Dr Zhan Hao Managing Partner AnJie Law Firm - Lawyer Biography - International Law Office

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Lawyer Biography

Dr Zhan Hao

Practice Areas

  • Antitrust/Competition
  • Insurance & Reinsurance

Description

Antitrust/Competition

His representative experience includes: merger antitrust filing in MOFCOM, defense of investigation on monopoly agreements (cartels) and abuse of dominance, antitrust private litigation, antitrust compliance, antitrust analysis from economic perspective, anti-unfair competition.

  • Providing merger filings for American, German, Australian, Canadian, Japanese, Korean, Indian and Chinese enterprises in a broad range of sectors, including machinery, IT, mining, food, pharmacy, energy, financing, telecommunicating and etc;
  • Making strategic analysis for enterprises with respect to Chinese governments’ policies towards cartels, concentration, abuse of dominant position, administrative monopoly;
  • Defending of enterprises against antitrust investigations from NDRC and SAIC;
  • Antitrust-filing for Chinese enterprises for their M&A in EU, America, Australia, Japan, Canada and South Korea;
  • Helping foreign companies with security review in their merger in China;
  • Representing clients in antitrust private litigation;
  • Compiling antitrust compliance brochure or antitrust guidelines for multinational and state-owned enterprises;
  • Offering antitrust analysis for domestic clients from economic perspective;

Dr. Zhan is listed as Professional Antitrust Lawyer by a number of ranking institutions as Chambers & Partners, PLC. He was invited to participate the legislature events related to anti-monopoly regulations. Using his expertise in micro-economy post-doctoral research, he can provide service combing both legal and economic analysis. Currently, AnJie Antitrust and Competition Department is one of the biggest antitrust team in PRC law firms.

Insurance & Reinsurance

His representative experience includes: litigation and arbitration concerning insurance claim and subrogation, acquisition of insurance companies’ equities, establishment of domestic and foreign insurance organizations in PRC, utilization of insurance funds,  compliance of insurance regulation, insurance products review, extended warranty, corporate governance, subordinated debts issuance and IPO for insurance company.

  • Purchasing insurance companies’ equities for a bank;
  • Conducting due diligence investigation and providing equity-transfer services for a Japanese company and an integrated financing group in their purchase of the domestic insurer’s shares;
  • Providing legal services for domestic insurance organizations and insurance assets management companies (AMC) with their utilization of insurance funds, investment & financing (PE investment, bonds investment on infrastructure,  investment on real estate , subordinated debts issuance, IPO and etc);
  • Establishing annuity trusteeship for central government-sponsored enterprises and listed enterprises;
  • Acting as legal counsel for insurance & reinsurance companies, AMCs, insurance brokers and foreign insurance companies over policy review, corporate compliance, development of new insurance products and etc;
  • Extending warranty in China for foreign investors;
  • Handling litigations and arbitrations concerning insurance claim and subrogation in construction insurance, marine insurance, D&O, property insurance, pollution liability insurance and product liability insurance.

Dr. Zhan Hao is honored as Professional Insurance Lawyer by a number of ranking institutions as Chambers & Partners, Who is Who Legal, ALB and PLC. Currently, AnJie Insurance Department is the biggest, full-service and most influential insurance team among China law firms.

Litigation & Arbitration

As an arbitrator of CIETAC and an experienced litigator, Dr. Zhan Hao has handled many major and complicated cases, some of which were heard by Supreme People’s Court and published in the Pronouncement of Supreme People’s Court. He also acted as legal counsel for numerous arbitration cases within PRC (Hong Kong and Mainland), UK, France, Singapore, Stockholm and Japan etc, and helped foreign clients to get foreign arbitrary awards recognized and enforced in PRC.

Professional Membership

  • Arbitrator of China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC)
  • Vice President of the Professional Committee of the All China Lawyers’ Association (ACLA)
  • Commissioner of Legal Advisory Board of All China Federation of Returned Overseas
  • Professor of Law School of University of Central Finance and Economics
  • Vice President of Professional Committee of Compulsory Traffic Accident Liability Insurance of China Insurance Association

Honors & Recognitions

Insurance Law

  • Insurance Lawyer in China – Chambers and Partners 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
  • Insurance Lawyer in China – PLC Which Lawyer 2010
  • Insurance & Reinsurance Lawyer in China – Expert Guide 2010, 2011
  • Insurance & Reinsurance Lawyer – The International Who's Who of Insurance & Reinsurance Lawyers 2010, 2011, 2012

Antitrust Law

  • Antitrust Lawyer in China – Chambers and Partners 2010,2011, 2012
  • Antitrust Lawyer in China – Expert Guide 2010

Notable Pubalications

  • The Hot Issues of China Anti-trust Private Litigation, China Law Press, 2012
  • The New Insurance Law – Interpretation on Practice Highlights and Case Analysis, China Law Press, 2010
  • Practices of Enterprises’ M&A under Antitrust Law – Interpretation, Case Analysis & Guidance, China Law Press, 2008
  • The Theory of Chinese Anti-monopoly Law and Practice, Peking University Press (Co-author), Peking University Press, 2008
  • Records on the Course of Case-handling by Chinese Lawyers – Insurance Litigation, China Law Press, 2008
  • A Look at Regulations on Insurance Market from the Perspective of Economic Law, China Legal Publishing House, 2007
  • Essential Principles, Comments & Analysis of Typical Cases in Insurance Law, China Legal Publishing House, 2007
  • Investor Relations of Listed Companies (Co-author), China Law Press, 2007

Working Experience

  • Managing Partner, AnJie Law Firm
  • Executive Partner, Grandall Legal Group

Education

  • Tehua Research Centre, Post-doctoral researcher, (Economics)
  • Peking University, School of Law, Ph.D. (Economic Law)
  • "China - EU Jurisdiction and Law Cooperation Program" – officially selected and supported by PRC government to study in the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Germany, Denmark and Spain
  • Wuhan University, School of Law, LL.M & LL.B