Liting Zhu

Mr. Zhu Liting has been providing legal services for real estate enterprises and clients in construction industry for many years and has extensive law practice experience and a solid theoretical foundation. As Grandway’s head of legal services in real estate and construction, he has long been engaged in non-litigation matters related to real estate development, real estate M&A, real estate finance, real estate management, site development and construction, land development, PPP project construction, BOT franchise projects, general contracting and subcontracting for construction, general contracting and project management, engineering consulting and the like. Besides, he has also taken on many major and difficult litigation or arbitration cases regarding disputes in real estate development and construction projects.

Meanwhile, Mr. Zhu Liting has been practicing in legal services in the fields of investment and finance, financial securities, and corporate for many years. He is proficient in legal services of various financing tool in the securities market and interbank market in China, as well as various non-litigation and litigation legal services related to securities registration, custody, and settlement issues in the securities market and interbank market. As the legal counsel of China Securities Depository and Clearing Corporation Limited (CSDC) and its Shanghai Branch, Mr. Zhu Liting participated in the formulation of securities registration and trading rules, and represented a number of dispute resolution cases regarding various securities registration, settlement, and custody issues, treasury bond pledge repurchase issues and etc. Invited by the Legal Department of People's Bank of China and Shanghai Clearing House (Interbank Market Clearing House Co., Ltd.), Mr. Zhu Liting, as an expert of the research group on "Legal Issues of Central Counterparty Clearing in the OTC Financial Market", participated in major research projects on the OTC financial market, and participated in the first financial markets test case nationwide throughout the entire process, as the attorney representing Shanghai Clearing House. The case is the first test case heard in accordance with the "Shanghai Financial Court Rules on Financial Markets Test Case Scheme (For Trial Implementation)", and it is also the first financial test case regarding central counterparty worldwide. The case plays a significant role in improving the rules of financial infrastructures.

• Shanghai Jiangjie Rongtai Real Estate (Group) Co., Ltd. cooperated with other parties to set up a project company to develop the "village in city" reconstruction project in Yanghang Town, Baoshan District, Shanghai. The project is a key livelihood project in Baoshan District. The reconstruction scope consists of six blocks, covering an area of 612,866.67 square meters. The reconstruction includes land acquisition, resettlement compensation, municipal supporting facilities construction, public building supporting construction and relevant transfer of land use rights for business purposes, residential and commercial land development and construction, etc., and involves a large number of personnel, large area, complex engineering and huge investment. We provided the client with legal services for the whole process, from land use rights transfer to project construction, including transaction document review, construction project related contract drafting, modification, etc.
• Participated in the first financial markets test case nationwide throughout the entire process, as the attorney representing Shanghai Clearing House. The case is the first test case heard in accordance with the "Shanghai Financial Court Rules on Financial Markets Test Case Scheme (For Trial Implementation)", and it is also the first financial test case regarding central counterparty worldwide. The case plays a significant role in improving the rules of financial infrastructures.
• Representing Huarui Wind Power Technology (Group) Co., Ltd. in the case of first instance, second instance, and retrial review stage regarding the stock ownership dispute worth billions of CNY. This case is the first dispute case arising from a listed company distributing capital reserve funds to entities other than its shareholders nationwide. The case involves the ownership of 1.7 billion shares of the listed company, with a case value of CNY 6.8 billion. The court ultimately decided that the act of Huarui Wind Power Technology (Group) Co., Ltd. converting its capital reserve into shares and distributing them to non-shareholder entities was legal and effective.

• Banking and finance
• Construction
• Corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution

• Banking and financial services
• Infrastructure
• Real estate

• Mainland China

• Shanghai Bar Association