Commercial disputes
Since the mid-1990s, Mr. Jin has focused his practice on complex commercial and financial litigation, international and domestic commercial arbitration, large-scale tort litigation, insurance litigation, patent litigation, IP-related antitrust litigation, unfair competition disputes, administrative and criminal litigation, and environmental liability cases. Before joining Han Kun, Mr. Jin was previously a partner as well as the head of the dispute resolution groups of two prestigious Chinese law firms. Mr. Jin is highly recommended in various legal rankings, including Chambers and Partners, China Business Law Journal, and The Legal 500 Asia Pacific. He has been recommended as a "Band 1 dispute resolution lawyer in China" and one of the "A-List China's Elite 100 Lawyers," and has been praised for being "a very experienced lawyer who understands his subject area very well," a "multi-talented and highly respected litigator" who is also "very well regarded in arbitration," and for possessing "solid legal knowledge and first-rate document-drafting skills to deliver solutions on time and on budget."
Mr. Jin is experienced in dealing with disputes involving industrial products supply, sales of goods, leases, share transfers and M&A, and business cooperations. Recently, he has also been dealing with major dispute cases involving the Internet, finance, private equity investment, advertisement, entertainment, intellectual property, and antitrust. Since 2010, he has also been researching investment dispute arbitration between investors and the State. Mr. Jin is adept at assisting parties in resolving disputes through economic analysis.
Since 2008, Mr. Jin has served as an arbitrator at the China International Economic & Trade Arbitration Commission ("CIETAC"), Shanghai International Economic & Trade Arbitration Commission, Arbitration Center Across the Straits, Hong Kong International Arbitration Center (general panel and IP panel), Hangzhou Arbitration Commission, Shanghai Arbitration Commission and a CEPA mediator at the CIETAC Investment Dispute Settlement Center. Mr. Jin also serves as a member of the Administrative Reconsideration Committee of the Shanghai Municipal Government, a member of the Advisory Committee and adjunct professor at the East China University of Political Science & Law Lawyers Institute, and as an external mentor for LL.M. candidates at Shanghai University of Finance & Economics Law School.
Mr. Jin studied law in the International Law Department of the East China Institute of Political Science & Law, and later at the University of International Business & Economics and Georgetown University Law Center, where he received two Master of Laws degrees.