Zhenda Huang

Practice Areas

①He has extensive experience in aviation industry investment and aviation operation business；

②He has extensive experience in the "Belt and Road" international trade and cross-border services；

③He has extensive experience in domestic civil and commercial dispute resolution and enterprise restructuring and bankruptcy.

Professional Memberships

Lawyer of Beijing Lawyers Association Foreign-related Lawyers Talent Pool

Off-campus tutor of postgraduates of Beijing Institute of Technology Law School

Part-time professor, Northwest University/Off-campus tutor for postgraduate students, Law School, Northwest University

Arbitrator of the Shenzhen International Arbitration Court, the Hainan International Arbitration Court and the Zunyi Arbitration Commission

Publications

Writer of Basic Legal Knowledge for Managers, Chemical Industry Press Co., Ltd. (2022)

Written the Study on International Trade Contracts for Civil Aircraft from the perspective of aviation lawyer's practical operation, which will be published by the Civil Aviation Press of China (to be published)

—— Papers published on Chinese Lawyers Association (acla.org.cn) and shared via multiple channels

1、Impacts of COVID-19 on Aviation Consumers and Legal Analysis Thereof

2、Legislative and Judicial Practice of Civil Aviation Industry in China

3、Study on the Legal Aspects of Judicial Enforcement of Civil Aircraft

4、A Preliminary Legal Study on the Purposes of Contracts

—— Papers published on the Official WeChat Accounts of Beijing DHH Law Firm and Defayuan and shared via multiple channels

1、Reflections on the Boeing 737-MAX 8 Aircraft Claims

2、Recommendations on Points of Law for M&A and Restructuring of Civil Air Transport Enterprises

3、Lecture on the Corporate Compliance Control System from the Perspectives of Public and Private Laws

4、Study on Policies and Laws Applicable to Civil Aircraft Trade in Hainan Free Trade Port

5、Review of Studies on the Protection of Legal Interests of Directors, Supervisors and Senior Executives of Chinese Companies - Analysis from the Perspective of Legal Practice (2020) (LexisNexis)

6、Annual Review of Studies on the Protection of Legal Interests of Directors, Supervisors and Officers of Chinese Companies (2020-2021) - Focusing on Judicial Adjudication Cases and Changes in Legislative Regulation in 2020-2021

7、Analysis of the Values of Public Law Control and Private Law Autonomy in Civil and Commercial Law

8、Advocating for the Independence of Commercial Law and Commercial Trials

9、Deep Conversation with Chinese Private Companies Facing a Debt Crisis

10、Innovative Solutions for Employees’ Investment Claims in Corporates’ Insolvency Reorganization – Taking HNA Group as an Example

11、Reflections on Special Legal Issues in M&A and Reorganization of State-owned Enterprises - Focusing on the Mixed Reform of State-owned Enterprises and the Application of the "Administrative Measures for the Formulation of Articles of Association of State-owned Enterprises"

Languages Spoken

English

Chinese

Experience

【Aviation Industrial Investment and Aviation Management Businesses】

1．From 1999 to 2013, Mr. Huang took charge of dispute resolution, specific legal affair services and other major legal affairs of HNA Group, including without limitation merger, acquisition and restructuring of aviation companies, restructuring of aviation businesses, airports, hotels and tourist businesses and resolution of investment disputes and contract disputes.

2．In 2021, he worked with Beijing Business Aviation Association to assist Navigation, Transportation Division, Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) in drafting the departmental regulatory document (Regulations on the Administration of Business Activities Carried out by Foreign General Aviation Companies in China) regarding the management of foreign business jets to China. The document was officially included in the national legislative program in 2022 and listed by CAAC as one of the key legislative programs of civil aviation special plan for the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan".

3．In July 2020, he served as the counsel for the specific legal services in connection with the purchase and sale contract and joint-venture contract for H135 between a state-owned group company and Europe-based AIRBUS, with legal opinions issued and the case concluded satisfactorily.

4．In February 2021, he served as the legal counsel of Qingdao Airlines Co., Ltd. to represent the company in handling aviation related legal affairs and cases at home and abroad.

5．In 2021, he served as the legal counsel of Nanshan Business Jet Co., Ltd., and helped the client dispose of a Gulfstream 650 outside China.

6．In 2021, he served as the legal counsel of Nanshan International Flying School.

7．In 2019, he was successfully included in the global lawyers’ pool of Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd. which is a Chinese state-owned company, provided legal services throughout the export of the first ARJ21 of China, and led the management of foreign law firms.

8．In 2020, he was selected as the sole legal service provider for Beijing Business Aviation Association, assisted nearly 200 members of the Association in business and legal consultancy concerning nearly 300 private airplanes, and coordinated the Association and law firms to release annual white papers of business aviation.

9．In March 2020, he represented a domestic airline in the foreign-related international arbitration case at CEITAC with a subject matter worth approximately USD40 million over the dispute arising from the operating and leasing of 3 Boeing 737 airplanes against an international air lease company, and helped the client avoid losses of approximately USD10 million.

10．In 2020, he provided special legal advisory services for the logistics Ezhou Airport project of Shunfeng Aviation Holding.

11．In 2021, he represented a business jet company in Hong Kong in a litigation case over the claim of custody fee against a foreign register company.

【"Belt and Road" international trade and cross-border services (including litigation and non-litigation)】

12．In August 2020, Mr. Huang represented the Hong Kong branch of a domestic public company against an American company in an international arbitration case over the disputes of foreign borrowings – domestic joint venture – joint-venture dissolution – return of borrowings, which was arbitrated by ICC at Hong Kong International Chamber of Commerce. The case came to a satisfactory end. He helped the client in the application of recognition and enforcement of the award in mainland China. The award was fully enforced in March 2022 with due and payable amounts paid overseas via fund transfer.

13．Since April 2020, he represented a public petroleum engineering company in an arrearage dispute arising from a contract about a foreign engineering of Iraq oil field, assisted the client in reconciliation and negotiation in accordance with the terms of arbitration agreement, coordinated the two parties to file legal opinions, and enabled the reconciliation before arbitration with arrearage substantially recovered. (the subject matter was worth USD30 million, and was subject to arbitration at the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) as agreed)

14．In September 2021, he represented a global technical provider in Barbados, the Caribbean Region against 7 Chinese companies in a case with a subject matter worth USD13.9 million over the dispute arising from the trade of pandemic face masks, and provided special non-litigation legal consultancy services including issuing a demanding letter. In November, he was further appointed to represent the provider to initiate the foreign-related litigation procedure against two of said Chinese companies with the subject matter worth USD 8.49 million.

【Settlement of Domestic Civil and Commercial Disputes and Enterprise Reorganization and Bankruptcy】

15．In 2020, he represented a public company in the release and certification of a commercial real property subject to judicial seizure in Shenzhen, and accomplished the engagement to the fastest extend with the ownership authenticated and the real property released within 3 months (the subject matter was worth RMB30 million).

16．In 2020, he was engaged by a public bank in a case with a subject matter worth RMB500 million over the dispute arising from the loan guarantee with a public company and an air travel group, and won the case with the judgement executed.

17．In September 2021, he was engaged by a financial asset management company limited in Shandong Province in a case with a subject matter worth RMB3500 million over the dispute arising from financial burrowing contract against an asset company in Guangdong.

Education

Awards