Magnolia Ding holds the title of Intermediate Lawyer in Shanghai. She graduated from Soochow University with a major in Constitutional Law and Administrative Law, and is a recipient of the 3rd Ying Songnian Scholarship (the highest academic research award in China's administrative law field). She was honored as one of the Top 15 Lawyers in Government and Public Affairs Trusted by Clients in China by LegalOne in 2024.
Prior to practicing law, she served in the Administrative Trial Division of a Provincial Higher People's Court for six years, handling over 300 various administrative cases, including major expropriation and licensing cases, as well as new types of cases such as administrative agreements, financial regulation, government procurement, and administrative guidance, accumulating rich experience in administrative litigation.
Since entering the legal profession in 2017, Magnolia has been engaged as a legal consultant for multiple municipal governments and departments in Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta region. She holds the title of Intermediate Lawyer in Shanghai and has provided legal services for numerous major administrative non-litigation projects and complex commercial administrative litigation cases. She offers clients professional, targeted, and actionable solutions for substantive dispute resolution based on individual cases, and the case outcomes have been widely recognized by clients.
Magnolia has long been active in various academic activities of administrative law, administrative organs' law-based administration activities, and legal supervision activities, contributing her professional strength in administrative law. She has actively participated in various academic activities and seminars in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai, and has repeatedly expressed insights on cutting-edge practical issues of administrative law. She has published more than ten academic articles in authoritative journals such as "Administrative Law Research", "Market Supervision and Administration", and "People's Court News", and published her personal monograph "Notes on Practical Administrative Law" in 2022.
2024: Top 15 Lawyers in Government and Public Affairs Trusted by Clients in China (LegalOne)
- Deputy Director of the Administrative Law Professional Committee of the Shanghai Lawyers Association
- Member of the Emergency Response Committee of the Shanghai Lawyers Association
- Member of the Urban Renewal and Urban Governance Legal Service and Research Center of the Shanghai Lawyers Association
- Director of the Procedural Law Research Association of the Shanghai Law Society
- Expert Team Member of the Shanghai Lawyers' Legislative Think Tank
- Member of the Shanghai Lawyers' Government Legal Counsel Fellowship
- Practical Tutor for Master of Laws at the Guanghua Law School of Zhejiang University
- Advisory Expert for Civil and Administrative Procuratorial Supervision of Cases by the Supreme People's Procuratorate
- Member of the Legal Consultation Expert Group of the Standing Committee of the Qidong Municipal People's Congress, Jiangsu Province
- Non-permanent Member of the Administrative Reconsideration Committee of the Taixing Municipal People's Government
Sept. 2023 - Present, SGLA Law Firm, Senior Partner
Nov. 2018 - Aug. 2023, Jin Mao Law Firm, Partner
2010 - 2016, a certain provincial high court, Judge
- Represented Shanghai Qingpu District Taxation Bureau in an administrative dispute case regarding the application for refund of personal income tax due to failed performance betting (the first case of its kind in China);
- Represented Kunshan Municipal Finance Bureau in a case of ordering the return of special financial subsidies (rated as one of the Top 10 Typical Administrative Trial Cases of Suzhou Courts in the year);
- Represented an employee of a leading e-commerce company in an administrative penalty case against a market supervision bureau and a district government (the first case in China concerning whether secondary derived big data can be protected as trade secrets);
- Represented Taicang Municipal Taxation Bureau in multiple cases of tax collection and administrative reconsideration;
- Provided special legal services for the legal review of electric power administrative penalty cases of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization;
- Provided special legal services for administrative penalties of the Shanghai Huangpu District Finance Bureau;
- Provided special legal services for the recovery of idle land of the Artux Municipal Bureau of Natural Resources;
- Provided special legal services for administrative penalties and administrative reconsideration of the Kunshan Municipal Finance Bureau;
- Provided special legal services for administrative reconsideration of the Kunshan Municipal Taxation Bureau;
- Provided special legal services for administrative disputes in the private equity field for a private equity fund management company;
- Provided special legal services for administrative reconsideration of a national top 100 construction enterprise in Jiangsu Province;
- Provided special legal services for administrative reconsideration and substantive resolution of administrative disputes for a leading private enterprise in Zhejiang Province;
- Provided special legal services for responding to the procedure of major administrative penalties for a large medical device enterprise;
- Provided special legal services for the substantive resolution of administrative disputes for a leading company in the industrial gas industry;
- Provided special legal services for the legislation of local regulations, revision of normative documents, and post-implementation evaluation in multiple places in Shanghai and Jiangsu Province, etc.
"Notes on Practical Administrative Law" (Authored by Ding Yu, Law Press, 2022);
"The Pros and Cons of Administrative Litigation on Government Information Disclosure After the Abolition of the 'Three Necessities' Principle" (Published in "Shanghai Lawyer", Issue 3, 2021);
"A Milestone in Unifying the Administrative Licensing Procedure for Market Supervision" (Published in "Market Supervision and Administration", Issue 18, 2019);
"Analysis of Difficult Issues in Determining the Qualification of Defendants in Administrative Litigation" (Published in "People's Court News", January 18, 2017, Page 006);
"Several Basic Issues of the Judicial Recommendation System in Administrative Trials" (Published in "Journal of Soochow University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition)", Issue 1, 2010);
"An Exploration of Several Issues Concerning the Evidence Rules in China's Administrative Procedure Law" (Published in "Journal of Xuzhou Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition)", Issue 5, 2009);
"A Study on Several Issues of the Franchised Circulation of Limited Resources - From the Perspective of the 'Property Law'" (Published in "Journal of Ningbo University (Liberal Arts Edition)", Issue 2, 2009);
"Umbrella and Bridge - On the Relationship Between the Constitution, Press Freedom and Government Information Disclosure" (Published in "Legal System and Society", Issue 23, 2008);
"On the Determination of Discretionary Standards for Administrative Penalties in the Field of Data Security Protection" (Won the First Prize in the Paper Evaluation of the 2023 Annual Conference of the Administrative Law Research Association of Jiangsu Province).
Magnolia Ding holds the title of Intermediate Lawyer in Shanghai. She graduated from Soochow University with a major in Constitutional Law and Administrative Law, and is a recipient of the 3rd Ying Songnian Scholarship (the highest academic research award in China's administrative law field). She was honored as one of the Top 15 Lawyers in Government and Public Affairs Trusted by Clients in China by LegalOne in 2024.
Prior to practicing law, she served in the Administrative Trial Division of a Provincial Higher People's Court for six years, handling over 300 various administrative cases, including major expropriation and licensing cases, as well as new types of cases such as administrative agreements, financial regulation, government procurement, and administrative guidance, accumulating rich experience in administrative litigation.
Since entering the legal profession in 2017, Magnolia has been engaged as a legal consultant for multiple municipal governments and departments in Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta region. She holds the title of Intermediate Lawyer in Shanghai and has provided legal services for numerous major administrative non-litigation projects and complex commercial administrative litigation cases. She offers clients professional, targeted, and actionable solutions for substantive dispute resolution based on individual cases, and the case outcomes have been widely recognized by clients.
Magnolia has long been active in various academic activities of administrative law, administrative organs' law-based administration activities, and legal supervision activities, contributing her professional strength in administrative law. She has actively participated in various academic activities and seminars in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai, and has repeatedly expressed insights on cutting-edge practical issues of administrative law. She has published more than ten academic articles in authoritative journals such as "Administrative Law Research", "Market Supervision and Administration", and "People's Court News", and published her personal monograph "Notes on Practical Administrative Law" in 2022.
Soochow University, Law School: Bachelor of Laws
Soochow University: Master of Laws in Constitutional Law and Administrative Law
2024: Top 15 Lawyers in Government and Public Affairs Trusted by Clients in China (LegalOne)
- Deputy Director of the Administrative Law Professional Committee of the Shanghai Lawyers Association
- Member of the Emergency Response Committee of the Shanghai Lawyers Association
- Member of the Urban Renewal and Urban Governance Legal Service and Research Center of the Shanghai Lawyers Association
- Director of the Procedural Law Research Association of the Shanghai Law Society
- Expert Team Member of the Shanghai Lawyers' Legislative Think Tank
- Member of the Shanghai Lawyers' Government Legal Counsel Fellowship
- Practical Tutor for Master of Laws at the Guanghua Law School of Zhejiang University
- Advisory Expert for Civil and Administrative Procuratorial Supervision of Cases by the Supreme People's Procuratorate
- Member of the Legal Consultation Expert Group of the Standing Committee of the Qidong Municipal People's Congress, Jiangsu Province
- Non-permanent Member of the Administrative Reconsideration Committee of the Taixing Municipal People's Government
Sept. 2023 - Present, SGLA Law Firm, Senior Partner
Nov. 2018 - Aug. 2023, Jin Mao Law Firm, Partner
2010 - 2016, a certain provincial high court, Judge
- Represented Shanghai Qingpu District Taxation Bureau in an administrative dispute case regarding the application for refund of personal income tax due to failed performance betting (the first case of its kind in China);
- Represented Kunshan Municipal Finance Bureau in a case of ordering the return of special financial subsidies (rated as one of the Top 10 Typical Administrative Trial Cases of Suzhou Courts in the year);
- Represented an employee of a leading e-commerce company in an administrative penalty case against a market supervision bureau and a district government (the first case in China concerning whether secondary derived big data can be protected as trade secrets);
- Represented Taicang Municipal Taxation Bureau in multiple cases of tax collection and administrative reconsideration;
- Provided special legal services for the legal review of electric power administrative penalty cases of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization;
- Provided special legal services for administrative penalties of the Shanghai Huangpu District Finance Bureau;
- Provided special legal services for the recovery of idle land of the Artux Municipal Bureau of Natural Resources;
- Provided special legal services for administrative penalties and administrative reconsideration of the Kunshan Municipal Finance Bureau;
- Provided special legal services for administrative reconsideration of the Kunshan Municipal Taxation Bureau;
- Provided special legal services for administrative disputes in the private equity field for a private equity fund management company;
- Provided special legal services for administrative reconsideration of a national top 100 construction enterprise in Jiangsu Province;
- Provided special legal services for administrative reconsideration and substantive resolution of administrative disputes for a leading private enterprise in Zhejiang Province;
- Provided special legal services for responding to the procedure of major administrative penalties for a large medical device enterprise;
- Provided special legal services for the substantive resolution of administrative disputes for a leading company in the industrial gas industry;
- Provided special legal services for the legislation of local regulations, revision of normative documents, and post-implementation evaluation in multiple places in Shanghai and Jiangsu Province, etc.
"Notes on Practical Administrative Law" (Authored by Ding Yu, Law Press, 2022);
"The Pros and Cons of Administrative Litigation on Government Information Disclosure After the Abolition of the 'Three Necessities' Principle" (Published in "Shanghai Lawyer", Issue 3, 2021);
"A Milestone in Unifying the Administrative Licensing Procedure for Market Supervision" (Published in "Market Supervision and Administration", Issue 18, 2019);
"Analysis of Difficult Issues in Determining the Qualification of Defendants in Administrative Litigation" (Published in "People's Court News", January 18, 2017, Page 006);
"Several Basic Issues of the Judicial Recommendation System in Administrative Trials" (Published in "Journal of Soochow University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition)", Issue 1, 2010);
"An Exploration of Several Issues Concerning the Evidence Rules in China's Administrative Procedure Law" (Published in "Journal of Xuzhou Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition)", Issue 5, 2009);
"A Study on Several Issues of the Franchised Circulation of Limited Resources - From the Perspective of the 'Property Law'" (Published in "Journal of Ningbo University (Liberal Arts Edition)", Issue 2, 2009);
"Umbrella and Bridge - On the Relationship Between the Constitution, Press Freedom and Government Information Disclosure" (Published in "Legal System and Society", Issue 23, 2008);
"On the Determination of Discretionary Standards for Administrative Penalties in the Field of Data Security Protection" (Won the First Prize in the Paper Evaluation of the 2023 Annual Conference of the Administrative Law Research Association of Jiangsu Province).