COLLABORATIVE TEAM

Team

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INITIAL CONSULTATIONCharged at Mr Ma’s rate

No separate charge for other participating lawyers.

PARTNER / LAWYER

Danjing Hua 华丹菁

Individual profile · forthcoming
Education
LL.B. and LL.M. in International Economic Law, East China University of Political Science and Law; LL.M., Boston University, United States
Practice focus
Wealth succession and protection; family and family-business crisis disputes; company-law disputes involving corporate control
Standard hourly rate
RMB 3,500 / hour

Danjing Hua is a partner in Dacheng’s Shanghai office and is admitted to practise in the People’s Republic of China and the State of New York.

Ms Hua serves on the estate-administrator expert panel of the Shanghai Zhangjiang Notary Public Office. She focuses on wealth protection and succession in an international context and has experience in cross-border divorce and succession disputes involving entrepreneurs and other high-net-worth individuals, as well as company-law disputes concerning corporate control.

Her corporate-control experience includes a series of commercial disputes between blood relatives and relatives by marriage following the unexpected death of a company controller, as well as criminal-law issues involving numerous company shareholders. Her family-law experience includes high-value cross-border matters involving global matrimonial-asset due diligence; acquisitions of offshore shell companies by Mainland-listed companies; transactions in listed-company shell resources and the actual consideration for equity transfers; nominee-shareholder status; suspected bigamy or tax offences involving entrepreneurs; complex government-business relationships; and conflicts of private international law. In private wealth, she advises on cross-border matrimonial and succession arrangements, top-level equity-succession structures informed by corporate governance and residence planning, and the use of wills, insurance and trusts.

Ms Hua contributed to the Wolters Kluwer series Legal Risks in Equity Inheritance Litigation: A Detailed Review Based on Data and Leading Cases, which is expected to be published as an e-book and addresses practical approaches to equity-succession and related corporate-control disputes.

LAWYER

Haolin Ni 倪浩林

Individual profile · forthcoming
Education
LL.B. in International Financial Law, East China University of Political Science and Law; LL.B., University of Bristol; LL.M., University of Warwick
Practice focus
Major cross-border matrimonial and family matters; wealth succession; family and family-business crisis disputes; matters spanning civil, commercial and criminal law
Standard hourly rate
RMB 2,000 / hour

Haolin Ni previously worked in London as a legal department assistant at a Fortune Global 500 company. He returned to China in 2021 to practise law and focuses on international wealth protection and succession, matters spanning civil and criminal law, and commercial arbitration.

Mr Ni has participated in major cross-border family and commercial disputes involving amounts in dispute measured in tens of billions—and, in some matters, hundreds of billions—of renminbi. These have included global matrimonial-asset due diligence; divorce matters involving Mainland China, Canada, the United States, Australia and Hong Kong; transactions in listed-company shell resources and the actual consideration for equity transfers; nominee-shareholder status; suspected bigamy or tax offences involving entrepreneurs; complex government-business relationships; and conflicts of private international law.

In private wealth, he focuses on cross-border matrimonial wealth arrangements and cross-border succession planning.

LEGAL ASSISTANT

Ke Zhu 朱克

Individual profile · forthcoming
Education
Juris Master, Fudan University Law School; dual bachelor’s degrees in Law and Psychology, China University of Political Science and Law
Practice focus
Major cross-border divorce and succession disputes; wealth succession and planning; family and family-business crisis disputes; international arbitration
Standard hourly rate
RMB 2,000 / hour

Ke Zhu graduated from Fudan University Law School with a focus on international arbitration and received outstanding graduate and honours graduate distinctions. Previous internships included the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, Fangda Partners, Han Kun Law Offices and the Shanghai Sub-Commission of the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission.

Mr Zhu works on cross-border matrimonial and family dispute resolution, international commercial arbitration and wealth succession. He has participated in complex matters involving Israel, Hong Kong, Singapore, Germany, Italy and other jurisdictions, including high-net-worth divorce, family investment disputes, recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards, and corporate-equity disputes.

In private wealth, he has also assisted high-net-worth clients with marital agreements and non-contentious succession arrangements.