Mr Hu is a Senior Counsel of Guantao’s international investment and trade practice. Apart from his Chinese qualification, Mr Hu is also a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia and an admitted barrister and solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand. Before joining Guantao, he worked at several international law firms and MNCs and he has been focusing on the fields of complicated intellectual property right protection and other types of dispute resolution. Furthermore, Mr Hu also has extensive experiences in WTO/international trade, cross-border transactions, foreign direct investments, and corporate restructuring areas.
Practice Areas
Intellectual property protection, dispute resolution, foreign direct investment, mergers and acquisitions
Educational Background
Solvay Business School (VUB) Master of Management
University of Oxford Master in Criminology and Criminal Justice
University of Birmingham Bachelor of Laws (LLB)
Bar Admissions
Admitted Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand
Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia
Lawyer of the People's Republic of China
Representative Experience
· Advising a cultural media company in a copyright dispute litigation against Xi'an Jiayunshe Digital Entertainment Distribution Co., Ltd.
· Advising a cultural media company in a copyright dispute litigation against Century Youyou (Tianjin) Cultural Communication Co., Ltd.
· Advising a media company in a copyright dispute litigation against Beijing iQiyi Technology Co., Ltd.;
· Advising a leading consulting company in respect of its copyright protection in China
· Advising a multinational sports facility company in an administrative litigation against the State Intellectual Property Office
· Advising a Fortune Global 500 company in a contract dispute litigation against Beijing Huayu Weicheng Technology Service Co., Ltd.
· Advising a Fortune Global 500 company in a contract dispute litigation against Yanchang Shell Oil Co., Ltd.
· Advising a Fortune Global 500 company in a contract dispute litigation against Beijing Hangying Online Technology Co., Ltd.
· Advising a Fortune Global 500 company in a contract dispute litigation against Bestseller Fashion (Tianjin) Co., Ltd.
· Advising a Fortune Global 500 company in a contract dispute litigation against iSoftStone Technology Services Co., Ltd.
· Advising a listed company in a contract dispute litigation against Beijing Institute of Technology (Changzhou) Technology Development Co., Ltd. and Beijing Machinery Industry Automation Research Institute Co., Ltd.
· Advising a listed company in a contract dispute litigation against Eezey Creative UG (haftungsbeschrankt)
· Advising a listed company in a contract dispute litigation against Shenzhen Rongmei Technology Co., Ltd.
· Advising a technology company in a contract dispute litigation against Wuhan Terminus Intelligent Engineering Co., Ltd.
· Beijing Century Cradle Network Technology Co., Ltd. overseas financing
· Shandong Sun Paper Co., Ltd. and International Paper (Asia) Co., Ltd. cooperation project
· Brautigam Bergbau- und Antriebstechnik GmbH and Zaozhuang Xin Yuan Da Mining Co., Ltd cooperation project
· SMT Scharf GmbH and Shandong Li Ye Equipment Co., Ltd cooperation project
· Liebherr-aerospace Linderberg GmbH and AVIC Landing Gear Advanced Manufacturing Corporation cooperation project
· ACS Servicios y Concessiones S.L purchases Dragados Servicios Portuarios y Logisticos’s shares in Jingtang International Container Terminal Co., Ltd.project
· Straumann Holding AG’s investment project in China
· Putzmeister Solid Pumps GmbH’s investment project in China
· Zhejiang Juhua Co., Ltd purchases OOO Interchemexport’s shares in Zhejiang Jusheng Fluorochemical Co., Ltd project
· Putzmeister Mörtelmaschinen GmbH and Shandong Ning Yi Gu Mortar Technology Co., Ltd cooperation project
· Dr. Oetker China Holding GmbH and Taicang Hengtong Investment Group Company Limited cooperation project
· WeChat and Royal Dutch KPN, Danish TDC, Malaysia U Mobile, Hong Kong CSL, Canada Telus, South Korea SKT, Indonesia Indosat, Singapore Starhub, Thailand TrueMove, Cambodia Smart, and Taiwan Far East (FET) cooperation project
· Advising China Iron and Steel Industry Association and its members in responding to the European Commission, Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Malaysia, Mexico, South Arica’s anti-dumping and/or anti-subsidy investigations against steel products from China
