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Jurisdiction:

Shanghai

Practice area:

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.

  • Member of the PRC Bar

  • China International Economic & Trade Arbitration Commission, Panel of Arbitrators
  • China International Economic & Trade Arbitration Commission, Investment Dispute Settlement Center, Panel of CEPA Mediators
  • Shanghai International Arbitration Center, Panel of Arbitrators
  • Hangzhou Arbitration Commission, Panel of Arbitrators
  • Shanghai Arbitration Commission, Panel of Arbitrators
  • Shanghai Commercial Mediation Center, Panel of Mediators
  • Hong Kong International Arbitration Center, Panel (general panel and IP panel) of Arbitrators
  • Arbitration Center Across the Straits, Panel of Arbitrators
  • Singapore International Arbitration Center, Member of Users Council
  • International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA), Member
  • East China University of Political Science & Law, Member and Adjunct Professor of the Lawyers Student Advisory Committee
  • Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Law School, external mentor for LL.M. candidates
  • Administrative Reconsideration Committee of the Shanghai Municipal Government, Member
  • Georgetown University Asian Law Alumni Advisory Board, Member
  • European Chinese Arbitrators Association (ECAA), Deputy Chair

  • Commercial Arbitration Know-how (China), published by Global Arbitration Review in 2017 and 2018
  • Commercial Litigation, 2nd Edition, published by Sweet & Maxwell in 2015
  • The Art Collecting Legal Handbook, 2nd Edition, published by Thomson Reuters in 2013 and 2016
  • Chambers Global Practice Guide on Litigation (China), 2nd Edition, published by Chambers & Partners in 2020