Zhong Yin Law Firm

Zhong Yin Law Firm, established in January 1993, is among the earliest partnership law firms approved in China. It is headquartered in Beijing and currently has branch offices in more than 42 Mainland cities including Shanghai, Tianjin, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Xi'an and other cites (including the branches established and such in preparation), and established its association law firm with Hong Kong and Macao law firms, ZLF Law Office, which is China’s first, as well as its Qianhai branch. It has over 4,000 lawyers and staff members, including more than 3,000 lawyers.

Zhong Yin lawyers actively explore overseas markets, build a global legal service system and strive to lead the way in all practice areas. Zhong Yin lawyers have established strategic partnerships with legal service agencies in more than a dozen countries including the United States, Germany, France, and Canada. A large number of Zhong Yin international lawyers are capable of providing legal services to clients in English, French, Japanese, Korean, German and other languages, which ensures that Zhong Yin’s clients can quickly obtain comprehensive and efficient legal services on a global scale. Excellent services make Zhong Yin lawyers the most recognized and trusted partners of clients. In recent years, the number of clients, the proportion of market share and the total revenue of Zhong Yin have increased significantly.

Zhong Yin lawyers always adhere to the service concept of “customer orientation, professional cooperation, diligence and conscientiousness, excellence and high efficiency”, focus on client needs, give full play to the strength of Zhong Yin’s global legal service system, and integrate the resources of all lawyers and departments of all branches. While providing clients with high-quality and efficient legal services, they can also provide business information to clients and promote business cooperation among clients. Zhong Yin lawyers closely follow national policies and regulations, maintain good working relations with government departments including the People’s Bank of China, China Securities Regulatory Commission, China Banking Regulatory Commission, China Insurance Regulatory Commission, State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, China Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. They also have excellent business relations and communication channels with judicial departments at all levels and arbitration institutions at home and abroad. Zhong Yin is a leading standardized, professional, large-scale, internationalized and comprehensive law firm in China.

Practice areas
Securities and Capital Markets

• IPO
• Major asset restructuring of listed companies
• Refinance of listed companies
• Private equity and investment fund
• Commercial investment and financing
• Debt capital market

Banking and Finance

• Banking
• Insurance
• Trust
• Disposal of non-performing assets
• Financial leasing
• Syndicated loan, commercial loan
• International finance
• Financial derivatives
• Project financing
• Other asset management

Investment and M&A

• FDI (foreign direct investment)
• Acquisition and merger
• Overseas investment
• “Belt and Road” and cross-border legal service
• Related commercial investment and financing

Corporate and Commercial

• Permanent legal consulting
• Labor and employment
• Anti-corruption and anti-commercial bribery
• Other corporate and commercial legal services

Bankruptcy and Restructuring

• Self-liquidation
• Compulsory liquidation
• Bankruptcy liquidation
• Bankruptcy reorganization
• Bankruptcy conciliation
• Risk prevention

Litigation and Arbitration

• Civil and commercial litigation
• Financial litigation
• Compliance and review
• Arbitration
• Government service and administrative litigation
• Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)

Criminal Defense

• Duty crimes
• Finance and securities crimes
• Intellectual property crimes
• Internet crimes
• Smuggling and drug-related crime
• Corporate compliance services
• Overlapping criminal and civil cases
• Foreign-related legal business

International Trade and Maritime

• International trade
• Trade remedy and WTO
• South Korea-related legal services
• International energy and engineering
• International investment and M&A
• Foreign-related litigation and arbitration
• International finance
• International intellectual property
• Maritime & admiralty affairs
• Other international business

Intellectual property

• IP strategy deployment
• IP licensing and verification
• IP dispute resolution
• International IP protection
• IP commercialization
• IP risk compliance
• IP protection for SMEs
• IP deployment for tech innovation enterprises
• IP listing tutorials
• Protection from unfair competition
• IP and anti-monopoly compliance
• IP administrative protection
• IP criminal remedy

Real estate, construction and infrastructure

• Real estate
• Construction engineering
• Infrastructure
• PPP

Competition and supervision

• Advising on specific matters concerning antitrust
• Advising on specific matters concerning anti-unfair competition
• Consumer rights protection
• Structuring of global trade compliance system
• Structuring and improvement of export control compliance system
• Professional consultation in technical difficult areas such as customs valuation, customs classification and country of origin
• Due diligence for enterprises on import and export compliance, internal audit and Advanced Certified Enterprise (AEO) certification support
• Tariff planning, tax research, FTA planning
• Customs inspection, investigation and querying assistance
• Customs and other trade dispute resolution
• Cross-border transaction planning and preparing
• Green supply chain and carbon tariff (CBAM), carbon neutrality, carbon trading and other related legal services
• Other legal services related to competition, regulation, international supply chain and customs

Compliance and Risk Management  

• Analysis of legal risks
• Control of legal risks
• Evaluation of the control of legal risks