Henry Hou is a partner of Global Law Office in Shenzhen, whose main practice areas are international banking and financing and cross-border dispute resolution.

Henry Hou has extensive legal service experience in the field of cross-border dispute resolution, specializing in handling major or difficult cases of cross-border dispute resolution related to finance, international trade, and equity disputes. He has handled numerous international litigation or arbitration cases involving great influence or substantial amounts. For example, Henry Hou has represented a large cross-border e-commerce company and participated in an international arbitration case involving a dispute over an international sales contract with a multinational trading company from the United States and obtained a favorable arbitral award. As the attorney of a major multinational energy company from the United States, he was involved in a cross-border commercial litigation case concerning a dispute over an international sales contract with an electronics company from Shenzhen and obtained a successful judgment. Besides the above-mentioned cases, Henry Hou also represented clients in numerous litigations and arbitrations in equity disputes and financial loan contract disputes, achieving positive results and receiving high recognition from clients.

In the field of international banking and financing, Henry Hou provides professional legal services for policy banks and commercial banks, including export credit, project financing, M&A loans, syndicated loans, trade financing and general banking services. The clients that have been served and are being served include the Export-Import Bank of China, Bank of China, Agricultural Bank of China, Bank of Communications, SPD Bank, Ping An Bank, China Everbright Bank and ABN AMRO, etc. Representative projects include: “Export-Import Bank of China providing export credit loan with an approximate amount of US$150 million to a well-known domestic telecom operator for its export of telecommunications products to Mexico,” “Ping An Bank (Shenzhen branch) providing cross-border commercial loan with an approximate amount of US$200 million in relation to a commercial real estate project located in California developed by the US subsidiary of a large domestic real estate group,” and“Bank of Communications (Shenzhen branch) providing CNY 4 billion in syndicated loans to a finance leasing group company, and providing CNY 5.2 billion in syndicated loans for an urban renewal project by a large real estate development company in Shenzhen, ”etc.

Henry Hou joins Global Law Office in July 2021, and previously worked with domestic leading law firms (Shenzhen branch) for more than 13 years.

Admitted in the PRC (2010)

2020 - 2022    MBA in Finance, Tsinghua University and Chinese University of Hong Kong

2002 - 2006    Bachelor of law, Fudan University

• The Legal 500’s "Special Recommended Lawyer" in the field of banking and finance in 2023
• Member of the Leading Talent Pool of Foreign-related Lawyers in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province

• Member of the Foreign-related Legal Professional Committee of Shenzhen Lawyers Association
• Member of the Law and Policy Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in South China
• Director of the Law Branch of Fudan University Alumni Association in Shenzhen
• International Consultant of the State Level Kunming Economic and Technological Development Zone International Commercial Arbitration Service Center