MERITS & TREE - Key Persons
Bin Li is a partner at Merits & Tree. Prior to joining M&T, Ms. Li worked in a procuratorate for more than ten years and was awarded the title of Excellent Public Prosecutor and Top Ten Researchers, etc. She was a lawyer at Tian Tong Law Firm and the head of the Wusong Research Institute. She served as the consulting director of Gridsum Technology and the senior product manager of PingAn's legal technology section.
Jasen Li is a partner at Merits & Tree. Prior to joining Merits & Tree, Mr. Li has respectively worked at JunHe Law Firm and Zhonglun Law Firm for many years.
Jean Zhu is a partner at Merits & Tree. Prior to joining Merits & Tree, Jean worked as a core team member for Pinsent Masons Alliance for years and temporarily worked at Pinsent Masons London Office during that period of time. Jean also worked respectively as a senior associate and counsel for JunHe LLP and Herbert Smith Freehills JLO for years.
Jean has a combined background with material, engineering and law. She also passed the CSDG (Certificate for Specialists in Demand Guarantees) exam. Jean specialises in construction and commercial dispute resolution. Jean is a commercial and construction dispute lawyer with particular experience in international and domestic construction, cross-border transactions, international trade, insurance, bond, products liability related disputes. Jean has acted on arbitrations under various institutional rules including ICC, CIETAC, BAC, SHIAC and also ad hoc arbitration under UNCITRAL rules as well as litigations at different levels of domestic courts. Jean is recognised by Who's Who Legal in chapter of China 2020 - Construction and Mainland China and Hong Kong SAR 2021.
Jing He is a partner at Merits & Tree. Prior to joining Merits & Tree, Ms. He was judge of two Intermediate People's Courts in Beijing with trial experience of 8 years.
Ms. He has rich experience in intellectual property and competition law, family law, and civil and commercial dispute resolution. Ms. He has worked on a number of significant cases of industry-leading enterprises regarding intellectual property rights and competition law, such as patents, trademarks, copyrights and unfair competition. Ms. He has served clients in the fields of internet, medicine and health, life sciences，culture, entertainment and media, consumers goods and retail, education, advanced manufacture, and emerging industries. Ms. He specializes particularly in developing dispute solutions from multiple perspectives of Judge thinking mode and business mind, to win the best business and legal results.
Kai Liu is a partner at Merits & Tree. Prior to joining Merits & Tree, Mr. Liu had worked at the Commerce and Finance Law Offices, Boss & Young Attorney At Law.
Mr. Liu has been specializing in the field of dispute resolution since his career, had handled a number of representative litigation and arbitration cases. Mr. Liu had accumulated rich practical experience in the fields of civil and commercial dispute resolution, non-performing assets, special opportunity investment, family service and wealth management. Mr. Liu is skilled in providing clients with professional, high-quality and efficient dispute resolution. Mr Liu has provided legal services to numerous well-known funds, asset management companies, banks, investment companies, trust companies, financial leasing companies, film and television companies(including a number of famous listed companies), the industries involved including baking and finance, TMT, education, real estate, manufacturing, retail&consumption, entertainment and sports, etc.
Mr. Zhong's main practice areas include Investment Funds (including government-guided funds, market-oriented mother funds, private equity funds, QFLP and QDLP funds), Banking and Finance (including regional financial innovation and regulation, bank and syndicated loans, insurance fund investments, trust and securities asset management, and other financial asset management), PE/VC, M&A (including both debt and equity investment and financing activities), and Dispute Resolution from the above fields (including post-investment management, litigation, and arbitration).
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Mr. Li is well-experienced in the areas of human resources and labor relations. Mr. Li has represented clients to deal with hundreds of complicated labor disputes, especially in the cases of termination of corporate executives, collective disputes, equity incentive and competition restriction disputes; provided comprehensive legal service in establishing confidentiality systems, designing equity incentive schemes, conducting compliance investigations and resignation negotiations, etc.; dealt with labor issues in large-scale M&A and re-organization.
Mr. Li has rich experience in various kinds of civil and commercial disputes, he has provided high-quality legal service in litigation and arbitration for clients, including banks, securities companies, insurance companies, fund management companies, factoring companies and financial leasing companies. Mr. Li specializes in the banking and financial fields, including trust and asset-backed securitization. Mr. Li has provided comprehensive legal service for various trust, asset-backed securitization, asset management and bond financing projects.
Mr. Li has provided legal service for multinational companies, including Sino-Ocean Group, Sinolink Securities, LC Securities, China Life, the Export-import Bank of China, Zhongrong Trust, Haier Lease, Tang Wealth, NIO, I-tage, MXBC, Starbucks, BMS, GSK, etc., the industries of which cover banking and finance, medicine and medical institutions, TMT, high-end manufacturing, consumption and so on.
Qi Wu is a partner at Merits & Tree. Prior to joining Merits & Tree, Mr. Wu served as the head of the trial team in the court, and successively served as the legal head of a financial company, a listed auto parts company, and a medical device company.
Mr. Wu's practice areas are dispute resolution, mergers & acquisitions, regulatory and compliance. He is good at handling civil and commercial disputes, especially financial disputes, foreign trade disputes, company equity disputes and labor disputes. He is also good at providing compliance services from the perspective of disputes/risk prevention and control. Mr. Wu has worked in the court for 14 years, as the head of the trial team, hearing more than 3700 civil, commercial and financial cases. He is good at providing risk solutions for customers with the combination of judge thinking and business thinking; he has also presided over a number of cross-border investment and M & A projects for German and Japanese enterprises; his service areas cover finance, real estate, medical, high-end manufacturing, foreign trade, etc.
Qinggu Ru is a partner at Merits & Tree. Prior to joining at Merits & Tree, Mr. Ru worked for several leading high-tech companies such as Huawei, Yutong Bus, OPPO, Skyworth, etc. He held the positions of senior legal manager, senior overseas legal director, vice president and director of strategy, legal compliance, intellectual property, and operations. He has also worked as a senior consultant for a domestic law firm.
Stone (Sitong) Huang is a partner at Merits & Tree. Before Joining Merits & Tree, Mr. Huang was a partner at Dentons LLP, a Senior Legal Counsel and Special Expert Counsel in Walmart China, and a senior associate at JunHe LLP.
Mr. Huang specializes in mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, foreign direct investments, outbound investments, capital markets, corporate governance and compliance. Mr. Huang has been recognized as the Leading Talent for Foreign-Related Legal Services by Nanshan Judicial Bureau of Shenzhen, he has provided a wide range of legal services to multinational companies, giant SOE, investment banks and private equity funds, and he has eminent experience in cross-border transactions and commercial negotiations, especially in the fields of advanced manufacturing, energy, TMT, life science and healthcare, real estate. Mr. Huang has provided legal services to clients from the US, Europe, India, etc. for their investments and business in China, and has represented Chinese enterprises in their various transactions in the UK, Australia, Korea, and Southeast Asia.
Wenhao Chen is a partner at Merits & Tree. Prior to joining in Merits & Tree, Mr. Chen was a partner at AllBright Law Offices. Mr. Chen also worked at Kirkland & Ellis, King & Wood Mallesons and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe.
Mr. Chen mainly practices in corporate compliance, cyber security, anti-bribery, corporate internal investigation, government regulatory matters and disputes resolution. Mr. Chen frequently provides service to the clients from industries such as big data, internet, Hi-Tech, medical devices, automobile parts manufacture, retail, construction engineering, etc.
Mr. Chen has extensive experience in company internal investigation and assists clients dealing with governmental regulatory and investigation. Mr. Chen also advises clients in white collar crimes and critical incidents. Mr. Chen's compliance experience relates to matters of data security and personal information protection, anti-bribery, anti-unfair competition, anti-monopoly, internal fraud, consumer protection, etc.
Mr. Chen represented clients in multiple types of contentious cases before PRC courts, including construction and real estate disputes, corporate control contest, investment disputes, labor disputes and tort disputes.
Xiaoxing Guo is a partner at Merits & Tree. Prior to joining Merits & Tree, Mr. Guo worked in Commerce & Finance Law Offices.
Zheyuan Jin is a partner at Merits & Tree. Prior to joining Merits & Tree, Mr. Jin worked in DS Avocats Paris and Shanghai City Development Law Firm.
Mr. Jin was a member of the consulting experts in the field of construction and engineering in the World Bank's "Doing Business 2019" report.