Biography
Mr. Jianwei (Jerry) Fang is a partner of Zhong Lun Law Firm and he splits his time in Shanghai and Beijing offices. Mr. Fang practiced law with leading international law firms, including Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York and Beijing offices and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in Hong Kong office. Prior to study at Columbia Law School, Mr. Fang was a judge at a Chinese trial court where he handled hundreds of civil and commercial cases. Mr. Fang also worked as a legal intern in the Legal Office of the United Nations in New York.
Mr. Fang counsels the clients on a wide range of maters from complex corporate and financing transactions, as well as litigation and enforcement cases. As a former Chinese judge, he also specializes in dispute resolution, investigation as well as regulatory compliance. In the commercial litigation area, he represents domestic and international clients in complex litigation cases involving commercial contracts, international trade, intellectual property, construction, employment, competition and trade secrecy matter. Mr. Fang also counsel clients in arbitration matters, including enforcement of foreign arbitration awards with Chinese courts. He also acts as Chinese law expert in litigation and arbitration proceedings outside China, especially with the litigation and investigations in the United States.
In the areas of regulatory, compliance and white-collar matters, Mr. Fang represents numerous clients in internal investigation and regulatory investigation by Chinese government authorities, including police, prosecution office, market regulation, customs, tax, environmental, food and drug safety, work safety, etc.
By leveraging his substantive experience working at international law firms, Mr. Fang works regularly as local PRC counsels to international counsels on cross-border litigation and enforcement cases, including cross-border securities class actions, patent and trade secrecy litigation, as well as various criminal or regulatory investigations by U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and other foreign authorities.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Fang was also a corporate lawyer where he worked on complex merger & acquisition and financing deals for private equity powerhouses, investment banking firms, and Fortune 500 companies. He continues to counsel his clients on corporate and transaction matters involving PRC legal issues.
Mr. Fang publishes extensively on Chinese legal issues and he has contributed to major legal publications such as China Law & Practice, LexisNexis, Practical Law Company, FCPABlog, etc.