Hui Zhong possesses extensive dispute resolution expertise within the minerals and energy sector, with services spanning core operational segments across the entire industry value chain. This encompasses complex disputes arising from mineral and energy investment and development, project construction, bulk commodity trading, financing operations, and joint ventures and cooperative arrangements.
We have successfully represented clients in numerous significant cases involving investment concession agreements, power plant EPC/EPCC turnkey contracts, photovoltaic and wind power engineering construction, long-term energy supply contracts, petrol station concession operations, mining rights disputes, and equipment and technical services. These cases frequently involve substantial sums, intricate legal relationships, and multiple parties, placing exceptionally high demands on our professional expertise and project coordination capabilities. Drawing upon our profound understanding of the commercial logic and regulatory frameworks within the mineral and energy sectors, we swiftly navigate technical complexities to devise the most effective dispute resolution strategies. We not only assist clients in maximising their legitimate rights and interests but are also committed to safeguarding project stability and operational security through legal means, establishing ourselves as a trusted partner for numerous energy enterprises navigating high-risk disputes.
- Investment Special Needs Business Agreement disputes
- Construction & infrastructure disputes
- Sales contract disputes
- Loan agreement disputes
- EPC disputes for photovoltaic and wind power projects
- Petrol-station Franchise Contract disputes
- Thermal power-plant EPC disputes
- Refining & petrochemical EPCC contract disputes
- Equipment installation contract disputes
- Distribution agreement disputes
- Mineral-rights top-up payments
- Technical services contract disputes
- Energy-sector joint ventures
- Long-term supply contracts (electricity, water, gas, heat) disputes
- Representative cases
Supreme Court Cases:
- In the sale-contract dispute among Jiangsu Overseas Group International Technology Engineering Co., Ltd., China National Offshore Oil Corporation Sales Hubei Co., Ltd., third-party Jiangsu Far East Energy Co., Ltd. and Taizhou Rongliang Trading Co., Ltd., we acted for respondent China National Offshore Oil Corporation Sales Hubei Co., Ltd. in the retrial proceedings, securing the Supreme People’s Court’s dismissal of the petitioner’s retrial application.
- In the sale-contract dispute between Zhangjiagang Bonded Zone Taiying Trading Co., Ltd. and China Energy Engineering Co., Ltd., with a disputed amount exceeding RMB¥ 250 million, we represented respondent China Energy Engineering Co., Ltd. before the Supreme People’s Court, successfully obtaining dismissal of the opposing party’s retrial application.
- Acting for China Energy Engineering Corporation Limited, we secured victory in a Supreme People’s Court retrial of a sales-contract dispute valued at over RMB¥ 300 million. We then enforced the judgment before the Beijing Third Intermediate People’s Court, recovering more than RMB¥ 20 million within a month and ultimately obtaining full satisfaction via a debt-for-land transfer of the seized parcel.
Regional First:
- Acting for a leading global oil-and-gas company, we obtained the first Shandong court ruling ever to grant interim relief during the recognition phase of a foreign arbitral award and to enforce that award. Enforcement is now under way.
Other Selected Representative Cases:
- Advised a Thai contractor on a hydropower EPC contract with an Italian counterparty (English law; potential ICC claim > THB 300 million).
- Advised several concrete suppliers on how Indonesia’s ban on sand-and-gravel exports to Singapore impact existing supply contracts.
A boutique law firm that boasts a comprehensive team of specialist lawyers in domestic and international dispute resolution.