Darong Wang

Practice Areas

● Dispute Resolution (Mainly Commercial Litigation and Arbitration)\

● International Trade

● Insurance

● Foreign Direct Investment

● Corporate

Career

• Harbor Affairs Supervisor and PSC Officer, Zhenjiang MSA, 1995-1997

• Associate Lecturer and then Lecturer, Jimei University, 1997-2003

• Intern, Wang Jing & Co. and its Shanghai Office, 2001-2003

• Associate and then Senior Associate, Wang Jing & Co. and its Xiamen Office, 2003-2008

• Founding Partners, Pan Young & Co., 2008-2011

• Partners and then Senior Partners, Beijing Dacheng Law Offices LLP (Xiamen), July 2011-Present

Professional Memberships

• Member, Maritime Law Committee of All China Lawyers Association, China

• Vice Director, Admiralty & Maritime Professional Committee of Fujian Lawyers Association, China

• Director, Maritime Law Committee of Xiamen Lawyers Association, China

• Member, the China Maritime Law Association, China

• Member, the China Association for Law of the Sea, China

Publications

•“The Orientation and Consideration of the Reticular Responsibility of International Multi-modal Transport Operators under the Belt and Road Initiative”, the Collection of Papers of Fujian Lawyers Forum, 2022

• “Cargo Damage Caused by Sea Transport of Imported Agricultural Products, Cross Border Wars, Shipper Wins Compensation”, the Collection of Classic Cases of Fujian Lawyers, 2021

• “On the Jurisdiction of Chinese Courts over Disputes Arising from Foreign-related Maritime Guarantee Contracts”, the Fujian Lawyers' Forum, 2019

• “Claim for Shortage of Imported Oil”, the Rule of Law Forum of the 2nd World Oil Merchants Conference, 2018

• “On Concentrated Specialized Jurisdiction of Maritime Cases Derived from Bankruptcy Procedure”, the International Symposium on Maritime Law and High-end Forum on International Maritime Law and Policy on the Belt and Road , 2017

• “On the Chinese Legal Basis for Ship Owners to Exercise the right of Cargo Lien in the Tide of Bankruptcy of Shipping Enterprises”, the International Symposium on Maritime Law and High-end Forum on International Shipping Law and Policy, 2016

• “On the Real Rights Effect of the Ownership Reservation Clause in the Sale of Ships”, Issue 3 of Chinese Journal of Maritime Law, 2015

Personal

•Head, Maritime & Admiralty Team, Dentons Xiamen

•Head, Dispute Resolution Team, Dentons Xiamen

•Director, Foreign Legal Service Center, Dentons Xiamen

•Arbitrator, China Maritime Arbitration Commission

•Arbitrator, Xiamen Arbitration Commission and Southeast China International Maritime Arbitration Court

•Arbitrator, Arbitration Commissions in Chongqing, Nanjing, Dalian, etc.

•Visiting Professor, Jimei University of Xiamen.

•Supervisor, LLM of Xiamen University.

•Researcher, Insurance Law Institute of Dalian Maritime University

•Executive Director, Maritime Law Research Institute of Fujian Society of Law

•Mediator, Commercial Maritime Mediation Center of Xiamen Maritime Silk Road Central Legal District

•Qualified as a Port State Control (PSC) Officer.

•Qualified Lecturer on international law and maritime law

• Senior Professional Qualification Certificate

• Obtained the Professional Lawyer Certificate in Finance, Securities and Insurance Field, and the Professional Lawyer Certificate in Foreign-related Legal Service Field

• Being selected for Fujian Talent Pool of Foreign-related Lawyers

Clients

Mr. Wang has served many clients, mainly including:

(1)International well-known P&I clubs: UK, BRITANNIA, JPI, GARD, LONDON CLUB, CHARTERER'S P&I CLUB, TT CLUB, etc.

(2)Famous insurance companies and their branches: PICC, PAIC, CPIC, HTIC, etc.

(3)International well-known shipping companies: CMA, CGM, MAERSK, APL, ANL, HMM, NYK, MOL, FESCO, SINOKOR, etc;

(4)Well-known shipping companies or cargo owners enterprises in Fujian or at home and abroad: Xiamen C&D Group Co., Ltd., Xiamen Port Holding Group Co., Ltd., Xiamen Itg Holding Group Co., Ltd., Sany Heavy Industry Co., Ltd., etc;

Private shipping companies, logistics and freight agencies, trading enterprises, etc.

Work Highlights

Litigation and Non-Litigation of Shipping Legal Practice：

•Represented shipowners of M/V “Bigswan” in her collision with M/V “Qiang Shun 8”, involving such issues as ship collision, salvage of sunken ship, marine pollution, maritime administration, and carriage of cargo, as well as various legal procedures such as maritime investigation, limitation of liability, maritime security, maritime litigation, compulsory enforcement, and so forth. Darong’s opinion was supported by the Court

•Broke the shipowners’ limitation of liability on behalf of the cargo interests in the case of fire accident and sinking of M/V “Hua Ding Shan”, which is a precedent where the interpleader action went into normal proceedings and the shipowners’ entitlement to limit liability was negated.

• Represented a P&I club in a litigation over P&I insurance contract related to M/V “Yun Hong”, which was the first case in China involving a jurisdiction dispute related to P&I insurance contracts.

• Achieved a favorable result for the Charterers in the case of arresting the ship bunkers on board M.V. “TE HO”, which is the first case related to arresting the foreign ship bunkers in China. Mr. Wang creatively put forward the scheme of "oil detention on board", and successfully reached a three-party settlement with the Applicant and the Shipowner on behalf of his client.

• Represented some foreign shipowners involving a serial of cargo claim cases arising from containers’ falling overboard M.V. “CMA CGM OTELLO” and “CMA CGM G.WASHINGTON” respectively before 5 different maritime courts of PRC. The court attached great importance to the defenses of Mr. Wang, which resulted in a favorable settlement and mitigated the losses of his client to the maximum extent.

• Represented a large state-owned enterprises located in Xiamen in handling cargo (DDGS) claims against the shipowners (a shipowner in Marshall Islands and a shipowner in Sweden respectively) after various and complicated legal procedures in both China and Britain, such as the anti-suit injunction and the LMAA arbitration in Britain, the legal proceedings on substantial trials, and an application for recognition/enforcement of arbitral award before the Chinese court where Darong employed an innovative approach in refuting such an application, acquiring a satisfactory compensation for the client in the end.

• Represented a foreign-invested shipyard in Jiangsu Province and its affiliated Hongkong companies (“Owners) in a series of disputes over bareboat charters regarding a series of vessel M.V. "Welhero", M.V. “Welproft”, M.V. ”Welfine" and M.V. “Weltrust" between the Owners and the guarantees (“Charterers”, four shipping companies based on Hongkong). Darong helped client successfully obtaining a huge compensation from the maritime guarantors at last.

• Advised and/or represented shipowners or charterers in many arbitration cases regarding charterparties before LMAA in London or HKIAC in HK. For example, in the M.V. “Baochanghai” Charter Party Dispute Case arbitrated in LMAA, Mr. Wang represented the shipowners and won an overwhelming victory which awarding over RMB 60 million. Thereafter, Mr. Wang further represented the shipowners to apply for recognition and enforcement of this LMAA award against the Charterers, a large state-owned enterprise group, in Wuhan Maritime Court in accordance with the New York Convention and finally the all losses of the client were recovered.

Legal Advice and Paper Works in Transitions of Ships：

• Provided legal services re shipbuilding contract and financing contract for a shipping company in Xiamen in the whole process of building two 57000 tons bulk vessels;

• Acted as permanent legal advisor for a cruise company to provide legal services for negotiation of cruise design and construction contracts;

Industry Sector Expertise

● Shipping /Maritime & Admiralty

● Insurance

● International Trade

● Corporate

● Foreign Direct Investment

Expert in these Jurisdictions

PRC

Languages Spoken

● Chinese (Mandarin) and English

Experience

Mr. Wang acts for clients in the maritime, insurance and international trade sectors. He specializes in Bill of Lading and Charterparty disputes, marine insurance, P&I defence, cargo claims, ship finance, ship purchase & sale, ship collision and personal injuries, arrest of ships and/or ships’ bunkers and cargoes, marine pollution, salvage, general average. His solid working knowledge of all aspects of maritime law combined with his strong academic background and research ability enables him to find proactive and aggressive solutions to some of the most difficult cases which have been well received and recognized by the clients.

Education

Awards