Sino Pro Law Firm was established under the Lawyers Law of the People’s Republic of China and with the approval of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Justice. It has more than 400 practicing lawyers. As a comprehensive legal services institution, it has sufficient experience in representing clients in civil and commercial litigation/arbitration proceedings in major construction projects and real estate development disputes. In addition, it provides non-litigation services for large and medium-scale companies in respective mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy liquidation, legal risk management, and compliance management.
Sino is headquartered on the 9th floor of the north wing of the central office building of Zhuangsheng Square, Xuanwumen, Xicheng District, Beijing. It is 2 kilometers away from Tiananmen Square and has direct access to Metro Lines 2 and 4; enabling it to boast convenient transportation and a great office environment. It also has an office in Tongzhou, the sub-center of Beijing, at the address of the 21st floor of the Greenland Central Plaza in the Canal Business District.
Sino has offices in Shenzhen, Chongqing, Taiyuan, Changsha, Changchun, Wuhan, Nanjing, and Xi’an, and branches in Hainan and Zhengzhou will soon be opening as well. It has partnered with legal service organizations in significant cities across China and even in nations outside of China, allowing it to combine resources to offer clients better and more thorough services.
According to the annual assessment data announced by the Beijing Lawyers Association on June 20, 2021, Sino ranked 19th by the scale out of a total of 2,887 law firms in Beijing.
Sino was rated as a Beijing Excellent Law Firm in 2015-2018 by the Beijing Lawyers Association (50/2500), and as a Xicheng District Excellent Law Firm in 2014-2018 by the Xicheng District Lawyers Association (10/260).
Sino does not take part in the ranking and rating held by foreign legal rating agencies, given the different legal systems and professional standards of legal services used domestically and abroad, the information and data asymmetry, as well as the confidentiality obligations assumed for the clients.
Sino has a clear organizational structure. It has 3 comprehensive business departments, 15 professional business departments, and 9 professional committees. At present, 6 Sino lawyers serve as directors or members of the All China Lawyers Association Working Committee and Professional Committee; 63 lawyers serve as directors or members of the Beijing Lawyers Association Working Committee and Special Committee (Research Association). Lawyer Zhang Qing serves as the director of the Education Working Committee of the All China Lawyers Association and the director of the Civil Law Professional Committee.
Beijing Lawyers Association carried out the lawyers’ professional level assessment according to the Notice of the Ministry of Justice on Expanding the Pilot Program of the Evaluation System and Evaluation Mechanism for Lawyers’ Professional Levels, and the Implementation Measures for the Trial Work of the Evaluation System and Evaluation Mechanism for Lawyers’ Professional Levels (for Trial Implementation) issued by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Justice and published the evaluation result on its official website on January 7, 2021. A total of 37 Sino lawyers were recognized. In this event, Sino ranks first among Beijing law firms in terms of the total number of lawyers who were rated as professional lawyers, as well as the number of persons who were rated as professional lawyers in company law, construction engineering real estate, and intellectual property.
Sino serves clients including companies and institutions of significant global influence. It has represented the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development in nearly 10,000 lawsuits. For 8 consecutive years, it has exclusively served as the perennial legal advisor of the People’s Daily, the central organ of the Communist Party of China. Its clients include Economic Daily News, People’s Daily Online, Beijing State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, China State Construction Engineering Corporation, Aluminum Corporation of China, China Railway, China Railway Construction, China Communications Construction, China COFCO, China Huadian Corporation, SPIC, China Meheco, China National Building Materials, China Power Construction, China Energy Construction, China Steel Research Institute, China Genertec, China Forestry, China Hualu, China Development Bank, ICBC and other central enterprises; Beijing Jinyu, Beijing Energy, Beijing Shoufa Investment, Beijing Metro, Beijing Shougang, Beijing Capital Agribusiness & Food, Beijing Urban Construction, Beijing Electronics Holding, Beijing Bank and other Beijing enterprises.
Founded in 2001
50 people in their team
Mergers and acquisitions is a process for an enterprise to obtain the property rights of other legal persons in a certain economic way on the basis of equality, voluntariness, and equal consideration. It is one of the major forms of capital operation and management for the enterprise and can be divided into two modes: share acquisition and asset acquisition.
Main service contents:
1. Conduct due diligence on the target company / assets;
2. Design a plan for acquiring the equity / assets of the target company;
3. Assist in the valuation of equity / assets of the target company and participate in business negotiations;
4. Draft and revise acquisition agreements and issue legal opinions;
5. Assist in performing relevant procedures and handling handover procedures.
● State-owned enterprise ownership restructuring
Enterprise ownership restructuring refers to (1) a wholly state-owned enterprise is changed to a wholly state-owned company; (2) a wholly state-owned enterprise or a wholly state-owned company is changed to a state-owned holding company or a non-state-owned holding company; (3) a state-owned capital holding company is changed to a non-state-owned holding company.
Main service contents:
1. Conduct due diligence on the target company;
2. Assist in formulating the restructuring plan and submit it to the approval agency for approval;
3. If the resettlement of employees is involved, assist in formulating a plan for the resettlement of employees, which shall be deliberated and approved by the workers’ congress or the workers’ meeting; where the disposal of state-owned land use rights is involved, a corresponding plan shall also be formulated and submitted to the land administration department for approval;
4. Participate in business negotiations and issue legal opinions;
5. Formulate relevant legal documents such as restructuring agreements, company articles of association, and assist in handling registration for property rights transactions and registration change procedures.
1. The establishment, merger, and reorganization of real estate development and operating companies;
2. Primary development of real estate and land, bidding, auction and listing of land use rights, house demolition, and related resettlement and compensation;
3. Construction project bidding management, construction contract signing, black and white contract processing;
4. Design, construction, and supervision of construction projects;
5. Land use rights or mortgage loans for construction projects;
6. Project payment settlement, objection, and negotiation;
7. Project completion filing;
8. Project sales, transfer, leasing, and property management;
9. Litigation / arbitration affairs involved in the project construction and operation.
1. Patent application;
2. Trademark registration;
3. Copyright (copyright) registration;
4. Integrated circuit layout design protection;
5. Domain name dispute resolution;
6. Intellectual property search / monitoring / analysis and customs filing;
7. Franchising-related legal services;
8. Intellectual property litigation, representing clients in intellectual property infringement litigation or non-infringement defense;
9. Representing clients in unfair competition lawsuits that involve counterfeiting the unique names, packaging, and decoration of well-known commodities, or falsely advertising, restricting competition, and overcharging;
10. Representing clients in lawsuits related to the infringement of trade secrets.
Litigation and Arbitration
● Civil legal affairs
Main service contents:
1. Investigation and evidence collection;
2. Represent clients in the prosecution, appeal, response, and counterclaim;
3. Apply for property preservation;
4. Apply for the execution of the judgment;
5. Represent clients in arbitration and facilitation of the recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards both at home and abroad
● Criminal Legal Affairs
Main service contents:
1. Consulting, investigation, and evidence collection
2. Provide legal assistance to criminal suspects
3. Provide defense for criminal defendants
4. Represent the plaintiff in private prosecution cases
5. Represent victims in criminal cases
6. Advisee on criminal incidental civil action
● Administrative Legal Affairs
Main service contents:
1. Provide administrative law-related consultations
2. Represent clients in the administrative reconsideration and litigation
Labor and Social Security
● Labor security
Main service contents:
1. Draft and revise labor contracts:
2. Draft and revise the collective contract:
3. Establish and revise rules and regulations
4. General consultation on legal affairs and give training on labor affairs
5. Assist in the investigation by the labor inspection and social security center;
6. Participate in the identification of work-related injuries and submit reconsiderations and administrative lawsuits on the identification of work-related injuries;
7. Labor dispute settlement, including applying for and responding to labor arbitration, prosecution, appeal, application for enforcement, etc.
Marriage and Family
● Marriage and Family
Main service contents:
1. Divorce by agreement;
2. Property and children disputes;
3. Inheritance disputes;
4. Divorce litigation.
● Business and family Law
Main service contents:
1. Handling of disputes over the sale and division of shares of listed companies at home and abroad;
2. Family inheritance and other long-term planning related to the family industry, marriage, and inheritance.
● Foreign-related marriage
Main service contents:
1. Assist in handling foreign-related notarization and certification;
2. Assist in the divorce procedures;
3. Handle the sale and division of foreign-related company equity and real estate;
4. Handle foreign-related inheritance and property disputes;
5. Handle foreign-related divorce proceedings.
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