Jinying (Nick) Zhan is a certified China law professional and a former district judge in China. He is a licensed foreign (China) legal consultant in Iowa.

 

Nick’s practice primarily focuses on cross-border legal issues between the U.S. and China, including U.S.-China trade policies, FDI, international trade, export control and sanction laws, business transactions, regulatory compliance, contracts, IP protections, and dispute resolutions. With his judicial and private practice experience between the U.S. and China, and an education background from three continents (China, the Netherlands, and the U.S.), Nick uses comparative law approach to advise his clients in complex cross-border business issues. Nick’s legal research experience covers Chinese law, U.S. laws, EU regulations, and international public and private laws. Nick is familiar with current U.S. trade restriction rules/policies relating to trade with China, including FCRA, IEEPA, CAATSA, EAA/EAR, UFLPA, FIRRMA, trade control and customs regulations, privacy law, and more. Together with his expertise of China’s trade policies, Nick is an all-around legal professional in handling trade-related legal issues between the U.S. and China.

 

The industries that Nick has served include manufacturing, agriculture, technology, international trade (supply chain), e-commerce, insurance, pharmaceuticals, sports, and entertainment.

 

Due to his educational background and life experience, Nick is very international and always enjoys working with his worldwide connections. He has served clients from countries such as China, the U.S., the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Latvia, Russia, Brazil, Mexico, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan.

 

In his limited spare time, Nick enjoys many hobbies and is always curious about new things. He likes fine art, performing arts, Chinese and western opera, classical music, landscape photography (professional), fishing, mushroom hunting, bonsai, crafting, and recent technologies. Nick plays competitive tennis, badminton, table tennis, and is an active Chen Style Tai Chi practitioner and coach.

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Featured projects:

 

• Successfully discovered multiple fraudulent insurance claims while representing a HK mutual insurance company in medical insurance claim investigations.

• Co-counsel to help a US multinational pharmaceutical company set up its first joint venture operation in China.

• Represented a French company in recognizing and enforcing a French court judgment in China.

• Participated in the first real estate HK IPO project for a land developer company in Guangzhou.

• Co-counsel in a (probably the first) derivative lawsuit in the south China, representing a HK shareholder of a billion-yuan company in Guangdong Province.

• Co-counsel as one of outside legal counsels for a Korean multinational electronic products company in its daily business operations in southern China.

• Assisted a Dutch marine company in closing its operation in China.

• Assisted a Latvian/Russian company in setting up their LED lighting sourcing operation in China.

• Represented a French multinational sports company in an appellate proceeding against its former landlord for a leasing dispute.

• Provided legal services for a Singapore company in its structure financing projects in China.

• Provided due diligence investigation for and assisted a US company in a partnership transaction with a Chinese company in Guangzhou for an early banking card processing market entry business in China.

• Participated in the legal counsel team for and represented Guangzhou City Government in the 2010 Asian Games legal project.

• Acted as legal affairs manager, working with outside counsels for a U.S. international trading company on all collection matters and achieved high winning rates in all litigations.

• Negotiated and completed a film making funding project representing a U.S. company to secure investment fund from an investor in China.

• Assisted multiple companies in drafting the privacy policies document for their online business websites.

• Provided consulting services in international trade for Iowa Government and the university hospital in sourcing emergency medical supplies during outbreak of COVID-19 in the U.S.

• Assisted and provided legal counsel for a US company with locations in multiple states to obtain (agricultural) product registrations, trademark registrations, and secure (including drafting) an exclusive supply agreement with its counterpart in China.

• Counsel for Chinese companies in U.S.-China trade related legal matters such as U.S. export control (EAR), customs regulations, sanction law, forced labor issues, etc.

• Advised a Spanish company on data security for human genetic data information.

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