LexisNexis® 40 UNDER 40 2025

LexisNexis® 40 UNDER 40 2024

Biao FU
Senior Partner
Hui Ye Law Firm

Between 1 September 2024 and 31 August 2025, Biao Fu led complex financial-dispute mandates with clear courtroom results. In the Zhongda Chemical capital-contribution dispute, he defended Shanghai Ennuo Trading—formerly under the Shanghai State Security Bureau—against a RMB 17 million recovery claim brought by the bankruptcy administrator. Spanning three decades of SOE restructuring, inaccessible classified archives and the interplay of Company Law, Bankruptcy Law and historical policies, the defence established the legality of “construction fund” equity and shifted the burden of proof, culminating in a complete dismissal in March 2025—now a benchmark for legacy SOE capital cases.

Fu also represents a commercial bank in a RMB 300+ million asset-management dispute against a well-known securities company in Sichuan Province arising from unauthorised bond investments. Confronting concealed breaches, complex trust-channel structures and conflicting managerial roles, he has relied on regulatory findings, analogical case reasoning and precise loss attribution to strengthen the claims; judgment is pending. A third matter involves the compulsory liquidation initiated by a leading real-estate company as the priority LP of a partnership fund after expiry and GP breaches, with assets exceeding RMB 10 billion. In a legal grey area and amid public interest in the disposal of large-scale residential land, Fu advanced “expiry of term” as the core ground and pursued multi-track remedies including arbitration and enforcement objections; proceedings are ongoing.
Inside Hui Ye Law Firm, Fu contributes to firm governance as a member of the Conflict of Interest Committee and the Internal Review Committee, standardising case management and enhancing the quality of securities-compliance work. Despite market headwinds, his team achieved steady performance growth in 2025 under a “one core, two auxiliaries” strategy that kept financial and securities dispute resolution at the centre while developing labour and employment, and corporate share repurchase as new growth areas.

His leadership is exemplified by Liupanshui Guotou Development (Group) Co., Ltd. v. Lingrui Asset Management Co., Ltd. and related parties (RMB 50+ million). Filed in the plaintiff’s local court with all defendants’ bank accounts frozen at filing, the case pressed horizontal veil-piercing against numerous counterparties. Acting for Lingrui, Fu coordinated a defence grounded in corporate personality independence; the first-instance judgment limits liability to shareholders’ capital-contribution obligations and rejects horizontal veil-piercing.