Gaga Fang

Senior Legal Consultant, Head of Foreign‑Enterprise Business Department & Head of Brand Development Department

UAE

Biography

Cross-border legal professional holding the PRC Legal Professional Qualification Certificate, with a multidisciplinary background in law, economics, and communications and experience advising Chinese businesses on investment, transactions, and disputes across the UAE and the wider Middle East and North Africa.

Former journalist and editor with an institutional media outlet affiliated with China's Supreme People's Procuratorate, with experience in fact-finding, legal research, policy analysis, and professional communications.

Experienced in coordinating dispute strategy, transaction structures, and risk allocation from a dispute-resolution perspective and in providing end-to-end legal support to major state-owned enterprises, listed companies, financial institutions, and private businesses.

Case

Provided legal support and participated in transaction negotiations for a tobacco company’s investment project in the Middle East, facilitating the implementation of the project with a total investment of approximately RMB 140 million.
Provided specialised legal services to CRRC, a consortium member involved in the Dubai Metro Blue Line project.
Conducted preliminary legal due diligence for the China-Africa Development Fund in connection with a proposed investment of approximately USD 100 million in the Middle East and North Africa.
Conducted legal due diligence for a Shenzhen-listed company in connection with its proposed acquisition of a manufacturing facility in Abu Dhabi.
Represented a client in a cross-border equity transfer dispute, successfully defeating the defendants’ jurisdictional challenge and securing a judgment fully upholding the client’s claim of approximately AED 4.407 million.
Represented a client in a cross-border services contract dispute, identifying and substantiating the core debt during the court-appointed expert proceedings, obtaining a favourable expert report and ultimately securing a successful judgment aligned with the client’s objectives.
Represented a Zhejiang-based freight forwarding company in a payment dispute involving approximately USD 300,000; after the company was joined as an additional defendant, successfully secured its release from the alleged liabilities.