We learned to collect 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 put money behind a commercial claim and carry the loss if it failed. We did. Most funders came to China from London or New York; we went the other way, starting with PRC files and moving out to Hong Kong, Singapore and the offshore courts where the assets turn up. On a China-connected claim, we know both ends.
Four rules we hold ourselves to
They decide which claims we take and how we behave once we have them — and why we turn many away.
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 your counsel. Unless we have bought the claim outright, strategy stays with you and your 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 faces 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 one is a kind of claim we could not have funded the year before.
Started by disputes lawyers and structured-finance practitioners to do one thing: price, fund and collect China-connected cross-border claims.
A portfolio spanning Hong Kong and Cayman was recovered — the first proof that the offshore route works.
Underwriters moved next to the principal arbitral seats, and South-East Asian mandates followed.
More than half of new commitments were outright purchases — the client exits at signing, and the cost and risk stay 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 purchase and every funding commitment is voted on here. The people who underwrite a claim do not approve it — by design.
Everyone on the teamSell the claim, or have it funded? Start with the file.
Both conversations begin the same way: we read the file and tell you which makes more sense for you.