• Shuguang ZHANG

    Equity Partner / Wuhan

  • Tel +86 27 8555 7857

    Email zhangshuguang@zhonglun.com

  • Practices

    Litigation & Arbitration, Corporate & Commercial Crime, Compliance & Investigation

Biographical notes

Shuguang ZHANG

Mr. Zhang was admitted to the PRC bar in 1992 and has cross-disciplinary educational backgrounds in engineering and law. In nearly 30 years of practice, he has provided all-around legal services to government agencies, enterprises, public institutions, and individuals. In recent years, Mr. Zhang has focused his practice on cases involving a great number of stakeholders and bearing significant impact over social stability and administrative compliance cases. He provided legal services for such financial cases and cases relating to letters and visits of complaints received by government agencies in Wuhan. Mr. Zhang led major projects of debt restructuring involving multiple stakeholders and provided consulting services to special taskforces of local governments across China.

Representative Matters

Cases Concerning Multiple Stakeholders and Impacting Social Stability and Administrative Compliance Cases

  • Provided legal services to a government department for harmless disposal of goods in a wholesale market 

  • Provided legal services to the taskforce of a government department for handling of a group company’s broken capital chain

  • Provided legal services to a government department for the illegal fundraising by a group company in Hubei and its related parties

  • Provided legal services to a government department for the illegal fundraising by a housing expropriation company in Wuhan

  • Provided legal services to a government department for the illegal fundraising by a business management corporation in Wuhan

  • Provided legal services to a government department for the debt contingency measures by a group in Wuhan

  • Provided legal services to a government department for the illegal fundraising by an industrial investment corporation in Wuhan


Dispute Resolution

  • Provided legal services to an individual for an investigation by the Commission of Supervision

  • Provided legal services to an individual for suspicion of embezzlement and corporate bribery 

  • Provided legal services to an individual for accepting bribery

  • Provided legal services to an individual for a dispute over property return 

  • Provided legal services to Chow Tai Fook for information network sales contract disputes

  • Provided legal services to Budweiser for contract disputes 

  • Provided legal services to Schneider for contract disputes

  • Provided legal services to a biopharmaceutical company in Wuhan for contract disputes

  • Provided legal services to a biomedical electronics company in Wuhan for multiple disputes 

  • Provided legal services to an online technology company in Wuhan for multiple disputes

  • Provided legal services to a steel mill under a steel group in Wuhan for contract disputes

  • Provided legal services to a bridge engineering company in Wuhan for contract disputes

  • Provided legal services to an electric power industrial company in Wuhan for a contract dispute

  • Provided legal services to an automobile sales and services company in Wuhan in cases of dispute 

  • Provided legal services to a water service company in Wuhan for contract disputes

  • Provided legal services to an international school in Wuhan in cases of dispute

  • Provided legal services to a welding company in Wuhan for contract disputes

  • Provided legal services to a geosynthetics company for contract disputes

  • Provided legal services to a university for a dispute

  • Provided legal services to a real estate company in Wuhan for contract disputes and employment disputes


Retainer-based Legal Services

  • Provides retainer-based legal services to Management Committee of Wuhan East Lake High-Tech Development Zone

  • Provides retainer-based legal services to Emergency Management Agency of Wuhan East Lake High-Tech Development Zone

  • Provides retainer-based legal services to Management Committee of Qiaokou Economic Development Zone

  • Provides retainer-based legal services to Justice Bureau, Commerce Bureau, and Development and Reform Commission of Qiaokou District

  • Provides retainer-based legal services to Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Wuhan

  • Provides retainer-based legal services to Wuhan Planning and Design Institute

  • Provides retainer-based legal services to China Metallurgical Group Corporation Southern Continuous Casting Technology Engineering Co., Ltd.

  • Provides retainer-based legal services to Wuhan Beichen Guangda Creative Industry Operation Management Co., Ltd.

  • Provides retainer-based legal services to Wuhan Bridge Engineering Co., Ltd.

  • Provides retainer-based legal services to Wuhan Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese

  • Provides retainer-based legal services to Wuhan Fiberhome Singularity Investment Fund (LP) 

  • Provides retainer-based legal services to Information Centre of Wuhan Public Transport Group Co., Ltd.

  • Provides retainer-based legal services to Wuhan Sheng Xue Zai Xian Technology Co., Ltd.

  • Provides retainer-based legal services to Wuhan Beike Smart Information Technology Co., Ltd. 

  • Provides retainer-based legal services to Wuhan Honghai Technology Co., Ltd.

  • Provides retainer-based legal services to Wuhan Zoncare BIO-MEDICAL Electronics Co., Ltd.

  • Provides retainer-based legal services to Wuhan Kaidi Water Service Co., Ltd.

  • Provides retainer-based legal services to Wuhan Huazi Dongjiang AUTO PARTS Co., Ltd.

  • Provides retainer-based legal services to Wuhan Zhongdong Phosphate Technology Co., Ltd.

Honors and Awards

For Individual

Band 2 in Corporate/Commercial: Hubei, Chambers Greater China Region, 2022

Band 2 in Central (Hubei) (Corporate/Commercial), Chambers Asia, 2021

Merit Communist Party Member, Hubei Lawyers’ Committee of the Communist Party of China, 2021

Memberships & Affiliations

Representative, Jianghan District People’s Congress of Wuhan Municipality

Deputy Secretary-General, Wuhan Lawyers Association

Arbitrator, Wuhan Arbitration Commission

Expert, Wuhan Municipal Petition Review and Examination Committee

Publications

“Preliminary Study on Legal Practice of Recovering in Criminal Cases” (co-author), Chutian Rule of Law, April 2022

“Analysis of Legal Practice of Private Capital Investment in Non-profit Medical Institutions” (co-author), Healthcare Industry: Policy, Trends and Legal Innovation, January 2018

“Case Study of Internet Copyright Infringement in Campus” (co-author), Finance and Intellectual Property, May 2013

“Preliminary Study on Legal Practice of the Trade Secret Protection” (co-author), Journal of Jianghan University, October 2012

  • Bar Admissions/Professional Qualifications

    PRC Bar, 1995

  • Education

    Further education, University of Turku Faculty of Law (Finland)
    LL.B., Wuhan University School of Law
    Bachelor of Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

  • Professional Experience

    Partner, Zhong Lun Law Firm, 2009 to present
    Partner, Dewell & Partners, Hubei, 1994-2008

  • Languages

    Chinese
    English