Zhong Lun Law Firm has added four partners to its Beijing, Shanghai and Chengdu offices, including Zhonglun W&D Law Firm’s managing partner and executive director Zhang Haijun.
The Beijing-based Zhang brings 15 years’ experience in dispute resolution, particularly in the fields of engineering and project development, debt restructuring, distressed asset disposal, and entertainment law.
Zhang has extensive experience as a government legal adviser, leading key national construction projects such as the Beijing Winter Olympic Village, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s headquarters, the Beijing Urban Sub-Centre project, and the Olympic Central District. He has also handled many year-round legal projects for various state authorities.
He is a council member at the China Society of Economic System Reform under the Development and Reform Commission.
The additional three partners are Ke Aiyan, Carl Li and Zhang Xiaoqin.
Ke, based in Shanghai, specialises in intellectual property litigation and non-litigation matters. She has handled many civil and criminal trade secret cases, and major patent and trademark infringement disputes.
She began her career at Suzhou Municipal Intermediate People’s Court in 2006, where she was responsible for hearing intellectual property cases. In 2015, the Supreme People’s Court appointed her to work for the Patent Reexamination and Invalidation Department of the China National Intellectual Property Administration and it has invited her to deliver lectures to them on multiple occasions.
In 2016, Ke joined King & Wood Mallesons, and two years later, she moved to Grandway Law Offices as a partner.
Li, previously a senior partner at AllBright Law Offices, has also joined the Shanghai office. With more than 20 years’ experience, he specialises in cross-border M&A, investment and financing, and corporate compliance. Li has advised many companies on commercial transactions in Europe, America, Africa, Southeast Asia, and other countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative.
Zhang Xiaoqin, formerly a founding partner at the Chengdu-based AllBright, has joined the Chengdu office at Zhong Lun. She focuses on dispute resolution, commercial crime, criminal compliance, investment and M&A. She has extensive experience in handling trade disputes in state-owned enterprise financing, contractual disputes with banks and financial institutions, and criminal and civil overlapping cases. Zhang also assisted clients in obtaining non-criminal filings and non-approval of arrests in commercial crime cases.
