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JESSICA LI
Partner·
Shanghai
PROFILE REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS AND CASES OTHER INFORMATION Further Reading
MS. JESSICA LI SPECIALIZES IN COMMERCIAL LITIGATION AND ARBITRATION (INCLUDING FINANCIAL DISPUTES AND CORPORATE DISPUTES) AND CROSS-BORDER BANKRUPTCY AND RESTRUCTURING.
Education
University of Cambridge, Faculty of Law, LL.M
Tsinghua University, School of Law, Bachelors of Law
Professional Qualification
Admitted to practice in the PRC
PROFILE
REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS AND CASES
- Represented a foreign-invested bank in successful CIETAC arbitrations and court proceedings related to OTC financial derivative products
- Represented an investment management company in a successful SHIAC arbitration against the issuer of a collective investment product to redeem units and to enforce trustee fiduciary duties
- Represented a securities company in civil lawsuits arising from alleged misrepresentation in the securities market related to companies listed on Main Board and NEEQ
- Represented a foreign-invested bank in a successful lawsuit filed by the bank’s client over the fiduciary duty of a financial institute in a structured investment product
- Represented leading foreign-invested banks in successfully resolving various high-value and complicated financial disputes, including cash pool, factoring and trade financing disputes
- Acted for various leading securities companies in successful legal proceedings on pledged share repurchase agreements after the debtors’ default
- Represented a well-known Japanese building material company in a series of high-value cross-border legal proceedings arising from financial manipulation of the Chinese sanitary ware manufacturers indirectly acquired by the Japanese company, involved filing tort litigation in Chinese court against the Chinese companies' founders and assisting in other litigation and arbitration initiated in other jurisdictions
- Acted for a shareholder of a large Chinese company in the second instance proceedings before the Supreme People’s Court to successfully overturn a first instance judgment on a share purchase agreement
- Represented a fund in reaching a favorable settlement with the original shareholder of a target company in an RMB 500 million dispute over a repurchase and guarantee
- Represented a well-known Chinese fund in dealing with legal proceedings in mainland China and Hong Kong in an acquisition dispute over RMB 10 billion with a technology company
- Advised a private fund in a lawsuit for over RMB 5.2 billion against a China-listed company in a dispute over the transfer of partnership interests in a cross-border share acquisition
- Represented a Spanish company in dealing with a joint venture dispute over breach and termination of a joint venture contract with its Chinese partner
- Acted for an Italian company in an out-of-court debt restructuring of its wholly owned subsidiary in China through successful negotiation with the local government (Selected as a Typical Bankruptcy/Restructuring Case published by the Jiangsu High People’s Court of China)
- Represented a French company in dealing with the performance of executory contracts in the bankruptcy reorganization proceedings of Sinopacific Offshore & Engineering
- Represented a foreign company in the recognition and enforcement in China of foreign bankruptcy proceedings
- Advised a well-known foreign company on potential bankruptcy proceedings of a competitor Chinese technology company, involving legal issues such as termination of executory contracts and coordination of international arbitration and Chinese bankruptcy proceedings
- Represented a foreign-invested bank as a creditor in Huishan Dairy Group's out-of-court restructuring and consolidated bankruptcy reorganization proceedings, involving legal issues such as debt-to-equity swap for commercial banks and set-off in bankruptcy proceedings
- Represented a Japanese company as the largest creditor and an indirect shareholder in a consolidated bankruptcy reorganization in China
- Advised numerous foreign companies on issues related to the Chinese bankruptcy law
