Henry Zhu
Partner at Wei Tu Law Firm*
Henry is a partner at Wei Tu Law Firm*. He has extensive experiences handling complex disputes, domestic and international, litigations or arbitrations.
Partner at Wei Tu Law Firm*
Henry is a partner at Wei Tu Law Firm*. He has extensive experiences handling complex disputes, domestic and international, litigations or arbitrations.
Languages - Mandarin, English, and Cantonese
Jurisdiction - PRC
Henry has rich experiences dealing transaction and dispute matters in wide range areas of corporate and commercial, marine, transportation and international trade, insurance, financing and bank facilities, employment matters, construction project, and criminal cases. His practices involve court litigations before Chinese courts on all levels around the country and domestic as well as international arbitrations in different jursidictions.
His clients mainly include shipowners, Chinese SOEs, P&I Clubs and insurers, trading houses and corporates in energy sectors and commodities, banks and financial leasing companies, Chinese, Hong Kong, Singapore, European, US as well as other Asian Pacific companies.
He is good at quickly grasping and understanding the core issues, and gives practical advices and solutions balancing legal and commercial considerations. He deeply appreciates the differences between Chinese legal system and common law practices and is always ready to interpretate and elaborate.
He is a member of International Working Group of the Comité Maritime Internationale on Maritime Decarbonization and the Maritime Law Committee of the Guangzhou Lawyers Association.
*Wei Tu (a PRC law firm registered in Guangzhou) and Stephenson Harwood (a law firm registered in Hong Kong) are in a CEPA association under the name “Stephenson Harwood - Wei Tu (China) Association”. CEPA (Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement) is a free trade agreement concluded between Mainland China and Hong Kong. Under CEPA, Hong Kong based law firms are permitted to operate in association with Mainland Chinese law firms to provide comprehensive legal services in Mainland China governed by Chinese and non-Chinese laws.
Bank Loan Enforcements – International Banks
Successfully enforcing bank loans for foreign banks through China litigation procedures, arresting and auction mortgaging ships, recovering loans, interests and costs, several cases recognized by the PRC Supreme Court as top 10 model cases.
Charter Party Disputes – International Arbitration
Successfully defended ship owners in Charter Party disputes, working in joint efforts team in international arbitration case before the HKIAC.
Commodity Trading Disputes - International Arbitration
Obtaining successful arbitration award in favour of SOE in longterm commodity trading disputes, working in joint efforts team in international arbitration case before the SIAC.
Ship Accident Handling
Advising and assisting Chinese shipowner to handle severe crew poison accident abroad involving over a dozen crew dead in all aspects, rescue planning, cargo handling, compensating injured crews and deceased crew families, claiming insurance, disputes with manning company, GA and government investigations.
Trade Fraud and Cyber Fraud
Advising and assisting SOEs and international clients in matters relating to trade fraud and cyber fraud, successfully recovering significant amounts of money, assisting investigations and resolving complicated trade and credit financing fraud cases.
Employment advises and dispute handling
Advising clients on all scales regarding employment related issues, daily operational questions, employee handbook and regulations, employee injury and death, redundancy, white-collar crime, attending labour arbitration and court litigations handling employment disputes.
Court Administrated Company Restructuring
Advising and representing a private owned, energy trading and shipping sector, company group in successful court administrated company restructuring series cases, resolving debts over RMB2.8 billion. Case listed as top 10 bankruptcy and restructure model cases of Guangdong Higher People's Court.
Cargo Damage and Insurance Recovering
interests and international cargo insurers as victims of a ship collision accident between two foreign ships in Chinese waters.
Contracts and daily operation advise
Advising and assisting clients of all scales and in multiple industrial sectors such as energy, oil and gas, commodities, consumer products, transportation and freight forwarding, etc., on daily issues, e.g. contract negotiation and performance, operational solutions, BLs, LCs, customs, security and guarantee, corporate structure, etc.
Ship Building and Financing
Advising and assisting ship owners in new building and financing projects forming a large gas and chemical tanker fleet by loan and financial leasing, reviewing and revising project contracts and related documents, resolving contract performance and security issues.
