Lawyers
Zhi CHEN
Guangzhou Office- Office:
- Guangzhou Office
- Languages:
- Chinese, English, Cantonese
Biography
From 1.2020 to now, he has taught the International Commercial Arbitration Moot Competition course and Jessep Moot Court course for graduate students majoring in international law in the Law School of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies;
Since 2.2024, he has taught two courses, simulated international commercial arbitration and international arbitration case analysis, for graduate students majoring in international arbitration at Sun Yat-sen University;
In 3.2022, 2023 and 2024, he served as the off-campus instructor of the Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Arbitration Debate Team of the Law School of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies for three consecutive years (and the only off-campus instructor of the school's similar team). In 2023 and 2024, he won the second prize.
Since 4.2025, he has served as an off-campus instructor for the Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Tribunal Debate Team of Sun Yat-sen University Law School.
Experience
2016.3-2019.6 Guangzhou Arbitration Commission Case Secretary
2020.7-2022.10 Guangdong Guangyue Law Firm Paralegal/Intern Lawyer
2023.3-2025.4 Shanghai Jintiancheng (Guangzhou) Law Firm lawyer
Since 2025.6, lawyer of Guangdong Zhiheng (Guangzhou) Law Firm
Education
University of Macau Law School (PhD), Guangdong University of Foreign Studies Law School (Master, Bachelor)
Affiliations
1. The second prize of the Zhonglun Cup National International Commercial Arbitration Essay Contest 2 times (2015, 2020)
2. Third Prize of Zhonglun Cup National International Commercial Arbitration Essay Contest 3 times (2017, 2018, 2019)
3. The third prize of the Zhonglun Cup National International Commercial Arbitration Essay Contest twice (2016, 2023)
4. Third Prize of the 12th China Arbitration and Judicial Forum (2019)
5. Second Prize of the 4th "Gaowen Cup" International Arbitration Essay Competition (2024)
6. Third place in the First Guangzhou International Commercial Arbitration Moot Arbitration Tribunal Competition (2023)
Champion of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area International Commercial Arbitration Competition in 7.2025 (2025)
Honors
1. Second Prize in the Zhonglun Cup National Essay Competition on International Commercial Arbitration, twice (2015, 2020)
2. Third Prize in the Zhonglun Cup National Essay Competition on International Commercial Arbitration, three times (2017, 2018, 2019)
3. Two third-place awards in the Zhonglun Cup National Essay Competition on International Commercial Arbitration (2016, 2023)
4. Third Prize, 12th China Arbitration and Justice Forum (2019)
5. Second Prize, 4th “Gaowen Cup” International Arbitration Essay Competition (2024)
6. Third Place, First Guangzhou International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court Competition (2023)
7. Champion of the 2025 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area International Commercial Arbitration Competition (2025)
Representative matters
1. Acting as agent for a company under a bureau of China Construction to sue a housing construction and water conservancy bureau to carry out a retrial case of objection. The subject matter of the case is over 9970 million, involving the right comparison between the priority compensation right of the construction project price and the administrative organ's right to expect affordable housing. It intervenes when the client loses the case in the first and second instance, successfully made the Guangdong High Court order a retrial (the case won the 2024 Jintiancheng Real Estate and Construction Engineering Committee "Best Construction Project Dispute Resolution Case" Gold Award);
2. Acting for a company and Qi to revoke the arbitration award of the dispute, the facts of this case is more complex, the arbitration procedure award is not clear, there is a risk of being revoked due to over-cutting, the agent's efforts, Guangzhou Intermediate Court rejected Qi's application for revocation of the arbitration award;
3. Acting for the United States **company and its sole shareholder and a domestic company in a contract of sale dispute, reducing the company's losses, and persuading the court of first instance to apply California law to determine the issue of shareholder liability, successfully exempt shareholders from liability. Subsequently, the case was settled through mediation at the second-instance stage.
4. Acting * * construction general contracting company v. a real estate enterprise construction project construction contract dispute case, in the case of unfavorable evidence materials, to minimize the other party's deduction amount, so that the ruling confirmed the client more than 1100 million yuan of project funds and more than 10 million yuan of construction project price priority compensation right;
5. Acting for a Hong Kong company and a domestic company to arbitrate disputes over sales contracts. The amount of the arbitration subject matter exceeded 10 million yuan, involving quality inspection problems in international goods sales. Both parties submitted multiple inspection reports and invited expert witnesses to testify in court. After full preparation, the arbitration tribunal basically adopted our expert opinions, rejected the other party's counterclaim and basically supported our arbitration request.
6. Provide special legal services for the investment side of a major historical legacy project in Chengdu, Sichuan, a company under a certain bureau of China Construction, and provide legal analysis, scheme design, drafting agreements and documents, participation in negotiations and other services for solving its major historical legacy problems (involving multiple complex legal issues such as equity holding, company withdrawal, real estate development, construction project disputes, etc.), effectively promoting the proper resolution of historical problems.
Publications
- 1. Problems and Countermeasures in the formulation and application of China's arbitration rules-from the perspective of the basic characteristics of arbitration rules, won the encouragement award of the 4th "Zhonglun Cup" National International Commercial Arbitration Essay Contest (September 2016), contained in the 42nd Series of Arbitration Research (May 2019)
- 2. On the guarantee fee in the third-party funded arbitration, won the third prize of the 5th "Zhonglun Cup" National International Commercial Arbitration Essay Contest (September 2017), published in the 139 series of "Arbitration and Law" (May 2019)
- 3. Conflict and Coordination of Arbitration Judicial Review Procedures under the New York Convention System-From the Perspective of Article 6 of the Convention, Wuhan University International Law Review, No. 3, 2019 (CSSCI Extended Journal)
- 4. Thinking about the de-litigation of commercial arbitration service in China, won the third prize of the 7th "Zhonglun Cup" National International Commercial Arbitration Essay Contest (September 2019)
- 5. On the application of the law on the validity of arbitration agreements-from the perspective of the Singapore BNA case, Shanghai Law Research Collection (Volume 17, 2019)
- 6. On the parallel procedure of international civil and commercial arbitration and litigation: the path and countermeasures that China should take (in cooperation with mentors), won the second prize of the 8th Zhonglun Cup National International Commercial Arbitration Essay Competition (September 2020), and then published in the Law of the University of South China (CSSCI extension)
- 7. The principle of estoppels and the expansion of the validity of arbitration agreements: from the perspective of continuous performance and participation in negotiations, Commercial Arbitration and Mediation, No. 4, 2023.
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