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Dr. John Z. Huang

As a distinguished legal scholar and community leader on both sides of the Pacific, Dr. Huang has extensive experience in the areas of foreign investment, international business transactions, mergers and acquisitions, reorganization, dissolution and liquidation of foreign-invested enterprises, construction of risk prevention and control systems, labor laws, corporate, commercial, and immigration laws. Dr. Huang is a LCA Fellow of the Trial Lawyer Honorary Society and an Illinois Super Lawyer. He has also taught in a number of law schools in both China and the U.S.

Dr. Huang has published many articles on legal issues in Chinese and English, including books titled “Cross Border Merger and Acquisition” (2015) and “Overseas Investment” (2013), published by the Wuhan University Press, and “Overseas Investment Immigration” (2019), published by the China Law Press.

Education

  • Yale University, J.S.D.

  • Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, J.D.

  • Yale University, LL.M.

  • Wuhan University, LL.B.

Admissions and Qualifications

  • New York, Illinois

  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit

  • U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois

Selected Experience

  • Interleda Company vs. Zhongshan Broad-Ocean Motor Co., Ltd.

  • Acquisition of Ownership Interest in GCI and 100% of the Asian Operation of My Gym

  • Best Buy's Purchase of Landmark Real Property in Shanghai

  • Chinese Public Listed Company Tri-Ring's Expansion in USA 

  • Great number of EB-5 Investor Success Cases in USA

Affiliations

  • Fellow of Trial Lawyer Honorary Society, the Litigation Counsel of America 2018 to Present

  • Member, Trial Law Institute

  • Member, Diversity Law Institute

  • Illinois Super Lawyer, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

  • Advocate, Order of Veritas

  • South-Central China University of Nationalities, Guest Professor of Law, 1999 to Present;

  • Central China Normal University Guest Professor of Law, 1999 to Present;

  • Hubei University, Guest Professor of Law, 1997 to Present;

  • Shanghai Tongji University, Guest Professor of Law, 2013 to Present;

  • Wuhan University, Guest Professor of Law, 1998 to Present;

  • DePaul University, Adjunct Professor of Law, 1992.

Publications

  • China---the New Business Frontier;

  • Investment and Forms of Foreign Investment Enterprises in China;

  • An Introduction to Foreign Investment Laws in the People’s Republic of China;

  • Negotiation in China: Cultural and Practical Characteristics;

  • Estate Planning and Trust Protection;

  • Legal Issues Regarding Mergers and Acquisitions of Companies by Foreign Investors in China;

  • Brief Introduction of American Labor Law;

  • Judicial Review: Empty Talk In China; Option Planning for Employees Working at the American Intra-Companies in China;

  • Criteria of Social Responsibilities of Foreign Investors In China and Analysis of Relating Legal Issues;

  • Famous Legal Scholars Visited Yale University and Started Legal Education Exchange Program 20 Years Ago;

  • PERM – An Introduction of Labor Certification Based Immigrant Petition System.