China

Jingtian & Gongcheng’s dispute resolution team is highly regarded for its strength in contentious work, focusing on both domestic and international disputes. The practice handles corporate, regulatory, securities, intellectual property, and insolvency disputes for a wide range of clients, including state-owned enterprises, financial institutions, and foreign corporations. The team also has significant expertise in arbitration, representing clients in complex cases before major domestic and international arbitration bodies such as CIETAC, BAC, HKIAC, SIAC, and the ICC. Its work spans a variety of sectors, including trade, investment, banking and finance, real estate, construction, energy, and intellectual property. 

Chungang Dong, a Beijing-based partner and co-head of the firm’s dispute resolution practice, is a key figure in this area. Qualified to practice in both China and the United States, Dong has represented clients in hundreds of lawsuits before all levels of PRC courts. His cases cover a wide range of substantive areas, such as trade, investment, banking and finance, real estate, construction, energy, product liability, and intellectual property. Other key names include IP specialist Ye Zhao and government and regulatory practitioner Siyuan Liu.  

The firm's commercial dispute resolution practice has handled three significant matters spanning securities litigation, financial preservation, and arbitration challenges. Most notably, the firm represents Tebon Securities in a pioneering Rmb1.14 billion right of recovery lawsuit arising from the Wuyang Bond default; after Tebon Securities assumed a disproportionate share of joint liability in the underlying representative litigation, the firm initiated the first internal recovery action between co-liable intermediaries in a Chinese securities misrepresentation case. Separately, the firm acted for China Minsheng Trust in a Rmb300 million financial loan dispute before the Beijing Financial Court, securing pre-litigation asset preservation among the court's first such applications, successfully freezing the debtor's accounts and equity interests and facilitating a full settlement with interest priority. The firm also represented Zhongxing Tianheng Energy Technology in successfully challenging an arbitration agreement's validity before the Beijing Fourth Intermediate People's Court in a dispute exceeding Rmb1.2 billion, with the ruling affirmed by the Supreme People's Court and resulting in the creditor withdrawing all arbitration claims, a rare outcome representing only 0.15% of such applications before that court in 2021. 

The firm's intellectual property practice has handled several high-profile standard-essential patent disputes involving globally renowned technology companies. The firm represented OPPO in a multi-jurisdictional SEP licensing dispute against Panasonic, which had filed patent infringement claims across Germany, the UK, the Unified Patent Court of Europe, and China; the firm's support of OPPO's counter-claims under FRAND principles and its request for Chinese courts to set licensing rates contributed to the parties reaching a global patent cross-license agreement in January 2025, resolving all pending disputes. In a related matter, the firm represented OnePlus, an OPPO affiliate, in a landmark Supreme People's Court SEP case involving Rmb24 million in claimed damages, which produced China's first comprehensive adjudication standards for FRAND licensing rates, including frameworks for selecting comparable agreements and calculating actual losses. The firm also assisted Huawei in defending four patents against Amazon's invalidity challenges before CNIPA while pursuing infringement claims over Amazon's Kindle and tablet products, securing a settlement in February 2024, with the jurisdictional objection selected for the Supreme People's Court's Judgment Abstract Digest for 2023. 

Client feedback 

"They provide clear, practical legal advice with strong expertise." – Commercial and transactions 

"They have a strong grasp of financial operations and can clearly explain complex issues such as financial transactions and deal structures from a legal perspective. They effectively demonstrated to the arbitral tribunal the rights and obligations of all parties involved at each stage of the financial operations, which significantly aided the tribunal in making well-founded legal judgments." – Commercial and transactions 

"Their suggestions have been useful in helping us achieve our goals in the cases, and they have also provided very good documentary work." – International arbitration 

Feng Wang 

"Feng Wang is highly professional and consistently delivers clear, practical legal advice." 

Guanglei Zhang 

"Zhang possesses strong analytical and negotiation skills, is highly professional in law, and is an excellent communicator; clear, persuasive, and attentive to our needs." 

Jun Zhao 

"With extensive work experience and a solid track record in legal practice, he possesses distinct advantages in dispute resolution matters. His analytical approach is particularly clear and effective in handling complex cases."