DeHeng Lawyers Successfully Defended Against an Unfounded RMB 2 Billion Claim in a High Court Retrial

2024-07-29

DeHeng recently received a retrial judgment from a high court, successfully defending a client against an unfounded claim of nearly RMB 2 billion.

This is another real estate-related corporate equity transfer dispute handled by DeHeng lawyers, where the opposing party is a leading domestic real estate developer. The case was substantively complex, having gone through a first-instance trial at the intermediate court and a second-instance trial at the high court, both resulting in favorable outcomes for DeHeng’s client. The opposing party then applied for a retrial at the Supreme People’s Court, which coincided with the implementation of the Supreme People’s Court’s “Pilot Implementation Measures for Improving the Trial Functions of Four-Tier Courts.” The case was remanded to the high court for retrial review. After the high court rejected the opposing party’s retrial application, the case went through further procedures, including the high court’s initiation of a retrial review ex officio and a retrial trial. Eventually, a retrial judgment was issued recently, upholding the second-instance judgment, rejecting the opposing party’s huge baseless claim, and consolidating the favorable outcome for DeHeng’s client.

From the filing of the first-instance case to the recent receipt of the final retrial judgment, the case spanned five years, and the complexity of the procedures involved was rare, especially during the judicial supervision stage. It involved procedures such as the application for retrial, the initiation of retrial review ex officio, and retrial trials. Ultimately, the DeHeng legal team leveraged their expertise and practical experience, and protected the client’s legitimate rights and interests to the utmost, earning high praise from the client.