Genwang (Anderson) Zhang

Work Highlights

Litigation Practice in Equity/Option Incentives

Assisted a leading company which develops image sensor chip and display driver chip in China in analyzing the validity of options issued in history and solutions to disputes before going public and assisted the company in properly dealing with the appeals, reports and various complaints from many grantees before and after going public, and represented the company in three litigations related to equity incentives, involving a total amount of approximately CNY 180 million

Represented a cross-border e-commerce company in disputes over the exercise of equity incentives brought by a former senior manager, with the case value of approximately USD 30 million

Represented an intelligent sensor company in its request to repurchase its partner's shares of equity incentives at the price of USD 1, with the case value of approximately CNY 10 million

Represented a biomedical technology company in disputes over employment relationship and equity incentives of a senior manager, with the value of incentive shares of approximately CNY 15 million

Represented a hotel management group in responding to an option delivery lawsuit against a former senior manager, with the case value of over CNY 7 million

Represented an A-share listed company conducting new drug research and development in responding to lawsuits over the release of restricted stock against a former senior manager, with the case value of approximately CNY 3 million

Represented a new energy manufacturing company in responding to lawsuits over the compensation for breach of contract of equity incentive against a former senior manager, with the case value of CNY 12.5 million

Assisted an industry-leading online e-signing platform in responding to a tort action brought by a former senior manager based on impaired equity incentive interests, involving a total amount of approximately USD13 million

Assisted an industrial automation company in responding to lawsuits over the property damage of incentive shares (partnership dispute) brought by a former senior manager, involving a total amount of approximately CNY 8.8 million

Assisted an A-share listed food company in the mandatory repurchase of partnership shares held by former employees through an equity incentive shareholding platform

Assisted a tourism group in properly responding to the equity incentive claims of its senior manager

Represented a to-be-listed company in the smart logistics industry in an equity and labor dispute initiated by a senior manager of its subsidiary prior to its briefing. Formulated appropriate litigation strategy by analyzing the company's listing timeline, ensured that the equity and labor dispute initiated by the senior manager would not have a negative influence on the company's listing process and successfully conducted the repurchase of the incentive shares at its original price

Represented a foreign senior manager of a to-be-listed company in labor and option disputes arising from separation, which enabled the employee to receive more than CNY 7 million as compensation based on options through a series of lawsuits

Represented a senior technical officer of a listed company in labor and equity disputes arising from unilateral termination. Filed the lawsuits involving the equity dispute in stages according to the purposes of the lawsuits, which enabled the senior manager to receive a large amount of compensation

Represented a former senior manager of a listed health consulting and management company in litigations on the exercise of options and reimbursement of proceeds, with the case value of over CNY 55 million

Represented a senior manager of an intelligent vehicle company in handling disputes on labor and restricted stock caused by unilateral termination, with the case value of approximately CNY 75 million

His bio can be found here: https://en.zhonglun.com/team/andersonzhang.html

Expert in these Jurisdictions

PRC Lawyer’s License

Practice Areas

Labor & Employment, Litigation & Arbitration

Professional Memberships

Member of the Labor and Social Security Practice Research Committee, the Shanghai Bar Association

Personal

Anderson is an expert in the field of employment law and human resource management.

He has extensive experience in practicing within the field of employment and industrial relations. He regularly provides legal counselling advice to all types of enterprises in terms of compliance management. He also assists clients in emergency and crisis response and advises multinational corporations on the proper application of workforce restructure and employee transfer plan in M&A transactions. He is proficient in providing counselling service in relation to dismissal, termination and variation of employment contract. During the participation in corporate restructure and liquidation proceedings, Anderson has provided clients with constructive legal advice in the field of employment law for many times.

Anderson also specializes in equity/option-related dispute resolution, and takes the principal responsibility for many types of cases, including disputes on employee stock option plan/equity incentive, equity transfer, equity/stock share repurchase, shareholding entrustment, shareholder qualification, etc. In particular, he has rich experience in equity/option incentive litigation. He is in charge of or participates in dealing with a number of disputes on equity incentive between companies to be listed and employees, the value of the subject matter of which is hundreds of millions of CNY.

Experience

Partner, Zhong Lun Law Firm, 2019 to present

Senior Partner, Dentons, 2008-2018

Lawyers Associate, Jade & Fountain PRC, 2005-2008

Associate, Shanghai Asia-Pacific Great Wall Law Firm, 2003-2005

HR manager, Sany Heavy Industry Co., Ltd, 2002-2003

Associate, Shanghai Hongzheng Law Firm, 2001-2002

Languages Spoken

Chinese

English