Practice areas

Family law and private wealth management; Civil and commercial dispute resolution; Corporate & commercial

Introduction

As managing partner of Hairuo & Partners, Bill Wu has nearly 20 years of solid legal professional knowledge as well as rich practical experience in litigation practice. Before Joining Hairuo & Partners, Wu was a partner in Zhonglun and Jingtian & Gongcheng and other famous domestic law firms.

Wu has acted in thousands of civil and commercial litigation cases, and can quickly understand clients’ demands and respond with proposed litigation strategies and working ideas, then help to protect the rights of the client with his deep legal knowledge and superb trial skills. Wu excels at marriage and inheritance disputes, private wealth management for high-net-worth individuals and family governance businesses, and he also works as the personal legal adviser of many entrepreneurs.

Wu is director of the marriage and family business committee of the Shanghai Lawyers Association and an instructor of master’s students in East China University of Political Science and Law. He has published six books including Family Business Succession – the Legal Reef and Solution and Equity Division and Inheritance of Public Listed Companies.

Some of Wu’s notable performances include: dealing with a divorce dispute on behalf of a son of a major shareholder of a listed company, involving four domestic and overseas listed companies (valued at more than RMB5 billion (USD780 million); providing family wealth management services for a private enterprise’s shareholders, including but not limited to the drafting of wills and marital property agreements, and the design of family trusts; providing pre-marital wealth planning for the second generation of a mainland entrepreneur, including drafting pre-nuptial agreements and wills, etc.; represented the founder of an internet company in handling a corporate deadlock and optimising the corporate governance structure after the divorce of the spouse; participating in setting up a family asset trust in Singapore for a domestic property developer; providing an overall family wealth protection and inheritance service for the founders of a well-known Chinese internet recruitment website, including but not limited to drafting wills and establishing family trusts.

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