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  • Yuanyuan YU

    Equity Partner / Beijing

  • Tel +86-10-5957-2288

    Email yuyuanyuan@zhonglun.com

  • Practices

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

  • Industries

    Urban Renewal & Real Estate Operation, Media, Sports & Entertainment, Smart Logistics & Supply Chain

CV

Yuanyuan YU

Ms. Yuanyuan Yu, a native of Yantai, Shandong Province, joined Zhong Lun’s Beijing office in 2005 after completing her master’s degree and has been with the firm for more than 20 years.

Ms. Yu currently focuses on major and complex commercial, civil, and administrative dispute resolution, as well as civil-administrative cross-area matters. To date, she has handled over 100 dispute resolution cases. The industries involved in the cases handled by Ms. Yu include the internet economy, culture, entertainment and film, energy, finance, logistics, infrastructure, education, real estate, etc.

The types of dispute resolution cases handled by Ms. Yu include contract disputes, corporate disputes, investment and financing disputes, administrative agreements, administrative penalties, administrative reconsideration, and administrative litigation.

Ms. Yu has also provided legal services to numerous national ministries and commissions, administrative agencies, enterprises, and institutions, including the National Development and Reform Commission(NDRC), the Ministry of Justice (MOJ), the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM), the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration (STMA), Xinhua News Agency, the Counsellors' Office of the State Council, the Beijing Municipal Development and Reform Commission, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of Beijing Pinggu District, the News and Communication Center of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Commission of Supervision, the China International Council for the Promotion of Multinational Corporations, the China Container Industry Association, and the National Computer Network and Information Security Management Center, among others.

Ms. Yu is guided by a professional philosophy of providing effective, results-oriented solutions that create enduring value for her clients.

Representative Matters

Administrative Dispute Resolution

  • Represented a client in an administrative dispute concerning a highway toll rights investment promotion project in Hebei (involving investor rights protection)

  • Represented a client in an administrative dispute concerning a sewage treatment plant concession project in Beijing (involving compensation for concession agreement)

  • Represented a client in an administrative dispute concerning a commercial and residential complex investment cooperation project in Jilin (involving the return of government support funds)

  • Represented a client in a land transfer contract dispute for a real estate project in Handan, Hebei (involving land delivery)

  • Represented a client in a land transfer contract dispute for a real estate project in Hainan (involving idle land)

  • Represented a client in a land transfer contract dispute for a real estate project in Beijing (involving idle land)

  • Represented a client in an administrative dispute concerning an investment promotion project for an industrial plant in Zhuhai (involving liability for land return)

  • Represented a company in Xiamen in a large-scale property demolition and relocation compensation dispute

  • Represented a company in Dalian in a tax administrative penalty case

  • Represented a company in Guangdong in a tax administrative penalty case

  • Represented a company in an administrative penalty case involving false advertising

  • Represented a company in an administrative reconsideration case concerning the disapproval of an administrative permit

  • Represented an accounting firm and a securities regulatory department in an administrative litigation case involving disclosure inspections in the securities market


Commercial Dispute Resolution

  • Represented a real estate company in a project transfer contract dispute with a land holding company (retrial by the Supreme People's Court(SPC))

  • Responsible for a series of corporate disputes for a real estate consulting firm (involving a retrial by SPC; issues included corporate registration, executives infringing on trade secrets, application for recognition and enforcement of a foreign arbitral award in China, and construction contract disputes)

  • Retained by a university, a group, and related parties to handle a series of cases concerning 65% equity interests in a group (case types involved state-owned enterprise restructuring, equity transfer, executives harming company interests, financial loan contracts, and shareholders' right to information; courts involved included SPC, Beijing High People's Court, Beijing First Intermediate People's Court, Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court, Guangdong High People's Court, etc.)

  • Represented a state-owned energy company in a dispute concerning shareholders harming company interests

  • Represented a group company in an equity transfer dispute

  • Represented multiple investors in management fee disputes concerning invested partnerships

  • Represented a company in a series of disputes related to equity transfers for a real estate project located on the North Third Ring Road

  • Represented a company in a series of enforcement objection lawsuits involving 20 properties, heard successively in Shijiazhuang Intermediate People's Court, Hebei High People's Court, and Beijing First Intermediate People's Court

  • Represented a construction unit in a construction contract dispute with a developer (second instance by SPC)

  • Represented a real estate company in a construction engineering contract dispute with a construction unit

  • Represented a resources group in a financial loan contract dispute

  • Represented a client in a guarantee contract dispute with Hua Xia Bank

  • Represented a capital institution in multiple arbitration legal services for financing and wealth management contract disputes

  • Represented Bohai Bank in a financial loan contract dispute with an institution

  • Represented a financial institution in a partnership agreement dispute under an asset management project

  • Provided special legal consulting services for a university and its affiliated companies concerning dozens of guarantee liabilities and debt risk assumption matters

  • Represented a logistics company in a series of financial contract disputes (handling over 30 cases in total)

  • Represented a real estate company in a case against a textile company concerning confirmation of the invalidity of property transfer and continued performance of a cooperative development agreement

  • Retained by a land holding company to represent it in a contract dispute concerning a project in Qinhuangdao, Hebei, involving 56 lawsuits

  • Retained by an institution affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences to represent it in a group litigation concerning a project in Hebei, involving 100 property owners

  • Retained by a group to represent it in a group litigation concerning property damage compensation, involving 35 cases

  • Retained by a company to represent it in a series of contract disputes concerning a real estate project in Guangdong, involving 40 cases

Honors and Awards

LEGALBAND Power List: Top 15 Administrative Lawyers, 2024-2025

Memberships & Affiliations

Member, Administrative Law Professional Committee of Beijing Lawyers Association

Member, Discipline Committee of Beijing Chaoyang District Lawyers Association

External Mentor for Master's Students, University of International Business and Economics Law School

Arbitrator, Guiyang Arbitration Commission

Arbitrator, Yantai Arbitration Commission

Publications

“Internet Economy Law and Policy Toolkit”, Law Press

“Administrative Law Enforcement Compliance Handbook”, Legal Publishing House

Published Articles

Administrative Law

Trends in Administrative Litigation and Key Insights–Starting from the Amendment of the Administrative Procedure Law

Interpretation of the Beijing Government Information Disclosure Regulations

Preliminary Exploration of Several Exceptions to Government Information Disclosure

How to Represent Administrative Organs in Administrative Litigation Cases—Taking an Illegal Administrative Fee Case as an Example

Preliminary Analysis of the Fair Competition Review Mechanism

What You Should Know About Administrative Settlement

Construction Engineering

Whether the Employer Has the Right to Terminate the Contract at Will Under a Construction Contract

Preliminary Discussion on the Preemptive Right to Lease Property Under Equal Conditions

Legal Issues and Case Study on the Priority Right to Compensation for Construction Project Costs

The Issue of "Replacing Appraisal with Adjudication" in Construction Project Settlement Disputes

  • Bar Admissions/Professional Qualifications

    PRC Bar, 2004

  • Education

    Master of Laws, International Law, Ocean University of China, 2002–2005
    Bachelor of Laws, International Economic Law, Ocean University of China, 1998–2002

  • Professional Experience

    Equity partner, regional partner, non-equity partner, associate, Zhong Lun Law Firm, 2005 to present

  • Languages

    Chinese