Wilberforce Chambers

Zihang joined Chambers in October 2025 following the successful completion of his pupillage. During that time, he gained experience across Chambers’ core areas of work and is now developing a broad commercial chancery practice. He accepts instructions both as sole counsel and as part of a team.

Before coming to the Bar, Zihang worked at a leading international law firm as a legal consultant. He specialised in international commercial arbitration and has experience of high-value disputes under ICC, LCIA and UNCITRAL rules.

Zihang also taught Trusts and Land Law at several colleges at the University of Oxford. His academic writing has been published in leading journals including the Law Quarterly Review and Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly. His work was recently cited with approval by Lord Burrows (dissenting) in Stevens v Hotel Portfolio II UK Ltd [2025] UKSC 28. Before training as a lawyer, Zihang worked as a research intern at a leading policy think tank in Washington D.C..

Zihang read law at the University of Cambridge, graduating with a First Class degree and winning the Clifford Chance David Gottlieb Prize for best performance in his second year. He spent part of his undergraduate studies in the Netherlands reading Art History, before completing the BCL at the University of Oxford on a funded scholarship.

Born and raised in mainland China, he has a strong interest in the Chinese market.

Zihang is a native Mandarin speaker.

BA Law, University of Cambridge (First Class) BCL, University of Oxford

Publications:

Equitable Set Off, Election, and Constructive Trusts [2024] Law Quarterly Review (with Matthew Frey) Non-Assignment Clauses and Involuntary Transfers [2023] Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly (with Eliza Bond) Squaring the Circle: The Account of Profits and the Equitable Allowance [2023] Trust & Trustees (with Eliza Bond)