Practice areas

Corporate business; Government affairs and stated-owned enterprises, Real estate and infrastructure; Public legal affairs

Introduction

Hong Liang is the founding partner of Shanghai Zhihe Law Firm. His law practice focuses on the areas of corporate business, government affairs and state-owned enterprises, real estate and infrastructure construction, and government public legal affairs. In addition, he has also been practising in capital markets, corporate compliance, data security, and dispute resolution, amassing a wealth of experience.

Hong graduated from the Chicago Kent School of Law, and obtained a master’s of business administration from Fudan University and a bachelor’s degree from East China University of Political Science and Law. He used to work for the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government and the Hong Kong stock exchange. He also serves as an arbitrator for SIETAC, SAC, secretary general of the company law research committee of the ACLA, director of the government affairs research committee of the Shanghai Bar Association, a part-time professor of East China University of Political Science and Law and Shanghai University of Political Science and Law, a member of the All-China Youth Federation Standing Committee and secretary-general of the legal sector working committee.

Hong has been awarded Chambers and Partners’ best corporate/commercial lawyer awards many times. He was selected to the first batch of Leading Lawyers in Cross-Border Legal Services by the Ministry of Justice and was selected to the Foreign-Related Legal Talents of the Shanghai Law Society. He has participated in the largest central urban area renewal project in mainland China, has flexibly used various financial instruments in infrastructure construction, large-scale construction projects and other key projects, and has played an important role in the mixed ownership reform for an e-commerce enterprise in mainland China.

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