Dehehantong Law Office
Lawyers
Hong Sun
- Phone021-60328686
- Emailsunhong@dehehantong.com
Work Department
Dehehantong Shanghai Law Office
Position
Senior Associate
Career
Lawyer Hong Sunhas been practicing law for over 10 years. He previously worked at DeHeng Law Offices in Shanghai and holds a Chinese lawyer's qualification. Currently, he serves as a public interest lawyer at the China Securities Investor Service Center (since August 2020). Lawyer Sun has handled numerous difficult and complex dispute resolution cases, covering areas such as finance and securities, corporate governance, real estate, and international trade. The main types of disputes include: Disputes over compensation liability for false statements in the field of financial securities (having represented 7 listed companies and intermediary institutions), trust contract disputes, stock pledge and repurchase contract disputes, off-exchange margin trading contract disputes and arbitration cases of private fund asset management contracts; Disputes over various enterprise loan contracts (entrusted loans, private lending, financial loans), various equity disputes (equity transfer, equity repurchase, equity resold, disputes over the right to know), disputes over financial lease contracts, disputes over intention deposit agreements, arbitration cases of cooperation agreements and arbitration cases of debt settlement agreements with assets in the field of corporate governance; Disputes over pre-sale contracts of commercial housing in the real estate sector (involving liability for breach of contract for delayed delivery and the right to terminate the contract for those without the qualification to purchase), disputes over house purchase contracts, disputes over decoration contracts, disputes over construction project construction contracts (involving liability for breach of contract for late completion, late delivery and late certificate processing, and engineering cost appraisal), and disputes over labor subcontracting contracts. Disputes over international goods sales contracts, foreign-related work contracts, foreign-related trade secrets, and foreign-related medical equipment leasing in the fields of international trade and foreign-related business; Other types also include disputes over copyright infringement, disputes over procurement contracts, disputes over sales contracts, disputes over adjacent rights, disputes over physical and health rights, disputes over inheritance and property division, lawsuits for the confirmation of bankruptcy claims, foreign-related labor arbitration, and criminal cases involving illegal absorption of public deposits, etc.
Track Records:
Served as the legal advisor of the Finance and Trade Division of the Management Committee of the Lingang New Area of China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone;
Provide long-term legal consultation services related to dispute resolution and post-investment management for one of the top five state-owned non-performing asset disposal companies.
Represented Shanghai Putian Post & Telecommunication Technology Co., Ltd. in handling a securities false statement liability dispute with over 1,500 investors with a claim amount exceeding 210 million yuan. This case was the first securities group demonstration case in the country to accurately determine investors' losses by applying the "multi-factor quantitative model". It was successfully selected as one of the top ten financial commercial trial cases of Shanghai courts in 2020 by the Shanghai Higher People's Court, one of the top ten typical cases of Shanghai Financial Court in 2020, and one of the top ten typical cases of securities and futures investor rights protection by Shanghai Financial Court.
Represented Changyuan Technology Group Co., Ltd. in handling a securities false statement liability dispute with over 900 investors, with a claim amount exceeding 810 million yuan. This case was the first securities group lawsuit in the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court to apply the "partial litigation request advance judgment + consolidated trial" mechanism. It was successfully selected as one of the "Top Ten Typical Cases of Securities False Statement Liability Disputes" by the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court and the "White Paper on Securities False Statement Liability Disputes (2017-2021)".
Represented a listed company in Huzhou in handling a securities false statement liability dispute with more than 200 investors with a claim amount exceeding 225 million yuan. In the early stage of the case, successfully dismissed a lawsuit filed by a large commercial bank as the principal of an asset management plan with a claim amount exceeding 50 million yuan. This case involves multiple difficult issues such as the selection of implementation and disclosure dates, the company's stock price trend deviating from the overall market and the industry, and the deduction of operational risks including ST events, as well as the listed company's planned bankruptcy reorganization process at the same time. It was successfully selected as one of the top ten typical cases of enterprise bankruptcy trials by Zhejiang courts in 2022 and one of the top ten outstanding cases of enterprise bankruptcy performance by bankruptcy administrators in Zhejiang Province in 2022.
Represented a loan contract dispute with a claim amount exceeding 110 million yuan between a certain group company and a certain construction company, and all the judgment items of this case have been successfully executed.
Represented the actual controller of a certain partnership enterprise in handling the enforcement stage of a dispute over a entrusted loan contract with a certain catering company with a claim amount exceeding 180 million yuan. This case involved difficult legal issues such as enforcement objections, the intersection of private and private parties, and the application of a third party in criminal cases to participate in the distribution. Eventually, we obtained the enforcement ruling on debt settlement by property for our side.
Represented a well-known construction enterprise in handling a construction contract dispute and derivative cases involving a resettlement housing construction project with a state-owned forest farm developer, with a claim amount exceeding 140 million yuan. The case involved liability for breach of contract due to late completion, project cost appraisal, losses from late delivery and late certificate processing, etc. After the case entered the stage of withdrawal and settlement, the lawsuit was filed again. Through on-site investigation by lawyers, materials favorable to the client for the change of floor area ratio were obtained, and at the same time, judicial appraisal opinions on the project cost favorable to the client were obtained.
Represented a certain construction group in handling a labor subcontracting contract dispute between it and a certain labor service company as well as the actual construction workers. This case involved the legal issue of whether the wage payment responsibility that the third-party labor subcontracting company should bear extended to the project owner. Eventually, all the litigation requests of all actual construction workers were dismissed.
Represented a large number of former and resigned employees of a well-known semiconductor company planning to list on the STAR Market in handling the option agreement dispute between them and the company with a claim amount of nearly 10 million yuan. A total of nearly 800,000 options under the names of more than 30 employees were involved. Eventually, the legitimate rights and interests of the former and resigned employees in terms of option exercise were protected through non-litigation settlement.
Represented a sales contract dispute with a claim amount exceeding 10 million yuan between a certain company and a subsidiary of JD Group. This case involved a series of cases with different registered places but unified jurisdiction. Despite losing in the existing similar cases, a favorable first-instance judgment of another case was successfully obtained (the other case was settled in the form of withdrawing the appeal after the first-instance judgment). Based on the favorable judgment of the first instance in another case, the case was successfully remanded for retrial in the second instance stage when the existing similar case lost. During the remanding and retrial stage, the mediation document and settlement agreement of the original losing similar case were obtained, successfully recovering huge losses for the client.
Languages
Chinese,English
Memberships
"Discussion on Judicial Practice of Civil Compensation Disputes for False Statements by Listed Companies: From the Perspective of Causal Relationship Determination", included in the "China Important Conference Papers Full-text Database", Volume 1, Issue 6, 2019, and published on the official account of DeHeng Law Offices (June 2018);
"Observing the Changes in the Liability of Securities Market Gatekeepers from the Administrative Supervision of the China Securities Regulatory Commission and the Judicial Precedents of the Supreme People's Court" is included in the 19th issue of "Investor" of China Securities Investor Service Center Co., LTD. (August 2022).
Education
Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Part-time Master of Business Administration (FMBA) in Finance (September 2023 - Present);
Master of Laws (LLM) from Northwestern University, USA (August 2016 - June 2017);
Exchange Program of City University of Hong Kong (August 2011 - January 2012);
Bachelor of Law, East China University of Political Science and Law (September 2009 - June 2013).
Personal
Public Interest Lawyer of China Securities Investor Service Center (August 2020 - Present);
Member of the First Securities Compliance and Dispute Professional Committee of the Shanghai Bar Association (June 2024 to present).