Chinese legal powerhouse Zhong Lun Law Firm is ranked ‘Outstanding’ across various practice areas and industry sectors with its well-established teams in both transactional and contentious practice areas. With its exceptional experience in complex and high-profile restructuring, M&A and various other transactions, it has assisted many hi-tech businesses in their development and expansion. Construction and project development have traditionally been the firm’s core practices, its expertise has also expanded to real estate, infrastructure and PPP, energy, public facilities and industrial manufacturing. Key partners to note from the firm are Shanghai-based partner Anthony Zhao, who specialises in capital markets, private equity, and cross-border investment/M&A, and Beijing-based partner Jihong Wang, whose practice covers corporate governance, safety, environmental protection and financing.
Client feedback
“Zhong Lun is professional and efficient.” – Banking and finance
“The service quality is high, the professionalism is strong, the feedback is fast, and the teamwork is pleasant.” – Corporate and M&A
“Comprehensive legal service capabilities and strong professional expertise.” – Corporate and M&A
“Zhong Lun is professional, patient, and thorough.” – Corporate and M&A
“The law firm has comprehensive legal service capabilities, professional expertise, timely response.” – Corporate and M&A
“They are professional, responsive, and good at handling complex cases.” – Dispute resolution
“The firm’s brilliance lies in its revolutionary legal architecture – particularly the ‘triple-tiered litigation strategy’ that segmented liability claims and collateral enforcement across jurisdictions. Their 24/7 responsiveness, surgical precision in asset tracing, and innovative "priority seizure + secondary asset swap" mechanism overcame paralysing jurisdiction barriers. Zhong Lun’s ability to transform legally ambiguous crises into precedent-setting victories reflects world-class strategic foresight and flawless execution.” – Dispute resolution
“The firm’s multi-jurisdictional asset-tracing matrix – integrating Chinese Civil Code, Cayman interim relief, and Taiwan corporate law – is a quantum leap in global dispute strategy. Zhong Lun’s forensic dissection of financial commingling evidence to establish shareholder liability demonstrates peerless analytical rigour. Their navigation of three legal systems to enforce mainland arbitration awards redefines cross-border recovery possibilities.” – Dispute resolution
“The firm’s financial-engineering acumen – decoding CMBS documentation to isolate enforcement triggers – combined with ruthless procedural efficiency sets unprecedented standards. Zhong Lun’s preemptive preservation of prime commercial properties and equity interests transformed a structurally convoluted case into a recoverable position before substantive hearings commenced.” – Dispute resolution
“Their ‘objection anticipation + rapid rebuttal’ model – demolishing specious pledge disputes and liquidity claims – sets new litigation-defence standards. The firm’s capacity to convert enforcement minefields into recoverable victories reflects world-class technical innovation.” – Dispute resolution
“The firm’s holistic crisis management – simultaneously navigating litigation, bankruptcy, and government relations.” – Dispute resolution
“The firm’s mastery of conversion-trigger jurisprudence – constructing irrefutable capital flow chronologies and interest-calculation models – convinced trial committees through sheer logical force. Zhong Lun’s innovative ‘pledge resuscitation’ tactic transformed legally void securities into executable assets, showcasing creative brilliance within rigid frameworks.” – Dispute resolution
“Their mastery of procedural choreography – freezing assets across jurisdictions while negotiating with local governments and SASAC – showcased transcendent skill. Zhong Lun’s threat-to-liquidate tactic, paired with formal misconduct reporting to the State Council’s ‘Internet+ Supervision’ platform, exemplifies fearless advocacy. The firm’s ability to align judicial, governmental, and commercial interests in politically charged environments is nothing short of revolutionary.” – Dispute resolution
“The firm's forensic financial analytics and multi-jurisdictional court diplomacy are peerless.” – Dispute resolution
"The firm's pre-arbitration planning is thorough and comprehensive, providing thoughtful and timely advice. During the submission, filing, and delivery of arbitration applications, the firm maintains a strong goal-orientated and problem-solving approach, promptly and effectively resolving any issues encountered. They demonstrate both professionalism and flexibility. Their experience in the arbitration courtroom and their professionalism in post-arbitration work are highly focused, with strong commercial awareness. They demonstrate a strong sense of service throughout the entire process, providing in-depth communication with clients and timely and collaborative work." – Dispute resolution
“The lawyers of Zhong Lun Law Firm have outstanding legal professional capabilities and rich experience in handling momentous, difficult, and complex litigation and arbitration cases. They are good at using litigation and non-litigation thinking to resolve dispute cases, possess strong commercial awareness and comprehensive capabilities to solve dispute issues, and their service quality and efficiency are satisfactory and reassuring.” – Energy
“The law firm is very professional and serious.” – Insurance
Xingshan Cai
“Xingshan’s ‘Strategic Case Coverage’ model – reviving key cases to unlock asset disposal while initiating restructuring – demonstrates genius-level problem-solving. Zhong Lun’s 30% faster asset liquidation timelines and 20% reduction in judicial resource consumption reveal operational excellence that redefines industry benchmarks.”
“Xingshan’s 360° crisis management is unmatched. Her visionary approach to extra-contractual liability sets a new benchmark for global dispute resolution.”
“Xingshan deconstructed China’s first southwest CMBS structure within 72 hours, enabling surgical asset preservation that immobilised debtor resources.”
"Xingshan executed our enforcement against diversified assets, achieving recovery while defeating debtor obstruction tactics. She has innovative asset-categorisation models, judicial persuasion skills, and seamless cross-agency coordination."
“Xingshan designed court-adopted ‘segmented disposal protocols’ for distressed real estate, balancing creditor recovery with social stability imperatives.”
“Xingshan architected an irrefutable evidence chronology that defeated statute of limitations challenges. Their innovative ‘pledge resuscitation strategy’ transformed defectively seized equity into executable assets – a landmark solution for conversion-timing ambiguities.”
“Facing judicial resistance, Xingshan executed a ‘procedural pressure trifecta’: freezing assets via Shanghai courts within 48 hours, forcing Gulin Court collaboration through State Council oversight petitions, and threatening strategic bankruptcy liquidation. Their manoeuvres are redefining cross-provincial recovery playbooks.”
Hairong Li
“She is professional and dedicated, with highly comprehensive business capabilities. She can quickly understand clients' needs and propose professional and feasible solutions. My collaboration with her has been very smooth.”
Xiangwen Liu
“Xiangwen is quick-witted and eloquent, with strong professional capabilities. He is adept at using legal and comprehensive approaches to solve problems and has rich experience in case planning and demonstration, operational implementation, communication and negotiation, etc. The practitioner is familiar with the work models of state-owned enterprises and can provide not only professional legal services but also services with high commercial added value.”
Yibo Wang
“Yibo is professional and efficient.”
Kun Wu
“Kun was patient and thorough during the initial consultation, and Kun’s explanation and discussion of the proposal cut straight to the heart of the matter. Kun was thorough in the arbitration proposal design phase and provided timely and effective documentation to support the client's internal and external reporting requirements. Kun is extremely goal oriented and problem-solving oriented, quickly considering solutions and offering clients multiple options. Kun is highly professional throughout the arbitration hearing, during the defence, and after the hearing. Kun excelled at grasping key points and adapting flexibly to the actual business situation. Kun provided thorough communication throughout the entire service, understanding and resolving issues from the client's business perspective.”
Work highlights
Advised Shanghai Enflame Technology in its Series D and Series E financing. The complexity of this transaction requires careful tailoring and balancing of shareholders’ interests.
Advised China Mobile Capital Holdings on the acquisition of a medical big data company.
Key clients
Northern Light Venture Capital, Qiming Venture Partners, Tencent
Work highlights
Represented BNI in litigation arising from the dismissal of an executive engaged in cross-company fraudulent reimbursement.
Helped ITFS deal with government scrutiny caused by work-related death cases and assisted in the negotiation of compensation.
Key clients
Budweiser, High-Flyer Capital, TSMC
Work highlights
Acted for Alipay.com to obtain an action injunction regarding preventing repetitious infringement. The first nationwide injunction was issued to stop the defendant's repetitious infringement after the defendant had already stopped the unfair competition behaviour.
Acted for Dingming Industrial against Dongguan Yera Sporting Goods re infringement of technical secrets and a patent ownership dispute case of over $300 million.
Key clients
InterDigital, Motorola Solutions, Saudi Basic Industries Corporation, Shenzhen Longsys Electronics
Work highlights
Represented Dongxing Securities in response to litigation in Essence Information’s securities misrepresentation disputes. This is a landmark fraudulent issuance case among the first batch of cases on the STAR Market, attracting significant market attention.
Represented Ping An Securities in response to litigation in securities misrepresentation disputes. This case is the first to apply the representative lawsuit procedure for investor solicitation since the establishment of the Beijing Financial Court.
Key clients
China Orient Asset Management, Founder Group, Western Digital Corporation
Work highlights
Represented GGV Capital throughout this transaction and provided legal advice in respect of the formation of GGV Capital RMB Fund III, including (but not limited to) document draughting, negotiations, and other general legal advice.
Advised China Guoxin on setting up one fund as the fund sponsor and invested in another fund managed by China Chengtong.
Key clients
Beijing HongTai TongChuang Investment Management, CapitaLand Investment, Cathay Capital, Centurium Capital
Work highlights
Advised Xiamen Jianfa on restructuring and investing in 19 companies, including Xiangguang Copper Industry. On the basis of full due diligence on the industrial status quo and debt structure of the target company, the firm designed the restructuring plan to adopt the mode of continuing restructuring as the basis and nested various repayment plans in the asset management plan or trust plan so as to develop and innovate a variety of restructuring investment ideas, taking into account the rights and interests of creditors and investors. A more favourable investment and debt repayment plan for the future development of the company has been formulated.
Advised Shenzhen Grandland Group on its reorganisation proceeding. The reorganisation case of Grandland is the first listed company in the construction and decoration industry in China to adopt bankruptcy reorganisation to achieve recovery from difficulties.
Key clients
China Cinda Asset Management, Guangdong Qiangke Real Estate, Guangzhou Universal Ocean Biological Science Corporation
Work highlights
Advised Zhenjiang Runjing High Purity Chemical on its acquisition of two PRC subsidiaries of Sumitomo Chemical.
Advised Unisplendour Corporation on successfully completing its cross-border acquisition of 30% equity stake in H3C Technologies from Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company. This deal is notable not only for its considerable scale but also for its intricate transaction structure, multi-jurisdictional scope, and significant impact on the information telecommunication and digital solution market, encompassing strategic, commercial, business, financing, and legal considerations.
Key clients
Amphenol Corporation, China National Travel Service Group Corporation, Shenzhen Metro Group, SoftBank Group
Work highlights
Advised China National Nuclear Power on its private placement of A shares, of which the National Council for Social Security Fund, as a strategic investor, subscribed about $165 million and China National Nuclear Corporation subscribed about $27 million.
Advised Aidite (Qinhuangdao) Technology on its listing on the Growth Enterprise Market board of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. The transaction has made history as the first A-share listed company in the oral medical device industry.
Key clients
Mixue Group, CICC, Hubei Agricultural Development Group, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Ping An Trust, UBS
Work highlights
Represented JD.com as plaintiff in the antitrust lawsuit brought against Alibaba Group and its Tmall platforms to enjoin and seek damages arising from “choose one out of two” exclusivity arrangements that allegedly abused market dominance. This is a landmark case in antitrust litigation history in China with significant and far-reaching impact, and it has attracted extremely wide social attention.
Represented China Mobile as sole external counsel in the six-year strategic-regulatory engagement with the State Administration for Market Regulation, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and other central and local authorities to defend the lawfulness of its 5G co-construction and sharing arrangements, related operator collaborations, and ongoing compliance obligations.
Key clients
China Three Gorges International Corporation, Masco, NetEase, Shell (China)
Work highlights
Advised The Export-Import Bank of China on a Rmb557 million ($77 million) term loan facility to a Hong Kong borrower to finance the borrower’s development and construction of an industrial park in Mexico.
Represented Shenzhen Jincheng Private Equity Fund in a real-estate financing contract dispute against Evergrande. The benchmark significance of this case is that it provides a model of legal protection for investment institutions to deal with the risk of "clear stocks and real debts".
Key clients
Ascendent Capital Partners, CCB Financial Leasing, CITIC Trust, China Galaxy Asset Management
Work highlights
Advised Jinjiang International Group, a leading travel and hospitality conglomerate in China, on investment in Harry Potter Studio Tour (Shanghai).
Advised China Central Television (CCTV) on construction projects (including part A of the project, including the main building of CCTV and its auxiliary building; part B of the project, including the Television Cultural Centre and Hotel Project; and part C of the project, including the Media Park and underground garage).
Key clients
Beijing ByteDance Technology, China Energy Engineering Investment Corporation, New China Life Insurance
Work highlights
Advised the SoftBank Group’s domestic subsidiaries to complete the Personal Information Export Standard Contract Filing per the PRC laws and regulations.
Advised China Mobile on the 5G strategic cooperation with China Radio and Television Network Group. This case is the largest collaboration in the broadcasting and communication industries in China and of vital importance in promoting the coordinated development of these industries.
Key clients
Cainiao, CITIC, Dongfeng Motor, Mobvoi, Porsche
