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Fangrong WU
Equity Partner / Hangzhou
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Email wufangrong@zhonglun.com
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Practices
Litigation & Arbitration, Investment/M&A & Corporate Governance, Compliance & Investigation
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Industries
Real Estate, Tourism & Hospitality, Telecommunications & Internet
Fangrong WU
Mr. Fangrong Wu focuses on litigation and arbitration, M&A and corporate governance, compliance and investigation, and has been practicing law for more than 22 years. With exceptional professionalism and rich experience, Mr. Wu is adept at litigation and compliance, providing comprehensive, targeted, and efficient legal services to clients in the sectors of real estate, media, and technology, which has won him the trust and praise of clients.
He has been recommended for many consecutive years by international authoritative legal rating agencies such as Chambers and Partners, The Legal 500, and asialaw Profile. The Chambers Greater China Guide (2025) cited his client feedback as "Wu Fangrong's team are highly professional. In an increasingly complex market environment, they help our company seize business opportunities, identify risks, and handle disputes.", and "He is commercially minded and has a wide range of resources at his disposal. He is really experienced in the practice area and has a really good reputation in the field."
Representative Matters
In the field of litigation involving various industries, Mr. Wu has successfully won hundreds of litigation cases on behalf of his clients, including many difficult and complicated litigation and arbitration cases involving many entities and huge amounts of money, which are of landmark relevance and great social influence. In particular, Mr. Wu has an excellent track record in handling benchmarking cases such as group litigation, corporate law disputes, investment disputes concerning start-ups, and litigation over shareholders' rights and interests, which is a testament to his remarkable astuteness and finesse.
In the field of compliance, Mr. Wu has provided legal services for hundreds of projects of many industry heavyweights, including Greentown, Zhonghai, Renheng Land, Zhejiang Jiangong Real Estate Group, Hangzhou Urban Construction Development Group, Zhejiang Zhi Tongren Group, Huaxia Sunshine Real Estate, Teng Yue Network Science and Technology, GTC Real Estate, Anhui Land, Sheng'ao, Zhan zheng, Rongxin, Poly, and China Merchants, assisting real estate enterprises in establishing compliance systems and preventing legal risks throughout project cycles. He has also completed a number of M&A and co-development projects on behalf of clients such as Teng Yue Network Technology, Cinda, Sino-Ocean, Lon ghu, Greentown, Poly, etc., and excels in identifying and dealing with all kinds of risks and compliance matters arising in the course of transactions.
Major Litigation
Property Development
Represented a real estate development company in cases concerning administrative and civil issues with potentially hundreds of property owners, including a series of administrative disputes over non-performance of statutory duties and a series of civil cases on claims for price reductions and price differentials, securing favorable results for all of the cases and sparing the client hundreds of millions of yuan in direct losses
Provided legal services to a real estate development company in the second instance proceedings of a dispute over mass claims in commercial property pre-sale contracts (more than twenty cases) and won the case, which involved disputes over potentially hundreds of homes in the project and directly spared the client hundreds of millions of yuan of additional losses
Represented a development company in an underwriting contract dispute of hundreds of millions of yuan filed by a marketing planning company in Zhejiang and won the case
Represented a Zhejiang-based commercial company in its dispute with a Beijing-based information technology company over a lease contract for co-located buildings (first and second instances) and won the case
Represented the defendant in a group action brought by 14 property owners over price variance of villas developed by the defendant, and won all the cases, sparing the client potential future claims
Represented a property development company in multiple group litigation cases brought by property owners revoke decoration agreements and claim compensation, winning the case while ensuring smooth project delivery and sparing the client nearly CNY 100 million worth of compensation
Represented a development company in a case filed by a property owner seeking to invalidate the supplemental agreement clause in the sale and purchase contract of a commercial property, winning the case and having all the opposing party's claims dismissed while ensuring the compliance of the client's entire documentation
Represented a company in a case filed by a property owner seeking to invalidate a remodeling agreement and have the remodeling fee returned, winning the case and have all the opposing party's claims dismissed while recovering tens of millions of yuan in damages
Represented a real estate company in a series of cases, in which a group of property owners of Vanke Qianjiang Bay Garden project refused the delivery of properties and made claims for compensation, and won the cases (first of its kind in Hangzhou)
Represented a development company in one of the first-ever group litigation cases in Hangzhou, in which the property owner of Zhonghai Wisteria Court project applied to rescind the terms of the supplementary agreement on the sale and purchase of commercial properties, and won the case
Acted for various development companies in a number of cases involving the delayed delivery of commercial properties, delayed issuance of certificates, breach of contract, and housing quality warranty claims, achieving a high success rate in such cases
Construction Engineering
Represented a construction company in a number of landmark cases involving settlement of payment for construction and claims for delay in construction, and achieved the outcomes as expected
Represented investors/construction companies in a number of cases involving construction contract disputes between the actual builder and the construction company, and won the cases
Acted for investors/construction companies in a number of cases involving the determination of the nature and validity of construction contracts, construction quality claims and settlement of construction payments, and won the cases
Represented a project management service provider in a case to recover project management fees from the construction company and won the case
Represented a general contractors and the employers in a number of cases involving construction contract disputes between the subcontractors and the employers, and won the cases
Represented a design and engineering company in a construction contract dispute with a construction company over disputes over entities, supervisor objections, etc., sparing the client tens of millions of yuan in losses
Corporate Equity and Administrative Mandates
Represented Teng Yue N etwork Technology in a case against Hangzhou Certain Network Technology Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Certain Enterprise Management Consulting Partnership over equity repurchase and recovered the investment losses for the client
Assisted a client in regaining effective control of a project company in a series of disputes over a real estate company's shareholding interests, official seal and confirmation of the company's operation rights and won the case
Represented the Hangzhou Municipal Construction Committee in several cases brought by individuals against the committee over the performance of statutory duties and won the cases
Represented Hangzhou Municipal Construction Committee in several cases brought by individuals against the committee for information disclosure and won the cases
Acted for a third-party development company in a number of administrative litigation cases in which the owner sued the administrative authority, requesting for revocation of the completion inspection record form, planning permission and acceptance, fire inspection, pre-sale permit, and quality supervision report, and won the cases
Represented a development company in a series of administrative litigation cases brought by the owner in relation to various administrative acts such as bundled sales, pre-sale permits, planning and acceptance, and completion and acceptance, and won the cases with such administrative acts upheld by the court
Represented a development company in an enforcement hearing case against a housing and construction administrative unit in Hangzhou, winning the case and having the enforcement application dismissed by the court
Represented a development company in a series of disputes with project owners and government agencies regarding noise pollution and Negotiorum Gestio in the surrounding areas of the project, and effectively defended the client's rights and interests
Project M&A and Investment
Provided legal services to Zhejiang Teng ue Network Technology Co., Ltd. (Tencent Dazhe.com) for its investment in a number of internet companies, services including due diligence, transaction structuring, drafting of transaction documents, negotiation, and closing, as well as other issues concerning M&A
Provided full-range legal services to G5 Capital (a national-level mass innovation space in the Future Science and Technology City filed with the Ministry of Science and Technology) for technology innovation and two-way cross-border investment and financing, as well as other investment and incubation projects
Provided legal services for several bailout transactions of Cinda Real Estate in Zhejiang Province and provided legal support for the client's real estate bailout and efforts to comply with the government's mandatory delivery of real estate project policies
Provided legal services concerning agreement review, document drafting, structuring, pathway and risk argumentation, and negotiation to numerous clients in the real estate sector in terms of land acquisition and joint development projects
Provided legal services including due diligence, transaction structuring, drafting of transaction documents, negotiation, and others to Cinda Real Estate in relation to an investment and cooperation project in Xiaoshan, Hangzhou
Provided Greentown Group with services including due diligence, drafting and revision of transaction documents in relation to an acquisition project in Jinhua
Provided Cinda Asset and Cinda Real Estate with services including due diligence, transaction structuring, drafting and negotiation of transaction documents in relation to investment, financing and M&A as well as an urban renewal project in Ganzhou
Advised China Eastern Asset Management Corporation on the acquisition of non-performing debts held by a trust company
Provided due diligence services to Hangzhou Gold Investment Property Management Co.
Provided legal services for due diligence to several listed real estate enterprises participating in the hybrid reform projects of state-owned real estate companies
Provided legal services for Longfor Group's acquisition of several property management companies and projects in East and South China, including due diligence, transaction structuring, drafting of transaction documents, negotiation, closing, etc.
Provided M&A-related legal services, including due diligence, drafting of transaction documents, negotiation, and others, for Sino-Ocean Pension's acquisition of a medical and health care project
Provided legal services for due diligence, transaction structuring, drafting of transaction documents, negotiation, division of property, and closing for Sino-Ocean Land's acquisition of Hangzhou Jiulongwan project (village land reservation project)
Provided legal services, including due diligence, for the acquisition of real estate projects in Ningbo and Hangzhou by Sunrise Property
Provided legal services including due diligence, transaction structuring, drafting of transaction documents, negotiation, and so on for the acquisition of Xiaoshan Innovation Land by Pro Property
Provided due diligence legal services for a number of joint development projects in the southern region of Zhejiang for Poly
Provided legal services to various projects in Hangzhou and Zhoushan, including due diligence, transaction structuring, drafting of transaction documents, negotiation, and closing
Park Construction and Industrial Properties
Advised Huaxia Sunshine Real Estate on the successful change of business license and launch of Hangzhou Intercontinental Luxury Hotel
Provided comprehensive legal services for Zhejiang Construction Industry Property Group's EAC, EFC, and EIC projects in office, commercial property, and shopping mall
Provided full process legal services for the development and construction of Sheng'ao Group's furniture manufacturing innovation and entrepreneurship base project (a key project in Xiaoshan District)
Provided full-process legal services for the development and construction of the AIOT Intelligent Office IOT Important Production Center Project of Sentinel Group Furniture in South China
Provided comprehensive legal services for a number of office projects such as Wulin Times, Huan Yu World, Sheng Ao Tower, and Zhonghai Qianjiang International Centre
Provided full-range legal services for a number of new real estate complex projects in Hangzhou, accumulating extensive experience in legal matters such as development timeframe of complexes, sales model innovation, property subdivision and business management, and handling of serviced flats
Represented the owner of a hotel in Hangzhou in negotiations with Marriott International Group in relation to the management of Renaissance Hotel and Marriott Executive Apartments, made amendments to the hotel management contract and related agreements, and assisted in the successful introduction of the corresponding hotel management brand
Represented SOHO3Q in connection with the lease of the Hangzhou Fortune Financial Center in Qianjiang New Town, providing legal services for due diligence, modification of the lease contract and related agreements, as well as contract negotiation and execution
Represented Guazi to successfully complete the leasing and expansion of the guaranteed sales operation sites in Hangzhou and Jiaxing, providing legal services including due diligence, modification of transaction documents, contract negotiation, etc.
Assisted in the preparation, negotiation, and implementation of contracts relating to the leasing and operation management of supermarkets, cinemas, department stores, and other projects
Honors and Awards
Band 3 in Corporate/Commercial Law: Zhejiang: Litigation, Chambers Greater China Guide, 2025
Recommended in Real Estate, Chambers Greater China Region Legal Guide, 2023-2025
Notable Practitioner in Real Estate, asialaw Profiles, 2022-2024
Leading Individuals & Recommended Lawyer (Zhejiang), The Legal 500 Asia Pacific List, 2022-2025
Recommended in Real Estate The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific, 2021
Individual Award, Hangzhou Lawyers Association, 2018
Excellent Professional Lawyer (Real Estate), Zhejiang Lawyers Association, 2018
The Third Excellent Professional Lawyer (Real Estate), Zhejiang Provincial Lawyers Association, 2012
Outstanding Young Lawyer, Zhejiang Lawyers Association, 2012
Memberships & Affiliations
Director, the 11th Real Estate Professional Committee, Zhejiang Provincial Lawyers Association
Expert, Advisory Network of the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Civil Administrative Prosecution
Arbitrator, Real Estate Arbitration Court, Hangzhou Arbitration Commission
Practice Mentor, Guanghua Law School, Zhejiang University
Member, the 5th Council of the Civil Law Research Society, Zhejiang Law Society
Member, the 3rd Council of the Social Law Research Society, Law Zhejiang Law Society
Guest Mediator, China Council for the Promotion of International Trade/Hangzhou Mediation Center, International Chamber of Commerce of China
Member, Construction Engineering Committee, Lawyers Association of Zhejiang
Member, the 9th Business Guidance and Development Committee, Hangzhou Lawyers Association
Director, the 8th and 9th Real Estate Professional Committee, Hangzhou Lawyers Association
Expert, Advisory Committee on Administrative Review, Hangzhou Yuhang District
Evaluation Expert on Pre-property Management Bidding Tender, Hangzhou Housing Security and Real Estate Administration Bureau
Director, Zhejiang Jinlin Public Welfare Foundation
Publications
“Compliance at Key Points: A Practical Guide to Compliance in Real Estate Development”, Law Press, 2024 (ISBN 978-7-5197-9103-2)
“The Significance, Trend, and Interface of the 'Green Principles' in the Civil Code”, Research on Rule of Law, 2017
“Study on the Protection of Property Name Rights”, Zhejiang Real Estate, 2015
“Preliminary Analysis on Legal Risk Prevention and Dispute Handling for Delivery of Housing”, China Construction News, 2014
“Liability for the Quality of Housing after the Developer's Write-off”, Studies in Lawyer Practice Vol. 6, Zhejiang University Press, 2012
“An analysis of Owner's Rights and Interests in a Small Clubhouse”, Studies in Lawyer Practice Vol. 6, Zhejiang University Press, 2012
Related
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Awards Related
Zhong Lun Garners 153 Honors across 40 Practice Areas in Chambers Greater China Region Guide 2025
Zhong Lun has received 153 accolades across 40 practice areas.
2025-02-17
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Bar Admissions/Professional Qualifications
First Class Attorney (Principal Senior Title), 2024
PRC Bar -
Education
LL.M., Zhejiang University
B.A., Zhejiang University -
Professional Experience
Partner, Zhong Lun Law Firm
Partner, Zhejiang Tengfei Jinying Law Firm -
Languages
Chinese
English