We learned to enforce in China first.Then we went where the debtors are.
Beijing Zhongcheng Legal Consulting Co., Ltd. was founded in 2017, when almost no one in the mainland market would commit capital to a commercial claim and bear the loss if it failed. We did. Most funders came to China from London or New York; we went the other way, beginning with PRC files and extending to Hong Kong, Singapore and the offshore courts where assets tend to surface. On a China-connected claim, we know both ends.
Four principles we hold ourselves to
They govern which claims we accept and how we conduct them once accepted, and they explain why many are declined.
Wherever the claim sits, it goes through the same underwriting memo and the same investment committee. Geography changes the structure, never the threshold.
We fund and manage the matter but never act as the client’s counsel. Save where we have acquired the claim outright, strategy remains with the client and its lawyers.
We work backwards from enforcement — where the assets sit, how long recognition takes, whether there is counsel on the ground. A clean liability case against unreachable assets is declined.
Where a forum requires funding to be disclosed, we disclose it without being asked. We do not use structures that only work if they stay hidden.
Four offices, one committee
Each office is there for a procedural reason, not for the map: Beijing underwrites and decides, Hong Kong handles offshore structures and arbitration, Singapore covers South-East Asia, London serves our capital partners. Investment decisions are taken in one place.
Beijing
Headquarters · Underwriting & IC
Hong Kong
Offshore structuring & arbitration
Singapore
SE Asia & SIAC practice
London
Investor relations representative office
Five points that widened what we could take on
Each marks a kind of claim we could not have funded the year before.
Founded by disputes lawyers and structured-finance practitioners to do one thing: price, fund and recover China-connected cross-border claims.
A portfolio spanning Hong Kong and Cayman was recovered — the first confirmation that the offshore route could be made to work.
Underwriters moved next to the principal arbitral seats, and South-East Asian mandates followed.
More than half of new commitments took the form of outright acquisition: the client exits at signing, and cost and risk remain with us.
Balance-sheet capital in China and fund capital offshore can now go into the same matter, so costs on both sides are met at once.
Investment committee
Every acquisition and every funding commitment is voted on here. Those who underwrite a claim do not approve it, by design.
The full teamSale or funding: both begin with the file.
Either conversation begins the same way: we read the file and advise which course better serves the client.