Siwei Luo

Practice Areas

Mr. Siwei Luo is a partner in the dispute resolution practice of Chance Bridge. His areas of expertise include commercial dispute resolution, intellectual property, special assets, insolvency and bankruptcy.

Mr. Luo specializes in handling complex commercial disputes and has represented dozens of domestic and foreign listed companies, large conglomerates and financial institutions to participate in litigation, preservation and enforcement proceedings at all levels and special courts in China. He has handled a significant number of arbitration cases before major arbitral institutions, which includes the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (SCIA), the Hong Kong International Arbitration Center (HKIAC), the Beijing Arbitration Commission (BAC), as well as judicial review cases derived from arbitration.

With a comprehensive educational background in engineering and law, Mr. Luo is both qualified as an attorney-at-law and a patent attorney, and is highly experienced in handling intellectual property issues. He excels in dealing with unusual cases, such as high-adversarial interpleader disputes and disputes concerning competitive interests of commercial and financial data. He is particularly skilled in assisting clients to achieve their business objectives through litigation approaches.

Mr. Luo has considerable practical experience in the field of insolvency and bankruptcy. He has been responsible for and participated in a wide range of judicial restructuring, off-court reorganization, bankruptcy and compulsory liquidation cases as a member of the bankruptcy administrator or the liquidation group and as an advisor to the creditors, debtors, funders or investors. Also, he has represented clients in nearly 100 bankruptcy derivative actions.

Mr. Luo has a proven track record of handling pioneering, adversarial, complicated and influential cases in relevant fields, including many initial cases. These cases have been selected as China Top 10 Most Valuable Intellectual Property Cases, Top 10 Model Cases of Bankruptcy Trials in Guangdong Province, Top 10 Model Cases for Serving Supply Side Structural Reform of Guangdong Courts, Typical Case of Intellectual Property Protection for the Digital Economy by Shenzhen Courts, and Typical Cases of Shenzhen Lawyers.

Mr. Luo has also made achievements in academic and professional research. He has published several papers and dozens of articles in academic journals and professional platforms such as Southeast Law Review (CSSCI), Yuelu Law Review, LexisNexis and Wolters Kluwer. He has participated in research projects such as Research on Key Legal Issues of Urban Renewal Dispute Resolution (commissioned by BAC), as well as the preparation of manuals or journals such as 100 Questions on Private Equity Risk Disposal (in cooperation with Shenzhen Local Financial Supervision Bureau).

Career

Mr. Luo joined Chance Bridge as a partner in 2024. Prior to that, Mr. Luo practiced with King & Wood Mallesons and Merits & Tree Law Offices successively, and worked as an in-house counsel in Tencent Legal.

Publications

“The New Paradigm for Commercial Dispute Resolution in the Greater Bay Area: An Analysis of the SPC Reply Fa Shi [2025] No. 3”, Shenzhen Lawyers (2025).

“Analysis and Prospects of Shenzhen Municipality for the Administration of Personal Bankruptcy Administrator's Remuneration”, Wolters Kluwer (2025).

“Reconfiguration of Resolution Pathways for Conflicts Between Intertwined and Consensual Jurisdiction: An Empirical Study Based on Strategic Interplay in Dual-Case Scenarios”, Wolters Kluwer (2025).

“The Rebalancing of Data Rights Protection and Freedom of Access to Information”, 4th Liuyang River Forum for Applied Law (2025).

“New Trends in Judicial Review of Reference to Arbitration Clauses: Based on a Hong Kong-related Case Concerning Share Incentive Dispute”, Wolters Kluwer (2024).

“Legal Definition and Practical Expansion of Collective Debts”, 7th Luojia Forum for Bankruptcy Law (2023).

“Exploring Remedies for Fund Investors: The Case of Failed MPS Deal”, Wolters Kluwer (2023).

“Judicial Cracking of ‘Traps’ Behind Corporate Control Transactions”, Wolters Kluwer (2023).

“Contract Management on Highway Construction Projects: A Perspective of Contractor's Participation in Dispute Resolution”, Wolters Kluwer (2023).

“Approaches to Break the Contractual Deadlock: A Perspective of Commodity Trading”, LexisNexis (2022).

“Disputes Arising from Urban Renewal Equity Cooperation”, Merits & Tree WeChat Official Site (2022).

“Legal Analysis on Regulations on Local Financial Supervision and Administration”, Merits & Tree WeChat Official Site (2022).

Clients

Representative clients that Mr. Luo is serving or has served include: Alibaba, Tencent, JD.com, Meituan, Kuaishou, Kingdee, Standard Chartered, China CITIC Bank, CMB International, Minmetals Securities, Minmetals International Trust, AVIC Trust, Qianhai Life, China Cinda AMC, CITIC Financial AMC, China Merchants Pingan AMC, Qianhai FOF, Qianhai Infrastructure Investment, CR Capital Management, Guozhong Capital, Green Pine Capital, Sangel Capital, Kunyu Capital, Tsing-Yuan Capital, CR Land, China Jinmao, China Resources Recycling Group, Henan Investment Group, Gortune Investment, Tunghsu Azure, China Haisum, Shenzhen Energy, Shenzhen Exchange Group, Shenzhen SEZ Construction, Porsche China, Chengxin Lithium, XtalPi, FJ Dynamics, HK Chips, ShineOn, Atmus, Masco, Eisenmann, SmallRig, Zhitong Finance, Longwise PR, Firstbrave, Shenzhen Local Financial Supervision Bureau, Shenzhen Venture Capital Association, and so on.

Industry Sector Expertise

Dispute Resolution, Financial Markets, Intellectual Property

Languages Spoken

Mandarin, Cantonese and English

Work Highlights

Commercial Disputes

Represented a mainland subsidiary of a HK-listed company in a series of share incentive disputes concerning general reference arbitration clause incorporation against its former senior employee.

Represented a listed joint-stock bank in a financial loan contract dispute against 9 companies of a large conglomerate.

Represented a local AMC in a series of equity transfer contract and loan contract disputes against companies of a real estate developer.

Advised a HK-listed dairy group on an interim injunction application proceeding initiated by a US-listed wealth management company in the High Court of Hong Kong SAR.

Advised a well-known real estate developer and its joint venture partner on a dispute concerning the capital contribution of parties to a real estate development project and the potential exit of the equity interest.

Represented one of the top 5 national AMCs in a commercial arbitration proceeding concerning dispute over the repurchase of equity earnings rights before the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC).

Represented a well-known market-based FOF in a commercial arbitration proceeding concerning private lone disputes before the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (SCIA).

Represented a well-known dredging engineering company in a ship construction contract dispute against a shipbuilder affiliated to a listed conglomerate.

Represented a real estate developer in a series of financial loan contract disputes against two agricultural and commercial banks.

Advised a HK-listed SOE in the energy industry on an arbitration case concerning a joint venture agreement and guarantee dispute before the Hong Kong International Arbitration Center (HKIAC).

Advised on a potential sale and purchase contract dispute between a listed new energy material manufacturer and a listed battery manufacturer.

Represented the former controller of a listed company in an unjust enrichment dispute against its counterparty.

Represented a well-known securities firm in a series of arbitration cases involving securities financing disputes before the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (SCIA).

Represented a real estate developer in a series of construction contract disputes against a Fortune 500 construction engineering company.

Represented an asset management company in a litigation concerning outsider’s objection to the enforcement proceeding against an a-share listed company and other parties.

Represented a listed construction engineering enterprise in an EPC contract dispute against contractor and a member of the consortium.

Represented a HK-listed international bank in the enforcement of a financial loan contract dispute against several companies of an enterprise group.

Advised an Australian company on its proposed application for property preservation in China during an arbitration case before the Grain and Feed Trade Association (GAFTA).

Represented a state-owned infrastructure FOF in an equity repurchase dispute against the counterparty of the project.

Represented a well-known market-based FOF in a guarantee contract dispute and its pre-litigation property preservation proceedings against a real estate developer.

Represented a real estate developer in a series of construction contract disputes against several construction companies.

Represented a listed construction engineering enterprise in a series of EPC contract disputes against an environmental protection enterprise and its related parties.

Represented a well-known PE fund in a share repurchase dispute before China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) South China Sub-Commission against the actual controller of the target company.

Special Assets, Insolvency and Bankruptcy

Provided full legal services for the first substantive consolidated judicial restructuring case in a municipality of Guangdong Province as a core member of the bankruptcy administrator.

Represented a trust plan holder to participate in the off-court restructuring and debt crisis resolution of a listed real estate developer.

Participated in the judicial restructuring case of a national retailer as a member of the bankruptcy administrator.

Represented a local SOE of the construction industry in the debt relief and insolvency risk stripping of a co-development project under a well-known real estate enterprise.

Represented a major financial institution creditor in a series of legal proceedings for the judicial restructuring of 13 companies of a large conglomerate, including China’s largest domestic shipping company for the transportation of hazardous chemicals.

Education