HOZU Authors Chambers' Inaugural China Legal Finance Chapters

 HOZU Authors Chambers' Inaugural China Legal Finance Chapters

HOZO Capital’s Tiana Zhang, Yu Liang, and Hanning Deng have contributed two chapters to the Chambers and Partners Litigation Funding Practice Guide for China.

The first chapter, on “Law and Practice,” examines the legal framework and regulatory considerations surrounding legal finance in China, including:

1.  The Chinese legal & regulatory framework and non-legal norms for legal finance

2.  Adverse costs liability, security for costs, and legal finance-related insurance products in China

3.  Lawyer ethics, including alternative fee structures and fee-sharing

4.  Tax considerations relating to legal fees, funding returns, and offshore payments

The second chapter, on “trends and developments,” analyzes the accelerating development of the Chinese legal finance market and its key emerging features, covering:

1.  The broader evolution of the regulatory framework for legal finance in China

2.  Major rulemaking trends in arbitration funding and judicial developments on the legality of legal finance in China

3.  The key market drivers shaping China’s legal finance sector

4.  The evolving characteristics of demand for litigation finance in China, moving beyond cost optimization toward strategic use

5.  The competitive dynamics and business model evolution in the Chinese legal finance market

6.   The future prospects of the Chinese legal finance market

Chambers and Partners Global Practice Guides are widely recognized publications that provide expert legal analysis of key practice areas across major jurisdictions worldwide. For each jurisdiction Chambers selects leading practitioners to provide local expertise into the issues identified by the contributing editors.

Read the full chapters here: 

    Law and Practice

    Trends and Developments

Our author

Tiana Zhang

Head of International
Business

Yu Liang

Senior Vice President,
Investment

Haning Deng

Investment Manager