In the field of litigation and arbitration, Dr. Zhang has provided legal services for numerous well-known financial and quasi-financial institutions such as banks, securities firms, funds, leasing companies, factoring companies, as well as central enterprises, state-owned enterprises, and foreign-funded companies, handling hundreds of debt-related and commercial litigation cases in various high courts, intermediate courts (including financial courts), and primary courts in the Yangtze River Delta region. 

Classic cases include:

• Advocating in a financial leasing contract dispute case in a certain intermediate court and winning, which was selected as one of the “Yangtze River Delta Financial Trial Model Cases".

• Advocating in a factoring contract dispute case for a certain investment company and winning, selected as a “Guangdong Court's Implementation of the Civil Code Model Cases".

• Advocating for a well-known securities firm in a stock pledge repurchase dispute arbitration case, obtaining a favorable arbitration award and subsequently Advocating in in the execution stage, facilitating the smooth recovery of the debt for the client.

• Advocating in a property damage compensation dispute case for a well-known securities firm (at the trial, appellate, execution, and retrial stages), achieving substantial progress.

• Advocating in a securities false statement dispute case for a well-known asset management company acting as an intermediary, at the appellate stage in the Shanghai High Court.

• Advocating in a trust loan contract dispute case between a trust company and a well-known enterprise in Jiangsu, swiftly initiating legal proceedings, laying the foundation for subsequent case resolution.

• Advocating for a financial leasing company in a financial leasing contract dispute case in the Shanghai High Court and winning at the trial stage, swiftly completing asset preservation.

• Advocating for plaintiffs in contract dispute cases applying for retrial in the Jiangsu High Court, ultimately overturning the original judgment and obtaining support for the plaintiffs' main claims.

• Advocating for multiple financial leasing companies in appellate cases at the Shanghai Financial Court, where, after being determined as “leasing in name but lending in substance" in the trial, the appellate court revised the judgment to establish the legal relationship of financial leasing.

• Advocating for multiple creditors in major contract disputes and guarantee disputes against listed companies.

Currently, Dr. Zhang serves as a long-term legal advisor to several financial institutions, large state-owned enterprises, central enterprises, financial leasing and commercial factoring companies, and listed companies. At the same time, Dr. Zhang also provides clients with comprehensive legal services, including full-process legal services for financial leasing and commercial factoring companies, such as company establishment, merger and acquisition of peer companies, mixed-ownership reform of state-owned enterprises, employee shareholding, full set of contract drafting, non-standard transaction structure establishment, pre-investment legal compliance due diligence, compliance legal opinions, legal training, and various other specialized legal services. 

Classic non-litigation projects include:

• Providing full-process legal services for a certain investment group to establish a financial leasing company in the Macao Special Administrative Region and successfully obtaining approval from the Chief Executive of the Macao SAR.

• Providing legal services for SAIC Group, jointly investing with Sinopec, PetroChina, CATL, and other companies, to establish a new energy battery exchange technology company with a registered capital of several billion RMB.

• Providing legal services for a state-owned financial leasing company to acquire a commercial factoring company with a state-owned background.

• Providing full-process legal services for a state-owned financial leasing company and a financial leasing company to transfer assets worth billions in a new energy distributed photovoltaic leasing asset transfer project.

• Conducting specialized legal due diligence for numerous financial leasing companies and financial leasing companies on pre-lease industrial due diligence.

• Providing specialized legal opinion services on the eligibility of leased assets for numerous financial leasing companies and financial leasing companies.

• Drafting, reviewing, and revising standard leasing contract templates and non-standard contract texts involving with various types of business for dozens of well-known financial leasing companies and financial leasing companies.