SHANGHAI UNITED LAW FIRM (“Shulf”) was established
in 1985 and is one of the leading and fastest growing law firms
in China. Shulf now has a team of more than 60 lawyers.
Being a leading law firm that provides comprehensive legal
services, Shulf encompasses a broad variety of practice areas,
including litigation, real estate, corporate matters, banking,
securities and futures transactions, intellectual property,
insurance, domestic and overseas investment and transportation
(aviation, rail transportation, maritime). We provide a wide
range of legal services to meet the different requirements of
our clients and on a case-by-case basis, we form tailored working
panels consisting of lawyers with different specialties to provide
our clients with efficient services.
In pursuance of our aim, "Fairness, quality and justice",
we try our best to be diligent and hard working in our practice.
Our work has brought us many awards from the Ministry of Justice
of the People’s Republic of China, the Shanghai Justice Bureau
and the Shanghai Bar Association.
In order to provide a timely and broad range of legal services,
we have set up close cooperation with many overseas law firms
to form our overseas legal service network. We also sponsor
and organize many forms of seminars and workshops and we send
our staff to both foreign and domestic law faculties for further
education; and to overseas law firms for secondment, so as to
improve the quality of our services.
Our domestic and foreign clients comprise both individuals
and corporations, whose interests cover a wide range of industries,
including power and energy, heavy industry, electronics, communications,
transportation, aviation, metallurgy, construction, commerce,
news and media, finance, insurance, securities, futures and
the environment.
Mr. Zhu Hongchao, our managing partner, vice chairman of the
All China Bar Association, is chairman of the Shanghai Bar Association.
Mr. Jiang Xian, one of our senior partners, is vice director
of the Finance and Security Commission of the All China Bar
Association. He is also managing director of the Finance and
Security Commission of the Shanghai Bar Association.
With the opening of China to the world, to provide a timely
and broad range service, we have set up a close cooperation
with many European and American law firms, and have formed our
worldwide frame work. At the same time, quality of our work
is also one of our major concerns. We often sponsor seminar
and relevant meetings and send our staffs to foreign or domestic
law faculty for further education or to foreign law firm for
exchange.
We have several departments with different specialties. That
includes finance and security department, future department,
insurance department, real estate department, and intellectual
department and investment department. To provide an efficient
service to our clients, if required, a team of lawyers with
different specialties from the above departments could be organized.
We have rich reference resource and advance Internet linked
computer system. We use Chinese (including Shanghai dialect
and Cantonese), English and Japanese in our legal service.
Our domestic and foreign clients, beside individuals, include
companies relating to industry, power and energy, machine, electric,
communication, transportation, aviation, metallurgy, construction,
commerce, news press, finance, insurance, security, future,
environment and other business.
Litigation & Arbitration Shulf has accumulated extensive experience in litigation
and is active in various sectors including:
Civil actions: property disputes; divorce; tort claims; intellectual
property infringement;
Commercial actions: debt recovery; insurance; business disputes;
investment disputes; labor relationship disputes; futures;
product liability;
Administrative actions;
Criminal actions.
Two of Shulf's litigation attorneys have been recognized
as being among the “Top Ten Advocates of Shanghai”.
Shulf also has extensive experience in commercial arbitration.
Shulf has represented its clients in dealing with numerous
international commercial arbitration cases and obtained favorable
results. Some of Shulf’s lawyers are official arbitrators
of the Shanghai Arbitration Commission.
Real Estate Shulf has extensive experience in providing real
estate development and construction related legal services
to domestic and foreign clients, including developers, financial
institutions, construction design companies and contractors.
The firm’s services in the real estate area include project
feasibility research, land grants and transfers, project development
and construction, transfer of projects under construction,
real estate transfer, property sales and property management.
We participate in negotiations, draft relevant contracts and
provide legal opinions. We also handle all aspects of property
sale, mortgage and lease procedures in order to ensure the
safety of our client’s interests in each transaction.
Investment & Trade
Shulf efficiently assists its foreign and domestic clients
in structuring their investment projects in China to suit
their needs and to protect their interests. Shulf has helped
its clients establish and operate numerous Sino-foreign joint
ventures (contractual and equity), wholly foreign-owned enterprises,
and representative offices and is well known for its expertise
and creativity in this area of practice. Such foreign invested
projects cover a wide range of industries. In addition, many
foreign invested entities retain Shulf as their long-term
local counsel to provide legal advice and help solve legal
problems on a continuing basis after the initial investment
projects become operational.
Shulf represents both domestic and foreign clients in international
trade matters. Shulf's legal services in this area encompass
every aspect of international trade, from negotiating trade
documents to resolving trade disputes through arbitration
and court proceedings.
Corporate Affairs
Shulf's corporate lawyers offer our business clients a full
range of legal services from providing counsel on legal problems
which arise in the conduct of ordinary business affairs to
handling all aspects of specific transactions including:
Domestic and international contracts;
The transfer of shares and the equity interest;
Corporate restructuring and reorganization;
Bankruptcy and liquidation;
Investment in domestic and international markets;
Project finance;
Branch establishment;
Listings;
Mergers and acquisitions;
Credit arrangement and debt settlement;
HR management and labour issues.
Securities & Futures
Shulf has extensive experience in securities transactions.
Shulf was one of the first Chinese law firms to be approved
to practice securities law in China. Shulf has acted for both
companies and for underwriters on a large number of the IPOs
on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Shulf has also acted for companies
and for lead international underwriters on a number of other
types of share issue (such as the issues of special shares
for foreign investors listed on the Shanghai and the Shenzhen
Stock Exchanges). Our legal services in this area have also
included the designing of a scheme for the conversion of A
shares (which can only be owned by Chinese nationals) into
B shares by a Shanghai listed company, and designing a scheme
for the establishment and listing of China’s first closed-ended
investment fund on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
Acting as legal counsel of the Shanghai Commodities Future
Exchange, Shulf has helped the Shanghai Commodity Future Exchange
to improve its regulatory system advises on a number of other
issues that arise directly in its daily operation.
Intellectual Property
Shulf's lawyers engage in all aspects of patent, copyright,
trademark, computer software licensing and related legal practice,
includes negotiating and preparing contracts, licences and
technology transfer agreements, and advising in relation to
merchandising, and counseling on unfair competition and trade
secrets. Shulf shares its clients’ concerns about protecting
their intellectual property rights in China and the firm vigorously
prosecute acts of infringement that affect its clients’ intellectual
property rights, and trade secrets. More importantly, Shulf
helps its clients develop and implement comprehensive preventative,
monitoring and redressing strategies to ensure that its clients’
intellectual property rights receive maximum protection in
China.
Banking & Insurance
Shulf provides advice on China’s financial institutions,
and on the laws, policies and regulations that govern financial
transactions. Shulf has advised its domestic and foreign clients
in relation to many types of financial transactions include
all services including:
General commercial loan agreements;
International syndicated loan agreements;
Government borrowing;
Foreign exchange transactions;
Mortgage and other security matters.
In the insurance arena, Shulf provides professional advice
to insurers on insurance coverage and policy interpretation.
Shulf also handles court settlements and recovery proceedings
in this area.
Notarization Shulf provides notarization services for documents
in use internationally.
Address:
Suite 1405-1410, China Insurance Building, East Lujiazui Road,
Pudong New Area, Shanghai, P.R.C.
Post Code：200120
Tel：86－21－68419377 Fax：86－21－68419499
http://www.unitedlawfirm.com E-mail:
master@unitedlawfirm.com
Civil actions: property disputes; divorce; tort claims; intellectual
property infringement;
