About

Shanghai Electric Group is one of the largest equipment manufacturing conglomerates in China specialised in energy equipment, industrial equipment and integration services. Since the 1990s, Shanghai Electric’s sales revenues have ranked in the top three of the Chinese equipment manufacturing industry. To support and facilitate the tremendous business and operations of Shanghai Electric across the world, its legal team is one of the largest in-house teams in China, led by general counsel, Liping Tong. The team’s expertise spans a wide range of sectors and areas of legal practice. Speaking about the team’s relationship with external counsel, a nominator said: ‘The majority of the members of the legal team are former judges from various levels of the People’s Court of China. They are capable of providing special insights into the Chinese judicial practice, and we regard that as being of great value to the external lawyers, especially in litigations. They respect law and external lawyers, and are willing to work side-by-side with the external lawyers to tackle complicated issues in sophisticated cases’.