Guangsheng & Partners Law Offices (“G&P”) is a full-range service law firm based in Beijing with branch office in Shanghai. As one of the leading and largest law firms in China, G&P was originated from China Legal Affairs Center established in 1985, which was affiliated with the Ministry of Justice of PRC. G&P started its present partnership since 1996 with the legacy of China Legal Affairs Center.
G&P’s lawyers graduated from prestigious Chinese and foreign law schools, with working experiences in law firms of United States, Canada, UK and Japan. Most of our partners have over ten years practicing experience; some of them have ever worked at PRC central government, including Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM). This has enabled us to provide international and domestic clients with innovative and cutting-edge legal solutions.
As one of the leading law firms in China, G&P provides comprehensive and in-depth services in areas of international trade, private equity and venture capital investment, merger & acquisition, anti-trust, IPO, real estate, banking and finance, litigation and arbitration, and intellectual property.
In the past decades, G&P’s expertise and diligent service have been well recognized by clients; G&P has earned outstanding reputation both in China and abroad.
Merger and Acquisition
G&P represents international and domestic clients (including many global 500 companies) across different industries in cross-border equity and asset acquisitions, as well as setting up joint ventures and wholly owned subsidiaries. The acquisition targets include listed companies, state-owned enterprises and private companies.
G&P has expertise and in-depth understanding of the issues related to the M&A transactions, including setting up acquisition vehicle, market entry, industry restriction, corporate governance, intellectual property rights, employment issue, taxation optimization, compliance with listing rules, foreign exchange settlement as well as anti-trust evaluation and filings. G&P has provided international investors with formal PRC legal opinions in many cross-border transactions.
G&P, with the outstanding performance of the M&A team, ranked top three in global legal counsels and No. 1 of PRC law firms in Chinese Involvement Small-Cap Ranking (below US$50 million) in the Legal Advisors Review for year 2011 released by Thomson Reuters.
Real Estate Practice
Guangsheng & Partners has extensive experience in advising on all aspects of real estate practice. We are deeply rooted in China and in tune with the unique political, legal and commercial environment, we understand the underlying business issues and risks. We work closely and constructively with all parties involved with aims to developing innovative financing solutions for real estate projects in China. We have advised banks, real estate funds, project owners or developers in various financings including acquisition lending, development and constructions loans, structured lending including mezzanine loans, include commercial buildings, office property, residential property, warehouses, industrial plants, hotels and resorts, and complex use property among others.
G&P (Shanghai) has unique advantage in this field. It handled all types of labor litigation and non-litigation businesses.
The labor and personnel department of G&P has extensive litigation and arbitration experience in company contracts, labor and personnel cases, combined with in-depth study of the Company Law, Labor Law and relevant laws and regulations, it has a more systematic practice of legal research and unique experience, including participation in negotiations of the labor contracts and collective labor relations, check of labor contract, address and prevention of legal disputes, rules and regulations involved in development of business management, providing programs of corporate and personnel restructuring and helping companies control labor costs rationally, etc.
Litigation and Arbitration Practice
G&P is traditionally well known for its legal practice of litigation and arbitration. The litigation and arbitration team of G&P provides their clients with high quality legal services. The areas of their legal practice consist of civil disputes, criminal litigations, tort, commercial litigations and arbitrations. Our lawyers are also endeavoring to achieve an amicable settlement between the disputed parties, so as to decrease the cost of dispute settlement for our clients to the most extent.
Our lawyers have successfully dealt with many big and complex cases, and won the wide recognization and respect from their clients
1 Litigation Practice
G&P has impressive performance in the legal practice of litigation, concerning real estate dispute, tort, contract dispute, insurance dispute and intellectual property dispute. Our lawyers have been involved in multiple influential cases every year, and our clients include reputed transnational companies, listed companies and huge state-owned companies.
2 Arbitration Practice
The commercial arbitration practice team is one of the best commercial arbitration practice team in China. Our lawyers are proficient in dealing with dispute relating to investment, construction, M&A, sales contract, license agreement, securities, labor contract, transportation contract, long-term supply contract, intellectual property, insurance etc.
Our service include:
·Provide legal consulting for dispute resolution
·Design dispute resolution strategy and provide dispute resolution scheme
·Represent in negotiation, mediation and settlement
·Represent in trial, appeal and execution procedure of civil litigation
·File re-appeal in civil litigation
·Represent in civil and commercial arbitration
·Represent in IPR enforcement and criminal protection
·Represent in employment related arbitration and litigation
·Represent in pre-trial evidence preservation and asset preservation
Intellectual Property Practice
The intellectual property team of G&P includes couples of partners and lawyers with abundant experience in the legal practice of intellectual property related areas. Most partners of intellectual property team hold both lawyer's practice certificate and patent attorney certificate. Some have previous working experience in international intellectual property law firms or famous intellectual property agency companies, and maintain close and stable cooperation with many global 500 companies. Our lawyers are able to provide their clients with relevant high quality legal services.
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