The People Behind the Work

Our Legal Team

Seasoned lawyers with extensive cross-border experience, dedicated to delivering results for international clients in China.

Our team combines deep Chinese litigation expertise with genuine international fluency. All three lawyers have handled significant cross-border disputes and transactions, and all work comfortably in English. When you engage us, you deal directly with the lawyers handling your matter — not junior assistants or project managers.

AL
Senior Partner

Alex Lu  (陆海春)

📚 LL.B. — East China University of Political Science and Law 🎓 LL.M. — University of Groningen (Netherlands) ⚖️ 18+ years in practice
Investment & M&A Cross-Border Transactions Corporate Governance Dispute Resolution ODI / Outbound Investment

About

Alex Lu is a Senior Partner at Beijing Dacheng (Dentons) Law Offices (Shanghai). With eighteen years of practice, he has led complex cross-border transactions and high-value disputes across a broad range of sectors — including new energy, private equity, life sciences, real estate, and technology. His international LL.M. from the University of Groningen gives him a genuine grasp of the legal and commercial frameworks that overseas clients bring to their China dealings.

Selected Experience

  • Represented a listed company in a joint venture manufacturing project with a Saudi counterparty, including the full suite of transaction documents, commercial negotiation and ODI filing; total consideration in the hundreds of millions of RMB.
  • Represented Schroders New Energy in multiple renewable energy acquisition projects (ENVISION Energy, Goldwind Science & Technology and others), conducting legal due diligence and managing transaction documentation.
  • Served as standing legal counsel and specialist M&A counsel to over ten pharmaceutical and biotech companies at various financing stages, including Premis Bio, Lanova Pharmaceuticals, Inca Bio, BaoZheng Pharma, Saintdomics Bio, Xinxi Bio, Hui Kai Medical, Yoqi Network, Cruxel Technology, and ANQY Semiconductor.
  • Served as standing legal counsel and outbound investment counsel to private equity institutions including Fuhe Capital, Hengxu Capital, Boxin Capital, and Binfu Investment.
  • Represented a major domestic real estate developer in a CIETAC arbitration arising from an industrial property acquisition (claim value exceeding RMB 50 million); all claims of the opposing party were dismissed in full.
  • Represented COOEC-Fluor Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (the China JV of NYSE-listed Fluor Corporation and CNOOC Group) in an international shipping services dispute against DHL Global Forwarding (China) Co., Ltd., with amounts in dispute approaching RMB 40 million.
  • Represented Wuxi Ruikexinneng Equity Investment Co., Ltd. (Schroders New Energy) in a construction payment dispute with Chengde Zhongheng Power Engineering Co., Ltd. relating to a 100 MW photovoltaic power station; total project value approaching RMB 600 million.

Firm: Beijing Dacheng Law Offices, LLP (Shanghai) — a member of Dentons, the world's largest law firm by headcount.

GZ
Senior Associate

Ge Zhenguo  (葛振国)

📚 LL.M. — East China University of Political Science and Law ⚖️ 10 years in practice
Investment & M&A Capital Markets Corporate Governance Dispute Resolution Private Equity

About

Ge Zhenguo is a Senior Associate with ten years of specialised experience in investment transactions and complex commercial disputes. He has advised on dozens of private equity investments — from initial due diligence through to exit — and has represented clients in a wide range of contentious matters involving equity disputes, construction claims, and commercial contract breaches.

Selected Experience

  • Served as standing and specialist outbound investment counsel to private equity firms including Fuhe Capital, Hengxu Capital, Boxin Capital, and Binfu Investment; managed due diligence and transaction documents for dozens of private equity investments.
  • Provided cross-border investment legal services — including ODI filings and investment document drafting — to Nanjing Junhai, Mingde Chuancheng, Honglida, and other enterprises.
  • Represented Ningbo Fuchuang Venture Capital (LP) in over ten equity buyback and earnout disputes against investee companies and their actual controllers, with total amounts exceeding RMB 100 million, across first instance, second instance and enforcement stages.
  • Represented a major domestic real estate developer in an industrial property acquisition arbitration (claim value exceeding RMB 50 million); all opposing claims dismissed.
  • Represented Shanghai SCUD Longtop Technology Co., Ltd. in a construction contract dispute against Sichuan Tianshi HVAC Engineering, with claims in the tens of millions of RMB; settled in mediation in favour of the client.
  • Represented Shanghai ANQY Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd. in a series of equity restructuring disputes against former shareholders.
  • Represented Shanghai FORHO Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. in multiple tenancy contract disputes with its commercial tenants.
HK
Associate

Huang Kunru  (黄坤如)

📚 J.M. — East China Normal University ⚖️ 3 years in practice
Investment & M&A Cross-Border Investment Corporate Governance Dispute Resolution

About

Huang Kunru is an Associate whose practice spans cross-border investment transactions, corporate advisory work and dispute resolution. She brings a precise, research-driven approach to both transactional documentation and contentious matters, and has been involved in significant disputes at arbitration and in court.

Selected Experience

  • Provided cross-border investment legal services — including ODI filings and investment document preparation — to Nanjing Junhai, Mingde Chuancheng, Honglida, and other enterprises.
  • Served as standing and specialist financing counsel to over ten companies including Zhiyang HR, Premis Bio, Inca Bio, Hangzhou Saintdomics, BaoZheng Pharma, ANQY Semiconductor, and Shanghai Cruxel Technology.
  • Served as standing and outbound investment counsel to private equity institutions including Fuhe Capital and Binfu Investment; participated in due diligence and transaction documentation for over ten private equity investments.
  • Represented Wuxi Ruikexinneng Equity Investment Co., Ltd. (Schroders New Energy) in a construction payment dispute relating to a 100 MW photovoltaic power station; total project value approaching RMB 600 million.
  • Participated in representing Spanish shipbuilding company Gabadi S.L. in a series of complex contract and equity disputes with Jiangnan Shipyard and Chinese partners; total amounts in dispute approximately RMB 40 million.

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