This was a milestone victory in international arbitration cases involving Chinese engineering constructors. With the assistance of Chinese lawyers, the case result was completely reversed, all the arbitration claims of the Spanish company rejected, with a complete victory for the Chinese contractor, and finally the Spanish company was made pay the arbitration fees and lawyer's fees for the Chinese company.

Recently, the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission issued an arbitration award, ordering the project owner of an Indonesian coal-fired power station to compensate the Chinese contractor for 83% of the amount of the claim, including the payment of arbitration costs and compensation for Chinese lawyers' fees. This Indonesian international project arbitration case, represented by DeHeng lawyers against the Indonesian project owner and some Hebei-based company, finally ended in the victory of the Chinese contractor.

DeHeng Won the Case to Stop Payment and Cancel a RMB 130 Million Bank Guarantee for a Chinese Contractor in the UAE

On March 15, 2022, the Commercial Court of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, issued the first-instance judgment that terminated and canceled the performance and warranty guarantees provided by the Chinese subcontractor to the EPC contractor of Abu Dhabi airport, totaling 71.49 million dirhams (equivalent to about RMB 130 million), and ordered the bank in the UAE to return the original of the two guarantees to the issuing bank in China.

The Owner has issued the Take Over Certificate of electricity power project in Kandaand Legon Region in Ghana, West Africa, to its Chinese EPC Contractor recently. Mr. Huai Yuan Jia, the senior partner of DeHeng Law Offices and managing partner of DeHeng Dubai office, was appointed an Adjudicator of the DAB by the Chinese EPC Contractor, along with presiding Adjudicator from London and another Adjudicator appointed by Ghana government, respectively, upon the commencement of the Project. The DAB has successfully fulfilled all its expected works by solving issues during the execution of the Contract in cooperation with the Owner, Engineers and Contractor.

DeHeng Middle East Office has recently won the bid for providing legal services to Qatar's 800 MWp Photovoltaic EPC Project, and signed the contract with the Project contractor on May 31, 2020, local time. DeHeng Middle East Office will provide whole-process legal services until the Project is completed.