Frank Huang has worked in Guangzhou, Shanghai and Shenzhen and now is the executive partner in the Shenzhen office of Guantao Law Firm. He specialises in commercial dispute resolution with particular focus on corporate law, private equity, insurance, shipping and international trade. Mr. Huang is legal counsel of a number of large and medium-sized enterprises, including foreign-invested enterprises in China.
Some of the significant litigation and arbitration cases handled by Mr. Huang in recent years including:
Litigation
• Retrial of a dispute over contract for carriage of goods by sea and international trade, before the Supreme People’s Court of PRC.
• Dispute over contracts for private equity fund, involving the issue of the liabilities of the fund custodian, before the Primary People’s Court of Qianhai Cooperation Zone and then the Intermediate People’s Court of Shenzhen City.
• Dispute over foreign-related guarantee contract, involving the issue of the ascertainment of Hong Kong law, before the Intermediate People's Court of Guangzhou City and the High People's Court of Guangdong Province, and then the Supreme People’s Court of PRC.
• Dispute over contracts for private equity fund, involving the issue of the liabilities of the fund manager, before the Primary People’s Court of Minhang District of Shanghai City and then the Shanghai Financial Court.
• Dispute over insurance contracts, involving issues of the scope of the insured and the insurance liabilities under the policy, before the Primary People’s Court of Baiyun District and then the Intermediate People’s Court of Guangzhou City.
Arbitration
• Dispute over contracts for private equity fund between fund manager and investors, involving issues of product merchantability, scope of investment, information disclosure and withdrawal, before Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration, (South-China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Committee, Shenzhen Arbitration Commission, SCIA).
• Dispute over repurchasing arrangement of partnership shares, involving issues of confirmation of partnership and fulfillment of repurchase conditions, before China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Committee (CIETAC).
• Dispute over equipment quality, before International Court of Arbitration Singapore (ICC).
• Dispute over charter party, involving issues of early termination of the contract and determining the amount of damages, before Hong Kong International Arbitration Center (HKIAC).
• Recognition and enforcement of arbitration awards in European Union, involving issues of the application of the New York Convention, insolvency and liquidation.
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
• Representing private equity fund investors, successfully changed the fund manager through fund holders’ meeting, which was recognized by the fund custodian and the Asset Management Association of China, and also the first successful case in the history of private equity fund in China.
Honors and Rankings
•“China Leading International Lawyers” by the All China Lawyers Association (ACLA)
•“Recommended International Lawyers” in the fields of “Shipping” and “Cross-border Litigation and Arbitration” by the Ministry of Justice of PRC
•“The A-List 2022: China’s Elite Lawyers” by China Business Law Journal (CBLJ)
•“2023 ALB China Top 15 Litigators” by Asian Legal Business (ALB)
Publications
• “A Practical Study of the Anti-suit Injunction System for International Commercial Disputes”, China International Arbitration Review (Vol. 1), Law Press, 2019.
• China chapter of “The Insurance Dispute Law Review”, Law Business Research Limited, 2019.
• China chapter of “Shipping Law 2018 of the International Comparative Legal Guide”, Baltic Exchange, BIMCO and Global Legal Group, 2019.
• “Whether the Guarantee Period Should Apply to Invalid Guarantee Contracts”, Foreign-related Lawyers in Action: Belt & Road Dispute Resolution Special Edition, Law Press, 2018.
• “A Comparison of Law Firms in China and UK”, Chinese Lawyer, No. 2, 2017, All China Lawyers Association.
Social Positions
• Director, the Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan Law Committee of Shenzhen Lawyers Association
• Director, the International and Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan Working Center of Futian Lawyer’s Working Committee of Shenzhen Lawyers Association
• Member of Council, the Hong Kong and Macau Law Research Association of Shenzhen Law Society
• Vice Director, Cross-border Dispute Resolution Law Committee of Guangdong Lawyers Association
• Member, the Belt and Road Legal Research Center of Guangdong Province
• Vice Secretary General, the Guangdong’s Association For Promotion of Cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong & Macao
• Civil and Administrative Prosecution Consulting Expert, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate of PRC
• Consulting Expert Member, Legal Daily
Pro Bono
• Member of 1st Volunteer Lawyers Group of 1st Circuit Court of the Supreme People’s Court of PRC.
Bar Administration
• Practising lawyer, People's Republic of China, 2008
Education
• LLM, Law School of Cardiff University, UK
• LLB, Law School of Shenzhen University, China
Language
• Chinese Mandarin, native
• Hakka, native
• Cantonese, excellent
• English, excellent