Mr. Chen specializes in complex commercial litigation and various types of cross-border dispute resolution.

He has represented numerous well-known Chinese and multinational corporate clients in courts and other platforms for dispute resolution and compliance legal services. With over 12 years of experience, Mr. Chen is skilled in commercial contract disputes, product liability and intellectual property disputes, corporate compliance, cross-border insolvency, global product recalls, and other areas of international dispute resolution.

Mr. Chen has directly led, handled, or actively participated in litigation, mediation, negotiation, and/or transactions in the following forums or locations: courts/arbitration commissions in cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, and Xiamen in China; federal court in New Jersey, state courts in New York, California, and Ohio in the U.S.; courts in Calgary, Canada; as well as locations including Seattle, Washington; Atlanta, Georgia; and Barcelona, Spain.

Representative Projects

• Acted as a leading partner and chief attorney in the legal advisory team for the Canadian Olympic and Paralympic Committees for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, providing related legal services.

• Represented a major Chinese state-owned bank in cross-border disputes over the enforcement of overseas collateral for multimillion-dollar loans, successfully securing a favorable ruling from a foreign court for the enforcement and management of the collateral through meticulous evidence presentation and effective rebuttals.

• Represented a large Mexican photovoltaic manufacturing and exporting company in cross-border disputes involving U.S. customs anti-dumping duties.

• Served as legal counsel to the beneficial owner of a U.S. NASDAQ-listed company, assisting in resolving commercial disputes related to an investment contract in the New Jersey Federal Court.

• Provided legal and professional advisory services to Huachen Electric Power Corporation (a major Chinese power generation group) in its bankruptcy reorganization proceedings (involving $500 million bonds) at the Beijing First Intermediate People's Court and successfully obtained recognition of its extraterritorial legal effects in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York in 2022.

• Represented a prominent Chinese financial services company as lead attorney in contract dispute litigation at the Beijing Second Intermediate People's Court, achieving a complete victory by overturning the first-instance judgment.

• Provided specialized legal consultation and acted as litigation counsel for a state-owned company in Central Asia in a sales contract dispute involving a giant battery recycling machine with a Chinese high-tech manufacturing entity.

• Represented a renowned Chinese trust company in a contract dispute with a general beneficiary of a structured trust.

• Acted as litigation counsel for a Fortune 500 company in a dispute over a water treatment engineering services contract.

• Advised a prominent European automotive company on recovering debts from Chinese corporate debtors, offering a comprehensive cross-border (China, Germany, Singapore) strategy for litigation, arbitration, and mixed dispute resolution, and provided detailed legal opinions.

• Acted as the agent for a Fortune 500 company in China in managing the nationwide recall of consumer electronics, addressing key issues related to simultaneous recalls of imported and domestically produced products.

• Handled complex arbitration and follow-up proceedings in an international contract dispute between a Chinese supplier and a U.S. equipment manufacturer.

• Led a legal team conducting on-site investigations for compliance issues in the sales and financing departments of a multinational IT corporation in China.

  
  

Educational Background

• Juris Doctor (J.D.), University of Houston, USA (2011)

• Master of Laws (LL.M.), University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA (2007)

• Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), East China University of Political Science and Law, China (2005)

  
  

Professional Qualifications

• Licensed Attorney in China

• Licensed Attorney in New York State, USA

• Licensed Attorney in Arizona, USA

• Admitted to practice in the U.S. Federal District Court (Arizona District)

  
  

Honors/Professional Affiliations

• Mediator, Beijing Belt and Road International Commercial Dispute Resolution Center

• Arbitrator, Xi’an Arbitration Commission/International Commercial Arbitration Court

• Expert, IC500 International Compliance Think Tank (hosted by the China Society of Foreign Trade Accounting)

• Practical Tutor for Master’s Program, Renmin University of China Law School

• Selected Attorney, Beijing Bar Association’s Foreign-Related Lawyer Talent Pool (Civil and Commercial Litigation and Arbitration, Finance and Capital Markets, International Trade)

  
  

Career Background
Before joining DeHeng Law Offices, Mr. Chen worked at a U.S. law firm in Phoenix, as well as the Shanghai and Beijing offices of two leading Chinese law firms, and the Beijing office of a renowned law firm in partnership with a foreign law firm.

Publications

• Key Points of Legal Practice for Recognition of Extraterritorial Effects of Chinese Bankruptcy Proceedings in the U.S., selected as an outstanding legal article by Peking University’s LawInfoChina in 2015.

• Invited by Chambers & Partners, a global legal media, to author the 2022 China chapter of Global Medical Device and Health Consumer Product Legal Trends Guide, introducing the latest legal developments in China in the field.

• Contributed the China chapter of Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Court Judgments Legal Guide 2022 for Lexology-GTDT, providing insights into the latest developments in recognizing and enforcing foreign commercial judgments in China.