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  • Li HAO

    Equity Partner / Hangzhou

  • Tel +86-571-56921222

    Email haoli@zhonglun.com

  • Practices

    Construction & Project Development, Investment/M&A & Corporate Governance, Litigation & Arbitration

  • Industries

    Urban Infrastructure, Energy & Power

CV

Li HAO

Mr. Li HAO has been practicing law in energy and power industry more than 20 years. He has accumulated profound understanding and rich practical experience in the development and construction, investment and financing, mergers and acquisitions of energy projects, especially focusing on the new energy area, such as wind power, photovoltaic, energy storage projects. His professional ability and dedication have won the trust and praise of many central state-owned enterprises and large enterprise groups, including SPIC, CEEC, CR Power and so on. In recent years, he has led his team to serve hundreds of energy and infrastructure projects and represented a large number of complicated and significant cases related to EPC general contracting, construction, project financing and equity trading, etc., and has achieved great results.
Mr. Hao Li has published dozens of professional papers in magazines such as "Tendering & Purchasing Management". He has edited and published professional books, such as "Legal Practice of Development, Construction, Investment and M&A in New Energy Projects", which have been widely praised by the industry. He has been listed as the Leading Energy & Natural Resources Lawyer by Chambers & Partners since 2013.

Representative Matters

Representative Cases

  • Legal consultant for large enterprise groups, such as China Energy Engineering Group Planning & Engineering Co., Ltd., TBEA Co., Ltd. (600089.SH), Zhejiang Provincial Energy Group Co., Ltd., and Zhongtian Development Holdings Group Co., Ltd. and so on.

  • Advised China National Nuclear Corporation on the development and construction of several nuclear projects, such as Sanmen Nuclear Project, Fuqing Nuclear Projects.

  • Advised Shenhua Guohua Ninghai Power station on the development and construction of more than 30 coal-fired and natural gas-fired power projects.

  • Advised on infrastructure development and construction projects, such as Yongtaiwen Natural Gas Pipeline Project, North-Xiaoyangshan Land Reclamation Project.

  • Advised on General contracting projects, such as Zhanjiang Xuwen Offshore Wind Power Project, Ezhou Power Station Third Thermal Power Project, Zhejiang Daily Digital Culture Group Co., LTD Internet Date Center Project.

  • Advised China Resources Power Holdings Co. Ltd. on multiple wind power and photovoltaic acquisition projects.

  • Advised State Power Investment Ronghe Investment Co., Ltd. on hundreds of development and acquisition projects in new energy area.

  • Advised China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group Co., Ltd. on the financing of multiple offshore wind power projects.

  • Advised a Zhejiang new energy fund on the acquisition of multiple photovoltaic power station of Jinko Power Co., Ltd.

  • Advised a Ningxia infrastructure company on the selling of 1.5GW wind power projects.

  • Advised Beijing Jingneng International Holding Co., Ltd. on the acquisition of dozens of hydropower, wind power and photovoltaic power projects.

  • Advised Guangdong new energy fund on the acquisition of multiple wind power projects in Henan province and Anhui Province.

  • Advised Huaneng Tiancheng Financial Leasing Corporation Limited on the legal due diligence and financing lease of multiple photovoltaic projects in Jiangxi province and Ningxia province.

  • Advised Zhejiang Zheneng Electric Power Co., Ltd. on the investing of the nuclear projects of CGN Cangnan Nuclear Power Co., Ltd.

  • Advised POWERCHINA Huadong Engineering Corporation Limited on the sorting of legal risks in new energy business project.

  • Advised China Energy Engineering Group Planning & Engineering Co., Ltd. on the construction of Compliance management system.


Representative Cases in litigation and arbitration

  • Represented a Zhejiang real estate company in a land grant contract completion delay dispute (Target amount CNY 2 billion).

  • Represented in a litigation of financing lease contract dispute of a wind power project in Jiangsu province (Target amount CNY 600 million).

  • Represented in a litigation of general contracting dispute of thermal power project in Tajikistan (Target amount CNY 300 million).

  • Represented in a litigation of project settlement dispute of a thermal power station in Henan province (Target amount CNY 180 million).

  • Represented a Zhejiang natural gas company in an arbitration of purchasing and sale contract dispute (Target amount CNY 150 million).

  • Represented a hydropower station in Gansu province in the litigation of construction management contract dispute (Target amount CNY 150 million).

  • Represented in a litigation of EPC general contract dispute of a distributed photovoltaic power generation project in Shanghai (Target amount CNY 130 million).

  • Represented in the second trial of an EPC general contract dispute of a PX project in Fujian province, which was appealed to the supreme court (Target amount CNY 100 million).

  • Represented in a litigation of EPC general contract dispute of a power center of a paper producing company in Guangxi (Target amount CNY 100 million).

  • Represented in a litigation of photovoltaic module procurement contract dispute of Nei Mongol project of a photovoltaic company in Jiangsu province.

  • Represented in an arbitration of a letter of guarantee dispute of a photovoltaic project in Jordan.

  • Represented in an arbitration of real estate construction contract dispute in Hangzhou.

  • Represented a photovoltaic company in Jiangsu province in an EPC general contract dispute of photovoltaic projects in Qinghai province.

  • Represented in a litigation of construction contract dispute of thermal power station in Henan province.

  • Represented a listed environmental company in Beijing in a dispute over the sale and purchase contract of equipment.

  • Represented a listed company in Hangzhou in a dispute over the quality of a photovoltaic film.

  • Represented a thermal power company in Taizhou, Zhejiang province in a dispute over a contract for the supply of heat.

  • Represented a central state-owned energy company in a series of land infringement disputes over a wind farm in Guizhou province.

  • Represented in an arbitration of a PPP contract dispute over a waste-to-energy project in Zhejiang Province.

  • Represented a nuclear power station in Fujian in an administrative litigation over a dispute of marine environmental licensing.

  • Represented in a series of administrative litigation of 220kV transmission and substation project in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province.

  • Represented in an administrative litigation on the revocation of mining rights of a stone mine in Yunhe County, Zhejiang Province

  • Represented in an litigation of Mr. Wang v. National Development and Reform Commission and a central enterprise over the dispute of the revocation of an approval of a project.

Honors and Awards

For Individual

Leading Energy & Natural Resources Lawyer, Chambers & Partners, 2013-2023

Leading Lawyer, Energy and Infrastructure Work (IFLR), 2021-2023

Litigation Star, Construction and Real Estate, Benchmark Litigation, 2021-2022

Highly Recommended Individuals, Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2020-2022

Leading Lawyer, Asialaw Profiles, 2019

China Client Choice Top 20, ALB, 2016

Leading Lawyer for Energy and Infrastructure Work, IFLR, 2016

Leading Energy & Natural Resources Lawyer ,Asialaw Profiles, 2016

Outstanding Young Lawyer, Lawyers Association of Zhejiang, 2009

Memberships & Affiliations

Member, Professional Committee on Environment, Resources and Energy Law of All China Lawyers Association

Tendering& Bidding Expert, China Tendering & Bidding Association

Member of the Chartered institute of Building

Arbitrator, Hangzhou Arbitration Commission

Publications

Legal Practice of Legal Practice of Development, Construction, Investment and M&A in New Energy Projects, China Planning Press, 2020

Model Text of Cooperation Agreement for Government and Social Capital Cooperation PPP Projects (for Trial Implementation), China Planning Press, 2018

Questions and Answers on Legal Practice of Bidding and Tendering of Engineering Construction Projects and Case Analysis, Construction Industry Publishing House, 2012

Big Data Analysis of Judicial Jurisprudence on Contract Invalidation due to Bidding and Tendering Violations

Analysis of Legal Liability of Project Failure to Pass Approval after PPP Contract Signing

Related

  • Bar Admissions/Professional Qualifications

    PRC Bar

  • Education

    LL.M., Zhejiang University, 2001
    Zhejiang University of Political Science and Law, 1998

  • Professional Experience

    Partner, Zhong Lun Law Firm, 2017 to present
    Partner, Sunshine Law Firm, 2001-2007

  • Languages

    Chinese
    English