2026.05.15
The legal media outlet The Litigation recently announced its 2026 Top Choice rankings across three major fields, with three partners from JunHe honored:
WANG, Zhaolin (Johnson): Top 10 Patent Litigation Lawyers
ZHAO, Huili (Vicky): Top 10 Arbitration Lawyers
ZHENG Yu: Top 10 Commercial Criminal Lawyers
WANG, Zhaolin (Johnson): Integrating Skill and Technique, Steadfast in Pursuit
With 28 years of experience, Mr. Wang Zhaolin holds dual qualifications as a lawyer and a patent agent. He is a patent expert with a background in engineering and has been involved in technical intellectual property matters such as patents and trade secrets. Mr. Wang is adept at handling difficult and highly technical intellectual property disputes. In response to over 50 patent lawsuits initiated by non-practicing entities (NPEs) against international internet giants, he led his team to dismantle the unreasonable claims one by one. Mr. Wang has established legal boundaries for simple combinations and innovations in the field of IoT communication technology. In patent litigation faced by several domestic fluorochemical companies, he led his team through two and a half years of many challenges, multiple trials and professional testings and ultimately helped the Chinese companies break through patent barriers and contend with international giants at the ITC and the UPC, safeguarding local innovation and overseas development. Due to his outstanding performance in the field of patent legal services, Mr. Wang has been listed in the IAM Patent 1000 as a World's Leading Patent Lawyer for ten consecutive years and has twice been named one of ALB China's Top 15 Intellectual Property Lawyers.
ZHAO, Huili (Vicky): Navigating Cross-Border Disputes
Ms. Zhao Huili has nearly 20 years of experience in cross-border dispute resolution and is an expert in the rules of major domestic and international arbitration institutions such as CIETAC, BAC, SIAC, ICC and HKIAC. She focuses on complex commercial disputes private equity investment, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, Sino-foreign joint ventures, shareholder disputes, director and executive responsibilities, finance and securities. Ms. Zhao has been recommended repeatedly by renowned legal media such as Chambers, The Legal 500 and Benchmark Litigation in dispute resolution, particularly in international arbitration. In key areas such as cross-border enforcement, asset preservation and multi-case coordination, she has demonstrated exceptional control: she represented a Chinese company in a series of arbitration cases at the ICC International Court of Arbitration related to the Belt and Road Initiative, achieving four consecutive victories. These cases were selected as typical cases by the Legal Daily in the seventh Belt and Road legal services awards. In a significant arbitration case involving Hong Kong, she secured a RMB 232 million favorable award and successfully pushed the Hong Kong court to order the opposing party to pay a HKD 163 million bond, using her professional expertise to safeguard the cross-border rights of enterprises.
ZHENG Yu: Master of Commercial and Criminal Law
With 22 years of practice, Ms. Zheng Yu has been involved in financial securities, intellectual property crime, compliance investigations, white-collar crime and occupational crime. She excels in handling major, sensitive and novel commercial criminal cases, having established a practical system in the intersection of criminal and civil law, integrated criminal defense, and corporate anti-fraud rights protection. Ms. Zheng has been recognized as a municipal-level case-handling expert by the Shanghai procuratorial organs, was among the first to be selected for the Supreme People's Procuratorate's investigation supervision talent pool and has served as a part-time lecturer at the Shanghai branch of the National Prosecutors College, combining theoretical depth with practical experience. In handling the nation's first bribery case involving a sponsor's surprise shareholding, Ms. Zheng conducted in-depth analysis on the legal application challenges of new types of hidden corruption, with her defense arguments receiving significant attention from the judicial authorities. In representing an international luxury group in a rights protection case, she facilitated the nation's first criminalization of a trademark infringement in fashion show services, setting a benchmark for the criminal protection of intellectual property.
From micro-level technical deconstruction to macro-level cross-border negotiations, the selection of these three JunHe partners is both a recognition of their skills and JunHe's expertise in dispute resolution. JunHe will continue to clarify the intricacies involved in complex disputes, meticulously working on the details of each case, while using our professional expertise to ensure the progress of Chinese businesses.
