Equity partner. Holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in engineering from the Department of Precision Instruments and Mechanology, Tsinghua University, and is qualified both as a lawyer and as a patent attorney, with more than 20 years in practice. She advises technology, industrial design, international freight forwarding, healthcare and exhibition companies on an ongoing basis. Her dispute practice covers commercial contracts, equity and shareholder disputes, private lending and debt, and labour and employment, as well as divorce, post-divorce property division, inheritance and estate partition, and she also acts on applications for retrial of effective judgments and on civil and commercial procuratorial supervision. Recent work includes technology contract disputes, research collaboration and technology commercialisation, patent and trademark matters, data compliance and corporate governance. She coordinates complex matters spanning several practice groups and client relationships through a six-stage workflow - instruction, intake, evidence, hearing, documents and research; work specific to intellectual property is coordinated with the firm’s IP department.
For growing companies with frequent day-to-day legal work and no in-house team: policies and risk controls in place before they are needed.
Pre-financing structuring, equity incentive plans, founder exit arrangements and disputes over control.
For contract, equity, investment and technology cooperation disputes that are in or heading into adversarial proceedings.
Remedies against effective judgments: retrial applications, criminal appeal petitions, filing supervision, procuratorial suggestions and protests.
Divorce, post-divorce property division, inheritance and estate partition, marital property agreements and wills, for individuals and families.
Review of development, commissioning, cooperation and licence contracts, with a written opinion, a revised contract and a risk checklist.
Advises technology, industrial design, international freight forwarding, healthcare and exhibition companies on an ongoing basis, building an annual service plan across corporate governance, employment, operations, contract risk, criminal risk prevention and intellectual property, supported by contract template libraries, seals and signing-authority rules and regular legal health checks.
Designs equity structures and capital contribution arrangements, drafts founders’ and concerted-party agreements and equity incentive plans, and advises on angel- and seed-round terms and share repurchases; when shareholder contribution or repurchase disputes arise, acts in first-instance proceedings and coordinates the claims for equity and for payment.
Acts for parties applying to retry effective judgments, rebuilding the evidence chain and written advocacy around the original findings of fact, the admission of evidence and the application of law; where retrial is refused, applies to the procuratorate for supervision and pursues a decision to open review.
Represents clients in technology development and technical service contract disputes, building evidence around the scope of delivery and the acceptance criteria, and applies for pre-judgment asset preservation alongside filing in order to recover payment.
Steps in at the consultation stage of terminating an employment relationship, reviewing policy publication, termination and service procedures, and defends arbitration and first- and second-instance proceedings, reducing exposure to unlawful-termination and double-wage claims.
For collaborations involving medical institutions, university laboratories and technology companies, handles co-built platform and laboratory filings, horizontal research projects, IP ownership and equity-for-technology arrangements, and designs staged assignment and share subscription plans.
Handles divorce and post-divorce property disputes, inheritance and estate partition, verifying when equity was acquired and the source of the capital contribution and distinguishing separate from community property, through both negotiation and litigation; where family and business interests overlap, also handles equity disposal and separation of family assets.
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