Practice areas

Commercial litigation & arbitration

Introduction

Zhu Huafang is a senior partner at TianTong Law Firm, head of the Domestic Arbitration Team, an arbitrator of CIETAC, SHIAC and several other arbitral institutions. She has almost 20 years of experience in managing legal risks and handling domestic and foreign-related commercial litigation and arbitration matters.

Zhu specialises in high-value and complex commercial litigation and arbitration cases. Her clients include many state-owned enterprises and financial institutions. She has represented them in numerous arbitration and litigation cases before CIETAC, BAC, SCIA, SHIAC, the Supreme People’s Court, and people’s courts at various levels, most of which have resulted in satisfactory outcomes.

Before joining TianTong, Zhu served as the deputy general manager of Sinochem Group’s legal department, where she gained extensive knowledge of both the business and legal aspects of various sectors including energy, chemical industry, real estate, finance and agriculture. She has more than 10 years’ experience at the forefront of legal work in company equity, M&A, listing and bond issuance, international trade and state-owned property rights transactions. This experience enables Zhu to understand and respond to the needs of her clients quickly and accurately and to design the most suitable dispute resolution plans from the perspectives of both an outside lawyer and an in-house counsel, which has helped her build the trust of her clients.

In addition, Zhu is dedicated to the research and promotion of arbitration. As the host and chief commentator of the “Arbitration Circle” column in TianTong’s WeChat channel “TianTong Dispute Resolution Circle”, she has published over 50 articles focusing on various issues in arbitration, including the widely acclaimed annual series on judicial review of arbitration in China, from 2018-2020, and the Annual Review on Commercial Mediation in China (sponsored by BIAC), the Research Report on Private Equity Disputes, and The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Performance of International Sales Contract and Possible Measures, which was sponsored by CIETAC.

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