
JunHe
Lawyers

Yanli Zheng
- Phone+86 10 8553 7670
- Email[email protected]
Work Department
Dispute Resolution, Regulatory Compliance
Position
Partner
Career
Ms. Zheng has been practicing Inbound and Outbound Dispute Resolution for 28 years. She has been a Dispute Resolution Partner at JunHe LLP since 2015 and another leading Chinese firm for two years. Prior to that, she worked in the Beijing Office of Jones Day for 7 years. As lead counsel and a team leader at Jones Day, Ms. Zheng represented both Chinese and international clients and successfully handled complex disputes inside and outside of China. Ms. Zheng has also shadowed several English Judges as a representative of a PRC Judge at the Royal Courts of Justice in London and worked in the London Office of Eversheds Law Firm in 2005.
Ms. Zheng is Arbitrator at CIETAC, SHAC, SCIA, HKIAC, Part-time professor and graduate student instructor at Law School and Lawyer School of Renmin University, and Steering Group Member of ABA China Committee, Section of International Law; and IBA Officer of Anti-Corruption Committee; WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center expert. In 2020, Ms. Zheng was listed in the talent pool of Foreign-related lawyers by Beijing Lawyers Association.
Ms. Zheng specializes in dealing with a wide variety of complex civil and commercial disputes within or outside of China, and her experience mainly covers the areas of international trade, contracts, anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition, foreign investment, infringement of reputation and other complicated civil and commercial matters, administrative investigation, and white-collar criminal defense, administrative investigation and most of the subject value is over RMB 100 million.
Ms. Zheng was named ALB China 2017 Top 15 Litigators, the Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2019, 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2025 Recommended Dispute Resolution Lawyer, the Legal 500 Greater China 2025 Recommended Dispute Resolution Lawyer, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 Benchmark China Star Litigator.
Languages
Mandarin and English
Memberships
Member of the PRC Bar
Education
Ms. Zheng received an LL.B. Degree in 1997 from China University of Political Science and Law. She obtained an LL.M. Degree and Ph.D. Degree in Civil and Commercial Law from Peking University in 2002 and 2009 respectively. Ms. Zheng also received an M.A. Degree with distinction in International Comparative Law from the University of London in 2005.