Work and Education Experience
Lawyer Leiming Sheng was a paralegal and lawyer of Shanghai Foreign Trade Law Firm from 1993 to 1995, and he worked as a civil law teacher at East China University of Political Science and Law as well as a part-time lawyer from 1995 to 2008, and he was the director lawyer and a senior partner of Shanghai Zhongmao Law Firm from 2008 to 2015, during this time, he served as the president and deputy Party secretary of Shanghai Lawyers Association between 2011 and 2015, and he has been the vice chairman of the All China Lawyers Association since 2011.
Lawyer Leiming Sheng graduated from East China University of Political Science and Law and obtained the bachelor of law in 1993, and he received the master's degree in economic law at East China University of Political Science and Law in 2008, and he pursued the doctorate degree in litigation law in East China University of Political Science and Law since 2014. Lawyer Leiming Sheng was qualified as a lawyer in PR China in 1994, and his working language is Chinese and English.
Practice Field
Lawyer Leiming Sheng mainly practices in litigation and arbitration, large-scale infrastructure and real estate business, company business, mergers and acquisitions business and commercial business, etc.
Lawyer Leiming Sheng has over 20 years of practice experience. He has served as the legal advisor for over 20 major national and Shanghai projects, the perennial legal adviser of many government agencies and large-scale enterprises and institutions, and the special lawyer of many syndicated loan, enterprise restructuring, equity merger and acquisition and bond issue projects.
Besides, Lawyer Leiming Sheng successfully acted on a number of lawsuits and arbitration cases which have enormous influence at home and abroad. As an arbitrator, he handles more than twenty cases each year.
Main Performance
Lawyer Leiming Sheng has severed as the legal advisor for over 20 major national and Shanghai government investment projects, such as Shanghai World Expo, Shanghai Disneyland Park, Shanghai Center Tower, Shanghai Hongqiao Transportation Hub, National Exhibition Centre, Shanghai Medium Ring Road project, Bund integrated regional transport reconstruction project, Shanghai Qingcaosha public drinking water project and Huangpu River river-crossing Project.
Lawyer Leiming Sheng has severed as the legal advisor for many government agencies, financial institutions, large-scale enterprises and institutions, such as Shanghai Municipal People's Government, Hunan provincial Party committee and provincial government, Hainan provincial Party committee and provincial government, Shanghai Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection, Shanghai Finance Bureau, Shanghai industry and Commerce Bureau, Shanghai Finance Office, Bank of communications, China Construction Bank, Bank of China, Eastern Airlines Group, National Exhibition Centre, Shanghai Shendi Group, Shanghai Shenhong Group, Shanghai Municipal Investment Group, Shanghai World Expo Group, Shanghai International Group, etc.
Lawyer Leiming Sheng has acted on many nationally and globally influential litigation cases, such as “the first case of Wenzhou literary world”, and the copyright dispute case of World Expo mascot Hypol.
Honor Ranking
Lawyer Leiming Sheng has successively received many honorary titles such as Chambers Asia-Pacific prominent personage title in dispute resolution area, model worker of the national judicial administration system, Shanghai leading talent, top ten middle and young jurists in Shanghai, top ten peace hero in Shanghai, eastern barrister-at-law, outstanding lawyer in Shanghai, top ten outstanding youth in Shanghai judicial system, four consecutive terms of top ten professional teachers at East China University of Political Science and Law, outstanding youth teacher, Grandall teaching award, Asian Law Journal 2010 hot lawyer in China, National Law Association 2010 law circles newsmaker in China.
Professional Affiliations
Vice chairman of the All China Lawyers Association, Vice president of Shanghai Law Society, Chairman of the Hong Kong and Mainland Legal Professional Association, the ninth president and deputy Party secretary of Shanghai Lawyers Association, deputy to the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress, member of the Shanghai Judges and Procurators Selection(Punishment) Committee, expert of Double-Thousand Plan of Central Committee of Political Science and Law and Ministry of Education, member of the expert committee of the Shanghai Center for dispute resolution in BRICs, member of the steering committee of Shanghai law professional degree graduate education, vice president of Civil Law Research Association of Shanghai Law Society, Free Trade Area Research Association, Legislative Research Council and so on, member of the administrative reconsideration committee of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government, member of Shanghai Famous Trademark Review Board, deputy director of the Legal Advisory Committee of Shanghai Science and Technology Association, arbitrator of boards of arbitration such as Shanghai international economic and trade arbitration commission, South China international economic and trade arbitration commission, Shanghai Arbitration Commission, Wuhan Arbitration Commission and Changzhou Arbitration Commission, invited supervisor and consultant of Shanghai Higher People's Court, invited consultant of Shanghai Second Intermediate People's Court, law enforcement supervisor of Shanghai Public Security Bureau, deputy director of judicial research center of Fudan University, part-time law professor and master supervisor of many colleges and universities such as National Lawyer School, East China University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai University of Finance Economics, independent director and external director of National Drug Group and many other listed companies and state-owned companies.
Academic Research
He has written four books, which may have filled up the domestic blank on studies of legal issues of land reservation and municipal engineering construction in the form of writing books, and may become textbooks for law colleges and universities.
He has written more than twenty papers, which were published on Law and other academic journals.
He has worked on several research projects, among which, the research findings of the management method for comprehensive pipe trenches of World Expo Park in Shanghai which later translated into local law and regulation of shanghai, has filled up the legislative blank in that field.