Haiyan Cui

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崔海燕，金道律师事务所副主任，一级律师，2021年荣获“全国优秀律师”称号。复旦大学国际经济法学士，浙江大学经济法硕士，执业27年，中华全国律师协会常务理事、中华全国律师协会外事委员会副主任、浙江省律师协会副会长、司法部全国千名涉外律师人才、中华全国律师协会涉外律师领军人才库成员、北仲、上国仲、杭仲仲裁员、浙江省浙商涉外法律服务中心副理事长、浙江省外经贸法律服务律师团团长、浙江省“一带一路”律师服务团团长。曾赴英、美、西班牙培训，是中华全国律师协会委派参加国际律师协会（IBA）年会的中国5名律师之一，曾在世界律师大会上演讲，担任环太平洋律师协会上海年会分论坛主持人。执业领域包括跨境交易、合规、国际仲裁、涉外争议解决。曾协助浙江众多企业以和解方式成功处理了众多涉外纠纷（包括在美国、爱尔兰法院受理的案件），其中带领团队代理某央企浙江公司与造船保函相关的7亿元人民币银行追偿权诉讼案件的一审、二审、重审一审、二审及在中国海事仲裁委员会的仲裁案件，历经4年，最终帮助客户获得一揽子和解；曾代理浙江某国企应对法国某公司在新加坡国际仲裁中心提起的关于合资合同与经销合同纠纷的国际仲裁，帮助该国企挽回不利局面，获得数千万元人民币的和解补偿；曾代理宁波某民营公司处理与欧洲某上市公司金额上亿元的经销合同解除争议，通过提起国内诉讼和仲裁程序双管齐下，帮助企业获得近亿元人民币的和解补偿；曾代理浙江某民营集团受俄乌冲突影响引发的金额10亿元人民币的盈利预测补偿协议纠纷。崔海燕律师对客户的需求具有敏锐的洞察力，擅长整合资源为客户提供高质量的跨境法律服务，始终致力于为客户寻求最佳解决之道。2018年起每年荣登钱伯斯中国律所榜单并于2024年荣获“业界贤达”称号。

Ms. Cui Haiyan is the Deputy Director of Brighteous Law Firm and a first-class lawyer who was awarded the title of “National Outstanding Lawyer” in 2021. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Economic Law from Fudan University and a Master’s degree in Economic Law from Zhejiang University. With 27 years of legal practice, she is a Standing Council Member of the All-China Lawyers Association (ACLA) and serves as Deputy Director of the ACLA Foreign Affairs Committee. Ms. Cui is also the Vice President of the Lawyers Association of Zhejiang, a member of the Ministry of Justice’s Thousand Foreign-Related Legal Talent Program, and the member of ACLA Leading Talents Pool for Foreign-related Lawyers. She is an arbitrator of the Beijing Arbitration Commission / Beijing International Arbitration Court, Shanghai International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission / Shanghai International Arbitration Center, Hangzhou Arbitration Commission / Hangzhou Court of International Arbitration. In addition, she is the Vice Chairman of the Zhejiang Merchants Foreign-related Legal Service Center, the head of both the Zhejiang Provincial Legal Service Team for Foreign Trade and the “Belt and Road” Legal Service Team. Having received training in the UK, the US, and Spain, Ms. Cui is one of five Chinese lawyers appointed by ACLA to attend the International Bar Association (IBA) Annual Conference and has delivered speeches at the World Law Congress. She has also hosted panels at the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA) Shanghai Annual Meeting & Conference.

Ms. Cui’s practice areas include cross-border transactions, compliance, international arbitration, and foreign-related dispute resolution. She has assisted numerous Zhejiang-based enterprises in successfully resolving various foreign-related disputes through settlement, including cases accepted by courts in the US and Ireland. Among these, she led her team representing a central state-owned enterprise’s Zhejiang subsidiary in a RMB 700 million bank recourse lawsuit relating to a shipbuilding guarantee, including first-instance, second-instance, retrial first-instance, retrial second-instance, and arbitration at the China Maritime Arbitration Commission (CMAC). Over the course of four years, she ultimately helped the client achieve a comprehensive settlement. She has also represented a Zhejiang-based state-owned enterprise in an international arbitration initiated by a French enterprise at the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) concerning joint venture agreement and distribution agreement disputes. Her work helped reverse the unfavorable situation for the client, securing a settlement compensation amounting to tens of millions of RMB. Additionally, she represented a Ningbo-based private company in a RMB 100 million dispute over the termination of a distribution agreement with a European listed enterprise. By simultaneously pursuing domestic litigation and arbitration proceedings, she helped the client obtain a settlement of nearly RMB 100 million.Furthermore, she represented a Zhejiang-based private group in a RMB 1 billion profit forecast compensation agreement dispute triggered by the Russia-Ukraine conflict,

Ms. Cui possesses a keen insight into client needs, excels at integrating resources to provide high-quality cross-border legal services, and is consistently committed to seeking the best solutions for her clients. Since 2018, Ms. Cui has been consistently listed in Chambers & Partners as one of China’s leading lawyers and was named an Eminent Practitioner in 2024.