Jiakang Zhong Senior Partner, Lawyer

Qualifications:

PRC bar

Working Experience:

Glinks Law Firm  Partner

Shanghai Yuan Tai Law Offices

Zhong Lun Law Firm  Senior associate

Fangda Partners   Associate

Education Background:

Fudan University, law school, LLB

Working Languages:

Mandarin; English

Representative Family Law Cases:

Representative Dispute Resolution Cases

Represented an A-share main board listed company in an arbitration against its German supplier of high-tech production lines at CIETAC;

Represented a U.S. five-star hotel in a membership dispute;

Represented a leading German law firm in an arbitration with its Chinese client;

Represented an investor of the Asian biggest feedstuff machine manufacturer in a lawsuit in which the plaintiff (as part of the shareholders of the company) sues the defendants (as the directors and remaining part of the shareholders of the company) for misuse of shareholders rights and infringement of companys assets;

Represented the shareholder of a company to defend the plaintiffs claim requiring her to be jointly and severally liable for the companys debts at Pudong Peoples Court;

Represented a creditor in a lawsuit trying to requiring the defendant (as the shareholder of the debtor) to be jointly and severally liable with the debtor at SH Free Trade Zone Tribunal;

Represented a mobile game developer to participate (as third party) in a copyright ownership dispute lawsuit between another two parties, and finally the court confirmed the ownership does not belong to the plaintiff nor the defendant but belongs to our client (as third party);

Represented an LP of a mutual fund in an arbitration against the GP of the fund at CIETAC;

Represented a mutual fund in a loan dispute arbitration against its bridge loan borrower at Shanghai Arbitration Commission;

Represented an investor in an arbitration against the portfolio company at SHIAC;

Represented a Chinese micro-wave testing system manufacturing company in various patent, trademark, unfair competition, software and commercial defamation cases against its main competitor, which is a France-based leading micro-wave testing equipment developer and manufacturer;

Represented various multinational companies in difficult labor disputes with their employees including serious fraud allegations, mass layoff and infringement of trade secrets;

Represented a mobile APP developer in a lawsuit against the APPs promoter regarding its fraudulent promotion of the APP;

Represented a leading U.S. chemical company in a patent litigation in China;

Represented a U.S. retain chain company in trademark infringement, unfair competition, food and retail industries regulatory investigation, anti-counterfeiting, administrative litigation cases, and advised it on its daily legal matters;

Represented a U.S. pharmaceutical company in its legal actions against parallel import;

Represented a U.S. optical device producer in a series of medical device software disputes;

Represented a U.S. wire company in a patent dispute and a commercial defamation case;

Represented a U.S. design company in some trademark objection and appeal cases;

Represented an education group in a trademark dispute with U.S. AICPA and NASBA;

Represented Shanghai Wind, the leading financial information service provider in China, in a software infringement case and a commercial defamation case with its major competitor;

Represented a Shanghai-based pharmaceutical research company in a series of disputes with respect to its employees shareholding platform;

Provided expert opinions for a Singapore litigation regarding Chinese patent law;

Represented a U.S. listed Chinese company in its responses to SEC and DOJ Subpoenas, and represented it in an appeal to the NASDAQ Delisting Determination containing serious fraud allegations and attended the hearing in U.S. and finally the fraud allegations were dismissed;

Represented various U.S. and European leading pharmaceutical, medical device and nutrition manufacturers and distributors in their responses to anti-commercial bribery investigations carried out by Chinese or foreign government against it or its suppliers, and represented the same clients in their internal investigations.

Representative Corporate and Investment Projects

Provided legal service for a U.S. coffee brand on the establishment of its Chinese stores;

Provided legal service for Nico-mama, a leading Chinese maternity and baby-care e-company, in its equity financing and establishment of employee shareholding platform;

Provided legal service for Righton Gene, a leading Chinese genetic medical device producer, in its series A and series B equity financing;

Provided legal service for a European bank on its establishment of a bank in Shanghai FTZ;

Provided legal service for a U.S. pharmaceutical company on its merger of China plants;

Provided legal service for Shendi Group on various IP issues in Shanghai Disney Project;

Provided legal service for Shanghai Pudong District Peoples Government on various matters including review of draft legislations, representation of the Government in specific disputing cases, advice on review and hearing of daily administrative reconsideration cases and etc.;

Provided legal service for Keolis on its airport and tramway projects in Wuhan, China;

Provided legal service for a Hollywood film production company in a film project;

Provided legal service for a carnival project in Nanjing and a carnival project in Beijing;

Provided legal service for Series C financing of Highsoft Software;

Provided legal service for listing of CRIC on NASDAQ;

Provided legal service for a Chinese State-owned companys participation in the bankruptcy proceeding of a listed company;

Provided legal service for Alibaba on its acquisition of a famous logistics company;

Provided legal service for an offshore funds acquisition of a famous cosmetics company;

Provided legal service for Charles Rivers acquisition of WuxiApptec;

Provided legal service for the global restructuring of ArvinMeritor;

Provided legal service for a construction project and daily matters of Analogic;

Provided legal service for an offshore funds investment in a Chinese life insurance company;

Provided legal service for SocieteGenerales transfer of a public fund management company;

Provided legal service for Hewlett-Packards acquisition of 3Coms network device business and for the anti-trust review;

Provided legal service for Pacific Centurys acquisition GMs auto parts business;

Provided legal service for Paul Ralph Laurens acquisition of its China garment business;

Provided legal service for HomeInns acquisition of Motel 168 and for the anti-trust review;

Provided legal service for PwCs acquisition of PRTMs global consultancy business;

Provided legal service for JP Morgans acquisition of Lujiazui Central Apartments;

Provided legal service for DBS, Standard Chartered, ABN AMRO, CitiBank in loan projects;

Provided legal service for Barclays, Morgan Stanley, GE Capital, Hangzhou Trust on various financial regulatory issues, including banking, trust, securities and financial leasing issues;

Provided legal service for a famous shoes manufacturer on its restructuring of franchise;

Provided legal service for New China Trust on its trust projects;

Provided legal service for Covanta on its waste-to-energy projects;

Provided legal service for Hilton International on its hotel management projects;

Advised various multinational companies on establishment of trademark portfolios;

Advised some industrial companies in the negotiation of IP master license agreements;

Advised a leading international auction company on Chinese anti-money laundering laws;

Advised a famous Hong Kong jewelry company on Chinese anti-money laundering laws.