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Financial and Insurance Practices
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Process
domestic lending, security, legal tenders and letter
of credits for |
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banking
and non-banking financial institutions, and issue legal
opinions; |
| 2) |
Issue
legal opinions for clients (debtor, creditor, security
provider) in |
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international
commercial loan transactions or in connection with applicable |
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laws
at the place of loan utilization; |
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Provide legal services to project financing parties
including government, |
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agencies,
export credit agencies, suppliers, contractors, buyers
of project |
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product
or services as well as the borrower, draft, revise and
propose |
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project
finance documents, and issue legal opinions; |
| 4) |
Represent,
as a first priority, clients in litigation or arbitration |
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proceedings
in relation to financial transactions; |
| 5) |
Advise in insurance businesses, represent, as a first
priority, clients in |
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insurance
claim settlements, litigation and arbitration. |
Legal
Practices in connection with Anti-dumping, Countervailing
Measures and Safeguard Measures
| 1) |
Provide
legal advice and opinions with regard to WTO organizations
and rules; |
| 2) |
Represent Chinese clients in applying for anti-dumping,
countervailing and |
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safeguard
investigations in P.R.C.; |
| 3) |
Represent
Chinese clients in responding to anti-dumping, countervailing
and |
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safeguard
investigations in P.R.C.; |
| 4) |
Assist
Chinese Clients in responding to anti-dumping, countervailing
and |
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safeguard
investigations overseas; |
| 5) |
Represent
foreign clients in responding to anti-dumping, countervailing
and |
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safeguard
investigations in P.R.C. |
Construction
and Real Estate Practice
We have served as long-term legal counsel and special legal
counsel for various real estate developers, property management
companies, relocation (demolition) companies and intermediary
agencies, covering the following area of practice
| 1) |
Various
legal advisory services; |
| 2) |
Draft,
review, revise and prepare various legal papers and
legal documents; |
| 3) |
Issue
legal opinions; |
| 4) |
Upon
request, participate in commercial negotiations and
conduct |
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investigations; |
| 5) |
Provide
legal services in relation to mortgage or financing; |
| 6) |
Help
with registration and filing of contracts and application
for title |
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certificates; |
| 7) |
Help
with building mortgage registration formalities; |
| 8) |
Other
matters as agreed between the parties. |
Securities
Law Practices
| 1) |
Provide
special legal services, issue legal opinions and other
legal documents in connection with corporate restructuring
into joint stock companies, asset restructuring and
M&A, IPO and M&A, IPO and share sales,rights
issue, follow-on share issue, issue of convertible debentures; |
| 2) |
Provide
legal services, serve as long term general legal counsel
or special legal counsel to listed companies, contemplated
listing, commercial banks, insurance companies, trust
companies, futures brokerages and other entities; |
| 3) |
Provide
legal services, issue legal opinions and other legal
documents for overseas listing of Chinese companies; |
| 4) |
Issue
legal opinions or serve as witnesses, in the capacity
as a lawyer, for major activities of clients. |
IP
Law Practice
| 1) |
Representing
clients in applying for registration and filing of patent,
trademark, copyright and computer software in China/overseas; |
| 2) |
Make
inquiries in relation to registration of patents, trademarks
and copyrights and issue legal opinions; |
| 3)
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Process
for extension, transfer or licensing of trademarks on
behalf of clients; |
| 4) |
Represent
clients in patent provisional application, patent application
(appeal) right transfer, patent transfer, patent licensing; |
| 5) |
Make patent royalty payments on behalf of clients; |
| 6) |
Conduct,
on behalf of client, investigations into the use and
application of trademarks, copyrights, patents, computer
software copyrights, issue investigation report and
relevant legal opinions; |
| 7) |
Request
for due investigation and prosecution by relevant governmental
authorities in connection with infringement and disputes
over IP rights covering patent, trademark, copyright
and anti-competitive issues; assert for infringement
damages compensation through litigation proceedings; |
| 8) |
Represent,
as a first priority, clients in IPR litigation and arbitration; |
| 9) |
Other legal services. |
Company
Law Practices
· Definition and clarification of property right
| 1) |
Provide
legal advice and implementation plans and issue legal
opinions in relation to legal and difficult issues involved
in formation of Sino-foreign equity joint ventures and
cooperative joint ventures, M&A, sales, joint operations,
restructuring into joint stock companies, asset liquidation
and verification; |
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Propose
and finalize the feasibility of property rights transactions
and propose transaction plans; |
| 3) |
Draft
or propose Sino-foreign equity joint venture and cooperative
joint venture contracts, articles of association, M&A
and transfer agreements, consortium agreements; |
| 4) |
Represent
clients in lodging complaints with and applying for
reviews by the Stated Owned Assets Management Commission,
apply to the court for enforcement of effective legal
papers, represent clients in litigations and arbitration
in relation to property rights disputes; |
| 5) |
Process
for the formation, change and cancellation registration
and annual review for property right holders; |
| 6) |
Legal
services in relation operations management of property
rights; |
· Other company
law services
| 1) |
Provide
legal advice and draft various legal documents in connection
with the preparation, formation and restructuring of
enterprises and process for registration with relevant
administration of industry and commerce and relevant
administration of taxation; |
| 2) |
Draft
relevant documents for transfer of shares and equities,
process for change registration with relevant administration
of industry and commerce; |
| 3) |
Provide
legal advice for corporate change, cancellation and
asset liquidation; process for relevant formalities; |
| 4) |
Assist
in the setting up of liquidation committees and the
liquidation process, process for bankruptcy filings; |
| 5) |
Process
for related legal affairs in relation to corporate business
operations, investment, partnering and determination
of debtor’s liabilities and creditor’s rights; |
Foreign
Related Law Practice
| 1) |
Provide
legal advice and options for the setting up of foreign
invested enterprises (FIEs); |
| 2) |
Review,
revise and draft agreements, contracts and articles
of association for foreign invested enterprises; |
| 3) |
Deal
with legal affairs in relation to borrowing, other financing
and security arrangements for foreign invested enterprises; |
| 4) |
Perform
reviews and issue legal opinions for the conditions
and types of contribution for FIEs; |
| 5) |
Provide
legal advice for equity composition, equity transfer
and security arrangements for FIEs; |
| 6) |
Assist and advise FIEs in operations decision making
and the set up of business organizations; |
| 7) |
Assist
in handling disputes among shareholders to the FIEs
and with third parties; |
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Other
legal services as entrusted by FIEs. |
Taxation
Law Practice
| 1) |
Serve as tax advisor and provide legal advice and legal
opinions to the client in relation to all taxation related
legal questions involved in the business operations; |
| 2) |
Perform
tax planning in line with relevant requirements of current
laws and regulations and the operations characteristics
of the business, propose alternatives in relation to
type of applicable taxes, tax rate, applicable period
and exemption to achieve legitimate tax savings; |
| 3) |
Represent
client in administrative reviews and litigation with
regard to contested taxation decisions and administrative
penalties; |
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Provide taxation agency services, process for taxation
registration and related change registration and cancellation
registration, purchase invoices (except for VAT invoices)
and apply for tax exemption and concessions on behalf
of clients. |
the
firm will give first priority to ongoing litigations or
arbitrations involving our clients for whom we are providing
long term general legal counsel services or special legal
counsel services, and appropriate preferential billing rates
will be offered.
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