We are a team of Chinese lawyers dedicated to offer clients with solutions for their businesses and life in China. Our team has extensive in-country experience advising Chinese and foreign clients including clients from U.S. and European on law issues of commercial debt collection / recovery , Standing Counselor and Non-Controversy, Transnational investment, Mergers and acquisitions, International Trade, Maritime and Admiralty, and commercial and civil issues (including divorce of transnational marriage) throughout mainland China.

And addtionally, we may offer client with one-stop service of law, accounting and tax.

For what problems you may hire our service?

If you have one commercial contract with a Chinese company or individual, selling them cargos/ services or buying cargos / services from them, or license them to use your IP(trademark, patent and/or copyright), and in one of below situations, you may hire us to work for you and protect your legal rights:

1. you paid them but they did not deliver you cargos or offer you the service, or did not do it in time, or

2. you sent them cargos or offered them with services but they did not pay you or did not do it in time, or

3. they delivered defective cargos to you or did not offer you with right service, or

4. they breached the commercial contract with you in other ways or other type of commercial contracts besides sales/purchase contract with you like they breached the IP license contract with you, or

5. you have a transnational marriage but has problems with it, and need to talk with a lawyer, and so on.

Other legal services:

Standing Counselor and Non-Controversy --

To offer legal services for enterprise(s) daily operation and inner management, and act as a standing counselor for enterprise(s), with following jobs upon the enterprises requirements and/or authorizations:
1. To draft Lawyers Letter to third partyies;
2. To draft and publicize legal affiche(s) in public medias;
3. To offer latest news over certain law amendment and latest governments regulations aperiodically;
4. To offer staff in the enterprise with basic Chinese law knowledge training;
5. To offer law advices for the enterprises business plans and/or certain business operations;
6. To draft, look through and revise the enterprises inner management documents, including employment contract, training agreement and/or non-disclosure agreement, etc;
7. To assist the enterprise with negotiation and/or communication with government bureau(s), and/or business partner(s).
8. Company law affairs
9. Merger and acquisition of enterprises;
10. Help client (enterprise or individual) to buy or sell real estates;
11. Law affairs of property lease, mortgage, lend/borrow, entrustment and consign for sale on commission, etc;
12. Law affairs of issuance and/or subscription of securities and underwriting;
13. Application and transferring of intellectual property of trademarks and patents;
14. Public bidding and invitation of public bidding of construction and installation engineering projects, public bidding of enterprise contracting, lease managements, etc;
15. Liquidation of business-closing and bankruptcy;
16. Draft, revision and examination of feasibility studies of civil and economic projects and agreements;
17. Investigation affairs of market and/or commodity information, and enterprise credit information;
18. Law opinion letter or law opinion suggestion letter of all sorts of economic actions;
19. Signing and/or termination of labor/employment agreements;
20. Debt collection via non-litigation methods;
21. To help clients to publish announcement, position, or point of a certain law affair or law action on public medias like newspaper and magazines, broadcasting and television;
22. Accept the application from individuals and/or enterprises and witness a certain law affair or law action;
23. Other non-controversy law affairs for attorneys;

Transnational investment --

1.To assist clients in local investment policies and laws;
2. To assist clients in negotiation with governmental responsible departments;
3. To assist clients in analyzing the investment risks and related solutions;
4. Due diligence or basic registration file investigation of partners and/or suppliers;
5. To establish foreign invested enterprises, including Chinese-foreign Equity Joint Venture, Chinese-foreign Contractual Joint Venture and Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise, and to establish Standing Representative Office, and help clients with missions related to working visa (Z visa) and residency permission;
6. To draft, look through or amend related agreements/contracts and article of association;
7. To assist clients with transferring right of stock and other investment rights and interests, and in arrangement of company policy and management system;
8. To act as a standing lawyer for the newly established enterprise.

Mergers and acquisitions --

1. To designing and optimize transaction structures and tactics;
2. To conduct legal due diligence investigations;
3. To draft and negotiate terms, drafting equity and asset acquisition, merger, spin-off and split-up and related agreements;
4. To assist in information disclosure, governmental filings, approvals, and registrations.


International Trade --

1. To offer legal advices and views related to International Trade business;
2. To offer legal advices related to local International trade laws, regulations and policies;
3. Due diligence or basic registration file investigation of partners and/or suppliers;
4. To act as a standing lawyer for enterprises related to International Trade;
5. To act for and on behalf of clients in the litigation, arbitration in China concerning
A. negotiation, performance, breach and dispute of International Sales / Purchase Contract;
B. payment(s) of International Trade, such L/C, D/A, D/P, T/T etc;
C. product transportation, including carriage of goods by sea, by air, by train and by international multi-transportation;
D. products responsibility and insurance;
E. other transnational arbitration and litigation.

Maritime and Admiralty --

1. Bills of lading, sea waybills and through bills;
2. Bareboat charters, time charters and voyage charters;
3. Coastal transport;
4. Arrest of ship, lien on cargo and maritime security;
5. Agency agreements, shipping agency and cargo forwarding;
6. Logistics and multi-modal transport;
7. Salvage contracts and towage;
8. Marine engineering contracts;
9. Repair, Sale & Purchase of Ships;
10. Ships collision, contact and grounding;
11. Oil pollution and environmental damage;
12. Personal injury, professional negligence;
13. General and particular average;
14. Manning, crew manning;
15. Port operations.

 

 

 

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