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Xie Qi
Qi Xie Associate
Corporate and M&A
Dispute Resolution
Capital Markets
Compliance and Risk Management
Detailed introduction
Mr. Qi has nearly 15 years of legal practice experience, with a primary focus on commercial dispute resolution and corporate legal services. He has long advised private enterprises, investment institutions, and growth-stage companies, and has developed solid experience in handling complex commercial disputes, addressing significant legal risks, and supporting key business decisions.
In the area of dispute resolution, Mr. Qi focuses on complex commercial disputes involving intricate legal relationships and multi-layered transaction structures. He has extensive experience representing corporate clients in shareholder and investment disputes, major contractual disputes, as well as construction and real estate-related disputes, in both litigation and arbitration. He is skilled at identifying the key issues within complex factual matrices and multi-party dynamics, formulating overall dispute strategies, structuring evidence, and coordinating negotiation and enforcement approaches, thereby advancing matters toward favorable outcomes.
In terms of corporate legal services, Mr. Qi regularly advises controlling shareholders and senior management on legal and commercial decision-making. His experience includes equity structuring, investment arrangements, review of major commercial contracts, and corporate governance optimization. In complex transactions and critical business scenarios, he focuses on control arrangements, risk isolation, and allocation of liabilities, ensuring that legal solutions are aligned with business objectives and are practically implementable.
With respect to cross-border legal services, Mr. Qi is based in Shanghai and North America and has been consistently involved in multi-jurisdictional matters. He maintains close working relationships with legal professionals across Canada, the United States, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand. In cross-border investments, offshore asset allocation, and cross-border dispute resolution, he integrates legal frameworks and commercial practices across jurisdictions to provide clients with solutions from a comprehensive and international perspective.
In addition, Mr. Qi has a long-standing focus on the development of the technology sector and innovation-driven industries. He has participated in the capital operations and business development of a number of technology companies and consumer brands, and has developed ongoing practical insights into business models and growth trajectories. In recent years, he has closely followed developments in artificial intelligence (AI), Web3, and the digital economy, and continues to engage with legal issues arising from these emerging fields, maintaining a well-informed perspective at the intersection of law and technology.
Dispute Resolution
- Represented a minority shareholder in a corporate control dispute against the controlling shareholder, successfully facilitating a high-value share buyback through a combination of litigation and negotiation.
- Represented numerous investors in litigation arising from the Kunming Pan Asia Nonferrous Metals Exchange incident, recovering losses of tens of millions of RMB.
- Represented a well-known curtain wall company in multiple construction contract disputes, successfully securing priority payment rights, with amounts in dispute totaling tens of millions of RMB.
- Represented a Fortune Global 500 company in disputes against a listed company, completing litigation and enforcement proceedings and facilitating full repayment through coordination with regulatory authorities.
- Represented over ten aquaculture farms in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, in administrative disputes concerning demolition compensation; achieved a comprehensive settlement through litigation and multiple rounds of negotiation, resulting in recognition of the properties as lawful structures and compensation of several million RMB per entity.
- Represented a company in administrative litigation against a local Administration for Market Regulation in Gansu Province, successfully obtaining a judgment from the High People’s Court revoking the administrative action.
- Represented a real estate developer in appellate proceedings, successfully overturning an unfavorable first-instance judgment and securing a remand for retrial, ultimately mitigating losses of nearly RMB 10 million.
Non-contentious Matters
- Advised a Hong Kong-listed restaurant group on major asset restructuring and equity/asset disposal transactions, with a total transaction value of tens of billions of RMB.
- Advised a Guangzhou-based group on its U.S. SPAC listing, involving transactions valued at several hundred million USD.
- Advised a Xiamen-based food manufacturing company on its IPO, providing comprehensive legal services.
- Advised Shanghai Industrial Urban Development Group on the issuance of offshore “Panda Bonds” (private placement), with a total issuance size of RMB 3 billion.
- Advised a large real estate group in Gansu Province on corporate restructuring and asset reorganization involving over ten subsidiaries, with a total transaction value exceeding RMB 5 billion.
- Advised a Shenzhen-based technology company on its merger and restructuring with a Hong Kong-listed company, including red-chip structuring, transaction structuring, negotiations, and drafting of transaction documents.
- Advised a well-known internet company on its restructuring with a Hong Kong-listed company, including VIE structure design and transaction documentation, involving more than 100 ultimate individual shareholders.
- Advised on the disposal of multiple five-star hotel assets in Shanghai and Zhejiang, with an aggregate transaction value of approximately RMB 3 billion.
- Advised Qingdao Xiaoshuai Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (an affiliate of Haier Group) on financing and employee equity incentive plans.
- Acted as legal counsel to Mitsubishi Corporation (a Fortune Global 500 company) on an ongoing basis.
LL.M., Minzu University of China
LL.B., The National Police University for Criminal Justice
Exchange Student（Law）, University of Oxford
2014 – Present
Beijing Dacheng Law Offices，LLP(Shanghai)
PRC Legal Professional Qualification
Certified Golf Referee
- “Network Tort Liability under the Tort Liability Law”, Legal System and Society, Issue No. 2, 2014
- “Determination of Joint Tort Liability”, Theory Research, Issue No. 2 (Part I), 2014
- “Compensation for Emotional Distress in Cases of Death Caused by Tort”, Legal Insight, February 2014
Member, Key Research Project Group of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission
Member, Anhui Provincial Association for Investigative Logic and Case Analysis
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