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Education:

•   1996: Ph.D. American Institute of Holistic Theology (www.aiht.edu);
• 1993: LLM Program in John Marshall Law School (Chicago Illinois, US www.jmls.edu);
• 1994: City University of New York, Queens Borough College (www.cuny.edu) ;
• 1986: Master of Law Xiamen University School of Law ( www.xmu.edu.cn);
• 1983: Bachelor of Arts in History Xiamen University Department of History（www.xmu.edu.cn）

Passed China Bar Test on 1992, licensed on June 1995.

 

Experience:

• 08,1997→present: Practiced law in Xiamen, Fujian, China;
• 01,1993→01,1997: Studied in America;
• 08,1986→06,1991: Law Instructor of Xiamen University School of Law, Xiamen, China;

 

Influential General Client:

• Xiamen City Government: General Counsel since 2007-2017;
• Xiamen City Government: Appeal Trial Panel Member of Administrative Procedure
• China International Fair for Investment & Trade(www.chinafair.org.cn): Current General Counsel since 2010;
• Xiamen Chamber of Import and Export Commerce: General Counsel
• Dell Xiamen, 2003-2004;
• Black & Deckle Xiamen, 2004-2005;
• American Amphenol, 2003-2005;
• King Long Coach, a joint venture and a leading coach manufacturing company in China, since 1998;
• Prima, used to be a major China TV sets manufacturer: Current General Counsel since 2000.

 

Practice Area:

A Professional that delivers counseling, arbitration and litigation service on the external aspect of Chinese commercial and business laws, mainly as including:

• International Business Transaction
• Corporate
• Contract 
• Intellectual Property
• Dispute Resolution

Typical Work

On Investment and Dispute Resolution:

• Joint Venture Negotiation: Representing Southeast Auto/Fujian Auto in negotiating a Joint-Venture with Mercedes Benz and Daimler-Chrysler on MB 100 and Vino (Oct., 2001).
• Joint Venture Negotiation: 30 million USD Package Joint-Venture Negotiation between Fujian Start Corp., Ltd. and Digital Equipment Corp., then the Compaq, now HP (Oct.1997~Jan.,1998).The documents include Joint Venture Contract, Articles, Technical Assistance Contract, Trade Mark License Contract, and Import Agent Contract.
• Joint Venture Equity Investment Dispute of 40 million RMB between a Hong Kong company and an American Company over the joint venture investment in Xiamen China (Nov., 1999). The client won the case for an amount over 30 million RMB.
• Representing American client on arbitration under China International Economy and Trade Arbitration Commission for collection of brokerage service fee. Client won almost it claimed (Mar., 2008).
• Joint Venture Share Assignment in a Chinese-American joint venture for a value of 100 million Yuan (2001).
• Successfully introduced an American venture capital to invest in Xiamen. Job includes equity structure planning, drafting organizational documents, such as Articles, Operation Agreement, etc. Then retained as General Counsel of that company (Aug., 2002).
• Joint Venture Equity Assignment between an American and a domestic company in a value over 40 million RMB under a joint venture company King Long Coach (late 2015-early 2016).
• Joint Venture Negotiation: Representing an America Aircraft company to negotiate a joint venture in China
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Professional Association and Committees：

• US-China Lawyers Society: Director;
• Xiamen Arbitration Commission: Arbitrator
• The Xiamen Overseas Chinese Entrepreneur Association: Secretary in General
• Fujian Association of Doctor Entrepreneur: Executive Director
• Jiangxi Chamber of Commerce Xiamen Bureau Department of Law: Director

 

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