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PW & Partners

GUANGZHOU, China
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Annual Legal Service Practices

  • Act as legal counsel of HAY* Co., Ltd..
  • Act as legal counsel of M* Nutrition China.
  • Act as legal counsel of *-Health.
  • Act as legal counsel of Pharma*.
  • Act as legal counsel of RK*.
  • Act as legal counsel of REN*.
  • Act as legal counsel of * Circuit.
  • Act as legal counsel of Guangdong * Pharmaceutical company
  • Act as legal counsel of Su* Commerce Group Co., Ltd.
  • Act as legal counsel of Toy Association;
  • Act as legal counsel of HAY* Co., Ltd..

Labor and Personnel Legal Service Practices

  • Acted for Guangzhou* International Company Limited to provide an employee relocation resolution, which was recognized by the government, and was awarded the prize of ‘Trustful and Considerate Organization to Employees’ by the Guangdong Labor Union.
  • Provided legal services for the large-scale central enterprise *Kwong Group in Macau-related cross-border labor employment.
  • Provided employee placement legal services for the entire relocation of China* Construction Group’s subsidiaries from Guangzhou Haizhu District to Baiyun District. The project was successfully implemented with the assistance of PW lawyers, and nearly 200 employees involved no disputes.
  • Acted for REV* to provide a cross-border employment design and solution of employment structure.
  • Acted for ALPHA* to provide special legal service in hiring management.
  • Acted for a US-founded candy company in China, to successfully finalize a nationwide redundancy project within a finite and tight time frame; our actions received high praise from the client’s headquarters in the United States.
  • Acted for M* Nutrition China Ltd. to provide legal opinions on law application and risk assessment, to review legal documents, and to provide advice and solutions of legal issues in the 150 employees redundancy project; all affected employees signed the settlement agreements.
  • Acted as the legal advisor for *Circuit (Guangzhou) Ltd., to provide legal services for a relocation project by transferring labor relations from one legal entity to another legal entity; which included but not limited to, providing legal opinions and legal documents for the project involving 2000 employees to secure the legal compliance of the relocation. The project was smoothly and successfully completed, with the exception of 12 cases which were finally settled by negotiation.

Practice in Investment, M&A

  • Provided financing legal consulting and contract review service for a well-known foreign bank.
  • Service for members of Precious Metals Exchange including financing legal consulting and dispute resolution.
  • Acted for the Hong Kong *shun Capital co., LTD. to purchase the listing and financing project in Canada of a Chinese mining enterprise (in English).
  • Acted for Guangzhou Sheng* Communication Entertainment Advertising Company on an acquisition project.
  • Acted for the Guangzhou Zhen* pharmaceutical co., LTD on an equity M&A project (in Chinese and English).
  • Assisted an English Education Group with merging an international school in Guangzhou China.
  • Assisted an American listed company with acquiring 4 Chinese high-tech companies.
  • Assisted a Hong Kong listed company with acquiring a wharf property right.
  • Provided legal service for Dong* Water Investment Group on establishment of a foundation project and its foreign investment.
  • Advised 32 sewage treatment plant in Dong* city for BOT financing and construction.
  • Acted as legal counsel for the first PPP project in Dong* city.

Practice in Intellectual Property

  • In the infringement dispute of appearance design patent between two giant furniture companies in China, PW represented and defended Chang* Furniture, finally reaching a mediation with the Plaintiff, Au* Group in adverse circumstances, which received Client’s high recognition.
  • The case of Copyright Protection for B*System, which was the recommended the Ten Typical Cases of National Intellectual Property Rights in that year by the Guangdong Intellectual Property Protection Association.
  • Entrusted by a third party payment agency and acted for the Company, PW applied to declare the utility model patent of a mobile terminal payment system invalid and instituted a follow-up administrative litigation.
  • Acted for a Hong Kong company to win in a litigation of electronic business secret protection.
  • Acted for Wrig* (China) in the case of cracking down on counterfeit chewing gum.
  • Entrusted by an automatic beverage dispenser manufacturer in Guangzhou, PW instituted the utility model patent infringement ligation on “an automatic beverage machine power box” with a competitive enterprise in Changzhou, Jiangsu, and declared the patent invalid.
  • Acted for Fuli* Crafts and Toys Co., Ltd. in the patent infringement case versus MG* Entertainment Co., Ltd..
  • Acted for San* Technologies Limited in the litigation of waterproof camera shell invention patent infringement.
  • Acted for K.USU* & CO., LTD in relation to the dispute of trademark registration, trademark opposition and administrative litigation.
  • Registration application for a copyright of Black Hair *;
  • Opposition to a trademark for Guangzhou Nansha* Metal plastic products Co., Ltd..

Practice Focus in Competition Law

  • Reviewed Wrig* (China) in each sales areas of the country on the advertising contract, brand promotion service contract, advertising promotion, promotion sales promotion and promotion materials.
  • Acted for P* Co. , Ltd. Guangdong to deal with the network advertising violations report and successfully made the report fail to file a case in the administrative department.
  • Acted for Wrig* (China) to handle the report of the violation on the promotional flyer, which ultimately made the report not filed in the administrative department.
  • Acted for Pharma* to review the complaince of the sales product advertising in China.
  • Acted for BI* China (French-funded enterprises) to response the award sales administrative illegal investigation and punishment.
  • Acted for Guangdong Su* Sales Co., Ltd. to deal with the contract dispute caused by the suspected false propaganda. Through repeated communication with the plaintiff and the court, the case was ultimately withdrawn.
  • Acted for the M* Johnson nutrition (China) co., LTD to properly handle false reporting matters on the Mother and Child World Journal and QinbeiCOM, which protected the company’s goodwill.

Practice in Dispute Resolution

  • Acted for a Chinese company and an Indonesian subsidiary to provide full legal services for the investment recovery of coal projects in Indonesia, including investment structure design, transaction negotiation, project recovery and subsequent investment disputes of more than US$8 million for Hong Kong international arbitration.
  • Represented a well-known US-funded enterprise Ma* and its distributors in contract dispute cases for over 30 million yuan.
  • Represented a high-end property company invested by the United Kingdom in litigation and won the case for a dispute over 50 million yuan in property management fees.
  • Acted for a Hong Kong-funded company and a telecommunications giant company in a number of trial-level litigation agency services for disputes over 120 million yuan in contract payments.
  • Acted for Zhao sued a financial platform service contract dispute and was selected as a typical financial case in Guangdong Province in 2020.
  • Represented a Hong Kong-funded company and a Beijing company in the negotiation and negotiation of a 200 million yuan loan dispute.
  • PW represented Guangzhou Entertain* Theater Management Co., Ltd. in the process of renting the Huachenghui Mall of Guangzhou City* Investment Group Co., Ltd., and the lessee sued for recourse of 20 million yuan in overdue rent and management fees. PW has formulated a detailed and meticulous response strategy through repeated case discussion, evidence collection, facts sorting and a lot of legal research work. The views expressed during the arbitral tribunal process were unanimously approved by the arbitral tribunal and finally PW helped client avoided 20 million losses.
  • Acted for a number of commodity trading and service platforms such as Guangdong Precious Metals Trading Center, Guangzhou Commodity Exchange, Southern Cultural Property Exchange, Nanning (China-ASEAN) Commodity Exchange to deal with dozens of commodity trading disputes.
  • Acted for *-Health company to deal with related professional anti-counterfeiter dispute cases, including product quality, sales contracts, online shopping, etc. Cases were throughout the country and up to dozens of pieces.

Team Services

PW & Partners Law Firm is located in the core area of the Zhujiang New Town CBD in Guangzhou. It is a commercial law firm specializing in foreign-related business and is recommended by the Guangdong Provincial Department of Justice as a national model institution for foreign-related legal services. Three of its lawyers have been selected by the Ministry of Justice as part of the national pool of a thousand foreign-related legal talents. The firm is also among the first batch of law firms included in the cross-border and “Belt and Road” lawyer talent pool by the All China Lawyers Association, and the first batch of foreign-related law firms in Guangdong Province. It has been honored as an Excellent Law Firm in Guangdong Province, an Excellent Law Firm in the 30 Years of Reform in Guangzhou, and an Excellent Management Law Firm in Guangzhou. It has been continuously recognized and recommended by international legal rating agencies such as Asian Legal Business (ALB), Chambers, LEGAL500, and China Business Law Journal.

PW & Partners Law Firm adheres to political guidance and prioritizes party building. The PW Party Branch has been awarded numerous honors, including Advanced Grassroots Party Organization in the National Legal Industry, Model Party Organization for Party Building Work in the Guangdong Legal Industry, Advanced Grassroots Party Organization in the Guangdong Legal Industry, Demonstration Site for Party Building Work in the Guangzhou Legal Industry, and one of the Top Ten Grassroots Party Building Brands in the Guangzhou Legal Industry.

With the mission of “solving problems with legal wisdom,” PW& Partners focuses on commercial legal fields such as corporate and investment financing, labor and human resources, state-owned enterprises and state assets, intellectual property, antitrust and unfair competition, anti-dumping and countervailing, data information compliance and protection, enterprise compliance system construction and certification, and dispute resolution. The firm serves industries including funds and investment, fast-moving consumer goods, manufacturing, engineering and infrastructure, medical education and health, technology, and the internet. It provides high-quality legal services to numerous state-owned enterprises, foreign-invested enterprises, and private enterprises, including several Fortune 500 companies.

PW& Partners Law Firm boasts a team of elite professionals, with several lawyers holding positions as directors and deputy directors of professional committees in the Lawyers Association, as well as arbitrators and mediators in various arbitration and commercial mediation institutions. Currently, the firm has one national leading foreign-related lawyer, three lawyers in the Ministry of Justice’s national pool of a thousand foreign-related legal talents, seven foreign-related legal talents in Guangdong Province, and eleven foreign-related legal talents in Guangzhou. Five colleagues hold doctoral degrees, and many have overseas study experience. Additionally, the firm has established stable connections with senior lawyer teams and consultant teams in many countries. Relying on the rich practical experience of its cross-border legal service team, a mature cross-border working model, and a deep understanding of different national cultural backgrounds, PW& Partners Law Firm can provide high-quality and reliable international commercial legal services to Chinese enterprises.

PW& Partners Law Firm successfully undertook the Greek law firm cooperation and compilation project of the “Country Reports on the Legal Environment of Countries along the ‘Belt and Road'” by the All China Lawyers Association. In the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, PW lawyers provided legal services for major projects in key infrastructure areas such as transportation, energy, and communications. In promoting the optimization of the business environment, PW lawyers, as expert members of the Guangzhou Business Environment Optimization Project Team, actively offered suggestions to government management departments and participated in drafting the “Guangzhou Business Environment Optimization Regulations (Draft),” providing intellectual support for optimizing the business environment. As an executive director of the Guangdong Association of Enterprises with Foreign Investment and the director unit of the Policy and Legal Advisory Committee of the Guangzhou Association of Enterprises with Foreign Investment, Pw lawyers provide compliance services with Chinese law for many well-known foreign enterprises in Guangzhou. In interactions with various national chambers of commerce, the firm strives to showcase China’s excellent rule-of-law business environment and international image, telling China’s story well and achieving positive results.

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