Insurance (PRC Firms)
China
5 years ranked
Insurance (PRC Firms)
China
5 years ranked
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•Insurance and reinsurance
•Healthcare and life sciences
•Financial and asset management
•Investment and mergers & acquisitions
•Cybersecurity and data compliance
•Complex domestic and cross-border financial and commercial dispute resolution
Mr. Xiang joined Wang Jing & GH Law Firm in 2006 and joined W&H Law Firm in 2013. He now leads his team in providing legal services to domestic and international insurers, reinsurers, asset management companies, commercial banks and other large enterprises across insurance, reinsurance, healthcare, financial asset management, investment and M&A, and cybersecurity and data compliance.
In the insurance and reinsurance field, Mr. Xiang advises domestic and international insurers and reinsurers on insurance compliance, insurance product design, internet insurance, and the resolution of various insurance-contract disputes. In particular, in the emerging area at the intersection of finance and insurance—financing-type credit and surety insurance—he advises multiple insurers engaged in such business on product design, compliance review and risk control, and the handling of complex financing-insurance risk events and disputes. Representative clients in this field include: Ping An Property & Casualty Insurance Company of China, China Pacific Property Insurance (CPIC P&C), China Continent Property & Casualty Insurance, ZhongAn Online P&C Insurance, Taiping General Insurance, China Life Property & Casualty Insurance, Sompo Insurance (China), Chang'an Liability Insurance, Zurich General Insurance (China), General Reinsurance (Gen Re, liability insurance), and Coface of France (credit insurance).
In the healthcare field, Mr. Xiang leads his team in providing comprehensive legal services—spanning digital health, health finance, health insurance, and data compliance and cybersecurity—to leading domestic and international pharmaceutical companies, internet hospitals, health-technology companies and health insurers. Representative clients in this field include: WeDoctor, Sanofi, ZhongAn Insurance and Taiping Insurance.
In the asset and wealth management field, Mr. Xiang advises numerous insurers, asset management companies and large enterprises on insurance asset-management products, including family wealth management, debt investment plans, equity investment plans and independent-supervisor arrangements. He has also handled a large volume of default matters involving insurance asset-management products, private funds and trusts, and has extensive experience in disputes over medium-term notes and bonds, debt investment plans, private funds and trust products. Representative clients in this field include: Minsheng Tonghui Asset Management, Changjiang Pension Insurance, China Pacific Property Insurance, Pacific Asset Management, China United Property Insurance, Ping An Construction Investment, and Difeng Group.
In the banking and finance, internet technology, and investment and M&A fields, Mr. Xiang's team handles legal matters for domestic and international banks, internet-technology enterprises and large companies, including bank financing, financing trade, bank factoring, independent guarantees, corporate governance, investment and M&A, corporate bankruptcy reorganization/restructuring, and the recognition and enforcement of international arbitral awards. Representative clients in this field include: China Development Bank, Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong), Ping An Bank, China National Supply & Marketing Grain and Oil, Pernod Ricard (China) Trading, and Chint Electric.
•Member of the PRC Bar
•Exclusive China-law author, Chambers Global Practice Guide: Aviation Finance & Leasing (2024)
•Exclusive China-law author, Chambers Global Practice Guide: Insurance & Reinsurance (2025)
•“A Study of Legal Issues in Customs Guarantee Insurance,” Insurance Theory and Practice, Issue 8, 2021
•“Prevention and Control of Legal Risks in Nominee Shareholding of Insurance Companies (Parts I and II),” in New Thinking and New Approaches in Commercial and Financial Law, Contemporary China Publishing House, May 2023
•“Observations on Building the Regulatory Framework for Insurance-Company Equity—as the Three-Year Action Plan for Corporate Governance of the Banking and Insurance Sectors Nears Completion”
•“A Detailed Analysis of the Key Regulatory Requirements and Typical Cases Concerning Own-Fund Investment in Insurance Companies”
•“Interpreting Shareholder-Qualification Regulation: From Classified Regulation by Financial Metrics to Shareholder-Suitability Regulation”
•“Maximum Shareholding Limits for a Single Shareholder and Regulation of Major-Shareholder Rights”
Mr. Xiang holds a number of professional and academic appointments, including: Consulting Expert on civil and administrative litigation-supervision cases for the Supreme People's Procuratorate; Arbitrator of the Shanghai Arbitration Commission and other arbitration commissions; Member of the Maritime Law Committee of the China Institute of Navigation; Industry Mentor of the Juris Master Program at Fudan University; External Postgraduate Mentor and Adjunct Researcher (International Shipping Law) at East China University of Political Science and Law; and External Mentor at the Law School of Shanghai Maritime University.
Greater China Region Guide Ranked Lawyer, Insurance Law
Chambers and Partners,
2026
Top 15 Insurance All-Rounders
LEGALBAND
2022
China's Leading Lawyers – Insurance Law
LEGALBAND
2026
China's Leading Lawyers – Maritime & Admiralty
LEGALBAND
2026
Recommended Lawyer – Insurance, and Shipping (Greater China)
The Legal 500 Asia Pacific
2026
Recommended Lawyer – Insurance, and Shipping (Greater China)
The Legal 500 Asia Pacific
2025
China's Leading Lawyers – Maritime & Admiralty
LEGALBAND
2025
China's Leading Lawyers – Maritime & Admiralty
LEGALBAND
2024
China's Leading Lawyers – Insurance Law
LEGALBAND
2025
China's Leading Lawyers – Insurance Law
LEGALBAND
2024
China's Leading Lawyers – Insurance Law
LEGALBAND
2023
Greater China Region Guide Ranked Lawyer, Insurance Law
Chambers and Partners
2025
Greater China Region Guide Ranked Lawyer, Insurance Law
Chambers and Partners
2024
Greater China Region Guide Ranked Lawyer, Insurance Law
Chambers and Partners
2023
Greater China Region Guide Ranked Lawyer, Insurance Law
Chambers and Partners
2022
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向福斌律师在炜衡律师事务所的上海办事处积极处理保险事务。他能为保险公司和资产管理公司的客户就与公司并购投资事宜提供建议。
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He has exceptional professional skills and extensive experience in the insurance industry, including policy interpretation, dispute resolution and case analysis.
他的专业能力非常强,对整个保险行业,包括政策解读、争议和案件梳理方面都有沉淀。
我读过向福斌律师很多的文章。他的观点表达得很好,而且专业方面比较强。
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