Shanghai Co-effort Law Firm, located in Shanghai Lujiazui Financial and Trade Zone, is a comprehensive partnership law firm which has branches in Beijing, Jiangsu Province and Osaka Japan.
The firm was established in 1998 by lawyers with different areas of expertise using the partnership system as a foundation and adopting the managing partner term office system, as well as a management system which revolves around the division of labor by partners. The firm has special characteristics and has gathered a large number of talented lawyers in order to provide the most effective legal advice to clients.
Since its establishment the firm’s service goals have been to provide specialized, prudence and diligent service, allowing it to win the trust of many clients.
Through many years of accumulation and devotion, the firm has established long term professional cooperative relationships with more than 10 domestic and international law firms. The firm also has very good cooperative and information communication channels with numerous government departments. Regarded as the leading law firm in Shanghai, the firm and its lawyers have received on numerous occasions the warm recognitions from government department at all levels and professional judging organizations.
Professional Areas
Trade and Investment
The firm provides all related legal advice required by foreign investors establishing enterprises in China, including company incorporation negotiations, drafting project recommendation reports, feasibility research reports, equity joint-venture contracts and company constitutions before establishment, as well as being responsible for submitting approval documents. At the same time, we also provide real-estate for foreign invested enterprises to use, share transfer, reorganization, liquidation as well as other legal services.
Intellectual Property
The firms intellectual property lawyers are experts at providing legal advice related to this area including trade secrets, intellectual property infringement investigation, copyright registration protection, technology import-export copyright trade, trademark affairs; computer software project s development and other comprehensive copyright protection, patent affairs, intellectual property rights license and transfer tactics.
Real-Estate Construction
The firm has a deep understanding of construction in the real-estate industry with several experienced practitioners responsible for this area. Regardless of whether it is Chinese clients or foreign investors, selling land, transferring land, mortgages, real-estate investment, real-estate leases, mortgage loans, building engineering contracts, inviting or submitting bids, as well as handling real-estate development disputes, the real-estate and construction section has vast experience in this area of the law.
Fiscal Levy
The firm also provides legal advice related to tax for clients, including trust affairs, representative companies and communication with currency exchange management bureau and Customs, handling the paying of taxes and perfection of enterprise tax management, designing enterprise fiscal taxation preferential treatment plans, tax law and related laws and regulations as well as news advisory, applicable preferential taxation policy and tax affair structuring.
Property Rights in Commercial Affairs
The firm’s commercial affairs lawyers provide legal advice including property rights and share transfer projects legal risk assessment, conducting related property right business transactions and property right transfer registration, company assets appraisal, drafting of due diligence investigations and business requirement framework, company transformation affairs, acting as the receiver in a bankruptcy and has participated in many kinds of bankruptcy law matters.
Company Merger-Acquisition and Reorganization
The firm provides advice on equity shares and other similar transactions, such as takeover and anti-takeover procedures for listed companies, company merger and acquisition engineering and implementation; asset flow and property right reorganization strategy; company equity right share transfer; enterprise leases; trusteeship and contract execution. The firm has theoretical and practical knowledge in asset replacement, asset reorganization, share buy-back and other areas.
Banking
Regarding finance projects, credit finance, international loan legal problems as well as letters of credit, business bank note legal disputes, the firm has abundant experience. The firm has provided specialized advice for domestic companies in American dollar bank loan projects, furthermore providing many legal services to Chinese and foreign investment banks including advisory services, representative litigation, attending negotiations, design, drafting and examining contracts, offering specific legal opinions and other legal advice.
Insurance
The firm assists insurance organizations draft and audit insurance contracts; providing legal services for designation of insurance project plans, negotiation and legal document formulation; providing assistance for foreign insurance companies in China to establish branch offices and other branch organizations; providing consulting services for insurance company’s daily work and investment abroad, dealing with insurance compensation and dispute issues as a representative.
Securities
The firm assists stock companies with issuing shares and floating on the stock market, issuing bonds, transfers and encashment, as well as related legal service for investment banks underwriting the sale of securities, act as the issuers lawyers or underwriter groups lawyers, drafting related legal documents, providing legal consultation opinions, specific legal opinions or validation records.
Venture Investment and High Technology Areas
The firm provides legal advice in the venture investment area for many funds, holding companies and financial organizations, including fund establishment, fund investment, capital rising of holding company as well as all kinds of preparations and practical operation for company floats.
Labor Relations
In recent years the quick development of the Labor Law of China has meant the firm has the ability to provide related labor laws, especially relating to staff welfare, collective working contracts as well as labor union law and other consultation aspects. The firm also helps clients draft labor contracts or employment contracts, representing clients in related labor disputes, arbitrations and litigation.
Marriage and Family Affairs
The firm has achieved splendid results in the marriage and family law areas. Apart from handling domestic marriage and family dispute matters, the firm has also handled foreign marriages and family disputes involving tens of countries such as the United Kingdom, America and Japan, becoming increasingly specialized and internationalized in this legal area.
Litigation and Arbitration
The firm has vast experience in representing clients in attending various domestic civil cases, including economic, criminal, labor, administrative aspects of litigation, arbitration and non-litigation mediation. The firm actively attends foreign arbitration activities. Fluent English and comparatively high level of expertise allow it to act for both domestic and famous multi-national companies in China to arbitrate, as well as obtain victory in litigation. |
