Lawyer Helena Huang is a partner and attorney at Shanghai Guoling Law Firm, with 23 years of legal practice experience. She excels in using commercial thinking and legal technical tools to seek the optimal legal solutions for clients, so as to achieve their ultimate commercial objectives.

Practice Areas

Lawyer Helena Huang’s practice areas mainly focus on:

• Corporate governance

• Investment and mergers & acquisitions (M&A)

• Dispute resolution (litigation and arbitration)

• Contract disputes

• Intellectual property disputes

• Criminal cases

• Foreign-related legal matters

Legal Experience in Different Industries

Lawyer Helena Huang has served clients from various domestic and international industries, including funds, finance, software, media, internet, pharmaceutical and chemical engineering, automobile manufacturing, solar, semiconductor chips, communications, and artificial intelligence.

Experience in Dispute Resolution (Litigation and Arbitration)

• awyer Helena Huang has worked in law firms from Germany, Taiwan (China), and the Chinese mainland. She has represented clients in dozens of civil, commercial, intellectual property, and criminal litigation cases as well as arbitration cases, such as:

   

  • A trademark infringement case where an Italian company sued a Chinese company

   

  • Software infringement and patent infringement cases where a U.S. company sued a Chinese company

   

  • Technical contract disputes, fund contract disputes

   

  • A sales contract dispute between a Dutch company and a Chinese company

   

  • A contract dispute between a Chilean company and a Chinese company

   

  • Equity transfer contract disputes, shareholder's right to know disputes

   

  • Construction project contract disputes, real estate property disputes, house sales contract disputes

   

  • A labor contract dispute between a U.S. employee and a Chinese company

   

  • company bankruptcy cases

   

  • Divorce cases

   

  • Defense for a Syrian national accused of organizing others to illegally cross the national border (successfully prevented his deportation, protecting him and his children and family in China)

   

  • Defense for cases involving illegal business operations, illegal absorption of public deposits, fraud.

   

  With his professional competence, Lawyer Helena Huang provides clients with comprehensive and accurate legal analysis. He works diligently and conscientiously during the representation process, winning wide recognition from clients.

Corporate Legal Management Experience

Lawyer Helena Huang has engaged in in-house legal management work in different types of enterprises (mostly foreign-funded listed companies, such as those listed in Japan, the U.S., and Hong Kong (China)). She has managed legal affairs for companies from the U.S., Cayman Islands, South Korea, India, Taiwan (China), and Hong Kong (China), and handled several domestic and international investment and M&A projects. She has full-process participation and relevant legal experience in all possible stages of a company's life cycle, from establishment, operation, human resource management, investment and M&A, listing, delisting to cancellation and bankruptcy.

Educational Background

Master of Laws (LL.M.) in International Economic Law, Wang Jian Law School, Soochow University

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Business English, Department of Foreign Languages, Beijing Forestry University

Professional Qualifications

• • Legal Practice Qualification of the People's Republic of China

   

  • Securities Industry Qualification

   

  • Test for English Majors-Band 8 (TEM-8)

   

  • Cambridge Business English Certificate (BEC II)

   

  • Certificate of foreign legal affairs training issued by Shanghai Bar Association