Fangda Partners has risen steadily from its Shanghai roots to become a national powerhouse
in China and it has also been earning a first-class reputation in the Beijing market. Its Beijing office has hundreds of lawyers with expertise in several practice areas, with prominent strengths in commercial litigation, intellectual property and international arbitration work.
Key figures in the dispute resolution team include Peter Yuen,
Peibing Qi, Alexandra Pu Yang and Helen Shi.
Most cases submitted this year remain confidential. However, over the past few years, the firm has represented Shanghai Jinxin Investment Advisory and Everbright Jinhui Investment Management (Shanghai) to bring a lawsuit against a PRC-listed company, Baofeng Group, and its actual controller before the PRC Supreme Court; and represented Cinda Investment in court litigation over a contract dispute involving a real estate development operation dispute against a listed general merchandise company and its subsidiary.
In intellectual property, the firm acted for Apple in a series of litigations against iRobot. The main case before the Shanghai High Court involves the highest damages request so far in all IP fields in China. Also, the firm represented NavInfo, a market-leading Chinese navigation software and map company, on its successful copyright infringement claim against three Baidu companies found to be using “substantially similar software” without permission. The Beijing Intellectual Property Court awarded NavInfo Rmb64.5 million ($8.9 million) in damages. It is the highest damages award for copyright infringement cases in China to date.
Moonton, Alibaba Group, Giorgio Armani, Nanjing Skytech Technology and Watson Pharmaceuticals are the firm’s other key clients.
Client feedback
“Firstly, the team has excelled in the work of administrators in the reorganisation of large and medium-sized enterprises, as well as in the advisory services for creditors and investors of reorganised enterprises. Secondly, the team has achieved very good results in its research of legislative reform of reorganisations, the sorting out of judicial practice, and the annual summaries of the industry. Thirdly, the team has put in efforts to achieve results in the management of administrators' committees, and in the setup of administrators' teams. Fourthly, the team has performed well in supporting higher education institutions to carry out research on the theory and practice of bankruptcy law and academic exchange activities, reflecting a strong sense of social responsibility. Lastly, the team has performed well in its own team-building and the absorption and cultivation of new talents.” – Bankruptcy
“Fangda has extensive experience in commercial dispute resolution, both in domestic disputes and international arbitration, demonstrating its exquisite professional ability and sensitivity to business thinking. Fangda has a wealth of legal service experts around the world, who are fluent in both English and Chinese, with a global perspective and expertise across multiple legal disciplines.” –
Commercial arbitration
“[Good at] coming up with litigation strategy and response in court.” –
Intellectual property
“Guided our company to prepare the relevant information for arbitration and represented our company in court to complete the work of responding to the lawsuit.” –
Labour and employment
“Achieved good results in responding to disputes.” –
Labour and employment
Yixin Huang
“Prepared all the information for the labour arbitration and attended the labour court.”
Yang Liu
“A solid legal professional with the ability to give timely, on-point feedback to clients, very good at domestic and international dispute resolution, and with realistic business logic.”
Xueqing Liu
“Meticulous work, high level of professionalism, very comfortable communication.”
Xiaxia Zhou
“[Good at] case analysis and preparation of information prior to responding to a case.”
Bo Zhou
“He would refer us directly to the professional law firms that are responsible for our cases, and he will professionally answer case-specific questions from our group headquarters.”
Nuo Ji
“Ji has served as the president of the Shanghai Lawyers Association for many years, and currently serves as the director of the bankruptcy and restructuring committee of the All-China Lawyers Association and president of the Shanghai Bankruptcy Administrators Association, etc. He has made positive contributions to the development of the industry and the construction of the team of administrators; he has actively supported the exchanges between colleges and universities and practical experts; he serves as the head of the administrators of a number of large-scale enterprise reorganisations in Shanghai and the restructuring of the country, and he actively establishes cooperation and exchange mechanisms with international legal service organisations.”
Hong Shi
“Professional ability is exquisite, with rich experience in foreign-related legal affairs, sensitive business logic, fluent in English and Chinese, and at the same time, can help clients coordinate and recommend the most suitable legal experts in the world.”
Wen Zou
“Represented our company in IP cases, provided litigation strategies from the perspective of the whole business, very familiar with the domestic judicial environment, and handled cases with great delicacy.”
