Ma Chenguang

Introduction

Ma Chenguang has over 20 years of experience specialising in finance and asset management. Her practice area covers private equity, banking, trust, real estate financing, corporate governance and complex commercial dispute resolution. Ma is the co-author of The Lawyer’s Practice in Private Fund,

Commercial and Finance Judicial Study Report of China and Guidelines for Lawyers to Handle Legal Business of Private Equity Investment Funds.

Ma is also a Standing Committee member of the Shanghai Pudong New Area People’s Congress, a deputy director of the Financial Professional Committee of the All China Lawyers Association, a director of the Foundation Committee of the Financial Law Research Association of the Shanghai Law Society, a director of the Foundation Committee of the Shanghai Lawyers Association, an arbitrator of the SHAC and SHIAC, and a legal counsel of the Shanghai Pudong New Area Government.

Ma represented a large number of financial institutions in dispute resolution, including disputes over VAM agreement, fund investment, trust investment, fund manager liability, disposal of non-performing assets of banks, etc. In corporate and commercial affairs, Ma handled numerous equity and stock dispute cases, including securities false statement disputes, equity investment disputes and corporate repurchase disputes. Ma once represented a famous international trust company in a trust damage dispute, a case of particular significance in clarifying the responsibilities of various parties involved in the trust channel business, which was included into the Top Ten Commercial Cases by National Courts in 2020 by the Supreme People’s Court. Furthermore, Ma represented a listed company to resolve the dispute between the company and its shareholders over a false statement, which was listed as one of the Top Ten Model Civil Litigation Cases of Securities False Statement in 2019.

As a member of the first batch of deputies to the Pudong New Area Working Group of Deputies to the Peoples’ Congress, Ma actively participated in the proposal, demonstration and effectiveness evaluation of legislation in Pudong New Area, and made suggestions on financial reform issues, which were highly valued by the government. In addition, Ma took measures to help enterprises in their fight against the covid-19 pandemic.