Jiuguang Zhao is a partner based in Beijing office. His main practice areas encompass domestic litigation, arbitration, alternative dispute resolution of various commercial disputes, as well as business related to corporate liquidation and bankruptcy; he is highly experienced in handling disputes over corporate control, M&A and restructuring, finance, joint venture, asset management contract, and business regarding company’s voluntary liquidation, bankruptcy liquidation and reorganization etc.

Jiuguang Zhao has handled nearly 1,000 litigation and arbitration cases, accumulating extensive practical experiences. He has represented large state-owned enterprises, well-known financial institutions, listed companies and investment institutions etc., handling various civil and commercial cases before courts of different regions, China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission, Beijing Arbitration Commission and other arbitration institutions.

The typical dispute cases Jiuguang Zhao has dealt with include: representing China Light Industrial Products Import and Export Group Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of China General Technology (Group) Holding Co., Ltd., in handling multiple contract disputes with the amount over billions RMB; representing CITIC Securities in handling disputes over a series of stock pledge repurchase contracts; representing HSBC in handling several financial loan disputes; representing a well-known private equity funds to handle disputes related to its investment projects; representing T.C. Pharmaceutical in handling a series of Red Bull Cases regarding corporate control; representing a multinational group of mining machinery in handling disputes over the corporate control of its Chinese subsidiary.

Meanwhile, Jiuguang Zhao and his team have participated in numbers of significant bankruptcy projects as the investors’ legal counsel, creditor agent and bankruptcy administrator, which include: representing a listed company as the investor to participate in consolidated bankrupt reorganization over 11 companies of Dongchen Group; representing a minerals trading company as the investor to participate in bankruptcy reorganization of a company located in Ningxia Province; representing a state-owned bank and a Korean bank as the creditors to participate in consolidated bankruptcy reorganization of Hainan Airlines Group; representing a state-owned bank as the creditor to participate in bankruptcy reorganization of Tewoo Group; representing a large-scale state-owned enterprise and a prestigious solely foreign invested bank as the creditors to participate in bankruptcy reorganization of Bohai Steel Group; representing a joint-stock bank as the major creditor to participate in bankruptcy reorganization of Yunnan Coal Chemical Industry Group (including a listed company Yunwei Stocks); handling bankruptcy liquidation for many enterprises in Beijing as administrator; handling bankruptcy reorganization as the member of administrator for Xinjiang Zhongji Company and Hanchuan CNC Machine Company.

Global Law Office    May 2013 to date
King and Wood Mallesons    Apr. 2003 – May 2013
Jilin Provincial Bureau of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation    Aug.2002 – Apr. 2003

Admitted in the PRC(2005)

Jilin University, LL.B.
Peking University, Master of Laws

• LEGALBAND: Top 15 Litigators of 2021; Recommended Lawyer of 2020 and 2021(Areas of Dispute Resolution and Insolvency)
• Legal 500: Specially Recommended Lawyer of 2019 and 2021 (Dispute Resolution)
• Asialaw Profiles: Full Marks in the 2020 Customer Feedback Report, and the Outstanding Lawyer (Dispute Resolution)
• ALB China: Top 15 Litigators of 2016

The Member of Specialized Committee of Bankruptcy and Liquidation in Beijing Bar Association

The Supervisor of Beijing Bankruptcy Administrators Association

• Participate in writing 2021 Wolters Kluwer Practice Guideline for Corporate Law
• Participate in writing ALB 2020 Asian Bankruptcy Reorganization Manual
• Participate in writing 2020 Wolters Kluwer Practice Guideline for Mergers and Acquisitions of Listed Company
• Participate in the compilation of Planning and Responding to Corporate Litigation by Law Press