E-mail: chuxiaoqing@jtn.com
Languages: Mandarin English
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Mr. Chu Xiaoqing, managing partner of Beijing Jincheng Tongda & Neal (Shanghai) Law Firm, qualified to practice law in China, is a senior arbitrator, and serves as a member of the JT&N Supervision and Evaluation Committee and a member of the Executive Committee of the Shanghai Office, and the head of the dispute resolution team of JT&N. Mr. Chu Xiaoqing has rich experience in court representation, arbitrator trial and adjudication experience. His forward-thinking approach and professional acumen have earned him numerous awards for his litigation cases, including being published in the Gazette of the Supreme People's Court as a typical case by the Supreme People's Court, and being awarded the first batch of top 10 typical foreign-related cases in Shanghai and the top 10 typical intellectual property cases in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone. Mr. Chu Xiaoqing has consistently been recognized by Chambers in the fields of Corporate/Commercial and Projects & Infrastructure for several years, and has been honored as one of the Thomson Reuters ALB China Top 15 Litigation Lawyers and the ALB Asian Dispute Resolution Lawyer of the Year 2024 for his outstanding performance in the field of litigation.
Mr. Chu Xiaoqing has extensive experience in handling cases and projects with complex factual and legal relationships, and is one of the few lawyers who specializes in both corporate/commercial dispute resolution litigation and administrative dispute resolution litigation and arbitration, as well as non-litigation projects and transactions, with his extensive experience and forward-thinking expertise in devising tailor-made solutions for his clients. Mr. Chu Xiaoqing is also one of the few lawyers in China who can lead a team of lawyers from other countries to provide multi-jurisdictional and comprehensive legal services for cross-border transactions of Chinese enterprises as a global leading lawyer, and has been selected into the first batch of national foreign-related lawyer talent pool by the Ministry of Justice, and has been rated as a highly recommended lawyer in the field of mergers and acquisitions by the IFLR1000 of the world's leading financial and legal media "International Financial Law Review". Mr Chu has served and is currently serving clients including, but not limited to, CRRC, China Baowu Group, China National Building Material, PetroChina, CITIC Bank, Guotai Junan, Sinochem International, Poly Group, China Great Wall Assets, Chery Holdings, Suzhou Assets and others. Mr Chu also serves as an arbitrator in Shanghai International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission, Shanghai Arbitration Commission, Guangzhou Arbitration Commission and other institutions.
Representative Performance
- CIVIL AND COMMERCIAL LITIGATION、ARBITRATION
- Represented a well-known real estate property service group co., Ltd. in a case of equity transfer (M&A) dispute against the actual controller of a company
- Represented Jiangsu Tianrong Co., Ltd. v. Hunan Haohua Chemical Co., Ltd. (formerly a subsidiary of China National Chemical Co.,Ltd.) in an unfair competition dispute over the unauthorized use of its name in India, which was selected as a typical case in the 10th Gazette of the Supreme People's Court in 2018 and was selected as one of the "Top 10 Classic Cases of Foreign-related Legal Services in Shanghai"
- Represented a port terminal limited company in a retrial case against an industrial development company and other shareholders in a capital contribution dispute
- Represented Huabao Securities Co., Ltd. v Jinhong Holding Group Co., Ltd. (a listed company, stock code: 000669) in a corporate bond repurchase contract dispute
- Represented an intelligent manufacturing and technology service venture capital company in a share repurchase dispute against the actual controller of a company
- Represented a smart industry equity investment fund Co., Ltd. in an arbitration case against a company in an equity repurchase dispute
- Represented an equity investment management partnership (limited partnership) in Shanghai in an arbitration case against an investment limited company in a share repurchase dispute
- Represented a Shanghai Energy Technology Co., Ltd. in a retrial of a guarantee contract dispute and a dispute over negligence in contracting a contract against a city investment and development Co., Ltd
- Represented Shanghai Jianhui Municipal Construction Engineering Co., Ltd. in a dispute over the right of recourse for bills and the declaration of bankruptcy claims against Zhongke Construction Development Corporation
- Represented Shanghai Kangmei Medicine Co.,Ltd. v. Hangzhou Fuyang Traditional Chinese Medicine Orthopedic Hospital in a sales contract dispute
- Represented the Shanghai branch of China Greatwall Asset Management Corporation in the Non-Performing Asset project of Bank of Communications
- Represented an environmental protection power generation company and a water treatment engineering technology limited liability company in a dispute over a sale and purchase contract.
- Represented Anhui Huadong Chemical Medicine Engineering Co.,Ltd. v. Shandong Dongfangyu Lubricating Oil Co., Ltd in a construction engineering design contract dispute
- Represented a new energy vehicle company in a series of sales contract disputes with an information technology company
- Represented Shanghai Huaxi Chemical Industry Science & Technology Co.,Ltd. v. Qingdao Anbang Refining & Chemical Co., Ltd. in a chemical engineering dispute
- REAL ESTATE AND CONSTRUCTION
- Represented a Development Co., Ltd. in a dispute confirming the invalidity of a contract with a certain Industrial Development (Group) Co.，Ltd. and a certain Industrial Co., Ltd. in Shanghai
- Represented a construction company in Zhejiang against a construction materials company in Quanzhou in a dispute over a sales contract related to a construction general contracting project
- Represented a construction and installation company in Ma'anshan City in an arbitration case against a company in the arbitration of a construction project construction subcontract dispute
- Represented a concrete company in Changzhou and a construction group company in Jiangsu in an arbitration case against a material company in Changzhou in a land lease contract dispute dispute
- Represented a chemical and pharmaceutical engineering limited liability company in Anhui Province in a construction engineering design contract dispute case against an industrial group company in Shandong
- Represented a Shanghai real estate company in a dispute over a contract for expropriation and resettlement entrusted by the sub-district office of a people's government
- Represented a real estate development company in Ma'anshan in a contract dispute with a land and housing expropriation management center
- Represented a Shanghai Vehicle Technology R&D Co., Ltd. in a lease contract dispute against an investment management Co., Ltd. and others
- Provided real estate project legal counsel services and perennial legal counsel services for the subsidiaries of Poly Group
- Provided legal counsel services for CRRC and special legal services related to various infrastructure, rail transit projects and cross-border projects such as projects in the United States and Canada
- Provided legal service on investment projects for investment institutions of CIMC which are under China Merchants Group
- Provided legal service on investment and financing, and legal risk management for CEFC, SHIPING ENERGY , HUITENG ENERGY , HONGXIN ENERGY and HANTTON.
- Provided legal services for a well-known real estate group and Jinhua Hopu on the merger and acquisition project of Jinhua New No. 5 Middle School
- Provided legal service on?investment projects of mineral enterprise, natural resource enterprise and hospital in a certain city
- Provided legal services for dozens of real estate development projects of a real estate company
- MERGER AND ACQUISITION
- Provided full-process legal services on investment and financing for many investment agencies, e.g. EVERBRIGHT CAPITAL, GUOYUE JUNAN, ZHUYUAN CAPITAL, XINDE PE, ZHONGXI INVESTMENT, HONG-STONE EQUITY INVESTMENT, HEGAO INVESTMENT and CHUANYI INVESTMENT, etc.
- Provided legal service on acquisition projects for Poly Group and its subsidiaries
- Provided legal service on acquisitions of non-performing asset projects for the Shanghai branch of China Greatwall Asset Management Corporation, including acquisitions of Bank of Dalian's asset package and Bank of Communications' asset package
- Provided legal counsel services related to financing and mergers and acquisitions for Guoyue Junan and its investment institutions
- Provide special legal services for the financing of dozens of high-tech enterprises such as JAKA, KAI MEDTECH, and Kunyi Technology
- Provided special legal services for an oil company in a natural gas equity acquisition project in Quzhou
- Provided special legal services for a listed company new energy platform restructuring financing and Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
- Provided? special legal sercices on?corporation restructuring of multiple??of enterprises owned by the People in a certain city
- Provided special legal services for a construction company in Tibet in its acquisition of an energy development company in Sichuan
- Provided due diligence and full-process legal services for a Shanghai group limited company investing in a private equity fund project
- Provided special legal services for a Shanghai technology company in its acquisition of a petrochemical company
- Provided legal due diligence services for a Shanghai-based industrial technology company in its acquisition of a gas manufacturing company in Suzhou
- Provided special legal services on a cross-border ABN project for a famous auto finance leasing company
- Provided special legal services for a financial leasing company's share transfer and bankruptcy pre-reorganization project
- Provided special legal services for a Shanghai-based technology company to introduce Series B financing
Social Status
- Member, Shanghai Pudong New Area CPPCC
- Member, The Standing Committee of the People
- Director, Shanghai Bar Association
- Chairman, Shanghai Pudong District Youth Federation of Lawyers
- Legal Counsel of the Shanghai Pudong New Area Committee of the Communist Party of China, Shanghai Pudong New Area Government and Management Committee of China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone?
- Vice Director,Pudong District Lawyers Work Committee of Shanghai Bar Association
- Arbitrator, Shanghai International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission
- Arbitrator, Shanghai Arbitration Commission
- Arbitrator, Guangzhou Arbitration Commission
- Arbitrator, Ma’anshan Arbitration Commission
- Director, PE Association of Shanghai(PEAS)
- Director, The Zhejiang Chamber of Commerce, Shanghai(ZCCS)
- Director, The Shanghai Chamber of Commerce in Hangzhou
- Mentor for graduate students, Shanghai National Accounting Institute
Honorary Titles
- Ranked in Asia Legal Business Asian Dispute Resolution Lawyer of the Year 2024 ("ALB Litigators of Asia 2024")
- Ranked in The Legal 500: Recommended Lawyer for Projects and Energy in 2025, Recommended Lawyer for Dispute Resolution (Arbitration), Projects and Energy in 2024, Recommended Lawyer for Projects and Energy in 2023
- Ranked in International Financial Law Review (IFLR1000) China List, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024
- Ranked in Chambers Aisa Pacific Corporate/Commercial: East Coast: Shanghai (PRC Firms) in China, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024
- 2023 ALB China Top 15 Litigators
- "Outstanding Lawyers & Law Firms Recommended by China
- Top 10 Outstanding Young Lawyers in Pudong New Area, Shanghai, 2020
- Top 10 Outstanding Young Persons of Lujiazui Financial City, 2019
- 1000 Talented Lawyers of Foreign Affairs” awarded by the Ministry of Justice of China, 2018
- Advanced individual in judicial administration in Shanghai” by the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Justice, 2017
- Leading law talent in Shanghai Pudong District, 2014 and 2015
Working Experience
- 2013-Present, Beijing Jincheng Tongda & Neal (Shanghai) Law Firm—Senior Partner
- 2008-2013, Shanghai Zhongqi Tai Law Firm—Founding Partner
- 2007-2008, Shanghai Zhongzhu Law Firm—Legal Department I Director
- 2006-2007, Shanghai Yishi Law Firm—Lawyer
Education Background
- Arizona State University, Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) in Finance
- Arizona State University, Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) in Finance
- Heilongjiang University, China, Master of Laws (LLM)
- Eotvos Lorand University
- Anqing Normal University, Bachelor in Politics
Publications
- Legal Thinking: Projection & Application, Law Press, 2012
- Dispute Resolution in Equity Investment - Key Points and Case Analysis on Valuation Adjustment Mechanism and Share Repurchase, Law Press, 2020