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Practice areas

————Securities and Capital Markets————

Zhong Yin is one of the earliest and one of the most influential law firms practicing in financial securities business. Zhong Yin lawyers have made great achievements in the securities and capital markets. They participated in reform and reorganization, backdoor listing, venture capital management and other major projects of large state-owned enterprises, listed companies and foreign-funded enterprises. These corporations are running in approximately 40 important industries such as chemical engineering, coal mining, petroleum, insurance and banking. Zhong Yin lawyers have also provided more than 300 companies in China (including A shares, B shares, H shares, legal person shares; approximately accounting for 1/9 of the total number of companies listed on Shenzhen Stock Exchange and Shanghai Stock Exchange) with high-quality legal services in terms of IPO, allotment of shares, additional issuance, and issuance of convertible bonds of listed companies; and have helped over 300 companies to be successfully listed on the New OTC Market.

Zhong Yin has a total of thousands of clients in the field of legal services in China's capital market. It enables us to accumulate rich experience in practice, and to have a profound understanding on the legal system and practices. It enjoys a reputation of the “Whampoa Military Academy” in the capital market and has trained a group of outstanding professional lawyers for the securities industry in China. Zhong Yin has set up a team of securities lawyers with strict discipline, profound expertise and abundant experience, and has created a highly reputable brand image  for “Zhong Yin Lawyers” in the field of legal services in the capital market.



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Services

Initial Public Offering (IPO); 

Major Asset Restructuring of Listed Companies; 

Refinancing of Listed Companies; 

Private Equity and Investment Funds; 

Commercial Investment and Financing; 

Debt Capital Markets

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  • Ding Ran

    Beijing 

     

  • Gao Wei

    Beijing 

     

  • Jin Shanshan

    Beijing 

     

  • Li Baofeng

    Beijing 

     

  • Suo Weihua

    Beijing 

     

  • Wang Ting

    Beijing 

     

  • Wu Guanghong

    Beijing 

     

  • Wu Zetao

    Beijing 

     

  • Fong Ping Wah, Edmond

    ZLF Law Office 

     

  • Calvin Tinlop Chui

    ZLF Law Office (Qianhai) 

     

  • Yeung Yuen Kin, Lawrence

    ZLF Law Office (Qianhai) 

     

  • Jiao Liang

    Beijing 

    Partner  

  • Liu Sumei

    Beijing 

    Partner  

  • Lv Yanchang

    Beijing 

    Partner  

  • Nie Dong

    Beijing 

    Partner  

  • Sudan

    Beijing 

    Junior Partner  

  • Zhang Xiaoqiang

    Beijing 

    Junior Partner  

  • Jackie Wang

    Beijing 

     

  • Chen Yansheng

    Beijing 

     

  • Liu Wenjun

    Beijing 

     

  • Luoshan

    Shenzhen 

     

  • Liu Guangbin

    Chengdu 

     

  • Liu Ne

    Zhengzhou 

     

  • An Shouhui

    ZLF Law Office (Qianhai) 

     

  • Chung Wing Kwong

    ZLF Law Office (Qianhai) 

     

  • Ke Yingding

    ZLF Law Office (Qianhai) 

     

  • Luo Lu

    ZLF Law Office (Qianhai) 

     

————Banking and Finance————

Zhong Yin has set up a dedicated team for banking and financial legal services upon its establishment in the early 1990s, covering financing structure design, project due diligence, project document reviewing, legal analysis, drafting/modification/auditing of transaction contracts within the core business scope, recommendations and suggestions on revision, participation in negotiations and issuance of legal opinions. It provides special or comprehensive legal services for banking affairs of Chinese-funded banks, joint venture banks and sub-branches or branches of foreign banks and financial leasing companies established by such institutions.

The legal service regarding banking and finance has become one of the core and advantageous business of Zhong Yin since its establishment. It has gathered a group of senior banking law experts renowned in the legal field and thousands of young elite lawyers. They serve as legal advisors for major banks and financial institutions in China and have provided high-end legal services in  hundreds of cases, winning wide acclaim in the industry.



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Services

Banking   

Insurance

Trust

Disposal of non-performing assets

Financial leasing

Syndicated loan, commercial loan 

International finance 

Financial derivatives

Project financing

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  • Dong Wan

    Beijing 

     

  • Li Mai

    Beijing 

     

  • Liu Xiaoyu

    Beijing 

     

  • Tian Shouyun

    Beijing 

     

  • Ye Minkai

    Beijing 

     

  • Liu Zhenyu

    Guangzhou 

     

  • Frederico Rato (Portuguese)

    ZLF Law Office 

     

  • Lei Wun Kong

    ZLF Law Office 

     

  • Lo Kam Ting, Kenny

    ZLF Law Office 

     

  • Pedro Cortés(Portuguese)

    ZLF Law Office (Qianhai) 

     

  • Shen Juan

    Beijing 

    Partner  

  • Jackie Wang

    Beijing 

     

  • Jin Yong

    Beijing 

     

  • Qin Bojie

    Lanzhou 

     

  • Amy Chow

    ZLF Law Office (Qianhai) 

     

————Investment and M&A————

Zhong Yin is one of the earliest domestic law firms to set up an investment and M&A legal service team. It has participated in numerous large-scale foreign investment projects and served as legal counsel for internationally renowned multinational corporations, large and medium-sized state-owned enterprises, and private enterprise groups. Zhong Yin has always been active in the field of legal services for investment and M&A, and has cultivated a large number of top legal experts in such field and established solid business relationships with many listed companies, investment banks, PE and well-known investors. Zhong Yin lawyers are deeply engaged in FDI (foreign direct investment), overseas investment by domestic companies, investment in listed companies, M&A and other related fields, and have extremely rich experience in practice.

With the introduction of the Belt and Road Initiative, Zhong Yin lawyers started to focus on providing legal services using different languages, including but not limited to English, French, German, Russian, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish and Arabic, showing strong competitiveness in the cross-border legal service market.

In accordance with the principle of “accompanied” legal services, Zhong Yin lawyers provide full legal support for investment and M&A projects. The services run throughout the projects, including investment destination selection, transaction target sifting and transaction structure design before project implementation, prudential investigation in project implementation, domestic and overseas business negotiations, communication with regulatory departments of the government, drafting and review of legal documents of projects, assistance for closing and landing of domestic and overseas projects, project tracking and risk management after investment and M&A.


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Services

FDI (foreign direct investment)   

Acquisition and merger 

Overseas investment

“Belt and Road” and cross-border legal service

Related commercial investment and financing


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  • Harvey YAN

    Beijing 

     

  • Huang Yunyan

    Beijing 

     

  • Song Chongyu

    Beijing 

     

  • Tian Shouyun

    Beijing 

     

  • Chen Zongxia

    Wuhan 

     

  • Liu Sumei

    Beijing 

    Partner  

  • Wang Mengxiao

    Beijing 

    Junior Partner  

  • Wang Yuemei

    Beijing 

    Junior Partner  

  • Li Zhiyong

    Wuhan 

     

  • Aaron-Jin

    Kunshan 

     

  • Guo Gaofeng

    Zhengzhou 

     

————Corporate and Commercial————

Corporate and commercial service is one of the core business areas of Zhong Yin. With multiple years of experience, Zhong Yin lawyers are capable of providing comprehensive legal services on perennial legal consulting, labor and employment, anti-corruption and anti-commercial bribery for many domestic and foreign reputable enterprises, large and medium-sized state-owned enterprises, private enterprises and government departments.

Zhong Yin's comprehensive legal service team consists of senior lawyers who are familiar with company laws, labor laws, corporate governance structure, conditions of various industries and related legal business. Zhong Yin lawyers have an in-depth understanding of legal risks and legal service needs of clients. They help enterprises enhance their legal awareness, improve their ability to prevent legal risks, and take precautionary measures, in-process control, and post-processing of legal risks by relying on the professional resources of Zhong Yin and extensive practical experience of handling comprehensive legal affairs of companies.

In addition, Zhong Yin  also has a compliance team specializing in anti-bribery and anti-corruption legal services. They have extensive experience in trial and public prosecution and are adept at general compliance issues and complex cases of corruption and commercial bribery at the national and provincial levels. They specifically provide a full range of legal services including day-to-day compliance advice, training, compliance due diligence, audits, reviews and recommendations.



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Services

Permanent legal consulting

Labor and employment 

Anti-corruption and anti-commercial bribery  

Other corporate and commercial legal services


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  • Huang Yunyan

    Beijing 

     

  • Ju Li

    Beijing 

     

  • Li Zheng

    Beijing 

     

  • Liu Qiang

    Beijing 

     

  • Song Chongyu

    Beijing 

     

  • Yang Baoquan

    Beijing 

     

  • Guo Lijun

    Beijing 

    Partner  

  • Wu Yajun

    Beijing 

    Partner  

  • Zhao Qingjun

    Beijing 

    Partner  

  • Li Yufeng

    Beijing 

    Junior Partner  

  • Wang Yuemei

    Beijing 

    Junior Partner  

  • Chen Rongjin

    Beijing 

    Senior Lawyer  

  • Liu Xia

    Beijing 

     

  • Wang Haihan

    Beijing 

     

  • Fan Xiaoling

    Chongqing 

     

  • Yao Lu

    Chongqing 

     

  • Cui Chongyang

    Lanzhou 

     

  • Li Zejun

    Lanzhou 

     

  • Su Hang

    Lanzhou 

     

  • Zhao Jixiong

    Lanzhou 

     

  • Ku Wing Yan, Genevieve

    ZLF Law Office 

     

  • Zhezhi Yin

    ZLF Law Office (Qianhai) 

     

————Bankruptcy and Restructuring————

Zhong Yin is the enrollment manager in the Roll of Managers of Social Intermediary Entities for Bankruptcy Cases in Beijing (First Batch) released by Beijing High People's Court. As one of the earliest Chinese law firms involved in the field of bankruptcy reorganization and liquidation, Zhong Yin has undertaken a large number of cases of bankruptcy reorganization and liquidation. Lawyers have adept legal service skills for commercial affairs in such field. They are capable of judging various risks in an all-round and multi-angle manner, and working out the optimal solution to balance the interests of all parties accurately and quickly.

 Zhong Yin has a strong team of professional lawyers in the field of legal services for insolvency. It is committed to the legal services such as corporate dissolution and liquidation, bankruptcy and liquidation, reorganization, reconciliation, corporate restructuring, debt restructuring, and staff resettlement of state-owned enterprises. Zhong Yin lawyers have rich practical experience and professional competence in handling bankruptcy liquidation and restructuring of listed companies, financial institutions, state-owned enterprises and extra-large enterprises.

 Zhong Yin lawyers have rich commercial resources. They can assist enterprises in finding strategic investors and financial investors, and do their utmost to enhance the possibility of successful restructuring of the enterprises with various customer resources and social resources in the process of providing legal services for their projects. Zhong Yin lawyers represented domestic and foreign banks, asset management companies, securities companies, insurance companies, state-owned enterprises, listed companies, Sino-foreign joint ventures and foreign-invested enterprises in bankruptcy reorganization and liquidation in different capacities such as shareholders, creditors, debtors and restructuring investors. They are adept at weighing business risks from all angles and make timely recommendations and solutions that maximize the interests of the clients.

The restructuring and insolvency team is equipped with the scale advantage. It gathers a number of partners and professional lawyers in Beijing, Shenzhen and Shanghai who have rich experience and are committed to providing efficient and high-quality legal services to clients.


Services

Self-liquidation

Compulsory liquidation

Bankruptcy liquidation

Bankruptcy reorganization

Bankruptcy reconciliation

Risk prevention


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  • Yuan Xinjian

    Beijing 

     

  • Liu Zhenyu

    Guangzhou 

     

  • Lo Wai Yan, Winnie

    ZLF Law Office 

     

  • Li Jintian

    Beijing 

    Junior Partner  

  • Chung Wai Hung, Gerard

    ZLF Law Office 

     

————Litigation and Arbitration————

Zhong Yin has a number of senior lawyers in litigation, arbitration and other dispute resolution areas. All Zhong Yin lawyers graduate from first-class law schools at home and abroad. Most of them have rich experience in courts at all levels and well-known arbitration commissions, and have a deep understanding of China's legal system and judicial practice. To protect the best legitimate rights and interests of clients, they provide clients with constructive and practical legal advice or solutions for dispute resolution, and actively and effectively represent clients in litigation and arbitration activities in various cases.

Zhong Yin lawyers represented many large domestic and foreign companies and financial institutions in handling commercial disputes that have significant influence and difficulties at home and abroad, and achieved satisfactory results.

 


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Services

Civil and commercial litigation

Financial litigation

Compliance and review

Arbitration

Government service and administrative litigation

(ADR)Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)


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  • Chen Yongxue

    Beijing 

     

  • Deng Lihua

    Beijing 

     

  • Li Mai

    Beijing 

     

  • Li Shuangyan

    Beijing 

     

  • Liu Xiaoyu

    Beijing 

     

  • Ma Jinghui

    Beijing 

     

  • Peng Xinzhen

    Beijing 

     

  • Xu Min

    Beijing 

     

  • Yu Hongzhi

    Beijing 

     

  • Zheng Wei

    Beijing 

     

  • Ma Xiao

    Beijing 

     

  • Lu Jiefeng

    Beijing 

     

  • Cao Lingxiang

    Beijing 

    Partner  

  • Guo Qingyuan

    Beijing 

    Partner  

  • Lv Yanchang

    Beijing 

    Partner  

  • Zhou Cunjun

    Beijing 

    Partner  

  • Li Yao

    Beijing 

    Junior Partner  

  • Wang Yuemei

    Beijing 

    Junior Partner  

  • Yao Yuchen

    Beijing 

    Junior Partner  

  • Chen Rongjin

    Beijing 

    Senior Lawyer  

  • An Yongmao

    Beijing 

     

  • Xiong Ke

    Wuhan 

     

  • Zhu Yurong

    Wuhan 

     

  • Du Yingxia

    Lanzhou 

     

  • He Aifang

    Lanzhou 

     

  • He Dan

    Lanzhou 

     

  • Jin Juhong

    Lanzhou 

     

  • Li Yawei

    Lanzhou 

     

  • Lv Xuanxiong

    Lanzhou 

     

  • Nan Ruirui

    Lanzhou 

     

  • Ning Huashan

    Lanzhou 

     

  • Wang Yunxia

    Lanzhou 

     

  • Yang Xin

    Lanzhou 

     

  • Yao Shuqiang

    Lanzhou 

     

  • Helena da Nazaré Valente (Portuguese)

    ZLF Law Office 

     

  • Marta Mourão Guimarães Rocha Teixeira Cortês(Portu

    ZLF Law Office 

     

  • Óscar Madureira (Portuguese)

    ZLF Law Office 

     

  • Zhang Siyuan

    ZLF Law Office 

     

  • Ka Fan

    ZLF Law Office (Qianhai) 

     

————Criminal Defense————

The criminal law team of Zhong Yin is composed of senior practicing lawyers who specialize in all kinds of criminal cases. The members all graduated from first-class law schools in China. Most of them have master's degree, doctoral degree or above in criminal law and criminal procedural law with solid basic professional knowledge and profound academic background. Some members have abundant experience in criminal justice work in public security organs, procuratorial organs, the people's courts and other state organs.

Zhong Yin has made outstanding achievements in the criminal law practice area, especially in economic crimes, duty crimes, corruption and bribery crimes, smuggling crimes and drug crimes etc. It handled a large number of cases with significant social influence and won the praise of the industry, the parties and the community by virtue of superb service capacities, high dedication and excellent defense effect.



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Services

Major criminal cases

Duty crimes

Finance and securities crimes

Intellectual property crimes

Internet crimes

Criminal-civil cross business

Legal services on criminal non-litigation issues

Foreign-related crimes



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  • Suo Canjie

    Beijing 

     

  • Zhang Xiaojun

    Beijing 

     

  • Zhou Junli

    Beijing 

     

  • Chang San Chi

    ZLF Law Office (Qianhai) 

     

  • Hou Jiyan

    Beijing 

    Partner  

  • Lee Kwun Ting

    ZLF Law Office 

    Partner  

  • Hua Rong

    Lanzhou 

     

  • An Zengshan

    Zhuhai 

     

  • HO Shi King, Albert

    ZLF Law Office 

     

  • Katy Chung

    ZLF Law Office 

     

  • Wu Sao Wan

    ZLF Law Office 

     

  • Tam Kin Yip

    ZLF Law Office (Qianhai) 

     

  • Yu Cheuk Man

    ZLF Law Office (Qianhai) 

     

————International Trade and Maritime————

Zhong Yin is one of the first law firms in China to provide legal services for international affairs. The lawyers have profound academic background, rich practical experience and excellent foreign language ability in the fields of international trade, trade remedy, WTO and maritime & admiralty affairs. They can review and produce documents in multiple languages and provide clients with consulting, advice, participation in negotiations and other legal services.

Zhong Yin’s trade remedy team in recent years conducts in-depth research on foreign affairs related to anti-dumping actions, countervailing actions, safeguards and WTO and gives full play to its theoretical and practical strengths in foreign-related legal services. It achieves outstanding results in providing high-quality foreign-related legal services to the government and the community and participating in settlement of international trade disputes and cultural exchanges at home and abroad. For many years, it has been ranked in the lists in the “WTO/international trade” field of international legal service rating agencies such as Chambers, LEGAL500 and LEGALBAND.


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Services

International trade          

WTO Trade remedy and WTO

Maritime & admiralty affairs

Commodities 

Other legal service related to international trade law


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  • Jia Zheng

    Beijing 

     

  • Zheng Songzhe

    Beijing 

     

  • Paula Ling Hsião Yun

    ZLF Law Office 

     

  • Ian Zhang(Yixuan Zhang)

    Beijing 

    Partner  

  • Cheng Lulu

    Beijing 

    Junior Partner  

  • Steven Hsu

    Beijing 

     

  • KIM Jungsun, Kelly (Korean)

    ZLF Law Office 

     

————Intellectual Property————

Zhong Yin has a team of lawyers and expert consultants who have extensive academic backgrounds and abundant experience in the field of intellectual property and gathers a large number of high-end intellectual property talents. Zhong Yin successfully provided a full range of legal services of intellectual property for a number of multinational and high-tech companies. It represented numerous companies in intellectual property litigations at home and abroad, covering the industries including telecommunications, communications, computer software, networking, semiconductors, biology, medicine, automotive, aircraft, media, entertainment and other fields.

Zhong Yin maintains sound business relations with government agencies, judicial departments and arbitration institutions, and establishes long-term partnerships with many well-known enterprises and research institutions at home and abroad.  It makes outstanding achievements in business areas such as international registration, trademark patent litigation, patent invalidation, difficult cases of trademarks and patents, and strategic planning of intellectual property.



Services

Traditional intellectual property

Intellectual property derivative legal services 

Intellectual property administrative agency   

Intellectual property dispute resolution


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  • Gao Jinghe

    Beijing 

     

  • Yang Yanguang

    Beijing 

     

  • Zhang Feifei

    Beijing 

    Partner  

  • Li Yufeng

    Beijing 

    Junior Partner  

————Real estate, Construction and Infrastructure————

Legal services for real estate, construction and infrastructure are an important business area of Zhong Yin. Its services run through every stage of preliminary project development, financing, construction, sales and property management of real estate.

With profound academic background, rich practical experience and extensive network resources, Zhong Yin lawyers provide high-quality and efficient legal services for many domestic and foreign companies, assist clients in identifying and circumventing legal risks of projects, and solve legal problems in business and contracts to fully achieve clients’ business objectives. Relevant business scope includes large-scale civil work, urban transformation, infrastructure and PPP, basic transportation projects, commercial building development, residential sales, property financing, property leasing, security and mortgage of property rights and real estate, covering contract planning, bidding, contract review and negotiation, project claims, acceptance check and delivery and project settlement etc.


Services

Real estate

Construction engineering

Infrastructure


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  • Su Rongjian

    Beijing 

     

  • Chen Qingxue

    Beijing 

    Partner  

  • Zhuang Jing

    Beijing 

    Junior Partner  

  • Zhang Zhi

    ZLF Law Office 

     

  • Shao Jianhuai

    ZLF Law Office (Qianhai) 

     

————Competition and Supervision————

Zhong Yin lawyers can tailor compliance programs in the field of competition and regulation, draft codes of conduct, conduct internal training in antitrust law compliance, assist clients in reviewing commercial contracts and policies to identify possible violations of Chinese antitrust laws in contract terms and provide valuable legal advice to multinational companies in their vertical and horizontal relationships with suppliers, clients and competitors. At the same time, Zhong Yin lawyers can also provide legal analysis and legal advice on fixed prices, customer discrimination, refusal to deal, bundling and tying. They helped many companies avoid market abuse activities, covering the industries including health care, electronics, banking and financing, food and beverage, Internet, chemical engineering, energy, services, retail industry and high-tech industries.

 


Services

Competition law compliance

Anti-trust related legal services

Control of concentration of undertakings

Abuse of market power

Litigation involving competition law and anti-trust law  

Consumer protection 

Other legal services related to competition and regulation


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  • Huawei Zhang

    Beijing 

     

  • Zhang Xiao

    Beijing 

     

  • Hui Ka Wai, Carrie

    ZLF Law Office (Qianhai) 

     

————Compliance and Risk Management————

Zhong Yin is a leading law firm that provides refined management of corporate legal risks. The team of lawyers in such field received systematic training in refined management of legal risks. They are familiar with various legal risk management tools and techniques, while tracking and researching the legal risks of their respectively responsible industries in a long-term and real-time manner. They are able to effectively integrate legal knowledge, corporate financial knowledge and management knowledge. The core purpose of Zhong Yin's legal risk management is to help clients improve management efficiency, reduce costs and achieve full control of corporate legal risks to achieve the strategic goals of sustainable development.



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Services

Analysis of legal risks

Control of legal risks

Evaluation of the control of legal risks

 


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  • Yang Baoquan

    Beijing 

     

  • Zheng Jia

    Beijing 

    Junior Partner