Effort Law Firm

Co-effort Law Firm enjoys an excellent reputation and rich experience in the MSC field and has acted for many shipowners' protection and indemnity associations, famous domestic and foreign shipping companies, insurance companies, shipyards, docks, and other shipping institutions as well as financial leasing companies in numerous cases with far-reaching influence. To further integrate the resources and promote the professional development of its business, Co-effort Law Firm set up the Maritime Specialty Committee (MSC) in March 2015 to give full play to its professional advantages and focus on the development of maritime and international trade. Zheng Lei serves as the director and team leader of the Committee. The Committee has more than 30 members, all having a solid theoretical basis and rich experience in practice and can effectively help clients solve legal problems. Up to now, the Committee has been recognized by many authoritative legal rating agencies such as Chambers, China Business Law Journal, ALB, and has won many awards and honors.

The members of the Committee all graduated from famous maritime colleges and universities at home and abroad, and have received a doctorate or master's degree under the supervision of celebrated scholars in maritime fields. They were specially selected by the Supreme People's Court and the British Bar Association . They went to Belgium, London, and Sweden to receive extra-territorial legal training. The members have rich experience in providing extra-territorial litigation and arbitration services in New York, London, and Singapore to Chinese clients. At the same time, as an arbitrator of the China Maritime Arbitration Commission, the Shanghai Arbitration Commission, the Shanghai International Shipping Arbitration Court, the Shanghai International Arbitration Centre, and the London International Arbitration Court, members of the MSC have maintained good communication relations with domestic maritime courts, arbitration institutions , port authorities, and competent maritime authorities, as well as long and friendly cooperative relations with famous maritime law firms and shipping institutions and organizations in the world.

Our clients include large and medium-sized state-owned enterprises in China as well as multinational companies from the United States, Switzerland, Japan, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Italy, Hong Kong, and other countries and regions in the fields of shipping, steel, coal, petroleum, fertilizer, grain, machinery, and equipment, electronic instruments, etc. With good professional quality, ability, and professional understanding of the industry, the MSC Professional Committee of the Co-effort Law Firm is trusted and praised by its clients.

The Co-effort Law Firm's Intellectual Property Right Specialty Committee was established in 2015 with one director, three deputy directors, one secretary-general, three deputy secretaries-general and several members.

Since its establishment, the Committee has held many online and offline seminars and forums involving copyright, trademark, patent, unfair competition and other intellectual property rights fields. It has held several lectures and courses oriented to the outside world and shared its members' latest research results and cases with the intellectual property field. It has promoted academic and practical exchanges in the intellectual property field and information exchanges and theoretical development in the intellectual property field.

The Co-effort Law Firm Intellectual Property Right Specialty Committee has actively summed up the experience, clarified direction, and published several professional books titled "Highlights of Classical Intellectual Property Cases" in the name of the Committee since 2016. It also provided active guidance for lawyers in the professional field to develop and make progress.

Lawyers in the Co-effort Law Firm Intellectual Property Right Specialty Committee graduated from celebrated Chinese or foreign law schools, most of whom have obtained a master's degree in law or above, some of whom have studied practiced abroad for a long time. Many of whom have obtained degrees in science and engineering and qualify as patent agents. The Co-effort Law Firm Intellectual Property Professional Committee has profound opinions and practices in computer software legal service, online game legal service, video sharing legal service, animation and creative industry legal service , entertainment and media legal services, etc.

Lawyers of the Committee have successfully acted as agents for new types of cases in China such as the Super MT Case, the MU Online Case, the Fishing Joy Case, the Killers of the Three Kingdoms prosecutes the Three Kingdoms Kill Case and other new types cases , which have been widely reported by the media. Lawyers of the Committee have represented many winning cases, which have won many honors, such as "Top Ten Typical Cases of Shanghai Court of the Year", "Top Ten Influential Cases of China's Internet Rule of Law", and "Top Ten Hot Cases of China's Copyright Industry of the Year", etc.

The Committee has provided legal services for institutions such as the Cultural Development Foundation, the Art Expo, the Shanghai Asian Music Festival, the Shanghai Grand Theatre, the Shanghai Concert Hall and American Business Software Alliance, Crystal CG Information Technology Company, China United Network Communications Limited Shanghai Branch, Microsoft, Autodesk, Adobe, Solidworks, PTC, Nexon, Tencent, PPPStream, Crystal CG, Tudou, Shanda Group, Canxing Culture, Shanda Group, Shengqu Games, China Literature Limited, Whaley Technology Co., Ltd., Youku , Hujiang.com, China United Network Communications Limited Shanghai Branch, Dianping.com, Pook Network Technology Co., Ltd., Bianfeng Group, Beijing Kunlun Tech Co., Ltd., Suzhou Lingshi Network Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing Re Feng Hu Dong Network Technology Co., Ltd., ISpeak, Shanghai Media Group, Shangying Huanya Culture Development (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Novoland International Cultural Communication Co., Ltd., Shanghai Electronic Arts Development Co., Ltd., Tomson Group, etc.

The Committee has been committed to seeking the best combination of law and technology, theory and practice. The Committee has deep insights and practices in computer software legal services, online game legal services, video-sharing legal services, animation and creative industry legal services, media industry legal services and general entertainment industry legal services. The Committee is committed to providing full support for the development and prosperity of Co-effort Law Firm.

The Criminal Specialty Committee of Co-effort Law Firm has a professional criminal defense team. The members of the Committee not only have a solid theoretical basis but also have the rich practical experience and strong strength, can handle various criminal cases, especially in the leading business fields such as financial crimes, economic crimes, duty-related crimes, corruption and bribery crimes, smuggling crimes and drug-related crimes, have made particularly outstanding achievements, handled a large number of major cases with social influence and provided parties with many high -quality criminal defense legal services.

The Criminal Specialty Committee of Co-effort Law Firm lawyers are graduates of top law schools at home and abroad. Some of them have rich experience in judicial work in public security bureau, procuratorate, court and other state agencies. In the course of a large number of cases, the team has grasped the trends of law and court trials. The defense opinions put forward in most financial and economic crime cases were finally adopted by the court, and the maximum benefits have been achieved for our clients concerned within the scope of the law. The Criminal Specialty Committee of Co-effort Law Firm also maintains close contact with lawyers from other departments in various fields, enabling us to provide more professional, comprehensive and effective legal services to our clients.

Co-effort Law Firm has a modern office environment and is committed to providing high-quality legal services to our clients. Computerized process management and case-control and the use of Alpha network technology enable us to follow up and update case records to ensure efficient legal services management.

The Bankruptcy Specialty Committee of Shanghai Co-effort Law Firm (hereinafter referred to as the "Co-effort Bankruptcy Committee") is a professional committee specializing in independent liquidation, bankruptcy liquidation, compulsory liquidation, bankruptcy restructuring and enterprise restructuring. The Co-effort Bankruptcy Committee was established on October 24, 2015. It integrates advantageous resources in respect of intellectual property, corporate securities, M&A finance, construction and real estate, corporate debt risks, dissolves social contradictions and assists in bankruptcy cases by relying on the comprehensive and large -scale platform of Co-effort Law Firm, and has achieved sound social and legal effects. After five years of development, the Co-effort Bankruptcy Committee currently has more than 100 member lawyers including senior partners, partners and senior lawyers. All team members graduated from celebrated Chinese and foreign law schools, most of whom have a master's degree of law or above, and some hold CPA certificates. Several lawyers of the committee have been engaging in the profession for more than 15 years, and has not only relevant professional knowledge and rich experience in bankruptcy and liquidation, but also rich experience in various particular fields such as labor-capital coordination, asset management and disposal, corporate day-to-day affairs handling, intellectual property rights, corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, financial business, etc., and can effectively communicate with audit and evaluation institutions to ensure efficient completion of bankruptcy work and comprehensively promote the orderly conduct of bankruptcy proceedings.

As the bankruptcy administrator appointed by the Shanghai High People's Court, Co-effort Law Firm has undertaken about 50 bankruptcy liquidation, bankruptcy restructuring and bankruptcy reconciliation cases, including state-owned enterprises, private enterprises and Sino-foreign joint ventures. With a long cycle of bankruptcy cases, complex legal relationships, many historical issues and extensive social influence, Co-effort Bankruptcy Committee is committed to the utmost sincerity and openness, diligent in bankruptcy cases, stop losses and reverses losses, actively communicates with people's courts, creditors, government departments, debtors, strategic investors, employees and other interested parties, and actively and comprehensively promote bankruptcy work based on the trust of all parties concerned. The Co-effort Bankruptcy Committee is currently promoting in an orderly manner a series of typical bankruptcy cases involving a large number of creditors, vast sums of money, complex legal relationships and extensive social influence. The industries involved in real estate, construction engineering, computer technology, service industry, manufacturing, culture and entertainment, wholesale and retail industries, etc., covering Shanghai , Beijing, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other regions. The professional and down-to-earth administrators' work style has been praised by the people's courts, government departments, and debtors.

The Co-effort Bankruptcy Committee has maintained effective communication and cooperation with accounting firms, bankruptcy liquidation firms and local courts, and has discussed and exchanged academic and practical issues related to its field with various professional institutions, scholars from colleges and universities, and lawyers both at home and abroad on many occasions. The Co-effort Law Firm has jointly sponsored the "Seminar on Legal and Policy Issues in the Field of Enterprise Bankruptcy under the New Situation", together with the Bankruptcy Law Research Society of Shanghai Law Society and the Financial Law Research Society of Shanghai Law Society. The firm held the "2020 Enterprise Risks Trilogy-Credit Control, Collection and Bankruptcy" offline exchange conference, jointly with the LCOUNCIL and creditors' group. We have also hosted the "Seminar on Audit Business in Handling Bankruptcy Cases by Administrators" with the Shanghai Bankruptcy Administrators Association and well-known accounting firms, which has attracted wide attention and praise in the industry.

Apart from that, Co-effort Law Firm's experience in this field has laid a solid foundation for the firm's legal services in the disposal of non-performing assets, restructuring creditor's rights and debts, tax planning, etc.

The Co-effort Bankruptcy Committee has won the China Outstanding Law Firm Award for Bankruptcy and Restructuring of Commercial Law, and the first batch of immediate commendation of Shanghai Bankruptcy Administrators Association during the period of Novel Coronavirus Epidemic Prevention and Control.

The Labor Law Specialty Committee of Co-effort Law Firm was formally established in March 2019 with the purpose of "combining scientific research with authentic research, serving as the foundation, resolving disputes and creating value". It aims to deepen the research on labor law in light of practical needs, provide various forms of services relating to employment-related legal consultation, open courses and internal training, risk prevention plan design, arbitration and litigation representation to guide clients to effectively reduce and prevent labor disputes, settle labor disputes in a timely and effective manner and promote the establishment of harmonious labor relationship.

The scope of services mainly includes but not limited to:

✓ Risk control for the whole process of labor employment

✓ Compilation and modification of labor contract (multi-language)

✓ Drafting of rules and regulations, democratic consultation and guidance on the publicity procedure

✓ Overtime system design and special working hours arrangement

✓ Management and control of annual vacation and other rest and vacation system

✓ Design of year-end bonus and other payroll systems

✓ Management and protection of trade secrets such as non-competition restrictions, confidentiality agreements, etc.

✓ Management of employees who enjoy medical treatment period, employees with industrial injury and phase III female employees and other special employees

✓ Labor relationship management for foreign employees, senior officers and pilots and other special groups

✓ Application of flexible employment forms such as non-full-time employment, labor dispatch and outsourcing

✓ Dispute settlement upon the rescission and termination of the labor contract

✓ Social insurance compliance and settlement of work-related injury disputes.