Adam J.Y. Long

Adam Long is a partner of the Compliance Practice Group of Yuanda and a member of the Disciplinary Review Committee of Shanghai Bar Association. He focuses his professional areas on dispute resolution, architectural engineering and real estate, corporate and transaction. Adam represented various well-known clients in complex legal issues, covering ligation and arbitration, disposition of non-performing assets, corporate mergers and acquisitions. Adam has been recognized by numerous clients for his excellent legal skills and services. Adam is a licensed attorney in China who also achieved professional qualifications as a PRC Patent Agent and in Securities and Fund Practice.

Experience

Dispute Resolution

Represented a Spanish cosmetic corporation in an arbitration regarding brand dispute against its agent in China seeking 300 million RMB in damages and variously decreased the number of requested damages for the client.
Represented a Singapore corporation in its arbitration regarding chip devices technology transfer agreement against a stated-owned company and retrieved the full amount of technology royalties.
Represented a securities company in a dispute over the VAM clause in the investment agreement with the NEEQ public company it invested in and its actual controller.
Represented bill holders in the famous case against the Evergrande Group to initiate a series of commercial bill recourse litigations and retrieved most of the payments.
Represented a chip corporation to answer the litigation brought by its downstream supplier based on the chip purchase agreement and obtained favorable decision from the court which denied all requests from the opposing party.
Represented a Chinese software company to resolve the dispute over its technology developing contract and claimed back the technology developing expenses for the client.
Represented the shareholders in the dispute among the shareholders of a Chinese restaurant franchise company and achieved court’s support to deny all requests from the opposing party.
Represented a medical apparatus and instruments company to resolve the dispute over a medical apparatus and instruments purchase contract, and successfully retrieved all payments under the adverse situation where the client already released all payments by accident.
Represented a well-known Chinese medical company in its litigation of a large volume mask purchase agreement against the other contracting party during the covid-19 pandemic period.
Represented a Japanese cosmetic company in its patent litigation defending against the infringement of its patent on facial mask products in China.
Represented a Pre-IPO medical company in China by offering litigation opinions of its civil dispute of equity fraud and provided references for subsequent litigation to the client.
Represented an influencer from we-media and a provincial communist party media to raise the right reputation infringement against TikTok and awarded public apology and compensation from the counterparty for the client.
Represented a state-invested company in its litigation regarding personal injury claim with the construction team, won court’s support to exclude the assessment of the body injury grading from the evidence presented by the counterparty, thus vastly reduced the amount of compensation paid by the client.
Represented the contractor of the road construction in resolving the dispute over personal injury claim of the pedestrian and reduced the amount of compensation paid by the client.
Represented client in the accident involving staff casualty in a residential construction program held by a state-owned company and recovered various compensation for the client.
Represented several foreign senior executives and senior executives in state-owned companies to resolve the labor contract dispute with their employers.

Architectural Engineering & Real Estate

Represented a construction program invested in by a state-owned company, successfully overturned the verdict in the first trial at the appellate court and tremendously reduced the compensation paid by the client.
Represented a state-owned company in a dispute regarding the construction contract of the “Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway” and obtained the remand in appellate court under the unfavorable result in first trial.
Represented a Hong Kong enterprise in a dispute over a construction project contract and obtained court rejections of several litigation requests from the opposing party.
Represented a French corporation in the arbitration of the construction contract in China and reached the settlement while available evidence obviously against the client.
Represented a construction company in recovering the construction costs of an amusement park from the park’s Chinese owner. Reviewed evidence and drafted the legal opinions for the client’s claims.
Represented a German automobile company to issue the legal opinions to a design company regarding a dispute over the design contract.
Represented a state-owned company involved in an electric power equipment installment program in Africa. Participated in the whole legal procedures of contract review, negotiation and the draft of legal opinion of the Fidic construction contract.
Represented a Chinese corporation against the insurance claim initiated by a construction company and an insurance company which led to the withdraw of the claim from the counter parties.
Represented a Chinese NEEQ public company in its plant purchase dispute and recovered the loss incurred from the increase of the purchase price.
Represented a Chinese company of its dispute over relocation compensation with other proprietors and recovered multiple relocation compensations for the client.

Corporate

Represented a Chinese leading pharmaceutical company in an acquisition program. Conducted due diligence, drafted due diligence report and other legal documents.
Represented an offshore new energy company in its acquisition of a Chinese new energy company. Conducted due diligence, drafted due diligence report and other legal documents.
Represented an offshore well-known gaming equipment company in its acquisition project. Conducted due diligence, drafted due diligence report and other legal documents.
Represented a branded commercial real estate operation company in its acquisition of a large retail supermarket. Conducted due diligence, drafted due diligence report and other legal documents.
Provided legal opinions for an established real estate developer for its multi-installments middle-term promissory note program.
Provided legal advice to a Chinese company in the design of its trade secret protection system and procedures and offered ongoing trade- secret protection training to its employees.
Represented a real estate company in conducting due diligence on a partner company and a project company, drafted and revised contracts in the real estate development process, participated in negotiations between client and construction companies and suppliers, and provided client with legal advice.
Represented a Shanghai state-owned enterprise in its proposed investment promotion operation after long-term leasing of real estate projects from the property owner. Conducted due diligence on the real estate agent, participated in negotiations, and drafted due diligence checklists, legal opinions, cooperation agreements, lease agreements and other legal documents.
Provided long-term legal services to various architectural engineering, financial investment and public companies.

Activities

Member of the Disciplinary Review Committee of Shanghai Bar Association