Bin Yuan
Yuan Bin Partner
Cross-Border Investment and Trade
Corporate and M&A
Dispute Resolution
Finance
Detailed introduction
Mr Yuan is a partner at Dentons since 2012 and maintains a focus on dispute resolution in the fields of shipping,
trade, energy, commercial and corporate disputes. He obtained a PRC practicing license in 2005 and New York
practicing license in 2012.
Bin has represented foreign clients (trading and manufacturing companies, banks, insurance companies, and many
more) in sophisticated commercial and shipping disputes before all levels of PRC Courts and arbitration institutions.
He works closely with many international law firms and regularly provides their clients with practical and cost-effective
resolutions to difficulties they encounter in China.
He has handled many international arbitration cases and also successfully enforced several ICC, HKIAC, and LMAA
arbitration awards in China. Two of these cases have been published by the Supreme People’s Court of PRC.
In addition, Bin has advised many European creditors on PRC restructuring, insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings,
and has acted for them in registering claims, attending creditors’ meetings and negotiating with bankruptcy
administrators.
- Acted for a Greek Bank to handle its vessel mortgage claim in China;
- Acted for a large private trading company to win a HK arbitration arising from disputes under sales of goods;
- Acted for Cargill to recognize and enforce a HKIAC award in the Ningbo Intermediate People’s Court;
- Acted for an European Client to enforce the LMAA arbitration award in the Ningbo Maritime Court;
- Acted for a PRC State-owned bank to win a vessel-mortgage lawsuit involving a claim in excess of USD50m;
- Acted for a Germany-based company to attend a Chinese yard bankruptcy proceedings involving a USD60m
claim; - Advised AVIC SHIP, Subsidiary of China Merchant Capital, and many others on all aspects of the ship building
and finance process; - Advised the Owner of M/V “Harvest” and its P & I Club to handle the collision with “Jin Hai Kun” at Taizhou area,
China, which resulted in death of 19 crews and salvage of sunk vessel and oil leakage; - Advised AkzoNobel to arrest a vessel and settled a complicated shipping disputes;
- Acted for a Malaysian client to win a complicated commercial dispute in the Supreme People’s Court of PRC;
- Acted for a Swiss-based steel company to enforce an ICC award regarding sales of goods disputes with Seat in
Beijing; - Acted for a Taiwan trading company to claim back the infringed 48-container cargo;
- Acted for a listed private company to win a DAP shipment litigation occurred in Mexico;
- Annual counselor for Sinotrans, Shanghai Port, PICC, Hainan Energy Exchange, AVIC.
“Enforcement of Beijing-Seated ICC Awards: the Invisible Seat” published in “China Law and Practice” Issue
November 2010
“Rule B attachment goes back to tradition: EFTs is not attachable property ---comment on the landmark case SCI vs.
Jaldhi made by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit” published in “China Maritime Law Annual”
Edition 4 in 2010
2010, LL.M., Fordham University, US
2004, LL.M., Shanghai Maritime University, PRC
2016 to date: Dacheng Shanghai, partner
2012 - 2016: Dacheng Ningbo, senior partner
2004 – 2012: Zhejiang Zhihai Law Firm, associate & partner
PRC Licensed Lawyer (2005)
New York State Licensed Lawyer (2012)