Changyu Fu

Practice Areas

Litigation & Arbitration, Compliance & Investigation, Antitrust & Competition

Professional Memberships

Adjunct Professor, School of Juris Master in China University of Political Science and Law

Personal

Over her years of practice, Ms. Changyu Fu has represented her clients in a wide range of civil, commercial, and administrative litigation cases, as well as arbitrations and criminal proceedings. She is particularly skillful and experienced in dealing with corporate affairs, IP protection, and disputes in the fields of international commerce and trade and cross-border investment. In addition, Ms. Fu is highly recognized for her ability to identify clients' most critical interests in a litigation or arbitration case, thereby designing the most effective strategies. Ms. Fu also impresses clients with her excellent skills in approaching technical aspects of disputes, which helps her provide in-depth legal services to clients.

In the field of dispute resolution, Ms. Fu has extensive experience in representing large state-owned enterprises, listed companies, and multinational corporations in litigation and arbitration cases. She is particularly skillful at handling highly complex corporate disputes including control disputes, shareholder disputes, and disputes concerning joint ventures. Ms. Fu boasts an impressive track record in resolving dozens of high-value control disputes, amounting to hundreds of billions of RMB, and is currently handling several cases in this area.

In compliance and investigation, Ms. Fu provides legal advice and services to a good number of well-known Chinese and multinational companies, helping them design and manage their legal compliance systems. She is well experienced in cooperating and coordinating with various professional institutions to ensure that the compliance reviews she conducts are thorough the solutions she devises for clients are effective. In particular, she is adept at handling and managing corporate legal crisis and offering creative solutions that avail clients of an expedite and viable way out of crises.

Notably, in multilateral development bank compliance projects, Ms. Fu has extensive experience in leading team to assist domestic and international companies in response to investigations and in helping clients resolve bidding restrictions imposed by major multilateral development banks, including the World Bank, ADB, and AfDB. By adopting tactful approaches to investigations, she has achieved good results in all cases she has handled, including significantly shortening the duration of sanctions, downgrading penalties, and even eliminating penalties. Ms. Fu's approaches for lifting sanctions imposed by multilateral development banks are precise and efficient, resulting in the successful removal of sanctions, sometimes earlier than expected.

In the areas of dispute resolution, compliance and investigation, antitrust and competition law, Ms. Fu is highly recognized among Chinese and foreign clients for providing practically feasible and advisable solutions based on her practical experience and professional expertise.