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Mervyn Chen

86 21 68544599 mervyn.chen@wintell.cn

Work Department

Corporate Compliance, Dispute Resolution and Arbitration, Insurance and Reinsurance, Shipping

Position

Director and Managing Partner

Career

2006 – Now
Wintell & Co Senior Partner/Director
Wintell & HFW Association Office Managing Partner
1999 – 2006
SG & Co Associate/Partner

Languages

English and Madarian Chinese

Memberships

· Deputy Director of the Maritime and Marine Professional Committee of the National Lawyers Association
· Legal counsel to the CPC Pudong New Area Committee, Pudong New Area People’s Government and China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone Administration Committee
· Arbitrator of China Maritime Arbitration Commission
· Specially Appointed Mediator of Shanghai Commercial Mediation Center
· Arbitrator of Shanghai International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (Shanghai International Arbitration Center)
· Arbitrator of Nanjing Arbitration Commission
· Specially Appointed Professor of Lawyer College, East China University of Political Science and Law
· Visiting Researcher of Insurance Law, Dalian Maritime University
· Visiting Professor, Shanghai Maritime University
· Member of the 10th Maritime Law Committee of Shanghai Nautical Society

Education

Shanghai Maritime University LL.B & LL.M in Maritime Law

Personal

Mervyn focuses on providing practical, comprehensive solutions for international and domestic clients. He is recommended by Chambers as a leading lawyer and is described by clients as “a ‘reputable’ lawyer with a great deal of commercial awareness.”

He has successfully handled many complex and significant impact cases for shipowners, P&I clubs home and abroad, insurance companies, shipyards, major airlines, integrated logistics companies, importers and exporters, and financial leasing companies, and has represented clients in major foreign commercial cases before arbitration bodies in London, Singapore and Hong Kong. He is highly regarded by clients, courts and judicial authorities, and many of the cases he has handled have been published as typical cases.

Mervyn is currently the deputy director of the Maritime and Marine Business Research Committee of the National Lawyers Association, the legal advisor of the CPC Shanghai Pudong New Area Committee, Pudong New Area People’s Government and the Administration Committee of China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone, the arbitrator of the China Maritime Arbitration Commission, and the special mediator of the Shanghai Commercial Mediation Center, etc.