Why to Establish Associations?

We are headquartered in Shanghai, the most commercial city in China, to deal with direct investments, mergers and acquisitions issues for our Chinese and foreign clients. We further maintain an office in Beijing, the capital and decision-making place of China, to deal with all prosecutions of intellectual property rights and facilitate the face-to-face communication with the highest Chinese intellectual property authorities and other highest level governmental authorities for applying for various permissions, licenses and approvals for our foreign clients’ business and operation in China. In addition, we have also established a liaison office in Hong Kong so as to provide more convenience for our foreign clients and help our Chinese clients to raise capital overseas markets.

Though we have made presences in the most important commercial cities in China, however, in the modern business environment, our clients’ business and presences extend to many other jurisdictions, therefore, our clients’ legal needs are multiple and diversified in the jurisdictions where they have a presence. In such occasions, a law firm only in one jurisdiction can not satisfy and meet our clients’ legal needs and requirements. The trend for a law firm to better serve its global clients is to establish and maintain associations with law firms in other jurisdictions as many as possible. Based on this motivation, we have established many strategic associations and cooperation with various local and overseas law firms for expanding and integrating any available resources throughout China and around the world to meet and satisfy the legal needs of our clients’ global business activities. These associations and cooperation enable us to provide rapid, comprehensive, reliable and cost-effective legal services and advices to our foreign clients.

Domestic Associations

We have maintained close association relationships with well established local law firms in most developed business centers throughout China, such as in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Changsha, Chongqin, Zhejiang and Jiangsu Provinces, etc. Those associated firms enable us to operate in developed cities as well as in the remote locations throughout China efficiently and in real-time. Those associations have also produced a rich accumulation of contacts in governmental and legal circles throughout the country, thus facilitating our clients’ investment, mergers and acquisitions, and dispute resolution there and making our legal service easily extend to those places.

In addition to associations with local law firms, we have also established close associations and cooperation with several local patent firms in Beijing and Shanghai so that we can efficiently assist our clients in filing applications for patents with the State Intellectual Property Office through our associated patent firms.

Oversea Association

Modern cross-border transactions often require legal service go beyond the country, extending to other world business centers where the transactions happen. Therefore we also attach a great importance to establish association and cooperative relationships with other international law firms, especially we have already established and maintained close and reciprocal working relationships with some intellectual property firms and law firms in America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Thanks to those association relationships, we have helped many foreign clients to register trademarks and patents in China and also assisted many Chinese enterprises and individuals in registering various trademarks and patents worldwide. Based on those association relationships, we communicate and exchange relevant information about the legal developments in China and in other jurisdictions with other international law firms. We summarize the updated Chinese legal developments on intellectual property and commercial laws into newsletters, China Legal Watch articles periodally and provide such newsletters and articles to our foreign clients free of charge so as to keep our clients updated of Chinese legal development and choose the best business vehicles for their investments, mergers and acquisitions in China.

We are still expanding our association relationships with domestic and international law firms as many as possible. Foreign law firms and intellectual property firms are welcome to contact us for establish such reciprocal association relationships. Through those associations we can provide better and cost-effective legal services to our foreign clients for their multiple and diversified business transactions involving China.