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    DOCVIT NEWS | MR. Xi Xiaohong officially joined DOCVIT serving as the Senior Consultant

    Source: Beijing DOCVIT Law Firm  Time: 2019-03-25 22:45:42  Author: Beijing DOCVIT Law Firm

    In March 2019, Mr. Xi Xiaohong, a famous person in legal profession, officially joined Beijing DOCVIT Law Firm serving as a senior consultant.

    Mr. Xi Xiaohong obtained a Bachelor of Arts (British Language and Literature) from Peking University in 1985; a Master of Laws (International Economic Law) from Peking University in 1988 and passed the National Bar Examination in the same year; He obtained the Bachelor of Arts (Law) and Master of Arts (Law) from the University of Cambridge in 1993 and 1997 respectively, and he became the first mainland Chinese student to earn an undergraduate degree in law from the University of Cambridge since 1949. He is also the first Chinese lawyer to study law at the University of Cambridge.

    Mr. Xi is qualified as a Chinese lawyer and has working experience in a Hong Kong law firm. He is the first Chinese lawyer to join DuPont in the United States. He has served as a senior legal advisor to DuPont's Asia Pacific region; he is the general counsel/CEO of the Fortune 500 central state-owned enterprise named China National Chemical Corporation, and he concurrently serves as the general counsel of China National Chemical Agrochemical Corporation and the first inhouse counsel of China Everbright Group Co., Ltd. as well as many other important titles.

    Mr. Xi Xiaohong has been nominated by Chambers for the first “China General Counsel for Best Achievement Award” in the legal field; DuPont’s highest global law award “Golden Eagle Award”; two top awards “Chief Executive Officer Outstanding Staff Award" from Hong Kong Airport Authority; General Manager Awards from China Chemical Industry Corporation and many other honors.

    Mr. Xi has deep experience in legal services in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, international investment and engineering, cross-jurisdictional dispute resolution, new energy, anti-dumping and other business areas. Mr. Xi Xiaohong has participated in and led the cross-jurisdictional mediation, arbitration, litigation, liquidation, bankruptcy and other dispute resolution cases and won the victory; some cases involve hundreds of millions of dollars, some of which involve transnational and cross-jurisdictional mediation, arbitration and litigation, and the economic losses he recovered for the enterprise accumulated in billions of dollars.

    Mr. Xi Xiaohong has participated in a number of national, regional and/or global investment and M&A projects with a total amount of more than US$10 billion. Mr. Xi helped a NASDAQ company to develop its business and multi-jurisdictional legal strategy and successful- ly obtained injunctions in multi-jurisdictions in a 400 million US dollar polysilicon wafer supply agreement dispute. This was the only winning case in the global photovoltaic industry in respect of supply agreement dispute. Mr. Xi initiated, led and won an anti-dumping case for the national PET films industry in PRC against Korean PET films manufacturers, the first successful anti-dumping case of the petrochemical industry in China with FIE as one of the petitioners. In addition, Mr. Xi Xiaohong has extensive experience in corporate governance, compliance and risk control.

    Beijing DOCVIT Law Firm has always been committed to creating a platform for cross-border integration, openness, inclusiveness, and win-win cooperation. The joining of Mr. Xi Xiaohong will play an important role in DOCVIT's development in deepening of the industry market and the crossover practice, further strengthen DOCVIT's comprehensive strength in related business areas, and provide clients with better high-end legal services.
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