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Arbitrator of China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), Tianjin Arbitration Commission, Guangzhou Arbitration Commission, Harbin Arbitration Commission, Chongqing Arbitration Commission, Langfang Arbitration Commission, and on the List of the First Batch Ad Hoc Arbitrators in Hainan Free Trade Port, etc.
Arbitrator of Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC, also listed as HKIAC Panel of Arbitrators for Financial Services Disputes, i.e., the FSD Panel), the American Arbitration Association International Dispute Resolution Center (AAA-ICDR), Singapore International Arbitration Center (SIAC), the Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC), the AIFC Court and International Arbitration Centre (IAC), International Commercial Dispute Prevention and Settlement Organization (ICDPASO), and the Asia Chapter of the AIDA Reinsurance and Insurance Arbitration Society (ARIAS Asia), etc.
Member of Council, China Academy of Arbitration Law
Invited Expert, Committee on Investment Arbitration of China Academy of Arbitration Law
Member, Foreign-related Legal Professional Commission of China Chamber of International Commerce Shandong Branch
Special Advisor, New York Institute of Finance
General Secretary, China Forum of Financial and Investment Disputes (CFFID)
Founding Member and Country Convener, ARIAS Asia
Are You Ready? Developments And Challenges of Ad Hoc Arbitration in the mainland Of China”, Litigation & Dispute Resolution Expert Guide 2024 edited by Corporate Livewire, October 2024
“China is running a full-court press for global arbitration clients. What's the verdict so far?”, South China Morning Post, April 2024
“Lesson from the Case, and Thorough Review on the Fiduciary Liabilities of Trustees”, LexisNexis Review, March 2024
“GTDT: Market Intelligence - Dispute Resolution 2023- China”, Lexology, June 2023
“Special Topic: Legal Observations on Credit Enhancement and Default of Offshore Bonds”, Zhong Lun Bank & Finance bi-monthly, September 2023
“Breaking the Class Action Dilemma: A Brief Analysis of China's Special Representative Litigation System for Securities Disputes from the Case of Kangmei Pharmaceuticals”, the Third Prize for Outstanding Paper at 2021 Globalization and Financial Regulation Law - Shanghai Summit, December 2021
“The Impact of the PRC Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law on International Commercial Arbitration and Suggestions for Response”, “Essay Collection of 2021 International Commercial & Legal Cooperation Forum”, Essay Winner Award of 2021 International Commercial & Legal Cooperation Forum, December 2021
“The Impact of the PRC Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law 2021 on International Commercial Arbitration”, Asian Dispute Review, October 2021
“Application of Force Majeure Rules—a Comparative Study”, Arbitration and Law, Issue 146, September 2021
“Examination on Several Difficult Issues of Disposal of Pledged Stocks of Listed Companies in the Context of Bond Default”, Arbitration Study, Issue 50, August 2021
“Key Issues in Financial Consumer Protection”, China Reform, a journal supervised by National Development and Reform Commission and hosted by China Society of Economic Reform, May 2021
“A Booming Market and an Evolving System amid the Novel Coronavirus Outbreak”, AmCham Commentary, March 2020
“The Impact of Novel Coronavirus Pandemic on the Business and Dispute Resolution of Asset Management and the Recommended Responses”, Arbitration and Law, Issue 147, Caixin, 13 March 2020, AmCham Commentary, March 2020
“Compliance and Litigation Risks: The SEC's Tougher Stance on Intermediary Institutions”, China Law & Practice, February 2020
“New Developments of Evidence from the Perspective of New Evidence Rules in Civil Procedures”, the official website of CIETAC under the column of Fighting Outbreak of Coronavirus, February 2020 and PKU Law Practice Guide, March 2020
Wilson is a partner of Zhong Lun Law Firm. He received his LL.B. degree from the University of International Business & Economics in Beijing and an LL. M. degree from the University of Iowa College of Law in the United States. He was licensed to practice in the PRC. Prior to joining Zhong Lun as a partner, Wilson worked in a state-owned import & export company as a legal manager and in prestigious American law firms as a senior associate for a number of years. He is fluent in using English as working language and conducting hearings in English. His practice focus includes resolution of cross-border disputes and banking/financing disputes as well as corporate and commercial crime. Wilson is an arbitrator of the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC, also listed as HKIAC Panel of Arbitrators for Financial Services Disputes, i.e., the FSD Panel), the American Arbitration Association International Dispute Resolution Center (AAA-ICDR), Singapore International Arbitration Center (SIAC), the Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC), the AIFC Court and International Arbitration Centre (IAC), the International Commercial Dispute Prevention And Settlement Organization (ICDPASO), and the Asia Chapter of the AIDA Reinsurance and Insurance Arbitration Society (ARIAS Asia), etc. Wilson is the General Secretary of China Forum of Financial and Investment Disputes (CFFID). He is also the Founding Member and Country Convenor of ARIAS Asia. He has been recommended in the dispute resolution area by both Chambers Global and Chambers Asia Pacific as "Leaders in Their Field" and by Chambers Global, Chambers Asia Pacific and Chambers Greater China Region with high ranking for consecutive years. Also, he has been highly recommended by The Legal 500 in the area of Dispute Resolution in the Asia-Pacific region and mainland of China, as well as included on the Legal 500 Private Practice Powerlist Arbitration: China, 2023. He has also been rated repetitively by EuroMoney as the Benchmark Asia-Pacific Local Dispute Star, and as the Best in Financial Service Disputes – China.
Wilson has backgrounds and expertise in both transactions and dispute resolution matters, which have provided him with a solid basis as a representing lawyer, an arbitrator, and an expert witness, and empowered him to steer the negotiation with sophisticated skills combing the ADR approaches including mediation/reconciliation, or debt-restructuring and other means to achieve the utmost client interests and to resolve the disputes with the most efficient timeline and the least costs.
Wilson has been representing arbitration cases ranging from domestic and overseas institutional arbitration to Ad Hoc arbitration and treaty-based investment arbitration such as ICSID cases. These arbitration cases include not only a large volume of "onshore arbitration" in the mainland of China, but also countless "offshore/overseas arbitration" as the mainland of China companies go abroad under the initiative of "One Belt One Road (OBOR/BRI)". He also has highlighted examples of enforcing arbitration awards in both domestic and cross-border scenarios.
Wilson has been active to represent clients to litigate, take interim measures, initiate special procedures, and is well experienced in handling complex commercial disputes before various levels of the People's Court, from the municipal/district court to the hight courts and the Supreme Court of China. Wilson also represents his clients to respond to or launch criminal proceedings, so as to protect clients' interests to the maximum.
Based on his extensive experiences, Wilson has proposed his new theories of dispute resolution namely "Smart Dispute Resolution" and "Arbitration Plus", i.e., prioritizing the formulation and customization of dispute resolution strategies and management of procedures, highlighting the use of arbitration as the basis while taking advantages of other remedies and applying various resolution methods to respond to clients' requests and the progress of legal technologies, and resolve disputes systematically and efficiently by improving efficiency, emphasizing the responsive and effective communication with the clients, adjudicators and even the counterparties, and promoting lawyers from the mainland of China to "take the lead" in overseas cases, etc.
Besides cross-border disputes, Wilson has unique expertise in traditional "asset-end" banking and financing cases involving issuers/defaulting parties, as well as "money-end" or "new financing" cases involving fiduciary liability and securities misrepresentation liability of trustees and/or asset management companies. Moreover, he has been representing clients in cases related to domestic and overseas investments, "OBOR/BRI" and in the industries of oil and gas, energy, steel and iron, food and beverage, shipping and shipment, tele-communication, chemicals, machinery, trade, construction, TMT, sports, administrative disputes and etc. His clients include MNCs, FIEs, state-owned enterprises, and clients widely in the private sectors.
Making full use of his profession, social duties and influence, Wilson has been devoted to spreading positive energy of dispute resolution and developing a China-style dispute resolution culture featured with "Equality, Communication, Transparency and Justice". Meanwhile, Wilson believes that being deeply rooted in the Greater China area with an eye on the global developments of dispute resolution shall be his viewpoint, whilst introducing China practices to the world as well as bridging the world into China shall be his duties.
PRC Bar, 1998
Equity Partner, Zhong Lun Law Firm
Senior Associate, Coudert Brothers Beijing Office and Hogan & Hartson LLP Beijing Office
Associate, Junzejun & Partners and Huanzhong & Partners
General Counsel, China Everbright Trading Company
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"New Financing" Cases and Traditional Banking and Financing Cases
Representing a securities company in a case filed by a bank in respect of a collective asset management plan, with the amount in dispute exceeding CNY110M or USD15.8M, involving whether the client, as the management company, has fulfilled its obligation of due diligence, whether there is improper related-party transaction, whether it has fulfilled its obligation of post-investment management, whether the investor's losses are determined, etc.
Bio can be found here: https://en.zhonglun.com/team/huowei.html
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