Yi Zhao is a partner at Merits&Tree Law Offices. Prior to joining M&T, he owns an extensive legal background spanning intermediate people's court, law firm, financial institution, and investment bank. Mr. Zhao specializes in debt restructuring, dispute resolution, non-performing asset disposal and special opportunity investment, crisis consulting for distressed enterprises. He has led or participated in the reorganization, liquidation, and debt risk resolution projects for both listed and non-listed companies in various industries, such as food, metallurgy, casting, equipment manufacturing, mining, chemical, new energy, and real estate. These companies include Yurun Group, Lu Tianhua Group and Lu Tianhua Shares, Sichuan Coal Group, Shandong Xiwang Group, Erzhong Group and Erzhong Shares, covering various industries such as food, metallurgy,
His notable legal experience has earned recognition, including being selected as "Top Ten Bankruptcy Trial Typical Cases" by the Supreme People's Court and Sichuan Provincial High People's Court, "Top Ten Commercial Cases of National Courts," "One Hundred Best Cases in Five Years" by the Sichuan Provincial Committee of the Political and Legal Commission, and "Top Ten Typical Cases of Service and Guarantee for High-Quality Development and Creation of a Legal Business Environment" by Sichuan Provincial High People's Court. His work has also been acknowledge in Jiangsu Provincial High People's Court 2022 "Two Sessions" report.
