Brighteous Law Firm has sophisticated lawyers who are specialized in international trade and investment law and who are familiar with international conventions, international trade practices, international private law rules and relevant Chinese laws and regulations. We have maintained a well cooperation relationship with both law firms and financial, investment agencies in the US, the UK, France, Germany, Argentina, the Netherlands, Hongkong, Macau and Taiwan, etc. Brighteous lawyers are devoted to provide high quality foreign related litigation/arbitration or non-litigation legal affairs with their distinctive expertise and high degree professional dedication. We provide the following services to domestic and overseas clients:
◆ Foreign Investment
To analyze and design for foreign investment in China; to provide legal opinions; to draft FIE contracts, articles of association, and other documents, etc; to assist to process or to process the approval and business registration formalities of FIEs (including equity joint ventures, contractual joint ventures, wholly foreign-owned enterprises)
◆ International Trade
To provide overall legal service for negotiation, contract execution, contract performance, dispute settlement in international goods trade, service trade and technology trade to domestic or foreign companies
To provide litigation, arbitration or non-litigation mediation legal service for international trade related disputes of L/C, transportation contract, etc.
To provide avoiding or responding advices on anti-dumping, anti-subsidy, guarantee measures, and technical barriers based on WTO legislations
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◆ Financing, M&A, and Oversea Listing
To provide special legal advice for oversea listing of domestic companies, and merger & acquisition initiated by foreign enterprises
To cooperate with oversea agencies such as financing, investment companies, to assist the clients to list in the US, the UK stock markets, etc, and to find the best financing channels for the clients
To set up or help to set up offshore companies
◆ International Finance
To provide professional legal support for the international business of commercial banks, import & export banks, foreign funded banks, foreign funded insurance companies, etc.
◆ International Construction Projects
To provide special legal service for international construction projects business to domestic companies, including services in the stages of communication, negotiation, contract execution, construction implementation, account settlement, and dispute settlement, etc
To provide professional legal service for construction projects with the FIDIC terms adopted
◆ Foreign-related Intellectual Property Rights
To provide legal service for IPRs (patent, trademark, copyright, etc) oversea application, maintenance, protection to domestic clients in foreign areas and for foreign clients in China; to represent domestic enterprises to respond to the 337 investigation of the US
◆ Legal consultant Service
To act as legal counselors for import & export companies, foreign-oriented companies, and FIEs, and to provide professional legal service and suggestions for legal issues of international trade, investment, and daily management

Working Experience

Foreign Investment

• Providing legal service for the cooperation programme between a Hangzhou electronic technology company and the US GE company
• Providing legal service for the joint equity programme between a Zhejiang software company and the U.S State Street Incorporation
• Representing a Zhejiang Jinggong group in dealing with a cooperation agreement dispute with a Oklahoma company of the US
• Providing legal service for the cooperation programme between a Haining textile dyeing group and the French Décathlon group
• Providing legal service for a multinational in the establishment of a Sino-foreign equity joint venture in Guangxi Province, including drafting the memorandum of understanding, the agreement with the government, the equity joint venture contract, articles of association and ancillary agreements such as the technology licensing agreement etc. in both Chinese and English
• Representing a French multinational in negotiating with a local government on the early termination and dissolution of an equity joint venture and drafting legal documents in both Chinese and English
• Providing overall service for a US company in establishing an equity joint venture in Mongolia till the issuance of the business license
• Providing legal service for the joint equity programme between a Zhejing technology joint-stock company and the Hitachi Systems & Services, Ltd. of Japan
• Providing legal service for the joint equity programme between a French company and the Zhaofeng company of Haimen, Jiangsu
• Providing legal service for the cooperation programme between a Zhejiang biological engineering company and a Denmark multinational group
• Assisting a French multinational in solving a dispute in relation to a Sino-foreign equity joint venture in Jiangsu Province
• Representing a German client in the case of Sino-foreign equity joint venture contract recession dispute against the Chinese shareholders

Foreign-related M&A

• Assisting a large domestic group company in completion of an acquisition involving more than RMB 40 million with a French multinational
• Providing overall services for a US company in its proposed acquisition of state-owned shares of a state-owned petroleum enterprise in Mongolia
• Providing overall services for a Hongkong packaging material company in an acquisition of an internationally well-known five-start hotel in Shanghai
• Assisting a Hongkong company in the transfer of shares in a Sino-foreign equity joint venture with the total sum of sales price obtained
• Reviewing the acquisition agreement and providing legal opinions for a Taiwanese pharmaceutical company in an acquisition with a domestic health food company

Other Foreign Related Legal Services

• Acting as the legal counselor for Zhejiang Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Department since 2003
• Dealing with the case of cargo transportation dispute between a U.S company and its cargo agencies in the US and Shanghai
• The municipal construction project of a Zhejiang construction Group in a Middle East country
• The cooperation programme between a Hangzhou electronic joint-stock company and Nokia
• The technology development cooperation project of a Hangzhou electronic technology company and a German company
• The cooperation project of an Western Australia academy and a university in Zhejiang
• Presenting a Zhejiang import and export company in a case of property damage compensation dispute against a Switzerland company