Jingtian & Gongcheng has hired three partners, Shi Bisheng, Shi Lei and Chen Zhaolong, for its Beijing office, further bolstering the firm’s combined capabilities in areas including intellectual property, capital markets and securities crime defence.
Shi Bisheng focuses on intellectual property, litigation and arbitration. He holds qualifications both as a practising lawyer and as a patent attorney. Before joining Jingtian & Gongcheng, he was a senior partner at Lifang & Partners. Prior to that, he worked as a partner at King & Wood and Zhong Lun Law Firm.
Before moving into private practice, he worked as a judge at the Haidian District People’s Court in Beijing and the High People’s Court of Beijing for more than a decade, hearing more than 2,000 IP and commercial cases. Some of those cases were selected by the Supreme People’s Court as among China’s top 10 IP cases and top 10 innovative IP cases.
Shi Lei works across investment and M&A, capital markets, corporate compliance and healthcare. He is qualified in China and New York state. Before joining Jingtian & Gongcheng, he served as a partner at the Beijing branches of Tian Yuan Law Firm and Han Kun Law Offices.
He has more than 10 years of practice experience and has led matters in life sciences and healthcare, semiconductors and advanced manufacturing, technology, media and telecommunications, and education. He specialises in co-ordinating business models, legal and regulatory issues, market practice and financial and tax considerations in complex transactions. He also has substantial experience in cross-jurisdictional deals and transactions spanning several practice areas, including corporate, dispute resolution and tax.
Chen focuses on securities, commercial crime defence, complaints and criminal compliance. He previously worked in investigations at a provincial public security department. Before joining Jingtian & Gongcheng, he was a partner at Hai Run Law Firm.
He was adept at handling complex cases from the multiple perspectives of investigation, prosecution and defence. He regularly advises large corporates, financial institutions and listed companies on securities matters, commercial crimes and cases involving overlaps between civil and criminal issues.
Chen has handled a range of matters involving unlawful disclosure of material information, insider trading, trading on non-public information, market manipulation and contract fraud, and is also experienced in internal investigations and complaints relating to commercial crime.
