Practice Experience

• Since 1999, he has been a lawyer at Zhongyi Law Firm in Beijing

• From 2003 to 2008, he was a first-level partner of Zhongyi Law Firm in Beijing

• From 2009 to August 2025, he served as a senior partner of Beijing Gaopeng Law Firm

• Joined Beijing Maiwei Law Firm as a managing partner in September 2025

Representative Cases

Lawyer Fan Chao is good at litigation and arbitration in companies and investment, securities and capital markets, financial trusts and major difficult cases. He has nearly 30 years of legal practice experience. He has represented a large number of special legal affairs of large domestic state-owned enterprises, financial institutions, listed companies and foreign-funded enterprises, and handled a large number of influential economic and civil litigation cases. He has served as a permanent legal advisor to central enterprises such as China Tobacco Corporation, as well as listed companies such as Tangshan Sanyou Chemical Co., Ltd. and Tangshan Sanyou New Materials Co., Ltd.

Lawyer Fan Chao has rich professional experience in business fields such as real estate, financial securities, futures, intellectual property, international trade, engineering construction, investment and operation, leasing, asset restructuring and bankruptcy, industrial park operation planning, mergers and acquisitions, equity replacement, and major economic contract disputes.

It provides legal services for many large state-owned enterprises and listed companies to issue corporate bonds, medium-term notes, bankruptcy reorganization and acquisitions; it provides legal services for many companies to complete the restructuring of joint-stock companies and listing projects on the New Third Board; it provides full-process legal services for foreign-funded enterprises to transfer land use rights, house ownership and attachments, facilities and equipment such as non-relocated facilities and equipment.

Lawyer Fan Chao has represented a large number of major economic and civil litigation cases with influential economic and civil litigation cases, including the second instance of the leasing and operation contract disputes of a large central enterprise, the second instance of the Supreme People's Court, the second instance of the first instance of the retrial, the application for retrial and the supervision of the procuratorate, and all won the case; he was responsible for many equity disputes and stock infringement disputes, equity and capital increase disputes among securities companies; he was responsible for many litigation disputes such as pledge guarantee disputes in large banks, financial loan contracts, purchase and sales disputes, and all won the case; he was responsible for more than 10 administrative litigation cases of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration, all won the case.

Some performance:

• All of the administrative litigation cases in a certain state agency won the final trial;

• French Schneider Electric Company sued a group company for patent infringement case;

• The Supreme People's Court won the second instance case of the land compensation and resettlement subsidy disputes between a large central enterprise;

• A major debt transfer contract and financial loan dispute case of a large bank was finally won;

• A large state-owned listed enterprise has had many major lawsuits and finally won the case;

• The copyright contract dispute case of the online IP fantasy novel "Yuan Zun" was arbitrated by the Beijing Arbitration Commission, and finally won the case;

• A large listed company in Hong Kong has had many major litigation and arbitration cases and finally won the case;

• The Supreme People's Court retrial case of major lease contract disputes in a research institute and finally won the case;

• The second instance of the Yunnan Higher People's Court, the Supreme People's Court retrial, and the procuratorial supervision case of the Yunnan People's Procuratorate, all won the victory;

• The second instance case of the Supreme People's Court infringement of a Bioengineering Co., Ltd. in Hunan was finally won;

• The second instance case of the Provincial Higher People's Court and the Supreme People's Court retrial of the equity pledge contract dispute series of a state-owned listed company in Hebei, with a total of 600 million yuan.

Social part-time job:

• He is currently the chief legal director of Shanghai Yan Baohang Social Welfare Foundation.

• Expert member of the Ethnic Cultural Industry Inheritance and Development Committee of the China Ethnic Minority Cultural Relics Protection Association.

Some professional honors:

• From January 2003 to the end of 2008, lawyer Fan Chao served as a legal aid lawyer for the Chaoyang District Disabled Persons Federation of Beijing.

• In June 2007, he was rated as an outstanding Communist Party member by the Party Committee of the Dongcheng District Judicial Bureau of Beijing.

• In 2013, he was named an outstanding young lawyer in Chaoyang District, Beijing.

• In 2024, it was rated as the "Strength Star" in the company's commercial field by LegalOne, an internationally renowned rating agency.