Mr Fu Chen > Commerce & Finance Law Offices > Beijing, China > Lawyer Profile

Commerce & Finance Law Offices
12-14th Floor, China World Office 2
No. 1 Jianguomenwai Avenue
BEIJING
100004
China
Fu Chen photo

Work Department

Real Estate and Construction Litigation Arbitration Administrative and Criminal Action

Position

Partner

Career

Bank of Beijing, In-house counsel, from 2003 to 2006.

Yuan Kun law offices of Beijing, Lawyer, from 2006 to 2011.

Commerce & Finance law offices, Partner, since 2011.

Education

Beijing Jiao tong University, Bachelor of Laws

China University of Political Science and Law, Master of Laws (Civil Litigation)

University of International Business and Economics, Certificate of Achievement

University of Washington, Academic Visitor

International Academy for Arbitration Law

Personal

Mr. Chen has dealt with more than 700 cases including litigation cases, arbitration cases and non-litigation projects, many of which involving large amount in dispute, complex legal relations and great social influence. Mr. Chen has been providing legal service to numerous well-known domestic or foreign financial institutions, multinational corporations, large state-owned enterprises and private enterprises for more than twelve years.

In an arbitration case of investment and share repurchase dispute between a state-owned fund and shareholders of a famous film company, Mr. Chen, representing the fund, established the principle of distinguishing the foreign investors and the domestic investors which had a great influence in the particular capital market, especially for the private equity funds.

In a litigation case of Intellectual property protection, Mr. Chen,Representing a film and television star, Ms. Tian pu-jun, sued the  holder of “animal house” WeChat public account for reputation infringement and finally convinced the judge.

In a case of Criminal litigation, Mr. Chen helped an enterprise’s legal representative, who was accused of bribery, to be immune from criminal punishment.

Academic Activities And Research Achievements:

Books:

“Lawyers for the operation of civil and commercial litigation cases” (Law Press, 2013 first edition, 2016 second edition)

“Basic Skills for Lawyers” (Peking University Press) Civil Litigation Business

“Compilation of litigation cases of a large group company”

Articles:

“Recognition and Enforcement of foreign court decisions, rulings and arbitral awards in our country”

“Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards in China”

“Enforcement of the Arbitral Award of the valuation adjustment agreement dispute”

“Subversive arbitration award – judging the valuation adjustment agreement in the perspective of the spirit of the contract”

“Analysis on a case of share repurchase dispute”

“Handling the dispute of the inconsistencies in the understanding of the purpose of the contract after the acquisition”

“Analysis on a case of dispute over the sale of modern art works”

“Shareholders’ right to know – the reality version of Chinese partners ”

“A Deep Interpretation of the Effectiveness of valuation adjustment agreement – From the Perspective of Foreign Investment”

Recent Honors:

Arbitrator of The China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission

Arbitrator of The Nan Jing Arbitration Commission

Arbitrator of The Wei Fang Arbitration Commission

Mediator of the CCPIT/CCOIC Mediation Center

Member of Professional committee on civil procedure law of Beijing Municipal Lawyers’ Association

Mentor of Beijing Jiao tong University

Mentor of University of International Business and Economics

Special Writer of Fangyuan Legal Magazine

“Asian Law Magazine” China’s Top 15 Litigation Lawyers in 2020

2022 LEGALBAND Power List: Top 15 Arbitration Lawyers

2022 LEGALBAND Top Ranked Lawyers

2022 CBLJ A-List: China’s Elite 100 Lawyers

Lawyer Rankings

China > Dispute resolution: Litigation: PRC firms

One of the most professional law firms in China‘, Commerce & Finance Law Offices‘s dispute resolution practice routinely acts for Chinese central and state-owned enterprises, listed companies and multinationals in major disputes. Among the firm’s several experienced practitioners, Hongji Li is a highly regarded litigation and arbitration specialist; Xiangyu Chen‘s experience includes hundreds of complex litigation and arbitration cases; and Qiang Cui, who is ‘the best choice for complex matters‘, handles cases concerning equity and debt investments, commercial real estate, international trade, IP and unfair competition. The team further strengthened its commercial litigation offering with the hire of Zhao Li who joined from Global Law Office in November 2023. Also key to the group, Fu Chen is an expert in commercial litigation, arbitration, and defence-side economic criminal cases; Mingtao Chen acts in IP disputes; Amin Li assists with cases concerning insider trading, illegal information disclosures and market manipulation; and Hao Yu acts for financial institutions, listed companies and private equity funds in relation to corporate takeover and investment-related disputes.