Hylands Law Firm was established in 1997 and headquarted in Beijing. Over years of development, Hylands now has 31 offices and 1 IP Agency in cities across China, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Changsha, Chengdu, Chongqing, Fuzhou, Guiyang, Haikou, Hangzhou, Hefei, Jinan, Kunming, Nanchang, Nanjing, Nanning, Qingdao, Shenyang, Suzhou, Tianjin, Taiyuan, Wenzhou, Wuhan, Urumqi, WUXI, Xi’an, Yinchuan, Zhengzhou, Hong Kong, as well as San Francisco in the overseas market. Hylands has established working relationships with over 150 law firms in more than 130 countries and regions, providing clients with one-stop, cross-border professional legal services in multiple disciplines.
Hylands has over 400 partners and counsels, and over 1,000 lawyers and professionals, who are able to provide legal services in many languages including English, Japanese, Korean, etc. As one of the top large-scale commercial law firms in China, Hylands has been included in the top ranking of Chambers and Partners, ALB, The Legal 500, asialaw Profiles, IFLR1000, China Business Law Journal, etc.
With intensive practice skills and experience, Hylands lawyers are legal experts in their respective areas, and are well-versed in China’s investment environment and different business practices . Thanks to close and efficient teamwork, Hylands lawyers always provide tailor-made and practical legal solutions beyond expectations.
Dispute resolution is one of the traditional practice areas of Hylands. With ample local resources, considerable expertise,solid practice skills, and strong commitment to providing better service, Hylands has successfully handled a good number of representative cases that are important in areas such as real estate, finance, securities, banking, engineering and construction. The widely acclaimed legal services in dispute resolution have also enabled Hylands to maintain a high standard of reputation in the field.
The outstanding market performance in dispute resolution has made Hylands into the list of EGALBAND as one of China’s top-ranked law firms in 2022. From 2014 to 2021, Hylands was continuously rated by Asian Legal Business as a recommended Chinese law firm in the area of dispute resolution. From 2019 to 2020, Hylands was listed by Chambers and Partners as one of the recommended law firms in its Global Guide. In 2019, Hylands was regarded by Chambers and Partners as a leading Chinese law firm in providing dispute resolution services.
Hylands accommodates an excellent dispute-resolution team with extensive theoretical knowledge and considerable practical experience. The team is capable of comprehending and utilizing judicial practice to administer risk prevention and trace different types of civil and commercial dealings. The team excels in resolving intricate cases as well as managing risks and recovering losses for clients in a time-bound manner. With pragmatic approach to problems, the team always aims at offering optimum solutions to clients based on their specific needs and situations by providing an array of diverse and flexible solutions to choose from. Being engaged in the legal field for long, Hylands has established and maintains good relationships with China’s government departments, judicial branches, legal educators, and domestic and international legal practitioners, which helps provide professional, standardized and quality dispute resolution services.
Bankruptcy reorganization and special asset disposal practice is one of the core strengths of Hylands. The legal services include bankruptcy, restructuring, disposal of special assets, financial creditor, and market-oriented debt-to-equity swaps. By virtue of the many years of experience in the industry, Hylands teams uphold and elevate the quality of legal services in the wake of social and economic developments, and have achieved remarkably in this field. For Hylands outstanding legal services in many landmark projects, the teams of Hylands have won high praise from clients.
Compared to the traditional fields of legal services, bankruptcy reorganization and special asset disposal require expert lawyers with specific skills, extensive social resources, efficient service models, professional service quality, and require comprehensive service capabilities in asset investigation, fundraising and asset disposal. Hylands has considerable expertise in this regard - especially in special asset disposal. Hylands teams have amassed rich experience in business areas such as bankruptcy, restructuring, and market-oriented debt-to-equity swaps. Hylands has won praise from clients for highly professional and quality services.
Corporate business is well-established domain of Hylands which has won profound laurels from clients. Hylands provides risk management strategies and viable solutions at all levels of the corporate governance structure, as well as domestic and overseas investments, acquisitions, M&A and construction of corresponding structures, especially the legal implications in the frontier areas. Furthermore, the tax team of Hylands has extensive experience and expertise in legal working. Under such a highly sophisticated background and vital importance for enterprises, Hylands can give prominence to tax-related issues in compliance management and cost optimization.
Some of the corporate lawyers had experienced in working at state ministries and commissions, well-known domestic and foreign enterprises, financial institutions and related intermediaries. The lawyers possesses valuable experience, solid theoretical basis and practical strategies to navigate diverse scenarios. The team is well versed in Chinese law and regulatory policies and understands the business practices of different industries. Hylands can effectively integrate teams on finance, taxation, anti-monopoly, intellectual property rights and corporate governance to provide a customized, comprehensive, integrated and one-step solutions for clients based on profound understanding.
The team consistently upholds comprehensiveness, professionalism and pragmatism. Relying on local resources, Hylands provides unparalleled legal services for domestic and foreign clients, has won wide acclaim from clients and the industry, achieve positive social benefits and contribute to the development of our nation and society.
Hylands intellectual property mainly focuses on IP rights such as copyrights, trademarks, patents, network domain names, trade names, trade secrets, technical know-how, commercial franchise resources, layout design of integrated circuits and other scientific and technological achievements. The service also extends to complex and comprehensive legal affairs related to IP rights and unfair competition/monopoly in the market. The clients of Hylands come from a wide range of enterprises, institutions, and individuals engaged in entertainment, arts, media, sports, TMT, the internet, medical health, advertising, franchising, education and training, etc.
Hylands IP team is well versed in theoretical aspects, aware of the domestic and international legal norms, and attentive to the latest trends happening in the field. Hylands has considerable work experience, updated professional skills, keen insights and reasoning abilities to keep up with the technological revolution and subsequent developments. Adhering to the spirit of excellence and dedication the team has won many achievements to its credit. Hylands has proved expertise in avoiding IP-related legal risks, improving IP protection systems, ensuring the realization of intellectual property interests, and pursuing IP tort liability for clients. Many cases undertaken by the IP team of Hylands have become classic examples and reference points in revising national laws and judicial interpretations.
The team not only achieved outstanding results in legal practice but also participated in national legislation, administrative protection, academic seminars, and industry exchanges. Hylands is at the forefront of maintaining contacts and keeping up-to-date with legal developments and practices.
Hylands IP team has long been rated as a leading law firm in the field of IP by Chambers and Partners, ALB, MIP, Asia IP, The Legal 500, China Business Law Journal and LEGALBAND, and enjoys a high reputation in the industry.
Family wealth management and inheritance is Hylands innovative and professionally designed legal service department. Hylands team has developed a comprehensive and efficient service model by understanding the client asset status and specific characteristics and requirements. The team conducts in-depth interviews to understand client expectations and needs, providing them with exceptional services on wealth protection, inheritance, and planning with timely adjustments made according to the client's personal and family requirements.
The legal services include property management, planning and inheritance, affairs execution, affairs trust, and comprehensive resource coordination services for families/family enterprises and individuals with high-net-worth assets in China, including Chinese and foreign nationals. The benefits also include the overall supervision of various property forms, including equity, real estate, artwork, intellectual property, virtual assets, family trusts, family or corporate philanthropic and charitable trusts, wills and testamentary trusts, estate management, corporate property risk, and marital property risk isolation, family governance structure, etc.
The team has forged long-term and stable cooperative relations with institutions in asset management, banking, insurance, trust, immigration, overseas studies, property purchase, and notarization. Collaborative partnerships have joined with law firms in major developed countries worldwide that can provide wide-ranging and comprehensive legal services suitable to clients' needs.
Hylands team has served many well-known families and family enterprises on the mainland and abroad and has rich practical experience. The team has won many honors such as "Leading Law Firm for Family Wealth Management and Inheritance" by Chambers and Partners, "Outstanding Law Firm Award" by China Business Law Journal, and "Leading Law Firm in Wealth Management" by LEGALBAND
Family wealth management and inheritance is Hylands innovative and professionally designed legal service department. Hylands team has developed a comprehensive and efficient service model by understanding the client asset status and specific characteristics and requirements. The team conducts in-depth interviews to understand client expectations and needs, providing them with exceptional services on wealth protection, inheritance, and planning with timely adjustments made according to the client's personal and family requirements.
The legal services include property management, planning and inheritance, affairs execution, affairs trust, and comprehensive resource coordination services for families/family enterprises and individuals with high-net-worth assets in China, including Chinese and foreign nationals. The benefits also include the overall supervision of various property forms, including equity, real estate, artwork, intellectual property, virtual assets, family trusts, family or corporate philanthropic and charitable trusts, wills and testamentary trusts, estate management, corporate property risk, and marital property risk isolation, family governance structure, etc.
The team has forged long-term and stable cooperative relations with institutions in asset management, banking, insurance, trust, immigration, overseas studies, property purchase, and notarization. Collaborative partnerships have joined with law firms in major developed countries worldwide that can provide wide-ranging and comprehensive legal services suitable to clients' needs.
Hylands team has served many well-known families and family enterprises on the mainland and abroad and has rich practical experience. The team has won many honors such as "Leading Law Firm for Family Wealth Management and Inheritance" by Chambers and Partners, "Outstanding Law Firm Award" by China Business Law Journal, and "Leading Law Firm in Wealth Management" by LEGALBAND
The consumer and retail industry has undergone drastic changes over the years due to the emergence of new sales models, such as online shopping, live commerce and self-media marketing. Because of the complexity and volatile nature, many companies in the consumer and retail industry are embarking on the path of transformation based on new models of consumption, retail business and the needs of consumers.
Hylands provides legal services for clients in the consumer and retail industry, not just the physical sales enterprises under the traditional sales model, but also the online sales enterprises that have emerged under new sales models. Hylands has accumulated vast experience over the years and owns a good number of professional lawyers and expert teams. Hylands can provide legal services for companies based on both traditional and new sales models and can also help traditional companies to migrate successfully into new sales models.
The real estate and construction team provides legal services for the Fortune 500 enterprises, large state-owned enterprises, listed companies and leading private companies on hundreds of real estate and construction projects spread across the nation. These projects include residential complexes, commercial spaces, infrastructure for tourism, industrial parks as well as rail transit, highways, underground utility tunnels, urban roads, bridges, etc. The team also provides local governments and the bureau of land resources with comprehensive legal services on transactions of land resources, first-level development of land resources, development of collectively-owned land, etc.
The real estate and construction team has immense experience in providing comprehensive legal services catering to the diverse needs of the clients. Hylands has been ranked in the “band one” of Chinese top law firms in real estate and construction engineering by LEGALBAND and ranked as a notable firm by Benchmark Litigation. Making optimal use of the industry experience, research skills, as well as insights into the real estate and construction engineering industries, Hylands lawyers fully understand the needs and requirements of clients to provide them with innovative and customized solutions in a timely manner to implement projects in a fast manner. At the same time, Hylands helps
clients effectively manage construction projects to adapt to the opportunities and challenges brought about by frequent regulatory policies, and provides clients with high-quality legal advice, which is well praised by the clients.
Hylands, with nationwide branches and quality services at disposal, effectively coordinates the best available resources to construct an elite team with excellent capability and expertise to assist clients in criminal cases. The team members possess valuable experience and outstanding knowledge in both traditional and new-type of criminal case legislation. Hylands has won numerous recognitions inside and outside the industry for successfully handling a multitude of criminal cases which had wider social implications and attracted popular attention.
Hylands teams are all senior expert lawyers, who have mostly worked in the fields of public security organs, procuratorate and legislative institutions. In addition to the profound academic understandings, Hylands has years of practical experience in the criminal justice system, with admirable skills in legal service and accessibility to greater resources. Moreover, Hylands experts are good at communicating with the judicial organs, which can ensure better service for the legitimate rights and interests of our clients.
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