Xumin SUN（Partner）- AnJie Broad

Mr. Sun has an experienced civil practice with an emphasis on litigation and arbitration in the areas of investment and financing, bankruptcy, finance, corporate and real estate. He specializes in scrutinizing legal issues from different perspectives and solving practical problems for clients through innovative legal strategies or ideas. He has been described as “who has a precise grasp of cases’ key legal issues”（The Legal 500 2024）.

In the litigation sphere, Mr. Sun currently serves as a member of the Civil and Commercial Litigation Professional Committee of the Shanghai Bar Association. As counsel, he has acted in various complicated cases in the field of commercial in the Supreme People’s Court and several High People’s Courts, and he has won advantages for his clients. He has also reversed unfavourable judgments for clients through the second trial and retrial procedures on many occasions. The factoring contract dispute case, represented by Mr. Sun, is the first financial and commercial dispute adjudicated by Shanghai courts, marking the inaugural judicial precedent of a local factoring company suing a core leading enterprise in the supply chain. The case is ultimately selected into the Supreme People’s Court’s Annual Outstanding Cases.

In the arbitration sphere, Mr. Sun is a member of both the SHAC list of Arbitrators and the DGAC list of Arbitrators. As counsel, he has acted in a number of domestic and cross-border commercial arbitration disputes.

Prior to Mr. Sun joining AnJie Broad Law Firm, he had practised with two leading law firms, King & Wood Mallesons and Grandall.

Representative Cases

Dispute Resolution for Banking and Finance

Represented a trust company in a series of disputes involving criminal-civil crossover financial contracts, with the amount in dispute exceeding RMB 12 billion
Represented a central state-owned enterprise in a series of disputes involving criminal-civil crossover financial contracts and notes, with the amount in dispute being approximately RMB 1 billion
Represented a commercial group in a series of disputes involving criminal-civil crossover factoring contracts and achieved a comprehensive victory, with the amount in dispute being approximately several hundred million RMB
Represented a bank in its tort dispute retrial proceedings before the Supreme People’s Court and successfully obtained the support of the Supreme People’s Court and ruled on retrial and arraignment
Represented a real estate enterprise in a dispute over its financial loan contract and achieving a successful outcome, with the amount in dispute being approximately RMB 1 billion
Represented a state-owned enterprise in its appeal case of a series of disputes over financial leasing contracts and successfully obtained the support of the Supreme People’s Court and ruled to remand for retrial, with the amount in dispute exceeding RMB 1 billion

Dispute Resolution for Corporate, Investment and Financing

Represented a company in the retrial proceedings of a dispute over an equity transfer contract and successfully overturned the original adverse judgment, with the disputed matter involving hundreds of millions of RMB of land using rights
Represented a company in a dispute over creditor’s right of revocation in retrial proceedings and successfully overturned the original adverse judgment, with the amount in dispute being approximately tens of millions of RMB
Represented an education company in a dispute over its equity transfer contract and successfully exonerated the client from all liability for the guarantee, with the client only bearing a very small portion of the liability, with the amount in dispute being approximately tens of millions of RMB
Represented a real estate group in a series of disputes over its employee shareholding platform

Dispute Resolution for Real Estate and Construction

Represented a state-owned enterprise in disputes over housing sales and purchase contracts, construction contracts and guarantee contracts and won the cases, with a total disputed amount of over RMB 1 billion
Represented a foreign-funded company in a dispute over the right to use construction land and won the case, with the amount in dispute being approximately RMB 200 million
Represented an education group in an arbitration case of land use right substitution
Represented a number of real estate enterprises in a number of disputes over the sale and purchase of houses, lease contracts and separate ownership of buildings

Honors & Recognition

China Top 15 Lawyers: Investment Dispute Resolution, The LEGALBAND 2025
Top Rising Lawyers In Yangtze River Delta, 2024 ALB China
Leading Heads, Dispute Resolution: Litigation, The Legal500 2024
Next Generation Partners, Dispute Resolution: Litigation, The Legal500 2024
Next generation partner of the year Shortlisted, The Legal500 CHINA AWARDS 2023
“Finance/Securities/Insurance, Corporate and Construction/Real Estate” Professional Level Assessment Certification, Shanghai Bar Association

Professional Association

Member, the Civil and Commercial Litigation Professional Committee of the Shanghai Bar Association (2024 – Present)
Member, SHAC list of Arbitrators (2024 – Present)
Member, DGAC List of Arbitrators (2023 – Present)

Working Experience

AnJie Broad Law Firm, Partner

Education Background

Vanderbilt University, LL.M.
Fudan University, Juris Master
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Qualifications

Chinese Bar Qualification