Weiyi Wu

Practice Areas

Bill Wu is the managing partner of Hairuo & Partners. Mr. Wu has more than 15 years of legal professional services experience, and he has a solid legal professional knowledge as well as a rich experience in litigation practice. Before Joining in Hairuo & Partners, Mr. Wu worked as a partner in Zhonglun and other famous domestic law firms. Mr. Wu specializes in the area of civil & commercial dispute resolution, family & private wealth management, financial security, investment & financing.

Mr. Wu has acted for thousands of civil and commercial litigation cases and has rich practical experience in domestic and foreign-related civil & commercial litigation, arbitration and non-litigation business. Mr. Wu can quickly understand client’s demand and responds to it with a propose litigation strategies and working ideas. Mr. Wu protects the right of client with his deep legal knowledge and superb trial skills.

Mr. Wu, with his team members are also excellent at marriage (marriage/divorce), inheritance, private wealth management, the planning and construction of domestic and foreign family trusts for high-net-worth individuals and governance of family businesses. Mr. Wu is the legal adviser of many enterprises and the personal legal adviser of many entrepreneurs. In recent years, Mr. Wu has participated in court trials in the United States, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and other places as an expert witness for China's family law and company law through on-site, online, and written forms.

Professional Memberships

2024 Ranked in Private Client/Wealth Management list by Chambers Greater China Region 2024

2024 Ranked in Private Wealth Management list by Legalband Top Ranked Lawyers

2023 ALB China Top 20 Client Choice

2023 Recognized as a leading individual in Private Client/Wealth Management by Chambers Greater China Region 2023

2023 The Candidate for Legalband Top Ranked Lawyers Private Wealth Management

2022 The Candidate for the Private Client Lawyer of the Year nominated by China Law and Practice

2022 Legalband Top Ranked Lawyers Private Wealth Management Special Recommendation

2021 China Business Law Journal's A-List Top 100 PRC lawyers

2017 The Candidate for the Private Client Lawyer of the Year nominated by China Law and Practice

2017 The Sole Chinese Candidate for the Private Client Lawyer of the Year nominated by The Asian Lawyer

2012 2011-2012 Top Ten Lawyers in Jing'an District

Publications

2020 Book Family Business Succession–the Legal Reef and Solution

2016 Book Equity Division and Inheritance of Public Company

2014 Book Lawyer Business on Domestic Affairs

2012 Book Judicial Views on Marriage and Domestic Cases

2012 Book Judicial Views on Equity Transfer Cases

Personal

 Director of Marriage and Family Business Committee of Shanghai Lawyers Association

 Member of Marriage and Family Law Professional Committee of National Lawyers Association

 Member of Marriage Law Research Committee of China Law Society

 Member of Legal Administrator legal Advisory Expert Think Tank of Legal School of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

 Master Instructor （off-campus)of East China University of Political Science and law

 Member of Project Group of the National Law Association in writing Guidelines for Lawyers on the Business of Marriage and Domestic Affairs

Work Highlights

 Dealing with a divorce case of the richest man in a provincial capital city (over 10 billion RMB)

 Dealing with a divorce dispute on behalf of a son of major shareholder of the listed company, involving four domestic and overseas listed companies (over 5 billion RMB)

 Acting for domestic dispute on behalf of the Mainland rich second generation, involving the division of a branch of overseas listed companies shares (approximately 3 billion RMB)

 Represented the founder of a logistics company in an inheritance case involving the inheritance and handling of the acquired company's equity, and the resolution of cross-cutting legal issues between criminal and civil matters, etc. (approximately 300 million RMB)Providing pre-marital wealth planning for the second generation of a mainland entrepreneur, including drafting pre-nuptial agreements and will, etc.

 Represented the founder of an Internet company in handling corporate deadlock and optimizing corporate governance structure after the divorce of the spouse

 Participating in setting up a family asset trust in Singapore for domestic property developer.

 Providing overall family wealth protection and inheritance service for the founders of a Chinese well-known internet enterprise, including but not limited to drafting marital property agreements, wills, acting as an estate administrator and establishing family trusts