Ms. Xia Rui's main practice areas include investment and financing, mergers and acquisitions, complex civil and commercial dispute resolution, and family wealth management and inheritance. Ms. Xia has provided dispute resolution and special legal counseling services for many well-known domestic and foreign enterprises, and has defended the legitimate rights and interests of clients in a number of shareholder disputes, contract disputes, housing leases, tort disputes and other complex civil and commercial cases. In addition, Ms. Xia has handled cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity funds and corporate compliance for many large banks, investment companies, state-owned enterprises and listed companies, etc. She has also accumulated rich experience in non-litigation legal services, and is able to help her clients to comprehensively assess and control risks.

Meanwhile, Ms. Xia is good at dealing with all kinds of family disputes and wealth management for HNW clients. She is good at providing comprehensive, personalized and one-stop legal service solutions for clients from various fields such as finance, insurance, trust, real estate, immigration, tax and financial management, etc., and utilizing prenuptial/intra-nuptial property agreements, top-level design of company capital, family agreements, family trusts, offshore structures, etc..

【Work Experience】

2020.1-2021.7, DHH Shanghai Law Firm

2021.8-2022.7, Merits & Tree Law Offices

2022.8-Present, Shanghai I-land Law Offices

【Educational Background】

Shanghai Maritime University, Bachelor of Economics

Master of Laws, Fudan University

【Relevant Achievements】

Provided special legal services for Bailian Zhigao in registering as a private equity fund manager and filing with the AMAC.

Provided special legal services to ITI GROUP LTD for the establishment of QFLP fund in Hainan.

Provided special legal services for the withdrawal of Ningbo Kai'an from the projects of Guozhengtong and Tonghua Power.

Provided special legal services for Changsha Jinglin's withdrawal from the Zhi Yi Education Project.

Provided special legal services for the acquisition of PLU by VSPN.

Provided special legal services to Shanghai Saihui in its acquisition of Dayang.

Provided special legal services to Shanghai Xinwei in its acquisition of a U.S. company.

Provided special legal services to the Shanghai branch of the Export-Import Bank in connection with a number of cross-border bank loan financing projects between the bank and a chip company.

Provided special legal services to Kain Chemical for its Series A RMB financing project.

 Provided special legal services to HIGER on its investment in an Omani company.

Advised Club Med on a potential hotel management dispute with a hotel owner.

Provided litigation legal services for the equity repurchase dispute between Zhong Cheng Wei and Ping An Innovation

Provided litigation services to Zhuhai Optical Control in its share repurchase dispute with Mime Company.

Provided litigation services to Mr. Pang and Jiangsu Belt and Road Fund in a dispute over liability for damaging the interests of the company's creditors.

Provided litigation services for the joint venture contract dispute between LE Yao Yao and Weijing Technology.

【Article】

“Judgment of the ownership of shares of contractual private equity investment fund”

“An investor who knows that it is not an accredited investor and still makes the investment shall no longer be entitled to claim for avoidance of the contract”

“Liquidation of Private Equity Funds is not a Necessary Condition for Determining the Investors' Losses” “The Commitment Made by the Private Fund Manager to Make Up for the Loss of the Fund is Valid”

“Common Defenses of Repurchase Obligors and Points of Rebuttal by Investors - Litigation and Arbitration Situations”

“Free Capital in the Hainan Free Trade Port Context: New Opportunities to Red Chip”

“Priority Liquidation Rights under the Investment Terms of US Dollar Funds”

“The parties involved in the channel trust business without false declaration of intention should be in a trust relationship rather than a principal-agent relationship”