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  • Yuanyuan YU

    Regional Partner / Beijing

  • Tel +86-10-5957-2288

    Email yuyuanyuan@zhonglun.com

  • Practices

    Litigation & Arbitration, Compliance & Investigation, Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Reorganization

  • Industries

    Real Estate, Media, Sports & Entertainment, Transportation & Logistics

CV

Yuanyuan YU

Well-versed in real estate, construction projects, and land-related businesses, Ms. Yuanyuan Yu has represented real estate companies, construction companies, and property management companies. Boasting expertise covering both litigation and non-litigation fronts, she provides legal services encompassing real estate development, land acquisition and recovery, construction projects, property management, leasing, real estate operation, acquisition, and other related fields.
Ms. Yu’s professional strengths are particularly prominent when dealing with disputes related to equity transfer, shareholders’ right to know, and corporate control right. She has handled a number of complex commercial disputes on behalf of many corporationsbefore courts including Beijing First Intermediate People’s Court, Beijing High People’s Court, and the Supreme People’s Court of PRC. Ms. Yu has also handled a number of disputes and delivered special legal services involving financial management and investment disputes.
Apart from her counsel in the private sectors, Ms. Yu has also served the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Commerce, the Civil Aviation Administration, Xinhua News Agency, the Counsellor’s Office of the State Council, Beijing Municipal Commission of Development and Reform, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of Beijing Pinggu District, and so on. She has also provided legal services in the fields of administrative law enforcement, administrative compliance, administrative reconsideration, and administrative litigation for enterprises and institutions.

Representative Matters

Real estate, construction projects, and land

  • Provided a real estate company with legal services for the revision of the template for EPC turnkey contract, the formulation of templates for hotel engineering contract and special equipment engineering contract, as well as asset-light project business transformation

  • Represented a construction company in a litigation concerning engineering settlement in Tieling, Liaoning

  • Represented a construction company in a litigation concerning engineering settlement in Harbin

  • Represented a construction company in a litigation concerning engineering settlement in Xi’an

  • Represented a construction company in a dispute over a construction contract of a project in Beijing

  • Formulated for a construction company a construction project claim manual

  • Represented a securities company in a series of disputes over commercial housing sales

  • Represented a land company in the retrial of a real estate project in Beijing before the Supreme People’s Court

  • Represented a developer in a group lawsuit in a dispute over the contract for the sale and purchase of commercial properties in a project in Hebei

  • Represented a company in a dispute over a real estate lease contract

  • Represented a holding company in the handling of the administrative reconsideration case of reclaim of state-owned land in Hainan from the client due to idleness

  • Acted as lead counsel to two companies respectively for idle state-owned land 


Company

  • Represented a group company in a series of cases related to the ownership of the company’s equity and the loss of state-owned assets against the former senior executives of the company, with the cases encompassing enterprise restructuring disputes, equity transfer disputes, senior executives’ damage to the company’s interests, loan contract disputes, equity proxy agreement disputes, shareholders’ right to know disputes, etc. and heard before Beijing First Intermediate People’s Court, Beijing High People’s Court, and the Supreme People’s Court

  • Represented a science and technology company in a series of disputes, including disputes over equity transfer and contract cancellation of a real estate project

  • Represented a real estate company in a series of disputes before Beijing First Intermediate People’s Court, Beijing Second Intermediate People’s Court, Beijing High People’s Court, and the Supreme People’s Court, among other courts, involving registration of change, company earnings distribution, shareholders’ right to know, infringement of trade secrets, etc.

  • Acted as lead counsel to a listed company in its disputes involving the transfer of shares, with the cases being heard before Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court, Guangdong High People’s Court, and the Supreme People’s Court

  • Acted as lead counsel to a company in the dispute over equity transfer of a project

  • Acted as lead counsel to a state-owned assets supervision and administration commission in lawsuits over enforcement objection related to shareholders’ capital contribution

  • Represented a group company in a lawsuit concerning an equity transfer project

  • Provided an investment authority with early-stage consulting services on potential disputes over the equity transfer of a project

  • Acted as lead counsel to an asset management company in disputes over shareholder’s rights and interests of a passenger and cargo agency company owned by the client


Investment and finance

  • Represented a logistics company in a series of steel financing trade disputes

  • Represented an investment management center in disputes related to financial management contracts

  • Represented a well-known financial investment institution in the recovery of financial products under its multiple investment projects

  • Represented a company in its financial loan contract disputes

  • Acted as lead counsel to a securities asset management company for its special asset support plan involving recovery and liquidation

  • Represented an asset management company in the lawsuit over the liquidity fund support project of an uncompleted building

  • Acted as lead counsel to a group company to in its series of disputes over financial loan contracts before Beijing First Intermediate People’s Court and Beijing High People’s Court

  • Acted as lead counsel to a financial institution in a dispute over an asset management project before Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court and Guangdong High People’s Court

  • Acted as lead counsel to an asset management company in the recovery of investment funds and property preservation under a foreign invested real estate project

  • Acted as lead counsel to a financial institution in risk screening of its series of financial contracts

  • Acted as lead counsel to a state-owned petrochemical company in a financial financing dispute


Administration

  • Acted as lead counsel to several industry associations and companies in government procurement, compliance of bidding projects, as well as response to inquiries, complaints, reporting, and accusation

  • Represented a medical insurance center in an administrative litigation case related to a specific administrative violation and won the judgment

  • Provided the legal affairs office of a local government with expert advice on the administrative law issues concerning fuel subsidies

  • Provided a Hong Kong company with services including applying to the local government and other competent government departments for administrative reconsideration and appealing to the Legislative Affairs Office of the State Council for the protection of the legal rights and interests of a national highway investment project, and thereby successfully protected the legal rights and interests of the investors involved

  • Represented a company in its administrative law enforcement complaints related to electronic signature

  • Represented a company in its cases related to price administrative law enforcement

  • Represented an accounting firm in a series of administrative proceedings in which a natural person sued a securities regulatory bureau for false disclosure supervision and inspection, and won the case

  • Acted as lead counsel to a group company in its administrative litigation related to advance notice registration and completion acceptance filing

  • Acted as lead counsel to a real estate development company in administrative litigation over specific administrative actions related to demolition permits and obtained favorable judgment for the client

  • Acted as lead counsel to two real estate companies and other companies in handling litigation cases over the legality of administrative acts involving land transfer contracts and demolition permits, among others

Honors and Awards

For Individual

Excellent Lawyer, Zhong Lun Law Firm, 2010 and 2012

Excellent Communist Party Member, Beijing Chaoyang District Lawyers Association Committee of the Communist Party of China, 2011 - 2013

Excellent Party Worker, Beijing Chaoyang District Lawyers Association Committee, 2014

Memberships & Affiliations

Arbitrator, Guiyang Arbitration Commission

Arbitrator, Yantai Arbitration Commission

Off-campus Tutor of Master’s Students, School of Law, University of International Business and Economics

Member, Disciplinary Committee, Chaoyang District Lawyers Association of Beijing Municipality

Member, Administrative Law Professional Committee, Beijing Lawyers Association

Publications

“Administrative Law Enforcement Compliance Book” (consultant), China Legal Press, 2022

  • Bar Admissions/Professional Qualifications

    PRC Bar, 2004

  • Education

    LL. M. in Law of Nations, Ocean University of China, 2005

  • Professional Experience

    Regional partner and non-equity partner, Zhong Lun Law Firm, 2005 to present

  • Languages

    Chinese