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Changyu FU
Equity Partner / Beijing
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Tel +86-10-5957-2288
Email fuchangyu@zhonglun.com
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Practices
Litigation & Arbitration, Compliance & Investigation, Antitrust & Competition
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Industries
Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences
Changyu FU
During her practices over the years, Ms. Fu represented her clients in many civil and commercial cases in court and in front of arbitrators, administrative litigation cases, and even criminal litigation cases. She is particularly skillful and experienced in dealing with corporate affairs, IP protection and disputes in the fields of international commerce and trade and cross-border investment. In addition, Ms. Fu is highly recognized for her ability to identify clients’ most critical interests in a litigation or arbitration case and design the strategy for clients on such basis. Ms. Fu also impresses clients with her excellent skills in approaching technical aspects of disputes, which helps her provide in-depth legal services to clients.
In the area of dispute resolution, Ms. Fu has extensive experience in litigation and arbitration cases on behalf of large state-owned enterprises, listed companies and multinational corporations, and is particularly familiar with the comprehensive handling of highly complex corporate disputes such as control disputes, shareholder disputes and joint ventures. Ms. Fu has successfully completed and is currently handling dozens of control disputes with a cumulative value of hundreds of billions of RMB.
In the area of compliance and investigation, Ms. Fu provides legal advice and services to numerous well-known Chinese and multinational enterprises and companies, helping them design and manage their legal compliance systems. Ms. Fu is well experienced in cooperating and coordinating with various professionals for purpose of compliance review of clients from all aspects and is able to offer constructive solutions for clients. In particular, she is adept at handling and managing corporate legal crisis for clients, including offering creative solutions that avail clients of an expedite and viable way out of crisis.
In particular, in multilateral development bank compliance projects, Ms. Fu Changyu has extensive experience in leading teams to assist domestic and international companies in responding to investigations and lifting bidding sanctions by major multilateral development banks, including the World Bank, ADB and AfDB, and has achieved good results in all completed cases, including significantly shortening the duration of sanctions, downgrading penalties and even waiving penalties through proper investigation response; Ms. Fu has assisted clients in completing the lifting of sanctions by multilateral development banks in a precise and efficient manner, resulting in the successful and even earlier lifting of sanctions.
In the areas of dispute resolution, compliance and investigation, antitrust and competition law, Ms. Fu is highly recognized among Chinese and foreign clients for providing practically feasible and advisable solutions based on her practical experience and professional expertise.
Representative Matters
Dispute Resolution
Represented Peking University Asset Management Co., Ltd. and Peking University Founder Group Co., Ltd. in handling a series of competition proposals for the controlling stake in Founder Group.
Represented the asset management plan of Cinda Securities to obtain the control of the listed company Zhongyida, and assisted the asset management plan in exercising shareholders rights, appointing new management, restoring governance of the listed company, clearing debts and liabilities, disposing of non-performing assets, promoting major asset restructuring and resuming listing.
Represented Jiangxi Province Tourism Group Co. and Dangdai Group in their fight for control of the listed company China United Travel(600358.SH), and assisted the client to restore the governance of the listed company, resume its operation and management, control its subsidiaries/branches, respond to its various company lawsuits.
Represented Bitmain, a leading global blockchain chip design and device manufacturer once valued at CNY 80 billion, in disputes over company control, providing comprehensive legal services involving corporate governance, asset protection, supply chain management, intellectual property and trade secret protection, taxation, etc.
Represented Nomura Securities in disputes over a large syndicated in the amount of USD 190 million.
Represented the founder of the company to be listed in the dispute over the control of the company, dealt with actions such as changing the management team of the controlling shareholder (strategic investor), violently snatching the official seal and certificate, and handling disputes over equity transfer, company resolution, damage to the company's interests, and return of certificates 6 related cases, such as change registration disputes and profit distribution, restored the founder's overall control over the company.
Represented an industry-leading digital technology company in handling a series of disputes involving a Nasdaq delisted Chinese stock company, a controlling shareholder, for allegedly evading capital contributions/appropriation of funds, delisting of shareholders, and company control.
Represented a top 500 domestic private enterprise in handling a cooperation dispute with a state-owned listed company, involving joint venture cooperation, mergers and acquisitions, factoring financing, leasing, taxation and other comprehensive cooperation matters, with a target value of more than CNY 30 billion;
Compliance with Multilateral Development Bank’s Integrity Rules
Assisted a Chinese company and its overseas subsidiaries to deal with the African Development Bank (AfDB)'s sanctions and compliance investigation procedures for its overseas business, and to achieve early lifting of the African Development Bank's sanction.
Assisted a Chinese company to establish and implement a compliance system in line with the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), successfully lifting the cross debarments imposed by the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
Assisted an infrastructure company to build a compliance system and successfully lifted the ban and sanctions of the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
compliance and investigationAssisted a multinational pharmaceutical company in dealing with commercial bribery criminal investigation and litigation.
Assisted a multinational pharmaceutical company in responding to commercial bribery administrative investigations.
Assisted a multinational pharmaceutical company in responding to the administrative investigation of false propaganda.
Medical Law Compliance
Provided daily compliance consulting legal services to GlaxoSmithKline (China), Pfizer, Biogen, Ipsen, Terumo, Asymchem.
Highlight Cases
China’s First Case of Overseas Investment Insurance Involving Confiscation by Russian Government;
China’s First Carbon Reduction Dispute;
China’s First Case Involving Jurisdiction Conflict regarding USA Court Injunction;
China’s First Application for Exemption from Loss of Right of Appeal;
China’s First Unfair-competition Case for Protecting Business Opportunities;
China’s First Unfair-competition Case for Protecting Business Opportunities;
China’s First Case of Online Game Infringement;
China’s First Fund for Protecting Investors on Securities Market;
China’s First Case in Which an offshore investor Successfully Takes Over an Onshore Operating Entity through Litigation;
Honors and Awards
For Individual
China’s TOP 15 Female Lawyers, ALB (ASIAN LEGAL BUSINESS) 2019
China‘s TOP 15 Litigators, ALB (ASIAN LEGAL BUSINESS) 2015
The Legal 500 Recommended Lawyer, 2020-2022
Award for Content Contribution, Wolters Kluwer 2022
Memberships & Affiliations
Adjunct Professor, School of Juris Master in China University of Political Science and Law
Related
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Deals Related
Zhong Lun Assists an ADB-sanctioned Chinese Infrastructure Company in Implementing its Compliance Program and Secures Reinstatement from ADB
Based on extensive experience in providing Chinese companies with services related to dealing with multilateral development bank investigations and implementing compliance programs and in view of the grounds for the sanction, the reinstatement conditions and the characteristics of the company, Zhong Lun tailored a compliance program that meets the requirements of the ADB after full communication with the ADB.
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Events Related
Partners of Zhong Lun Attended the 7th China Anti-Corruption Compliance Forum 2019
During May 30th to May 31st 2019, Mr. Xiangwen LIU and Ms. Changyu FU, partners of Zhong Lun Law Firm, attended the 7th China Anti-Corruption Compliance Forum, made speech and participated in the expert panel discussion respectively.
2019-06-11
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Bar Admissions/Professional Qualifications
PRC Bar
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Education
LL.M., Shandong University Law School
LL.B., Yantai University Law School -
Professional Experience
Zhong Lun law Firm
Junhe Law Firm
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Languages
Chinese
English