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.