FEATURED · 2026

A litigation-rooted practice · family, wealth and cross-border disputes

From first instance to retrial and enforcement, acting in family matters, inheritance and guardianship, cross-border family and parentage issues, cross-border assets and complex civil and commercial disputes.

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ABOUT · COUNSEL

About

I am a PRC-qualified lawyer at Beijing Long An (Guangzhou) Law Firm. Dispute resolution is my long-running craft; family matters, inheritance, guardianship, cross-border reproductive and parentage issues and cross-border asset issues are the areas I continue to deepen. Many family disputes begin as emotion, but in legal work they become evidence, procedure, assets, status and long-term arrangements.

CREDENTIALS

Firm: Beijing Long An (Guangzhou) Law Firm
PRC Bar Licence: 14401201910079681
Education: LL.B., School of Law, South China Normal University
Inaugural Senior Programme on Judicial Practice and Frontier Legal Affairs, Peking University
Languages: English · Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese, Teochew dialect)
Affiliations: Guangdong Foreign-Related Lawyers Talent Pool, member
Alumni Council, SCNU School of Law, councillor
Long An Greater Bay Area - ASEAN Legal Research Centre, researcher

SERVICES

Services

The practice is deliberately focused: family relationships, asset arrangements and disputes that require careful procedure and judgment.

01

Family matters and divorce litigation

Divorce proceedings, child custody and visitation, division of marital property, company equity and real-estate compensation, recovery of transferred marital assets, and asset preservation and evidence work in family proceedings.

02

Inheritance, guardianship and family-wealth succession

Will drafting and contested wills, statutory inheritance and estate division, real-property title disputes, appointment of estate administrators, voluntary designated guardianship and changes of guardianship, prenuptial and marital property agreements, and family asset ring-fencing and intergenerational succession planning.

03

Cross-border family, reproductive and asset matters

Cross-border marriages, parentage determination, legal risk review for egg freezing, IVF and surrogacy-related arrangements, birth documents, nationality and immigration, cross-border guardianship and visitation, and asset division, inheritance and judicial assistance involving Hong Kong SAR, Macao SAR, Taiwan region and foreign parties.

04

Complex litigation, retrial and enforcement supervision

Representation in first-instance, appellate, retrial, enforcement and enforcement-supervision proceedings before the Supreme People's Court, the Guangdong High People's Court and intermediate and basic-level courts.

05

Cryptoassets, AI and emerging property disputes

Cryptoasset division, virtual property rights, AI-generated content and technology-related disputes; alongside continuing capacity in real estate, construction, financial-loan and corporate matters.

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

Representative Matters

The matters below are anonymized and listed only to describe practice areas and case-handling experience. They do not represent any prediction or guarantee of future outcomes, and they do not disclose the identity of any party or any confidential information. Please attribute the author when citing.

Family matters, inheritance and private wealth

Drafted prenuptial, marital-property and divorce agreements for dozens of couples, covering company equity, real estate, cross-border assets and child-related arrangements.
Acted in a complex divorce involving company equity valued at over RMB 100 million, multiple properties, custody and visitation, and assisted the client in asserting significant property interests.
Handled multiple divorce, post-divorce property, inheritance and real-property title matters, including custody, debt allocation, vehicles and property compensation.
Represented clients in cross-border marriage disputes involving custody and cross-border visitation arrangements, coordinating procedures and enforcement across jurisdictions.
Advised on parentage, birth documents, guardianship and custody disputes arising from egg freezing, IVF and surrogacy-related reproductive arrangements.
Handled divorce-related division of property where assets were held through nominee shareholding or family-trust structures.
Represented clients in changes of guardianship, declarations of limited or no civil capacity, and related forensic civil-capacity assessment proceedings.
Acted in disputes over will validity and the appointment of estate administrators, including delineation of estate scope and debt allocation.
Acted for Hong Kong SAR, Macao SAR and Taiwan-region residents in PRC mainland real-property inheritance, notarial authentication and judicial-assistance procedures.

Complex litigation, retrial and enforcement supervision

Petitioned the Supreme People's Court for retrial in a bankruptcy set-off dispute on behalf of a Huizhou agricultural enterprise; the SPC ordered review and the underlying judgment was revised on retrial.
Petitioned the Guangdong High People's Court for retrial in a land use-related property return dispute; the petition was admitted for review and enforcement of the underlying judgment was suspended.
Acted before the Guangdong High People's Court in enforcement supervision proceedings; the underlying enforcement objection, reconsideration ruling and enforcement notice were set aside.

Cross-border and foreign-related disputes

Represented an Australian national of Chinese descent in PRC mainland bankruptcy liquidation proceedings.
Represented a Qingyuan-based PRC company in a commercial housing sale dispute against a Hong Kong SAR purchaser.
Handled labour, matrimonial, contract-validity and shareholders' agreement arbitration matters involving parties from Hong Kong SAR, Macao SAR, the Taiwan region and the United States.

Real estate, construction and commercial disputes

Served real-estate and construction groups including Grandview, Zhuguang, Mayland, Zhongtian, Jiabang and Rongxing regional construction conglomerates.
Acted for a Guangzhou developer in a construction-payment dispute; the second-instance court revised the judgment and dismissed the contractor's RMB 15 million claim in full.
Represented construction groups in supplier-payment disputes, reducing aggregate disputed exposure by more than RMB 10 million.

Financial loans and receivables

Represented the borrower in an RMB 50 million bank loan dispute and assisted in reducing penalty interest exposure.
Represented an individual claimant seeking recovery of more than RMB 20 million in debt; the court rendered judgment upholding the client's claims.
Handled private lending, receivables and procurement disputes with amounts ranging from several hundred thousand to several tens of millions of RMB.

FIRM PLATFORM

Guangzhou Office

Beijing Long An (Guangzhou) Law Firm has developed practices in dispute resolution, family and private wealth planning, real estate and construction, corporate matters, outbound services, AI and data compliance, bankruptcy reorganization and liquidation. Long An and its Guangzhou office have received recognition from Asian Legal Business, Chambers, LEGAL 500, China Business Law Journal, LEGALBAND and LexisNexis/Lexpress-related industry lists. The Guangzhou office has received China Business Law Journal regional awards for best overall law firm in Guangzhou and was selected among the first Guangzhou law firms recognized for standardized demonstration management by the Guangzhou Lawyers Association.

CONTACT

Contact

For a matter-specific inquiry, please briefly include the dispute type, locations involved, procedural stage, key deadlines and the main materials already available.

Phone+86 156-0226-3114

Primary email[email protected]

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Office46F, Tower A, Victory Plaza, 103 Tiyuxi Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510620, P.R. China