Representative Cases

Litigation and Arbitration

• Xia Yibin provides distinguished companies and financial institutions with professional litigation services. He specializes in dispute resolution including contract disputes, equity investment disputes, labor dispute,         cooperating disputes with foreign companies and serves as an agent ad litem in arbitration. Mr. Xia handled numerous important investment and financing disputes, subrogation disputes and enforcement cases, thereby  safeguarding parties’ legitimate interests.

• Mr. Xia set up a professional team focusing on dispute resolution. Team members keep themselves updated with newly released legislations as well as perspectives regarding litigation and arbitration practice. Also, this   team established a good relationship with relevant judicial and arbitral authorities. His success can be attributed to good command of related principles, legislation and regulation together with sophisticated trial skills. Mr.  Xia and his team delt with approximately 60 cases per year in average and, meanwhile he serves as a regular legal consultant for many large-scale enterprises, which enable his provision of legal service throughout the   nation.

• He has accumulated a wealth of experience in the field of dispute resolution. Recent cases whereby he has acted as an advocate for the parties include:

• Enforced foreign arbitral awards in Chinese court for clients from United States and Singapore.

• Represented a multinational company in all disputes before courts.

• Won CIETAC arbitration for a Chinese company in a breach of contract dispute.

• Represented a Taiwanese investment company in an equity dispute before Shanghai First Intermediate People's Court.

• Represented a natural person in a deposit dispute against ICBC.

• Represented Ingram micro in lots of contract disputes before different courts.

• Represented an insurance company in an insurance claim suit against a logistics firm.

• Represented a Trust company in financial service contracts with amount of claim of 450 million RMB.

• Represented a loan dispute involving real estate mortgage between an investment company and a group company.

• Represented a house mortgage contract dispute between an investment company and an International bank with amount of claim of 220 million RMB.

Insurance and Reinsurance

• Xia Yibin, who has been qualified as FLMI by the Life Office Management Associate, served as the director of the Claim Department of a leading International Insurance Company, which enables him to have extensive    experience and resources in the insurance sector and, meanwhile, to get familiar with the operation as well as risk control practices of insurance companies. Mr. Xia has achieved expertise in providing legal services on   all fronts of the insurance industry, including but not limited to litigation and arbitration arising out of insurance claims and subrogation, establishment of insurance companies, equity acquisitions, insurance funds         investment and operations, compliance management, legal risk review of insurance products, corporate governance, subordinated debt issuance and public financing. Also, Mr. Xia particularly specializes in providing     professional advice on the internet financial innovation. He has served insurers with the development of internet insurance products and internet innovators with seeking cooperation with insurance companies and        expansion of business scale.

• Xia Yibin has a wealth of experience in litigation and arbitration regarding life insurance disputes. Thanks to his 6-year practice as a clinician, Mr. Xia has profound knowledge of life insurance related disease and health   care , he has established a long-term stable cooperation with many insurance companies.

• His other experiences in providing commercially astute legal advice for domestic and international clients include:

• Represented Huatai insurance company in an insurance claim suit against Shanghai Huateng Software System Co., Ltd.

• Represented Huatai insurance company in an insurance claim suit against a natural person.

• Represented Huatai insurance company in a labor related arbitration and subsequently suit.

• Represented Huatai insurance company in a series of insurance contract suits and recover all of them.

• Represented CCBC Life to sue an insurance agent for embezzlement.

• Provided service for a life insurance company in its development of a lawyers’ platform.

• Represented an insurance company in an insurance claim suit against a logistics firm.

• Represented a property insurance company in a third-party insurance suit against a logistics firm.

• Provided legal service for Tainiu (Beijing) company in usage based insurance products development.

• Represented a life insurance company before the Guangzhou court in an insurance litigation involving ten insurance companies claiming 120 million yuan.

Private wealth management

• His experiences in this field include:

• Provided several leading Chinese insurance companies and private banks with training lectures on private wealth management;

• Acted as a private legal counsel on managing private wealth for individual clients;

• Cooperated with family offices and international private banks on tax planning, foreign investment and giving legal advices on local legislation and regulation.