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Zhicheng MA

Senior Partner
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Professional Experience

Mr. Ma, a senior partner at Jincheng Tongda & Neal (JT&N), has over 28 years of legal practice experience and has been repeatedly recognized by leading global legal rating agencies, including Asian Legal Business (ALB), Chambers & Partners, The Legal 500, and China Business Law Journal. His practice focuses on infrastructure and construction, energy and natural resources, and cross-border dispute resolution.

In the infrastructure and construction sector, Mr. Ma combines deep legal insight with extensive practical experience across the entire project lifecycle. His expertise spans investment and financing, transaction structuring, contract management, project execution, claims and settlements, as well as cross-border litigation and international arbitration arising from major domestic and international infrastructure projects.

In the energy and mining sector, Mr. Ma has led numerous foreign-related litigation matters, international commercial arbitration, and investment arbitration cases arising from investment of overseas mining industries, mine construction, and mining project operations. He has pragmatic and well-grounded mastery of international arbitration strategy, enforcement of arbitral awards, and judicial review in multiple jurisdictions.

Representative Performance

  • Representative Dispute Resolution Matters
    • Represented China Power Construction Group’s Shandong subsidiary in a construction contract dispute arising from a power plant project in Vietnam.
    • Represented a state-owned construction company in an international subcontracting dispute arising from a project in Kazakhstan.
    • Represented a state-owned company in a dispute concerning investments in nonferrous mining and mine construction projects in Pakistan.
    • Represented Huashang International Engineering Co., Ltd. in a construction project dispute with E-Mart Korea.
    • Represented a Petroleum Company in a construction contract dispute in the UAE.
    • Represented a international construction company in a EPC construction project dispute in Mexico.
    • Represented Ningbo Huaxiang in a joint venture dispute with Grupo Antolin irausa, SA.
    • Represented Shanghai Zhenhui Mechanical and Electrical Automation Engineering Co., Ltd. in a sales contract dispute with Honeywell, etc.
    • Represented Jigang Group International Trade Co., Ltd. in a sales contract dispute with China Bolivian (Nigeria) Co., Ltd.
    • Represented China Minmetals Assets in a dispute over joint development with Shenzhen China Construction Industry.
    • Represented Hong Kong Xuhui Group in a dispute over a joint venture development project.
    • Represented MCC Real Estate (Qingdao) Co., Ltd. in a dispute over joint venture development with Linyi Wancheng Real Estate.
    • Represented CP Commercial Development (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. in a dispute over joint venture development with China Merchants Real Estate.
    • Represented Hohhot Customs in a dispute over joint venture development with Wanming Real Estate.
    • Represented Seazen Holdings in a series of lease contract disputes with H&M.
    • Represented Parkson Group in a lease contract dispute with Hong Kong Sony Group.
    • Represented Huaye Science and Engineering Group in a PPP project construction contract dispute with Shuicheng Investment and Construction Group.
    • Represented Xiamen Zhonglian Yongheng Construction Group in a construction contract dispute with Guiyang Residential Investment and Construction Group.
    • Represented Huaye Science and Engineering Group in a construction contract dispute with Guangxi Guilin Yufeng Industrial Co., Ltd.
    • Represented Beijing Jingold Construction Co., Ltd. in a construction contract dispute with Langfang Yutai Company.
    • Represented Beijing Jingold Construction Co., Ltd. in a construction contract dispute with Beijing Siasun Real Estate.
    • Represented Shanghai Xinyi Department Store in a construction contract dispute with Shanghai Liangdian Construction Engineering Company.
    • Represented Lotus Market in a renovation construction contract dispute at Shanghai Tailin Industrial Shopping Center.
  • Representative Legal Advisory Matters
    • Ministry of Natural Resources Legal Advisory Project
    • Legal Advisory Project for China Three Gorges Corporation
    • China Shipbuilding Group Legal Advisory Project
    • Legal advisory project for Minmetals Asset Management Co., Ltd.
    • Legal advisory project for Capital Airport Co., Ltd.
    • Beijing Affordable Housing Investment Center Project
    • Legal advisory project for China Construction Group
    • Legal advisory project for China Huaye Science and Engineering Group
    • China Energy Engineering Group Legal Advisory Project

Social Status

  • Arbitrator, Beijing Arbitration Commission (BAC), China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (SCIA)
  • Deputy Secretary-General, Real Estate Professional Committee of the China Arbitration Law Society
  • Member, Legal Committee of the China Real Estate Association
  • Member, Legal Committee of the National Association of Financial Market Institutional Investors

Education Background

  • EMBA, China Europe International Business School
  • Master of Civil and Commercial Law, China University of Political Science and Law
  • Bachelor of Laws, Anhui University