Bo Yang

Practice Areas

Ms. Bo YANG was qualified as a lawyer of the People’s Republic of China in 2005. She has since then been engaged in foreign-related law practice in a leading law firm in the country, and joined Jingtian & Gongcheng as a partner in early 2020.

Ms. Yang has rich experience in foreign-related legal affairs, covering international trade, international shipping, overseas engineering construction, foreign-related commercial disputes, international arbitration and other fields. Her specific ranges of practice mainly include:

● Maritime & Admiralty

▷ International shipping – Marine Transport, Bill of Lading, Lease, International Logistics, Air Transport, Multimodal Transport, Ship Collision, Oil Pollution, Crew Labor Disputes, Marine Insurance dispute, etc.;

▷ Ships & offshore engineering – Construction, Sale & Purchase, Financial Leasing of Ship; Construction, Sale, and Financial Leasing of Special Engineering Ships & Offshore Platforms;

▷ Harbors & Coastal facilities – Construction of Jetties, Harbors & Coastal Facilities; Offshore Engineering Contracts, Waterway Dredging Contracts, FIDIC International Engineering Contract

● International Trade

▷ International Sales of Goods, Bulk Commodity Trade, Trade Financing, Letters of Credit, Trade Disputes;

▷ Trade Compliance, Export Control, Economic Sanctions

● International Arbitration/Foreign-related Commercial Disputes

▷ Foreign-related Commercial Litigation & Arbitration, including CIETAC, CMAC, HKAIC, LMAA, LCIA, SIAC arbitration, Hong Kong ad hoc Arbitration, London ad hoc Arbitration, FOSFA, GAFTA and other Bulk Commodity Industry Arbitration

Ms. Yang has professional knowledge and years of experience in maritime industry, and has for years represented P&I clubs, shipowners and shipping enterprises to deal with various types of maritime, air transport, international logistics, maritime and marine insurance disputes. She also has extensive experience in ship buying and selling, construction, special vessel finance leasing, offshore platform construction, terminal and coastal facility construction/transaction. She was ranked in “Greater China Region 2023: Shipping: Southern China (PRC Firms)” by Chambers and Partners.

Ms. Yang has rich experience in practice of international trade. She has assisted a number of domestic and foreign enterprises to deal with a number of international trade-related litigation and arbitration cases, especially specializing in commodity trade disputes. She is also good at trade related export control, economic sanctions and trade compliance, and provides compliance review services related to international trade for many enterprises. She was awarded by The Legal 500 as “Recommended Lawyer in WTO/ International Trade” in Mainland China in 2023.

Ms. Yang is good at dealing with foreign commercial disputes, especially international arbitration cases. She has handled a large number of international arbitration cases in Hong Kong, Singapore and London, including FOSFA and GAFTA industrial arbitration cases in London. She has been continuously recommended by The Legal 500 and Benchmark Litigation in the field of international arbitration.

Ms. Yang has also been honored by the Ministry of Justice of the PRC as one of “Nation’s Top 1000 International Business Lawyers” and honored by National Bar Association, Guangdong Bar Association and Guangzhou Bar Association as “Leading International Business Lawyer”.

Professional Memberships

● Current roles：

▷ Expert lawyer of Legal Service Group for Foreign-related Economy and Trade of Department of Commerce of Guangdong Province

▷ Deputy Secretary General of "The Belt and Road Initiative" and Foreign Affairs Committee of Guangdong Bar Association

▷ Committee Member of International Trade Law Committee of Guangdong Bar Association

▷ Committee member of "The Belt and Road Initiative" Legal Service Specialized Committee of Guangzhou Bar Association

▷ Off-campus part-time tutor for Master of Law of Faculty of Law of South China Normal University.

● Former roles:

▷ Committee member of Professional Committee of Maritime Law of Guangzhou Bar Association

▷ Committee member of Professional Committee for Foreign-related Laws of Guangzhou Bar Association

▷ Committee member of Working Committee for Female Lawyers of Guangzhou Bar Association

Publications

*Invited to write and publish the "Shipping Finance in China: Overview" by the legal know-how database Practical Law of Thomson Reuters, a well-known international professional organization

*Anniversary of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine – A review of the Latest Sanctions against Russia by Europe and the U.S.

*The Expansion of the “Foreign Direct Product Rule” under the U.S. Export Control – Interpretation & Countermeasures

*The Impact of Russia-Ukraine Sanctions on Commodity Trade: Risk of Contract Performance and Commodity Arbitration Rules

*The Latest US Sanctions against Russia and Corporate’s Coping Strategies

*Series of Analysis on Trade Control System Part III –- Interpretation on China's Export Control Law

*Series of Analysis on Trade Control System Part II –-Analysis on Key Points of The Provisions on the Unreliable Entity List promulgated by China

*How Chinese Enterprises Could Cope with the Escalation of US Export Controls against China