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Beijing Cyan Law Firm
Unit 1706-1708, Tower A, Global Trade Center
No.36 North Third Ring East Road Dongcheng District
Beijing, 100013
100013
China

China > Dispute resolution: Arbitration: PRC firms Tier 3

As a boutique law firm, Beijing Cyan Law Firm offers a solid arbitration practice, with the team regularly advising both domestic and international clients on a range of civil and commercial arbitration cases. It has particular expertise in the construction industry, with a number of the team specialising in construction engineering disputes, including co-practice head Yinli Gao, as well as Wei Shi. Jun Wang also co-leads the group and has significant experience in international economy and trade disputes. Arthur Chiu is also noted for his international dispute resolution experience, particularly in the US.

Practice head(s):

Yinli Gao; Jun Wang

Other key lawyers:

Wei Shi; Arthur Chiu

Testimonials

‘The team at Cyan is quite dynamic. There is a considerable amount of effort to follow up on requests. Strong cross-border communication from the beginning.’

‘They can sort out client specific needs and provide flexible and considerate service. In the case of an arbitration award enforcement where the client has almost no knowledge, Cyan can advise every possible solution and recommend the practical options.’

‘Professional and able to think in the client’s position to provide flexible payment terms.’

‘Excellent lawyers. Highly ethical. We first dealt with them on the opposite side of a huge lawsuit but now we often use them with our own clients.’

‘Arthur Chiu understands both China and US litigation. He is truly an excellent lawyer.’

‘Arthur Chiu is knowledgeable, responsive, prompt, and most importantly, he is trustworthy.’

Key clients

China Eastern Airlines

Dagang Zhaodong Oil Company of PetroChina

China National Chemical Engineering Group Corporation Ltd.

S. B. Submarine Systems Co., Ltd.

International Business Department of China Petroleum Pipeline Engineering Co., Ltd.

SINOHYDRO Corporation Limited

China Ocean Aviation Group Limited

Sinopec Ningbo Engineering Co., Ltd.

Beijing Gongwei Times Culture Media Co., Ltd.

Samsung (China) Investment Co., Ltd.

Work highlights

  • Providing comprehensive legal services for the construction of the project of the base of China Eastern Airlines in Beijing Daxing Airport since 2017, which is a landmark project of this century in China.
  • Assisting Sinohydro Corporation Limited in preventing potential legal risks comprehensively since 2017. Sinohydro comprises 65% of the market share in China’s large-and medium-scale hydropower project construction.
  • Advising Dagang Zhaodong Oil Company of PetroChina in reviewing major business contracts and helping the client to minimize legal risks in multiple international and domestic jurisdictions.

China > Real estate and construction: PRC firms Tier 3

Beijing Cyan Law Firm has a broad presence in the market and knowledge of several sectors including aviation, telecoms and energy; it is particularly notable for its aviation expertise, advising on major airport constructions. Practice head Wanhe Ye has extensive experience in construction engineering matters, specialising in PPP infrastructure projects. As well as representing clients engaged in litigation, Ye provides a full range of legal services throughout his clients’ construction projects, including bidding, financing and general consultancy. Yinli Gao excels in construction disputes and, as a qualified structural engineer, offers first-hand knowledge of the industry. Alongside its extensive construction-related work, in the real estate space, the firm advises on urban renovation and hotel development.

Practice head(s):

Wanhe Ye; Yinli Gao

Other key lawyers:

Wei Shi; Arthur Chiu; Ziwei Zhang; Lu Wang; Jianchao Gao

Testimonials

‘Professional, suggestions are well-rounded.’

‘Professional, efficient and able to understand the client’s position.’

Key clients

China Eastern Airlines

China National Chemical Engineering Group Corporation Ltd.

S. B. Submarine Systems Co., Ltd.

International Business Department of China Petroleum Pipeline Engineering Co., Ltd.

Zhonglian Huarui Natural Gas Co., Ltd.

SINOHYDRO Corporation Limited

Samsung (China) Investment Co., Ltd.

China Ocean Aviation Group Limited

Sinopec Ningbo Engineering Co., Ltd.

Dagang Zhaodong Oil Company of PetroChina

Work highlights

  • Providing legal services on construction work at Beijing Daxing Airport for China Eastern Airlines.
  • Advising Sinohydro Corporation Limited on risk assessment for construction projects.
  • Acting as s long-term legal advisor to Dagang Zhaodong Oil Company of PetroChina (DZOC), including working to review major business contracts and providing legal risk assessment for construction projects.

Beijing Cyan Law Firm (Cyan) is specialized in providing comprehensive legal services in international and domestic construction and engineering, cross-border investment, international trade, intellectual property, commercial and finance transactions, corporate structuring, and others. We are committed to rendering client services that meet international standards.

All our staff have graduated from top law schools with good command of Chinese and English and abundant legal experience both in theory and practice. We have outstanding domestic legal experts and scholars, and senior lawyers with decades of work experience in various specialized sectors (ex. construction and engineering, litigation, commercial arbitration, public private partnership (PPP), corporate law, sports, and others). Each of our members is a leading figure in his/her expertise and has served various top enterprises and government agencies both in China and abroad.

Through prudent and proper specialization, cooperation, management, and resource sharing, we converge the wealth of wisdom, experience and resource we have for efficient completion of every client’s project.

Cyan serves a host of clients from different fields, including Fortune 500 multinational companies, large state-owned enterprises, high-tech innovative ventures and traditional manufacturing companies. Meanwhile, Cyan also provides legal advice and research reports on cutting-edge and major issues for central governments, local governments, enterprise associations, and international organizations. Our clients come from different jurisdictions spanning Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Singapore, Sri Lanka, the US, the UK, France, Canada, Germany, Sweden, Portugal, the British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands and many others.

Cyan attaches great importance on the cultivation of lawyers’ diversified knowledge structure. Through specialization, cooperation and resources sharing, with international management mechanism and lawyers’ over 30 years’ accumulation of experiences, wisdoms and resources, Cyan commits to providing the most effective and efficient professional services for our clients. Under the leadership of our partners, we have built a strong team of lawyers in various fields. The details are as follows:

Cyan Engineering Construction Team is proficient in construction law, and owns qualifications or professional titles such as Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS), National First-grade Registered Constructing Engineer, and has been selected in the annual lists of Chambers and the Asian Legal Business. The combination of law and technology enables the Cyan team to better understand and explore the essence of legal services for construction projects and achieve optimal communication with customers so as to provide better legal support. With superb legal services and dedicated working attitude, our team leads the industry for a long time, and has accumulated extremely rich practice experience in the whole process of construction engineering, engineering guarantee, engineering insurance, engineering tax, cross-border engineering and other fields. Taking engineering guarantee as an example, we provide bank guarantee, standby letter of credit legal consultation and dispute resolution services for international engineering projects of many large state-owned enterprises in dozens of countries, including Russia, the United States, Bolivia, the Philippines, Egypt, Libya, Nigeria, Vietnam, Cameroon, etc. No matter the amount of guarantee or customer satisfaction, our team has maintained the proud performance of leading the industry.

Cyan Banking and Finance Team provides professional legal services including international trade finance, banking compliance review, legal services of innovative financial products, financial fraud, financial leasing, commercial paper, M&A financing, project financing and real estate financing, etc. Cyan has provided legal services for many reputable international and domestic financial institutions like Credit Suisse, Zurich Insurance Group, Huatai Asset Management, etc.

Cyan’s International and Domestic Commercial Arbitration Team have accumulated almost 30 years’ practice experience, and the cases they dealt with covered many fields including international sales transactions, international goods transportation, Sino-foreign joint venture/ co-operative enterprises, construction engineering, real estate, automobile, iron and steel, etc. Cyan’s team members have a profound study of relevant laws in China and foreign countries and are expert at solving major and complicated cases. We can maximize profits for our clients. Based on elaborate analysis of the related industries and transaction processes in specific cases, our members have provided efficient and high-quality services for the clients and received extensive praises. In addition, Cyan’s team can establish more sophisticated internal compliance risk control mechanisms to prevent new disputes.

Cyan’s Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) Team has provided professional legal services for various domestic and international PPP projects, covering a wide range of fields such as identifying project risks, designing transaction structures, drafting contracts, issuing legal opinions, and participating in project negotiations etc. Cyan managing partner Wanhe Ye and several other lawyers were hired as the core experts of the PPP legislation drafting group of the National Development and Reform Commission of China, and several lawyers of Cyan team have been serving as the experts of the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Finance for a long time. They are deeply involved in the legislation of infrastructure REITs system and infrastructure and public utility franchise system of China and have been contributing to China’s PPP legal construction. In a series of PPP projects represented by the China-Laos high-speed railway project, such as transportation, water, environmental protection and other public utilities, district development, education, medical and other PPP projects, Cyan PPP team wholeheartedly provides the best legal services sharing for all parties involved in PPP projects with profound international/domestic experience accumulation.

Cyan Investment and M&A team has assisted domestic and foreign investors to deal with legal issues evolving from the establishment, operation, and termination of a foreign-related enterprise, such as equity joint ventures, cooperative joint ventures and wholly foreign-owned enterprises, branch offices or representative offices as well as from the merger and acquisition of enterprises by foreign investors in China. Cyan successfully ensures the legitimacy and safety of clients’ investment, effectively protects clients’ interests, and is highly trusted by the clients.

Cyan’s IP team is led by the partners with abundant experience in theory and practice. The IP team has had a high rate of winning the lawsuit in various of significant and complex disputes in the field of intellectual property. Our IP team has provided IP protection legal services to many large international companies/overseas enterprises, including providing commercial and legal advice to a large number of US oil and gas companies on market access in China and other countries, including IP protection, strategic planning for market entry, contract negotiation and drafting, import and export and tariff management regulations, etc. Cyan has successfully provided commercial and legal advice to a Hong Kong art industry company on market access, intellectual property protection and contract design in China and other countries.

In addition, the team of Cyan also has accumulated extensive experience in the areas of U.S./Russia-related sanctions, personal information protection, and family offices to protect the interests of our clients.

DepartmentNameEmailTelephone
Construction and Engineering Ye Wanhewanhe.ye@caianlaw.com008610 56830601
Dispute Resolution Gao Yinliyinli.gao@caianlaw.com008610 56830619
International Legal Affairs Arthur Chiuarthur.chiu@caianlaw.com008610 56830607
Commercial Arbitration Wang Junjun.wang@caianlaw.com008610 56830600
Sports Chen Fengfeng.chen@caianlaw.com008610 56830600
PPP Shi Weiwei.shi@caianlaw.com008610 56830620
Administrative Legal Affairs Ren Weitaoweitao.ren@caianlaw.com008610 56830600
Banking and Finance Dai Pingping.dai@caianlaw.com008610 56830603
Banking and Finance Piwei Sunpiwei.sun@caianlaw.com008610 56830606
PhotoNamePositionProfile
Feng Chen photoMr Feng ChenPartner, Senior Consultant
Jiangnan Chen photoMs Jiangnan ChenAssociate
Arthur Chiu photoMr Arthur ChiuProject Partner, Senior Consultant (International & U.S.Legal Affairs)
Ping Dai photoMs Ping DaiPartner, Senior Consultant
Jianchao Gao photoMr Jianchao GaoSenior Associate
Yinli Gao photoMr Yinli GaoPartner, Senior Consultant
Jiarong Li photoMs Jiarong LiJunior Associate
Weitao Ren photoMr Weitao RenPartner
Wei Shi photoDr Wei ShiPartner
Piwei Sun photoMs Piwei SunPartner
Jun Wang photoProf Jun WangPartner, Senior Consultant
Lu Wang photoMs Lu WangSenior Associate
Wanhe Ye photoMr Wanhe YeManaging Partner
Zi'ang Zhao photoMr Zi'ang ZhaoParalegal

Cyan was invited to provide professional comments to the Ministry of Justice of P.R.C on the Regulations on Compensation for Ecological Protection (Draft for Review)

Recently, at the invitation of the Ministry of Justice, Beijing Cyan Law Firm (“Cyan”) provided professional comments on the Regulations on Compensation for Ecological Protection (Draft for Review) submitted by the National Development and Reform Commission to the State Council for deliberation.

The Amendment of The Bidding Law is Coming—Beijing Cyan Law Firm was invited to provide professional comments to the Ministry of Justice of P.R.C

Recently, as per the invitation by the Ministry of Justice, Beijing Cyan Law Firm (“Cyan”) provided professional comments on The Bidding Law of the People's Republic of China (Revised Draft Submitted for Review) (The Bidding Law (Revised Draft Submitted for Review)”) submitted by the National Development and Reform Commission to the State Council for deliberation.

Cyan Law Firm participated in the “China Arbitration Summit 2021 and the 2nd Belt and Road Arbitration Institutions Forum” as a sub venue

On September 14th 2021, as one of the sub venues of the “China Arbitration Summit 2021 and the 2nd Belt and Road Arbitration Institutions Forum”, Beijing Cyan Law Firm, together with the legal experts, scholars and attendees of the Summit from all over the world in the main venue, witnessed the grand event of the highest standard in China's arbitration field through online network.

Cyan continues to be employed to provide comprehensive legal services for China Eastern Airlines Project in Beijing Daxing International Airport

Through fierce competition in the competitive negotiations organized by China Eastern Airlines Co. Ltd., Beijing Cyan Law Firm emerged as best candidate, and was selected as the legal service provider of the First Bid-section of Phase Two Project of the China Eastern Airlines Base in Beijing Daxing International Airport. Cyan will provide legal services of whole process of engineering for China Eastern Airlines Co. Ltd. in the coming three years.

Cyan’s partners and lawyers gave lectures at the invitation of well-known enterprises at home and abroad

Recently, a number of partners and lawyers of Beijing Cyan Law Firm gave lectures on different topics at the invitation of clients of well-known enterprises who have been cooperating with Cyan for a long time. They have achieved good results and received unanimous acclaim.

Cyan’s partners and lawyers gave lectures at the invitation of well-known domestic enterprises

Recently, several partners and lawyers of Beijing Cyan Law Firm gave lectures on different topics at the invitation of well-known enterprises clients with long-term cooperation, which achieved good results and were widely praised.