Chi Jianwei

For clients overseas

Mainland China legal matters and related cross-border disputes.

Chi Jianwei leads a team assisting Chinese clients who live primarily overseas, foreign investors and overseas organisations with unpaid receivables, liabilities, property and investment disputes in mainland China. Fujian is the team’s principal area of local experience; matters elsewhere in mainland China are also handled according to the needs of each case.

Work includes debt recovery, responding to claims, property ownership and sale disputes, shareholder and investment-exit disputes, judgment enforcement and challenges to enforcement. Clients may instruct the team on a defined task or agree a staged mandate covering negotiation, litigation and enforcement.

The service addresses practical questions: which steps can proceed remotely, what evidence is needed, whether assets can be disposed of or recovered, and the costs and risks of the available routes. For related cross-border disputes, the mainland China scope is defined and the team works with professional advisers in the client’s location or other relevant jurisdictions where needed.

For mainland criminal matters, the team helps parties overseas and family members abroad arrange criminal defence representation, and provides legal assistance with criminal complaints as appropriate to the matter.

Representative experience

Successful appeals and retrials, including before the Supreme People’s Court and provincial High People’s Courts

Chi has intervened in multiple separate matters before the Supreme People’s Court, provincial High People’s Courts and appellate courts and obtained reversals of earlier decisions. His enforcement-objection litigation has involved financial institutions, purchasers of commercial residential property, other creditors and distressed asset portfolios. In one representative matter, he was first instructed at the Supreme People’s Court retrial stage; the court ultimately set aside the first- and second-instance judgments and reversed the adverse outcome.

Property ownership, setting aside transfers and protecting creditors

He has handled multiple disputes concerning property ownership, resale transactions and creditor protection. Results include setting aside transactions and securing the return of homes in a series of cases involving sales through impersonation and fraudulent notarisation; setting aside malicious property transfers; and numerous successful cases involving new-build and resale housing.

Construction payment recovery, distressed assets and enforcement

His longstanding work in construction payment claims, distressed asset resolution and complex enforcement includes extensive experience across mainland China. Examples include disputes over the unfinished Zhaosu thermal power plant project in Xinjiang, a series of Shandong expressway construction disputes, and helping an actual construction contractor recover the full construction payment despite the main contractor’s bankruptcy, alongside other substantial construction disputes.

Shareholder, investment and financial disputes

He has handled multiple shareholder, corporate control, financial lending and investment disputes, including the validity of resolutions expelling shareholders, securities fraud liability and entrusted investment-management contracts involving private funds. His analysis combines the transaction structure, corporate governance and potential criminal exposure.

Criminal defence and related civil disputes

His longstanding criminal defence and criminal-complaint work includes cases resulting in decisions not to prosecute and suspended sentences. He has defended economic crime cases involving time spent overseas, return to mainland China and recognition of voluntary surrender, with attention to the distinction between commercial disputes, financial dealings and criminal liability, and the interaction between procedures.

Selected clients and projects

Over the course of his career, Chi has provided legal advisory, litigation or project-specific services to the following businesses and institutions:

Real estate and property transactions: Kerry Group (Hong Kong) (香港嘉里集团); 融汇地产集团; 融信地产; 福建麦田房产经纪有限公司 (Maitian); 贝壳找房（泉州）信息科技有限公司 (Beike, Quanzhou); 福建乐呵找房信息技术有限公司; 福建全房通房地产经纪有限公司; 福州新榕城市建设发展有限公司; 福州建工福厝地产开发有限公司, among others.

Construction and energy: 中国水利水电第十六工程局有限公司 (Sinohydro Bureau 16); 福州建工集团有限公司; 福建五岳建设工程有限公司; 福建省第一电力建设公司; 国能（福州）热电有限公司; 中节能科辉（宁德）清洁技术发展有限公司, among others.

Finance, technology and other businesses: 福建金诚丰担保有限公司; 福州明源动力软件有限公司; 福州掌中文学文化传播有限公司; 青岛铭数科技有限公司; 福州新概念电子科技有限公司; 福州榕迪新能源汽车有限公司, among others.

Education and public institutions: 福建教育学院 (Fujian Institute of Education); 华南女子学院; 福建省气象局 (Fujian Meteorological Bureau); 福建省防雷中心, among others.

These engagements include advisory work, litigation representation and project-specific services provided at different times.

He has provided full-process or project-specific legal services for real estate developments including 海峡汽车文化广场, 新榕金城湾, 莆田雅颂居, 榕城·江上图, 福厝江上拾里, 新榕金台郡 and 福厝枫丹澜境. He has also contributed to drafting contracts recommended by industry associations and standard-form contracts for real estate businesses.

Professional appointments and recognition

• External postgraduate supervisor for the Juris Master programme, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
• Specially appointed administrative law-enforcement supervisor, Fuzhou
• People’s Supervisor, Fuzhou People’s Procuratorate
• Hearing Officer, Taijiang District People’s Procuratorate, Fuzhou
• Deputy Secretary-General, Fuzhou New Quality Productive Forces Promotion Association
• Lawyer participating in Fuzhou Zhi Gong’s “Zhixing · Enterprise Support” programme
• Recognised by the Fujian Lawyers Association as a lawyer specialising in construction and real estate

Graduate of Fuzhou University, with postgraduate education.

Media and professional engagement

Chi has been interviewed by Xinhua reporters on multiple occasions, providing legal analysis on fraudulent “traditional learning masters” and emerging romance and investment scams. His comments have appeared in Economic Information Daily (经济参考报). Representative reports include:

“Free” misfortune removal, expensive courses: exposing the money-making schemes of fake “traditional learning masters” — 26 March 2026 (English rendering of the Chinese report title).

A new romance investment scam: a “dating match” sets a gold-investment trap — 16 June 2026 (English rendering of the Chinese report title).

He has also given multiple interviews to Fujian Television’s 第一帮帮团 and Sina Leju, and participated in livestream discussions on resale-property disputes.

He has served repeatedly as a judge in university moot-court competitions in Fujian and remains active in professional exchanges, legal teaching and the training of future legal practitioners.

How the team handles your matter

Lawyers and support staff are assigned according to the type and needs of the matter. The engagement identifies the scope, responsible person, fees and communication arrangements. Support staff assist with document organisation, communication and progress tracking; practising lawyers remain responsible for legal analysis and case handling.

Chi Jianwei’s personal involvement is determined by the agreed engagement plan. Remote communication, document submission and steps requiring the client’s direct participation are addressed for each case.

Legal instructions are formally accepted by the law firm at which the responsible lawyers practise.