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Founding Partner

Liu Chao

Practice Areas

IPO and ListingsInvestment, Financing and M&ABanking and Insurance Legal ServicesSecurities and Financial Legal ServicesOngoing Corporate CounselComplex Commercial Dispute Resolution

Positions & Honours

Director, Guangdong Zhuojian (Guangming) Law FirmChair, Management CommitteeExecutive Chair, Shenzhen Yushanyou Public Welfare FoundationSupervisor-in-Chief, Guangming District New Social Strata AssociationCommittee Member, Guangming District Branch of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese KuomintangExecutive Committee Member, Guangming District Federation of Industry and Commerce (General Chamber of Commerce)Liaison Officer, CBC Law Firm China Representative OfficeArbitrator, Shanwei-Shenshan International Arbitration CourtDirector, Wuhan University Shenzhen Alumni AssociationVice President, Wuhan University EMBA Association and Law AssociationMember, Guangdong Intellectual Property Service Standardisation CommitteeExternal Supervisor for Master’s Candidates, School of Economics and Trade, Henan University of Technology

Founding Partner and Director of Guangdong Zhuojian (Guangming) Law Firm; Master of Laws, Wuhan University; arbitrator of the Shanwei Arbitration Commission.

Liu Chao

Profile

Liu Chao is a Founding Partner and Director of Guangdong Zhuojian (Guangming) Law Firm. He holds a Master of Laws from Wuhan University, is a member of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang and an arbitrator of the Shanwei Arbitration Commission. He also serves in the professional and academic roles listed above.

Liu has long focused on capital-markets and corporate legal services, combining experience in capital operations, corporate governance and dispute resolution. He currently serves as an independent director of Kexin Technology (300565), VHD Information Technology (301318), Hemei Jingyi Semiconductor and Shenzhen Xintao New Materials.

His principal areas include IPOs and listings, investment, financing and M&A, banking, insurance, securities and financial legal services, ongoing corporate counsel and complex commercial disputes. His work combines commercial logic, transaction structures and risk control to provide systematic, forward-looking and practical solutions for financing, listing compliance, corporate governance, post-investment management and complex disputes.

Representative Experience:

Provided ongoing, employment-relations and specialist legal services to China Life Insurance (Overseas) Company Limited; Mintai’an Insurance Surveyors and Loss Adjusters; National Pipe Network Group Shenzhen Natural Gas Company; CGN Engineering; Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics; Shenzhen Caihe Investment; Huaxing Bank; Daye Trust; Qianhai Botong (Shenzhen) Fund Management; the defence-industry master-fund project of Poly Technologies Defence Investment; the private-equity fund project of Shenzhen Zhongtian Defence Fund Management; the Shenzhen Lianchuang Haowan equity-fund project of Shanghai Lianchuang (Yongxuan); and the FOF fund project of Shenzhen Zhongxin Guorui Fund Management.

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