Practice areas

Dispute resolution; Insurance & reinsurance; Investment & financing; Restructuring & insolvency

Introduction

Zhao Yu is a dispute resolution lawyer with profound theoretical basis and very high litigation practical ability. He has successfully handled a large number of influential and pioneering cases, including winning one of the first VAM disputes in China, and successfully representing a rare “short-selling misrepresentation” case, which became a benchmark case in the Chinese capital markets.

He also represented a major benchmark case in the International Commercial Court of the Supreme People’s Court; and successfully represented a rare dissolution of a large joint stock company involving thousands of shareholders and billions of renminbi in assets.

Clients served by Zhao include Huawei, Tencent, Construction Bank, China Merchants Bank, Bank of Shanghai, COFCO, Aerospace Science and Industry, Hong Kong-based Chuang’s Group, Pilgrim Asia, Ubiquiti Networks, CoStone Capital, Sino Life Asset and other well-known companies.

Among accolades, he has been listed in ALB, Legal500, Benchmark Litigation, asialaw Profiles, LegalBand and other legal media many times, and was honoured as “Outstanding Young Lawyer of Shenzhen Lawyers in Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of Reform and Opening-up”.

He also serves as an expert mediator and arbitrator of many institutions. With profound professional skills, conscientious professionalism and outstanding case performance, Zhao has been widely praised by his peers and clients.

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