Sherry Xiaoli Huang has more than 10 years’ experience in the field of commercial dispute resolution with particular skill in handling complicated cases. She starts her career as a shipping and insurance lawyer, but now is more focus on private equity, investment and financing disputes, especially new type finance cases and foreign-related cases.
Practice Areas
• Foreign-related Commercial Dispute Resolution, Private Equity, Investment & Financing, Supply Chain, Insurance
Representative Cases
• Representing an Austrian steel company to handle a cargo damage dispute, successfully reached settlement agreement in the sum of about RMB 10 million with the defendant despite that the parallel litigation in Holland was in gross disadvantageous to the client;
• Representing a Hong Kong shipping company to handle an enforcement dispute, and such series of cases are listed by Guangdong High People’s Court as one of typical cross-border dispute for Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Bay Area in the year of 2019;
• Representing a bulk commodity supply chain company to handle a tax invoice dispute, the court held that the guarantor shall compensate more than RMB7 million to the client which shall be a precedent case in this filed;
• Representing a fund manager to handle a series of security investment disputes with the investors, while the fund manager was held to assume a big portion of the investor’s loss in the first case, the liability percentage is reduced significantly in the subsequent 9 cases after Ms. Huang’s team take up the cases and focus on the causation of the loss and market system risk defence;
• Representing a fund manager to handle a share investment dispute in New OTC market with the investors, successfully obtain a favorable award that the fund manager is totally exempt from compensation;
• Representing an A-share listed company to handle a processing contract dispute with a defendant which may go into bankruptcy procedure soon, successfully figure out an appropriate way to prove the loss amount and get the judgment from the court which assist the client to recover the total loss in sum of more than RMB 80 million from insurance indemnification;
Honors and Rankings
• “Guangdong Leading International Lawyers” by Guangdong Lawyer’s Association in 2017
• “Shenzhen Leading International Lawyers” by Shenzhen Lawyer’s Association, attended a four weeks training, sponsored by Shenzhen Lawyer’s Association, in Washington and New York in 2019
Memberships
• Member of the 10th Insurance Law Committee, Shenzhen Lawyers Association
• Member of the 11th Hongkong, Macau & Taiwan and Foreign Affairs Working Committee, Guangdong Lawyers Association
• Member of Legal Professional Committee of Council for Promotion of Guangdong-Hong Kong- Macao Cooperation
Bar Admissions
• Practicing lawyer, People's Republic of China, 2011
Professional Experience
• Guantao Law Firm (since Sep 2017)
• Sheng Tang Law Firm (Mar 2012 - Aug 2017)
• Shenzhen Office of Wang Jing & Co Law Firm (Sep 2010 - Feb 2012)
• Henry & Co Law Firm(Sep 2009 - Aug 2010)
Education
• American Business Law Academy Certificate, Visiting Scholar of Law School of Columbia University, USA (Jul 2016)
• LLM, Law School of Sun Yat-sen University, China (Sep 2007- Jul 2009)
• LLB, Law School of Sun Yat-sen University, China (Sep 2003-Jul 2007)
Language Skills
• Chinese Mandarin, native
• Hakka, native
• Cantonese, excellent
• English, excellent
