Practice areas

Arbitration & ADR; Banking & finance; Corporate & commercial; Litigation

Introduction

Chen Fu is senior partner of Commerce & Finance Law Offices. Chen has extensive experience in commercial litigation and arbitration, especially in areas of corporate business, contract, finance, private investment, liquidation and disposal of non-performing assets, intellectual property, as well as criminal cases (economic crime).

He has provided professional legal services in more than 700 litigation, arbitration and non-litigation cases, many with complex legal relations and great social impact. The clients Chen represented include famous financial institutions, multinational corporations, large domestic enterprises and chambers of commerce. He was awarded to the Top 15 innovative lawyers by Legalband in 2021 and the Top 15 litigation lawyers by Thomson Reuters ALB in China in 2020. The disputes resolution team at Commerce & Finance Law Offices has also won the top team awards from Chambers, ALB, Legal 500 and other well-known legal rating agencies on many occasions.

Chen received his LLM at China University of Political Science and his LLB from Beijing Jiaotong University. Chen has constantly engaged in advanced studies, including a postgraduate course in economics at the University of International Business and Economics (private equity investment), a visiting scholar project at the Law School of the University of Washington, and a study programme at the International Arbitration Law Society in Paris.

Chen sits as an arbitrator of CIETAC, a mediator of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade/Mediation Centre of the China Chamber of International Commerce, an arbitrator of the Nanjing Arbitration Commission, Weifang Arbitration Commission, Qingdao Arbitration Commission and Baotou Arbitration Commission. He serves as a member of the civil procedural law professional committee of the Beijing Lawyers Association.

Chen has for many years been an adjunct instructor of Beijing Jiaotong University and University of International Business and Economics. He is the author of A Lawyer’s Practical Guide to Civil and Commercial Litigation (Law Press) and the Civil litigation chapter in Basic Skills of a Lawyer’s Practice (Peking University Press), which is the designated textbook for the national training for practising attorneys certificate.

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