Ms. ZHOU has extensive experience in domestic and foreign commercial practice, especially in domestic companies, commercial litigation, international trade and investment, cross-border e-commerce, and foreign intellectual property rights. She is a licensed attorney in both PRC and the State of California, USA.
Based on her professional legal background in international economic law and common law, and her rich experience in domestic and foreign-related commercial practice, Ms. Zhou has provided comprehensive legal services to many clients and has been widely praised by them.
In addition to her professional background in law, Ms. Zhou is a qualified securities practitioner, a qualified fund practitioner, and a qualified insurance intermediary in Hong Kong, and she has unique insights into the design of shareholding structures of domestic and foreign companies and cross-border asset allocation.
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
International Investment and Financing Projects
• Legal opinion on the legitimacy of business of GRANDSHORES (HKEX: 1647) in PRC.
• Legal opinion on the filing of reorganization to Hong Kon Stock Exchange by China Mobile Games Technology.
• Cross-border restructuring project of Zhejiang Wanxiang 123 ( leader in the automobile industry) in relation to its battery business line, involving acquisition of its American and Czech affiliates.
• Legal opinion on compliance of the pre-appointment agreement for Wuzhou Urban Construction's US dollar bonds issuance on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
• Preliminary legal research on the feasibility of an investment in the Philippines by a Chinese photovoltaic enterprise
• Consulting services to a Zhejiang company in its Middle East intergovernmental oil and gas pipeline construction and operation project.
• Overseas listing structuring for a well-known restaurant chain enterprise, including the overall design of internal and external structure, setting up offshore companies and onshore companies, converting the existing restaurants in China from individually-owned businesses into companies, assisting the enterprise in obtaining franchise qualifications, and assisting the enterprise in the rollout of direct and chain businesses and the construction of central kitchen.
Domestic Capital Market Projects
• Equity restructuring and tax planning project of a medical enterprise in Zhejiang.
• Legal opinions on the product filing by a state-owned private equity investment fund in Zhejiang.
• Legal opinions on the private fund manager registration of an asset management company in Zhejiang.
• Major asset restructuring project of Dalian Peking University Technology (Group) Co., Ltd. (stock code: 400030/ 'Beike 5').
• The A1 and A2 financing projects of Ascletis Pharma Inc. (HKEX: 1672), the first biopharmaceutical company listed after the new listing policies in Hong Kong.
Post-investment Disputes
• Acting for a well-known private equity investment management company in Hangzhou on initiating a series of lawsuits arising out of equity disputes, including nearly 100 cases in relation to invalid or revoked company resolutions, investment contract disputes, shareholder qualification confirmation disputes, etc.
• Acting for a technology company in Shanghai to sue its original shareholders in a dispute over an equity transfer contract which was arbitrated by the Shanghai Arbitration Commission, recovering losses of more than RMB 100 million.
• Acting for a technology company in Shanghai to sue its original shareholders in a dispute over liability for damage to interests, recovering losses of nearly RMB 40 million caused by the shareholders' withdrawal of capital contribution.
• Acting for a private limited partnership in Jiaxing to sue the original shareholders of a technology company in Hangzhou in a share repurchase dispute.
• Acting for a private equity limited partnership in Beilun District, Ningbo to sue the original shareholder of a technology company in Hangzhou in an investment contract dispute, and successfully obtained the order for share repurchase.
Foreign-related Intellectual Property Disputes
• Acting for Adidas and its affiliated companies to sue a number of companies in Yiwu for a series of copyright infringement and trademark rights disputes and won the lawsuit.
• Acting for Mary Kay in the 'code scraping case' before Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court and won the first trial.
• Acting for Asics in disputes over infringement of trademark exclusive rights and unfair competition with a number of companies with infringement acts on the Internet.
• Acting for Grenden in the case of infringement of trademark exclusive rights and unfair competition disputes with a number of companies with infringement acts on the Internet.
• Domestic and foreign family cases
• Representing a Chinese citizen (decedent) in an inheritance case in California, USA, and assisted in the probate procedure.
• Acting for the ex-wife of a well-known catering entrepreneur in Hangzhou, and successfully defended her legitimate rights and interests and obtained tens of millions of RMB in compensation.
• Acting for the ex-wife in a divorce dispute with an entrepreneur of smart device production.
• Acting for a China entrepreneur in the divorce case with his Canadian wife.
• Acting for an entrepreneur from Taiwan in a divorce case.
EDUCATION
The Chinese University of Hong Kong LL.M.
East China University of Political Science and Law LL.B.
BAR ADMISSIONS
Practicing Certificate, People’s Republic of China
Practicing Certificate, State of California (USA)
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS
• Member of International Investment Committee of Hangzhou Lawyers Association
• Executive Director of Hangzhou Overseas Chinese Merchants Association
PUBLICATION
• “Research on the Compliance of Face Recognition Data in Cross-border Operation of Enterprises, which takes the laws and cases of face recognition in the United States, the European Union and China as examples”, won the first prize in the 2022 annual meeting of the International Economic Law Research Association of Zhejiang Law Society and the symposium on 'Innovative Discovery of International Economic Law under the Background of Institutional Opening'
• The first author of “Research on Policy Bottlenecks and Countermeasures of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises’ Foreign Investment under the Background of the Belt and Road Routes”, won the 2018 Zhejiang SME Legal Forum Essay Excellence Award.
