company, and propose timely response plans and legal analysis. During the proceedings, the attorney was well prepared for the trial and was able to take into account all the key points of the trial to convince the judge to accept our arguments.”
Mingcheng Yan
“He follows up our case in very detail. Response time was quick and provide clear work and innovative solution to us.”
Baosheng Zhang
“In response to the complex and cutting-edge legal issues in this case, Attorney Zhang and his team conducted meticulous facts combing and in-depth legal research, formed effective defence ideas, and performed well in court trials. Attorney Zhang and his team have the ability to quickly grasp core issues, and have demonstrated superb professional skills, rich experience, efficient response capabilities and a high sense of responsibility. They helped us successfully obtain the winning judgment in first instance and resolved the crisis for the company.”
“Zhang is one of the best lawyer in securities regulatory area in China. He has rich experience and could grasp the core question. He is creative and put up some critical suggestions in response to this case. The satisfactory results of this case are inseparable from his law firm’s work.”
Shengjie Zhang
“Deep understanding of the law, accurate grasp of the market.”
“Well controlled in all the paces of the dispute resolutions and helped us succeed in all cases.”
