Zhang Lei, Senior Partner of Shanghai K-Insight Law Firm, graduated from East China University of Political Science and Law with a Master’s Degree in Law. Since starting practice in 2013, he has specialized in providing legal services in civil and commercial litigation, and during this period, he has successfully handled a series of typical cases, which have become important reference cases for courses in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai to try similar cases, thus influencing and even changing the way similar cases are tried.

Professional Specialty

• Dispute over retail supply

Zhang Lei is an authority with extensive litigation experience in the area of retail-supply disputes. He has represented large retailers such as TESCO in handling thousands of cases of disputes with their suppliers, and recovered tens of millions of dollars in damages for them. Among these cases, some classic winning cases accepted by high and intermediate courts in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai have directly changed and unified the thinking on trying such cases in the region.

In addition, Mr. Zhang has also represented some large suppliers in cases of disputes with retailers, and won all the cases with results exceeding the clients' expectations, so he has been well received and trusted by the clients.

• Finance

He has extensive litigation experience in the areas of disputes over financial leasing contracts, disputes over insurance contracts, disputes over bond default, and disputes over entrusted finance contracts, and he has represented large financial leasing companies, insurance companies, public funds and private equity funds in hundreds of similar cases. In addition, when handling a contract dispute in Shanghai court, Mr. Zhang accurately defined the relationship between entrusted financial management and lending, which made this case a classic case in Shanghai court and obtained a successful outcome for the client.

• False statement of securities

Since the beginning of his practice, Mr. Zhang Lei has represented investors in pursuing losses caused by the misrepresentation of listed companies and has achieved satisfying results in winning cases.

• Other civil and commercial litigations

In addition, Zhang Lei has represented large domestic and foreign companies (including, but not limited to CapitaLand, Staples, Trio, Shanghai Yaohua Pilkington Glass Group Co.,Ltd., Nanguang (Shanghai) International Travel Service Co., Ltd., Tianjin Fengli Merit Enterprise Limited, Shanghai Textile Foreign Economic and Technical Cooperation Co., Ltd., Miyama Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Chinatopcredit Financial Information Services (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Shanghai Qi Yu Information Technology Co., Ltd., etc.) in hundreds of cases involving lease contract disputes, customization contract disputes, labor disputes, purchase and sales contract disputes, reputation right disputes, and copyright disputes, and obtained successful results basically.

Meanwhile, Zhang Lei has also handled a large number of cases involving divorce, family property separation, demolition and relocation, and striven for benefits beyond normal expectations for his clients in all these cases.

• Non-litigation

During this period, Mr. Zhang also provided perennial legal services to companies in the financial field such as SinoSafe Property Insurance Co.,Ltd., Hangzhou Qiying Investment Management Co., Ltd., or large companies such as CapitaLand, Tecso, Staples, Trio, as well as American schools, and provided non-litigation legal services such as corporate formation, M&A or reorganization, design of equity incentives, attorney witnessing, etc.