Lawyers in China

Deming Zhao

Apart from general corporate work, Dr. Zhao has also provided regulatory compliance and crisis solution services covering anti-monopoly, anti-commercial bribery, customs and AQSIQ, product labeling, import compliance regarding pharmaceutical, medical, food, healthcare, cosmetics and luxury products. He has acted as the leading counsel in various joint venture, acquisition, merger, divestiture and corporate restructuring projects, and also participated in overseas investment and offshore listing, covering aviation, banking, internet, mining, motor, electric, electronic, chemical, pharmaceutical, medical instrument, textile, cosmetics, other consumer product, shipping & shipbuilding, real estate and human resources consulting service industries. In the practice of customs & trade compliance, Dr. Zhao has advised, represented or defended many renowned multinational companies in connection with import & export duty and VAT, consumption tax, anti-dumping duty, retaliation duty, import duty deduction and exemption programs, export tax rebate, transfer pricing and valuation consultation, valuation, tariff classification, HS code precedent database, customs pre-ruling, royalties, assist, country of origin, customs survey and inspection, import & export license, quarantine and non-tariff barriers, processing trade, bonded logistics models, customs supervision zones, plant relocation, deep processing transit (inter-plant transfer), and outsourced processing. Deming Zhao has also advised, represented and defend many corporate clients in administrative and criminal cases concerning customs audits, ASB investigations and criminal cases with smuggling or other charge. He has led many legal audits and health-check on trade compliance, training and consultation projects for business operations of multinationals in China. Dr. Zhao frequently gives speech on practical and legislative issues concerning Chinese customs regulatory environment at customs law symposiums and at different law schools in and outside China. For export control and economic sanctions, Dr Zhao advises and trains many clients on export control or economic sanctions, and frequently makes speeches on China export control and customs supervision practices at symposiums or seminars in Europe. In 2019, Dr Zhao was invited by the International Anti-Corruption Academy to lecture on China and US export control practices in Seoul to professional audiences from Asian countries. In an administrative review case, Dr Zhao successfully defended a multinational client against the export licensing requirement for a given chemical product. Dr. Zhao has worked as an outside legal counsel providing various legal services (including aircraft leasing) for a leading Chinese airline company. Dr. Zhao has been a maritime law expert as well. He was specialized in maritime law during his study at University College London and has many years of experience in teaching and practicing maritime law, and serving as counsel for shipping companies. His services have covered litigation and non-litigation matters concerning insurance, charter parties, cargo claims, subrogation claims, bills of lading frauds, P&I defence, marine pollution, limitation of liabilities, collision, general average and international sale of goods. Dr. Zhao has also advised clients on their logistics and supply chain models. Dr. Zhao has an extensive experience both as an in-house and outside counsel in supporting human resources functions of multinational companies and foreign-invested enterprises. He has advised clients on labor union, employee representatives and employee club issues, labor aspects of M&A transactions, expatriate issues, overtime issues, social security issues as well as the risk control and management of labor arbitration and litigation and intellectual property protection in labor relations. He helps his clients in preparing confidentiality and non-competition agreements, service invention agreements, corporate rules and policies, labor severance guidelines, employee handbooks, labor contracts, training contracts, optional employee benefits and secondment agreements. Dr. Zhao has more than 25 years of experience in litigation and arbitration in relation to investment，M&A, financing, insurance, shipping, domestic & international trade and engineering projects. He as an arbitrator also has participated in CIETAC and other arbitration cases. Mr.Zhao is the chief editor of International Maritime Law, a popular textbook for law school students. He has contributed articles in Chinese, English or German on customs and trade compliance aspects to domestic and foreign publications or magazines, including the Yearbook of Global Ethics, Compliance & Integrity published in English by Deutscher Fachverlag – dfv, and the magazine Der Zoll-Profi (The Customs Professional) in German.

Global Law Office

Dengne CHEN

Counsel

JunHe

Denise Shiu

Denise Shiu’s practice focuses on international mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and foreign direct investment transactions in China and the rest of Asia.

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Derik Rao

Partner

Morrison Foerster

Derrick Huang

Associate

Dehehantong Law Offices

Derrick Zhao

Partner

Fangda Partners

Deshan Li

Chief Vice President/Partner/Patent Attorney /Attorney at Law

Unitalen Attorneys at Law

Desmond An

Partner

Llinks Law Offices

Deting Li

Partner

JunHe

Di (Dee) HUANG

Counsel

JunHe

Diana Li

Partner

Fangda Partners

Dianna ZHANG

JunHe

Ding Miao

Senior Partner

Kangda Law Firm

Dingku Jiang

Director of DeHeng Law Offices (Wenzhou)

DeHeng Law Offices

Don Williams

Partner

Hogan Lovells International LLP

Dong Wu

Partner

Fangda Partners

Dongdong Lu

Senior Associate

Dehehantong Law Offices

Dongdong Wang

Dongdong Wang is a partner of Global Law Office based in Chengdu and he mainly focuses his practice on banking and finance, insurance, family wealth management and succession, as well as private equity and investment funds . Notably, Dongdong Wang has extensive experiences in the field of anking and finance. He has advised more than 10 leading trust companies, including CRTC, CITIC Trust, AVIC Trust, FOTIC, JIC trust, CRC Trust, ZSJH Trust, CCB Trust, Chang’an Trust, Everbright Trust, COFCO Trust and etc., on hundreds of trust projects. The trust projects involve include real estate, infrastructure, industrial and commercial enterprises, family trust, elderly services trust, consumer finance, factoring and bills and other industry sectors; provide special and permanent legal services for Bank of China, Longjiang Bank, China CITIC Bank, Sichuan Bank and many other banks. In the field of private equity and investment funds, Dongdong Wang sponsored and participated in more than ten private equity fund managers' registration and major change projects, such as Sichuan Hexin Zhenxing Equity Investment Fund Management Co., Raystone Capital, Guanjin Capital, etc.; he has provided due diligence investigation, transaction structure design, and drafting of transaction documents for dozens of fund establishments and foreign investments. In the field of insurance, Dongdong Wang has provided full legal services for the acquisition of equity interests in Groupama AVIC Insurance by Shudao Investment Group Co. Ltd, the acquisition of equity interests in CHAC by Everbright Trust, and has also provided year-round legal services for CTIH, Sino-US United MetLife Insurance Company Limited, Heng an Standard Life, Sichuan Branch of Hua Life Insurance Co, and Tai Hang Insurance Broker, among others. In the field of family wealth management and succession, Dongdong Wang has hosted a family trust for stock income rights in listed companies of a high net worth client of CCB Trust, made the trust contract template for the family trust of CRTC, and provided perennial and special legal services for the family wealth management and inheritance of a number of high net worth clients.

Global Law Office

Dongpeng Wang

Partner

JunHe

Dongsheng YANG

Senior Partner

Kangda Law Firm

Dongyue Chen

Zhong Lun Law Firm

Dorie Wong

Partner

Bird & Bird

Doris Tang

Partner

Fangda Partners

Du Hehao

Construction, Mineral Energy Dispute Resolution, Commercial Litigation and Arbitration

Beijing DHH Law Firm