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

Zhong Yin Law Firm is one of the earliest and most influential law firms practicing in the area of financial securities in China. Since its establishment, Zhong Yin has advised thousands of clients on the full spectrum of capital market related matters , and have assisted large state-owned enterprises, listed companies and foreign-invested enterprises in restructuring and reorganization, backdoor listing, capital operation and other major projects in more than 40 important sectors including but not limited to chemical, coal mine, petroleum, insurance and banking; advised with high-quality legal expertise more than 300 enterprises in China on IPO (including A shares, B shares and H shares) and after-listing share allotment, additional issuance, and issuance of convertible bonds. In this process, Zhong Yin has accumulated extensive experiences in practice, gained a profound understanding of the legal system and practices, won the designation of “Whampoa Military Academy” in capital market, and trained a group of outstanding professional lawyers for the securities industry in China.

After decades of diligent operation, Zhong Yin has built a team of highly disciplined securities lawyers with profound expertise and abundant experiences, and has created a highly reputable brand image of “Zhong Yin Lawyers” in the practicing area of capital market.

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————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/revising/reviewing of transaction contracts within the Our Services, recommendations and suggestions on revision, participation in negotiations and issuance of legal opinions. It has offered special or comprehensive legal services relating to banking affairs of Chinese-funded banks, joint venture banks and sub-branches or branches of foreign banks in China and financial leasing companies established by such institutions.

The legal practice in banking and finance area 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 in the course of the development of the firm. They serve as legal advisors for major banks and financial institutions in China and have advised  hundreds of high profile cases, winning wide acclaim in the industry.

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————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 investment and M&A practice, 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 advise on company law, M&A, private equity, corporate governance and business affairs in an all-round way. 

With the introduction of the Belt and Road Initiative, Zhong Yin lawyers have been demonstrating strong competitiveness in the cross-border legal service market thanks to their ability to provide precise legal services with different languages, including but not limited to English, French, German, Russian, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish and Arabic.

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————Corporate and Commercial————

Corporate service is one of the core practicing areas of Zhong Yin. With multiple years of experience, Zhong Yin lawyers are capable of providing  regular legal consulting, advising on 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 corporate 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 practice. Zhong Yin lawyers have an in-depth understanding of legal risks and legal service needs of the clients and 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 leveraging the professional resources of Zhong Yin and extensive practical experience in 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 concerning corruption and commercial bribery at the national and provincial levels. They may 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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————Bankruptcy and Restructuring————

Zhong Yin Law Firm is the enrollment manager in the Roll of Social Intermediary Entity Managers 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 and reorganization, Zhong Yin Law Firm has represented a large number of cases of bankruptcy reorganization and liquidation. Our lawyers possess adept legal service skills for commercial affairs in such field. They are capable of identifying various risks from various perspectives in an all-round way, and working out the optimal solution to balance the interests of all parties accurately and quickly.      

Zhong Yin Law Firm has a strong team of professional lawyers in the field of insolvency practice. It is committed to advising on 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. They are able to help enterprises look for strategic and financial investors by virtue of their various customer and social resources and make every effort to increase the chance of successful restructuring.

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

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————Litigation and Arbitration————

Zhong Yin Law Firm is home to a number of senior lawyers in litigation, arbitration and other dispute resolution areas. All Zhong Yin lawyers are graduated from first-class law schools at home and abroad. Most of them have rich practicing 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 best protect the legitimate rights and interests of the 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 proceedings in various cases.

Zhong Yin lawyers represented many large domestic and foreign companies and financial institutions in handling complex commercial disputes that have significant implications at home and abroad, and achieved results satisfactory to the clients.

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————Criminal Defense————

The criminal defense team of Zhong Yin is composed of senior practicing lawyers who specialize in all kinds of criminal cases. All members are graduated from first-class law schools in China. Most of them hold master's degree, doctoral degree or above in criminal law and criminal procedural law with solid basic professional knowledge and profound academic background. Some of them 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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————International Trade and Maritime————

Zhong Yin Law Firm is one of the first law firms in China to advising on international cases. Zhong Yin lawyers have profound professional qualities and rich practical experience in the fields of international trade, trade remedy, WTO, South Korea-related legal business, international energy and engineering, international investment, merger and acquisition, international finance, foreign-related litigation and arbitration, international IP and maritime & admiralty affairs, etc. They can provide clients with comprehensive legal services in multiple languages.

Over the years, by giving full play to its expertise and empirical advantages in foreign-related legal services, Zhong Yin has achieved remarkable achievements in advising governments and enterprises on foreign-related matters with high-quality legal expertise, and has been listed in the rankings for “International Trade/WTO” by international legal service rating agencies such as Chambers, The Legal 500 and LEGALBAND for many consecutive years.

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————Intellectual Property————

The Intellectual Property Department of Zhong Yin Law Firm adheres to the requirements of “high starting point, high standard, high-level service, and internationalization”, and has nowadays become a first-class comprehensive IP service team in China with international influence through conscientious and pioneering efforts in areas such as transnational IP dispute resolution, trade secret protection, standard essential patent negotiation, famous trademark recognition, new plant varieties, computer software copyright, integrated circuit layout design, competition and anti-monopoly.

Upholding the craftsmanship spirit of “being meticulous, seeking excellence and taking practical and effective actions to create a top brand”, the department has made remarkable achievements in such market segments as semiconductors, photoelectric communication, biomedicine, new energy, new materials, automated control, high-end equipment manufacturing, AI large model, entertainment and fashion, digital economy, etc. For that reason, it has been recognized and highly thought of by a number of world-renowned organizations and authoritative Chinese legal media such as Chambers and Partners, ALB, LEGALBAND, LegalOne, IPRdaily, and Legal Vision.

The Intellectual Property Department has experienced and highly accomplished professional lawyers and expert advisor teams. It has provided or is now providing high-quality and efficient IP-related litigation and non-litigation legal services for many multinational enterprises, and Fortune 500 and high-tech companies. The cases handled by the department have been included in the guiding cases or IP trial guidance of the Supreme People's Court, the typical cases or 100 cases in five years of the Intellectual Property Division under the Supreme People's Court, the Annual Excellent Cases of the National Court System, the Top 10 IP cases in Chinese courts, the 50 typical IP cases in Chinese courts, and the Annual Report: Chinese Lawyers on Intellectual Property Practices, etc.

By virtue of excellent word-of-mouth reputation and market performance, Zhong Yin’s IP lawyers have been honored with the following titles: China Top 15 IP Lawyers, TOP10 China Intellectual Property Litigation Agency, China Comprehensive IP Law Firm Ranking Top 10, Client Choice: Top 15 IP Lawyers, LegalOne Blue Ribbon: Top 15 IP Lawyers, Client Choice: Top 15 Competition Lawyers, the 50 Intellectual Property Lawyers under the Age of 50 (U50), the Premium Intellectual Property Legal Service Brands Guide, and Star of Brand: Ingenious Lawyer for Dispute Resolution, etc.

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

Real estate, construction and infrastructure are an key practice area of Zhong Yin Law Firm. The services run through every stage of  preliminary project development in the early stage, construction, operation and sales and late-stage property management of real estate. The main 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 and subsectors of real estate. Its legal services include providing policy reference and feasibility analysis in the field of real estate, construction and infrastructure construction, assisting in drafting and improving legal documents for land acquisition, compensation, resettlement, project planning and various government approvals; participating in preparation of bidding documents for survey, design, construction, supervision and construction of projects as required, assisting in drafting or reviewing and revising relevant contracts, assisting in handling financing and land use right mortgage, assisting in handling project completion acceptance, settlement and other matters, and assisting in handling relevant disputes; advising on commercial operation of real estate as well as premises leasing, after-sale leaseback, and entrusted operation, etc.; providing legal due diligence report on the M&A and restructuring of real estate projects, assisting in formulating asset and debt restructuring plan and optimizing transaction structure, participating in negotiations, drafting, modifying and reviewing relevant agreements, and providing solutions for financing arrangements involved in M&A and assisting clients to complete property delivery; designing REITs, ABS and other securitization schemes for commercial property assets, real estate earning rights, receivables, housing purchase funds and other assets held by the clients to improve the liquidity of the clients' assets and reduce financial costs; providing legal and policy consultation on land, engineering, resettlement, finance and other matters involved in the reconstruction, demolition, transformation, investment and construction activities of urban villages, old-house villages and other urban related areas, and assisting the clients to formulate overall solutions based on different investments and construction modes; providing legal solutions for the design, investment, construction, operation, financing and other transaction stages of various PPP projects, such as infrastructure, environmental protection, municipal administration, water conservancy, transportation, garden, urban renewal, industrial and technological park, and advising on various legal relationships among the transaction entities, such as franchise, cooperative investment, construction, financing guarantee, service procurement, administrative management, and drafting and reviewing relevant transaction documents, all of which have formed an integrated whole-process service mode.

gineering and infrastructure, and pay close attention to the trends of real estate and related industries, keep up with the thinking and service mode of the industry, so as to accurately advising on the construction of real estate, construction engineering and infrastructure. In the area of real estate, construction engineering and infrastructure, with profound expertise, extensive practical experience, spirit of dedication and sense of responsibility, Zhong Yin lawyers assist the clients in identifying and avoiding legal risks in projects, addressing legal issues in businesses and contracts, actively achieving the clients’ business goals, and effectively safeguarding the clients’ rights and interests, and have been highly recognized by many clients.

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————Competition and Supervision————

Zhong Yin lawyers advises the clients on competition and regulation, such as antitrust law, anti-unfair competition law, supply chain management and customs affairs, and advises clients with precious legal suggestions on the relationship between them and the suppliers, customers, dealers, competitors, and domestic and foreign regulatory agencies within the above-mentioned legal framework, as well as solutions of response.

In the sector of supply chain and customs services, Zhong Yin lawyers advise the clients on difficult matters, such as customs valuation, customs classification, origin, export control, tariff planning, customs inspection and investigation, and query management. In particular, they advise domestic companies going overseas with a global perspective on, including without limitation,  structuring of a global trade compliance system, structuring and improvement of export control compliance systems, remodeling international supply chain compliance, and planning of tariffs and free trade protocols , etc., covering many industries and sectors of medical and health care, automobiles, electronics, industrial manufacturing, food and beverages, chemicals, energy, luxury consumer goods and high-tech industries.

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

The compliance and risk management team of Zhong Yin Law Firm is specialized in providing professional legal services relating to compliance management and risk control for enterprises and institutions. The team in such field received systematic training in refined management of legal risks. Therefore ,they are familiar with various legal risk management tools and techniques. Meanwhile, they track and research the legal risks of their respectively responsible industries in a long-term and real-time manner, so they are able to effectively integrate legal knowledge, corporate financial knowledge and management knowledge. The core purpose of Zhong Yin's compliance and legal risk management is to help the clients improve compliance management efficiency to effectively prevent and control compliance risks. With the methods of prevention, in-process control and remedies afterwards, they are aimed to achieve full control of corporate legal risks and establish a standardized and effective legal risk control system for the clients, so that the clients can achieve the strategic goals of sustainable and steady development.

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