Mr. Dong Wang
Wellington, WGN 5018, New Zealand
I am a cross-jurisdictional lawyer in China and New Zealand. I joined the legal industry in 2003 after my ten-year work as an environmental engineer/chief in a power plant in China. Having been admitted to the China Lawyer’s Association in 2004, I have been practicing law as a generalist lawyer. In 2015, I established Royal Law Firm together with my team and the firm is operating successfully. I now have been admitted as a barrister and solicitor in New Zealand after five years of legal work and law study in New Zealand. During the period, I have still frequently been involved in legal issues in the Chinese law firm as my colleagues consider me as the most professionally capable lawyer in terms of legal research and practical experience. We are particularly experienced in international-clients services. As a solicitor/barrister in a common law country, I am in probably unique position in the world in interpreting Chinese law based on my comparative insights between the two jurisdictions.
The seventeen-year practice in Chinese law equips me with extensive practical experiences and the deep general understanding of the Chinese judicial system: the legal standing, lawsuit procedures, jurisdictions and its conflicts, recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments or arbitration awards, evidentiary rules, the history, developments, and flaws of those Chinese laws. These experiences relate to commercial law for companies or individuals. In China, I have handled numerous commercial disputes settlements, litigations, and non-litigation issues. These legal issues include loan agreements, guarantee dispute, company-law related matter such as joint venter agreement, shareholding issues, setting up and winding up companies, mergers and acquisition. As an experienced counsel for companies, I am also familiar with employment-law issues including employment relationship, termination, social security, and redundancy, etc.
Practicing commercial law in China also involves family-related and property law issues. As the team leader and founding partner of the firm, I have handled many case such as divorce, child-support payment, dividing up relationship properties (arise from marriage or relationship by living together without marriage registration), distinguishing individual debts from matrimonial debts, conveyance (including for foreign clients in China), validity of adoption, and overseas-property disposition, and foreign exchange quota rule. I am familiar with Chinese procedural law including civil procedural law, rules of conflict of laws, forum of non-conveniens, and recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitration awards or court decisions. As a generalist lawyer in China, I also have had some experience in criminal law (especially in economic crimes), intellectual property law, (I have handled copy right, trademark infringements, and patent litigations).
- Business Law
- Chinese Law
- Contracts
- Copyrights
- Criminal Law
- Family Law
- International Law
- Jury/Trial Consultant
- Trademarks
- Wrongful Death
- Q: Please list your professional accreditations, degrees, licenses, and certificates granted:
- A: Lawyer with current practising certificate in China.
Member of Arbitrators & Mediators Institute of New Zealand.
Enrolled Barrister and Solicitor.
Certificate of first-class human resource officer in China. - Q: Please list your affiliations or memberships in any professional and/or industry organizations:
- A: Member of Chinese Lawyer's Association.
Member of Arbitrators & Mediators Institute of New Zealand.
Interviewer of Citizens Advice Bureau New Zealand
- Q: Please list any teaching or speaking experience you have had, including subject matter:
- A: I was a frequent speaker for Shenzhen Foreign Service Centre on International Trade and Business Law in China.
I was a frequent speaker for industrial zones on employment law and local communities on family law in China.
I was a guest speaker for Lexisnexis in New Zealand on the topic "Doing Business in China".
- Q: Have any of your accreditations ever been investigated, suspended or removed? (if yes, explain)
- A: No
- Q: On how many occasions have you been retained as an expert?
- A: Two occasions.
- Q: For what area(s) of expertise have you been retained as an expert?
- A: Chinese Tort Law
Chinese Employment Law
Chinese Civil Procedure Law - Q: In what percentage of your cases were you retained by the plaintiff?
- A: 50%
- Q: In what percentage of your cases were you retained by the defendant?
- A: 50%
- Q: For how many years have you worked with the legal industry as an expert?
- A: 3 years
- Q: What services do you offer? (E.g.: consulting, testing, reports, site inspections etc.)
- A: Expert Report Provision
Testimony in Courts
Legal advice on Chinese laws - Q: What is your hourly rate to consult with an attorney?
- A: 200 US dollars
- Q: What is your hourly rate to review documents?
- A: 200 US dollars
- Q: What is your hourly rate to provide deposition testimony?
- A: 300 US dollars
- Q: What is your hourly rate to provide testimony at trial?
- A: 300 US dollars
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