Commerce & Finance Law Offices

China

Review

Dispute resolution

Commerce & Finance Law Offices is active in key areas of dispute resolution, especially commercial litigation. The dispute resolution team comprises nearly 100 lawyers with 20 partners. Hongji Li heads the dispute resolution team and focuses on complex commercial litigation and international arbitration. Other key names in the team include Jialu Wang and Qiang Cui.

In an ongoing case highlight, the firm is representing Chinese automobile and commercial vehicle manufacturer Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Group (JAC Group) in an anti-subsidy investigation initiated by the European Commission concerning imports of battery electric vehicles (BEVs). The firm is representing JAC Group and cooperating with the EU to ensure a smooth investigation process.

The firm is also representing YF Technology Corporation (Thailand) in response to a US investigation regarding Thailand's alleged circumvention of anti-dumping orders on China on collated staples. The firm has been actively assisting the client throughout the entire process of the review conducted by the US Department of Commerce. This includes preparing and submitting various questionnaires, providing comments on surrogate countries and price data, responding to verification requests, and compiling case summaries and relevant materials. So far, the anti-circumvention inquiry proceedings for YF Technology Corporation have been progressing smoothly and in an organised manner.

Key clients include Chongqing Changan Automobile Company, Chongqing Zongshen General Power Machine Company, YF Technology Corporation (Thailand) and Zhejiang Sanmei Chemical.

The firm welcomed three litigators from Global Law Offices as partners in October 2023, namely Zhao Li, Dingding Li and Jian Dong. Ting Yang, Qiang Cui and Wu Wen were promoted internally as partners in the same year.

Client feedback

“Commerce & Finance Law Offices possesses exceptional experience in handling commercial disputes and consistently presents us with outstanding proposals. Furthermore, the disputes arising from our investments that were represented by Commerce & Finance Law Offices have yielded successful outcomes.” – Commercial and transactions

Qiang Cui

“Mr. Cui is highly professional, dedicated and intelligent. He consistently finds the simplest, most direct, and fastest solutions to complex legal issues, helping clients save valuable time.”