Shi Dong Attorney-at-Law

Professional Work Experience

Shi holds a Master of Laws (J.M.) in Chinese Law and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Peking University. She has dedicated her career to commercial arbitration and dispute resolution, with a distinctive background that combines institutional experience as a former case manager at CIETAC and extensive practice as a dispute resolution lawyer.

Her practice covers a broad spectrum of commercial disputes, including international sale of goods, construction projects, commercial loan recovery, joint ventures, technology licensing, and intellectual property‑related contract or unfair competition disputes arising from trademarks or copyrights. She has presented oral submissions in English at hearings and achieved favorable outcomes for her clients. As a core team member, she contributed to a case that was selected by the Supreme People's Court in 2023 as a model case for the application of international treaties and practices in foreign-related commercial disputes.

She is currently a member of the Foreign-Related Lawyer Talent Pool of the Beijing Lawyers Association, a Professional Mediator on the Panel of the Singapore International Mediation Centre (SIMC), and a member of the China Academy of Arbitration Law. She has also served consecutively as an arbitrator for major moot court competitions, including the CIETAC Cup and FDI Moot.

Publications & Research

• Editorial Committee Member, 2024 CIETAC Annual Report on International Commercial Arbitration – Co-author of the chapter on Emergency Arbitrator Procedures
• Co-author, Enterprise Contract Management: A Comprehensive System and Risk Prevention Handbook, Wolters Kluwer (2025)
• Protecting Your Ideas under Chinese Copyright Law, 14 Asia IP 7 (August 2022)
• The Approach to Copyright Infringement Review, China Business Law Journal (March 2022)
• How Courts Determine Evidence and Review Facts in Copyright Infringement Cases, China Business Law Journal (March 2021)

Representative Matters

• Represented a Dutch technology company in a CIETAC administrated arbitration over a joint venture dispute and resulting in all the opposing party's arbitration claims dismissed by the arbitral tribunal. As one of a series of disputes arising from the investment agreement and technology licensing agreement between the parties, the handling of this case required a coordination of parallel proceedings in different jurisdictions and issues in the arbitration, among others, included the application of the principle of res judicata in international arbitration.
   
• Represented a globally renowned bottling company in an arbitration case concerning equipment quality dispute before CIETAC, with the case conducted in English and governed by CISG, involving a disputed amount exceeding CNY 100 million, and despite the unfavorable circumstance that the equipment was never made to achieve commercial production, resulting in all of the client's arbitration claims supported by the arbitral tribunal.

• Represented a Swiss company which run a globally renowned writing instrument brand in a distribute contract dispute against its Chinese distributor in the first and second instance litigation before the Beijing Fourth Intermediate People's Court and the Beijing Higher People's Court, resulting in all the opposing party’s claims dismissed by the court. Key issues included whether there had been an abuse of authorization by the distributor and the validity of the client’s termination of its distribute contract with the Chinese distributor.

• Handled a lawsuit between a US medical products company and its Chinese medical supplier over quality disputes before the Beijing Fourth Intermediate People's Court, and the applicable law was CISG, resulting in all of the client's arbitration claims supported by the court. This case was recognized by the PRC Supreme People’s Court as model cases respectively for application of international treaties in foreign-related disputes in 2023.

• Represented a German manufacturing company in an international sale of machinery and equipment dispute administered by CIETAC in Chinese and governed by Chinese law, and assisted the client to reach settlement to the client's satisfaction.

• Represented an international financial organization, as the lender and pledgee, in initiating a special procedure for the realization of security interests and handled the enforcement procedures following the former procedure, against a domestic company, which acted as the borrower and pledgor, in a primary court in Jiangsu.

• Handled a series of disputes between the client, which is a renowned advertising company and its service provider, originating from a service contract and strategically evolving into disputes involving copyright infringement and defamation, resulting in all claims by the opposing party dismissed by the Court.

• Represented a Chinese company in dealing with a series of labor disputes arising from work injury before the labor arbitration court and the Chaoyang Primary People's Court in Beijing.