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  • Hailong XIA

    Equity Partner / Guangzhou

  • Tel +86-20-2826-1158

    Email xiahailong@zhonglun.com

  • Practices

    Litigation & Arbitration, Financial Products & Trusts, Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Reorganization

CV

Hailong XIA

Representative Matters

  • Acted as lead counsel to a group limited company and a real estate company in a cooperative development dispute of three old transformation lands, and enabled the client to reduce claimable amount of more than CNY 200 million in the second trial;

  • Acted as lead counsel to multiple private fund investors and a bank and fund manager  in a property damage compensation dispute; Under the circumstance of the manager losing communication, the court ruled that a bank should compensate the client for economic losses of more than CNY 100 million;

  • Acted as lead counsel to a trust company and a local government financing platform in Guizhou in a business trust contract dispute, and enabled the trust company to achieve claims of more than CNY 250 million;

  • Acted as lead counsel to a trust company and a real estate company in a contract dispute over perpetual bonds, and enabled the trust company to achieve claims of more than CNY $150 million;

  • Acted as lead counsel to a client and a bank in a financial loan guarantee contract dispute, and the court ruled that the security guarantee was invalid, and exempted debt of more than CNY 20 million for the client;

  • Acted as lead counsel to a company involved in pandemic materials and multiple purchasers in a series of sales contract disputes, won the lawsuit for all of them, exempted refund debts of more than CNY 100 million for clients;Acted as lead counsel to a trust company and a real estate company in an equity repurchase dispute, and acquired claims of more than CNY 500 million for the client;

  • Acted as lead counsel to a listed company and a bank in a property tort dispute due to illegal cash concentration business;Acted as lead counsel to a listed company and its former senior executives in a non-competition and commercial secret infringement dispute;

  • Acted as lead counsel to a construction engineering group company and a real estate company in Guangxi in a project construction work contract dispute;

  • Acted as lead counsel to a construction company and an agricultural technology company in Guangdong Province in a project construction work contract dispute;

  • Participated in the settlement of assets management plan disputes between a securities firm and a listed company;Participated in the settlement of a project construction work contract dispute between an energy construction group and a construction company;

  • Participated in the settlement of a project construction work contract dispute between an energy construction group and a thermal insulation company;

  • Participated in the settlement of a project construction work contract dispute between a university in Guangdong and a construction group company in Hunan;

  • Participated in the settlement of capital increment and forward share transfer dispute between an aviation group and a trust company;Led and successfully handled a strike of thousands of people in a Fortune Global 500 company, and won the lawsuits in all labor arbitration and litigation cases".

Memberships & Affiliations

Arbitrator and expert committee member, Guangzhou Arbitration Committee

Arbitrator, Beihai Arbitration Committee/Beihai International Court of Arbitration

Member, Commercial Factoring Legal Professional Committee of Guangdong Lawyers’ Association

Member, Financial Law Professional Committee of Guangzhou Lawyers’ Association

Member, Foreign-related Lawyer Talent Pool of Guangdong Lawyers Association

Leading Talent, Foreign-related Lawyer Talent Pool of Guangzhou Lawyers Association

Off-campus supervisor of Master of Laws Program, Law School, Sun Yat-sen University

Off-campus supervisor of Master of Laws Program, School of Humanity and Law, South China Agricultural University

Off-campus supervisor of Master of Laws Program, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

  • Bar Admissions/Professional Qualifications

    Chinese lawyer’s practice qualification certificate, 2015

  • Education

    LLM, Cornell University, 2012-2013
    LLB, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, 1997-2001

  • Professional Experience

    Partner, Zhong Lun Law Firm, 2023 to Present
    Lawyer, Guangdong Zhuoxin Law Firm, 2017-2023
    Lawyer, Beijing King & Wood Mallesons, 2013-2015
    Judge, Guangzhou District Court, 2003-2012

  • Languages

    Chinese
    English