Paul Zhou

Paul Zhou, one of the founding partners, started his practice as a lawyer in 2000. He has 20 years of experience in multiple practice areas covering Finance, Insurance, and Corporate fields.

In the Insurance field, Paul provides legal services in connection with insurance product design, review of compliance, settlement of claims and recovery, utilization of insurance funds, reinsurance, capital increase of insurance companies, etc.

In the Finance field, Paul provides banks and financial institutions with legal services in connection with compliance review, commercial loan, syndicated loan, financing guarantee, asset management, disposal of non-performing assets, debt restructuring, and financial business innovation, etc.

In Corporate, Paul assists more than 20 enterprises from various industries in their corporate and commercial matters. With his rich experience in project investment and financing, Paul provides the clients with high-efficient consultation service in the design of financing mix, financing channels, investment arrangement, post-investment management and risk control.

Paul became an arbitrator in 2014. He has participated in over 300 arbitration cases over company equity, asset management, funds, trust, insurance, real estate, and construction at CIETAC, SHIAC, and SAC.

Paul’s main client including China Minsheng Bank, China Merchants Securities Co., Ltd., CMB Financial Leasing Co., Ltd., Bank of Communications Financial Leasing Co., Ltd., EverBright Securities Co., Ltd., Datong Securities Co., Ltd., Zhonghai Trust Co.,Ltd., China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation, Sunshine Insurance Group, China Continent Property & Casualty Insurance Co., Ltd., Pacific Property Insurance Co., Ltd., China&Europe Shengshi Asset Management(Shanghai)Co., Ltd., JiuYue Medical Investment Group, etc.

Chambers and Partners describes Paul as “a skillful insurance lawyer” who “is well equipped to handle complex disputes”. Asian Legal Business nominated Paul as one of the ALB Client Choice Top 20. China Business Law Journal involved Paul in its A-List as one of the Top 100 Lawyers for China Practice.