Practice areas

Cross-border restructuring, insolvency and liquidation; Foreign-related litigation and arbitration; Foreign direct investment; Outbound investment

Introduction

Since graduating from Sun Yat-sen University with a Bachelor of Law degree in 1994, James Chen has endeavoured in the legal profession for more than 27 years and has worked and studied in the UK, the US and Spain. He specialises in FDI, M&A, outbound investment, foreign-related restructuring, cross-border liquidation and foreign-related litigation and arbitration. In addition, Chen has provided legal services to several Sino-foreign joint ventures, wholly owned foreign enterprises and other PRC enterprises regarding their establishments, daily operations and M&A. Chen is also adept at providing professional legal opinions to clients in terms of commercial activities and business operations. He is currently a legal consultant to many well-known foreign-invested enterprises.

As project director, Chen has positively participated in many large-scale cross-border liquidation and reorganisation projects for overseas and Hong Kong-listed enterprises. Besides, he is experienced in representing clients in many large-value commercial arbitration and litigation cases regarding investment or trade disputes between foreign enterprises and PRC enterprises, some of which are even listed entities from Hong Kong and other countries. Chen has been selected as one of the lawyers in the talent pool of China’s 1,000 Lawyers on foreign-related matters by the National Ministry of Justice; as a leading lawyer on international practice and “Belt and Road” cross-border practice by the All China Lawyers Association, and as a leading lawyer on international practice by the Guangdong Lawyers Association. He has been ranked among the top 10 Guangzhou Foreign-related Lawyers by the Guangzhou Lawyers Association. He has also been ranked among the Guangzhou Law Society’s top 10 Young and Middle-aged Legal Experts. He currently practices as an arbitrator in many arbitration commissions, for example, Guangzhou Arbitration Commission, Shanghai Arbitration Commission, Ningbo Arbitration Commission, Wuhan Arbitration Commission, Shanghai International Arbitration Center and Zhuhai Court of International Arbitration.

Apart from the plentiful achievements in his law career, Chen holds many social positions, including vice-president of the Guangzhou Lawyers Association, vice-president of the lawyer branch of the Guangzhou New Social Stratum Association, deputy director of the Guangzhou Digital Finance Association, etc.

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