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Dacheng Law Firm is one of the first and largest partnership law firms in China. By the Year of 2011, Dacheng has 44 branch offices all over the world (37 of which are located in mainland China) with over 3000 lawyers working in various areas of law, servicing almost 10,000 long-term clients. By taking the advantage of large scale, the firm’s head office and all branch offices are able to consolidate its management and transfer lawyers and resources internally for project cooperation purpose, forming a global board of chess, thus achieving to assist clients’ business development domestically.

Dacheng excels in not only the traditional fields of law as litigation and arbitration, criminal defense, company law, real estate, banking and finance, insurance, foreign investment, corporate restructuring, tax, labor disputes, international trade, but also in the emerging fields of law such as energy and mining, intellectual property, maritime, mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, bankruptcy restructuring, securities and capital markets, infrastructure and project finance, derivatives, media and telecommunications, and urbanization strategies. In all spheres of its operation, Dacheng has successfully established its leading position at the forefront of the industry.

Most of the people working in Dacheng are graduated from leading law schools within China and/or overseas. Many Dacheng lawyers have obtained degrees from prestigious universities in the United States, Britain, France, Russia, Japan, Korea, and have acquired valuable experience working for renowned international law firms. In addition, a substantial number of our lawyers have expertise in areas including international trade, finance, construction, business administration, accounting, and taxation.

In addition to providing quality legal services, many Dacheng lawyers are also actively engaged in legal research, producing a wide range of publications and significant academic contributions in their respective fields. As of 2009, Dacheng lawyers have collectively published 124 legal academic works.

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Domestic Offices: Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Chongqing, Shenzhen, Changchun, Changsha, Changzhou, Chengdu, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Harbin, Haikou, Hangzhou, Hefei, Jilin, Jinan, Kuming, Nanchang, Nanjing, Nanning, Nantong, Hohhot, Qingdao, Shenyang, Suzhou, Taiyuan, Urumqi, Wuhan, Wuxi, Xiamen, Xi'an, Xining, Yinchuan, Zhengzhou and Zhoushan.

Overseas Offices: Chicago, LA, New York, Paris, Hongkong, Singapore and Taipei.

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Named by Asian Legal Business as Asia's Largest Law Firm consecutively from 2009 to 2011
Named by Asian Legal Business as one of China's Top Growing Law Firm in 2011


Languages: Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean.

Areas of Law

Areas of Law Description

- General Corporate Services

Dacheng has long been providing clients with legal advice in relation to company formation and amendment, as well as day-to-day business management. In recent years, Dacheng has developed a series of legal risk management solutions addressing, from different perspectives, the major legal risks arising during the course of its clients' business and management operations and capable of being integrated seamlessly with its clients' daily business operations.

- Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Restructuring

Dacheng’s Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Restructuring practice is one of its key practice areas. Dacheng occupies a leading position in this area, having in recent years assisted a significant number of well-known domestic clients in a range of complex transactions, including mergers & acquisitions and restructuring of many large-scale enterprises and publicly listed companies (including many cross-border M&A transactions). Drawing on its considerable experience in this area, together with its deep understanding of the Chinese legal and regulatory environment and thorough grasp of taxation and financial issues, Dacheng has served as chief legal counsel on a series of groundbreaking foreign and domestic M&A transactions.

Dacheng has advised on domestic and cross-border M&A transactions in a wide range of sectors, including the financial, manufacturing, real estate, high-tech, infrastructure, electronic, pharmaceutical and services industries. In advising clients in M&A transactions, Dacheng is particularly adept at helping clients resolve the special problems arising in the context of China’s fast-changing and complex legal and regulatory environment and ensuring that the project is successfully brought to completion. Particularly in transactions involving considerable sums of money with legal issues of formidable complexity, Dacheng has won high praise from its clients, successfully managing transactions by drawing upon its unparalleled scale and efficiency.

- Corporate Finance and Capital Markets

Dacheng’s Corporate Finance and Capital Markets practice is one of its core practice areas. Dacheng has provided legal services to a significant number of both foreign and domestic companies in relation to initial public offerings (IPO) and corporate refinancing, advising on matters involving A-shares, B-shares, H-shares, red-chip stock, beneficiary certificates and other kinds of securities on a wide range of stock exchanges worldwide, including the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, the American Stock Exchange, the Singapore Stock Exchange, the Tokyo Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange.

- Private Equity and Investment Funds

Dacheng is at the cutting edge of these two relatively new fields of law, private equity investment and investment funds. Dacheng boasts a highly trained team of specialists with considerable experience in this area, having provided comprehensive legal services to a large number of well-known Chinese and international institutional investors and having assisted a considerable number of privately funded companies from their initial establishment all the way to public listing. Dacheng has handled a large number of projects, ranging from the initial establishment phase to the growth and expansion phase, and including mergers & acquisitions, with a particular emphasis on providing cross-border legal services combining domestic and foreign legal expertise.

Dacheng has advised on a range of different types of financing transactions, including equity, debt and mezzanine financing. In practice, Dacheng is able to design investment fund frameworks and investment transaction structures adapted to the needs of its clients and adapted to the special legal environment existing in China. We have been successful in creating innovative legal structures for a great many private equity investment fund clients and clients undertaking private investments, and have considerable experience in successfully obtaining government approval for these investment structures.

- Restructuring of State-owned Enterprises and Property Transactions involving State-owned Enterprises

With the outstanding quality of its professional legal services, Dacheng has become the first-choice legal services provider for the great majority of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in China, positioning itself at the forefront of the field of SOE restructuring and associated property transactions. Over the course of the past decade or more, Dacheng lawyers have been actively involved in the restructuring of SOEs in China. Fulfilling the important role of “chief coordinator” in restructuring projects, Dacheng’s lawyers have been instrumental in enabling Chinese SOEs to successfully complete comprehensive corporate restructuring and associated property transactions.

- Banking and Finance

Dacheng provides special and comprehensive legal services to a large number of banking and non-banking financial institutions, both in China and abroad, and has both rich experience and a solid client base in the area of finance. Dacheng has a deep understanding and knowledge of applicable foreign and Chinese laws and regulations in the field of finance, as well as transactional rules and standard practice, and has assisted a wide range of commercial banks, investment banks, insurance companies, trust companies, financial companies, funds and other financial institutions, as well as government agencies, in completing a large number of complex financial transactions, drawing upon its rich local experience and deep understanding of international rules. Dacheng has developed a series of standardized documents in respect of banking regulations, insurance products, trusts and all types of loans, placing it at the cutting edge of the legal services industry in the financial sector. Some of our leading clients include Chinese-invested banks, joint venture banks, subsidiaries and branches of overseas banks in China, insurance companies, trust companies, finance companies, auto financing companies, lease finance companies, and so on.

- Foreign Direct Investment and M&A

Dacheng has considerable professional experience in assisting foreign investors with direct investments in China. Dacheng has been actively involved in the direct investment activities of foreign investors in China, having assisted numerous foreign clients with a wide range of investment projects in China, and having provided legal advice at each stage of the investment process. Dacheng’s legal counsel has been highly effective in enabling its international and multinational clients to adapt their business to the local Chinese environment. Dacheng’s current stable of clients include a considerable number of Fortune 500 companies and high-profile multinational companies.

Dacheng’s lawyers assist their clients in designing the most effective transaction structures for their investments and in evaluating the position of their potential commercial partners and projects, including through the conduct of due diligence exercises in respect of the target of their clients’ investments. In addition, Dacheng assists clients in drafting, reviewing and amending transaction documents, representing its clients in the negotiation of contractual terms. Dacheng also has rich experience in preparing the documents required for Chinese government approvals and in conducting the approval procedures on behalf of its clients. Drawing upon their long-term experience in the field of foreign investment in China, Dacheng’s team of lawyers is able to develop solutions specifically tailored to the needs of a particular project, protecting their clients’ interests to the greatest possible extent.

- Offshore Investment

With the Chinese government’s policy of encouraging foreign investment by local companies, the scope and volume of offshore investments by Chinese companies has expanded significantly. Dacheng has embarked on its own path of internationalization, establishing branch offices and strategic partnerships in 26 jurisdictions worldwide. Drawing upon its international strength, its cooperative relationships with governments in various countries and jurisdictions worldwide, its strategic partnerships with law firms in foreign jurisdictions and its wealth of international experience, Dacheng is able to provide effective solutions and truly global professional legal services to Chinese clients contemplating overseas investments. Dacheng has already successfully advised a great many Chinese clients in the selection of resources, technology, brand names and markets for their investments in foreign jurisdictions.

- Antitrust and National Security Review

Antitrust is a newly emerging legal practice area in China and Dacheng stands at the cutting edge of this field, having established close links and clear channels of communications with the Chinese antimonopoly enforcement authorities. Dacheng's antitrust team has provided efficient, high-quality legal advice on Chinese antimonopoly law to a wide range of big-name international and Chinese clients, and has now accumulated a significant amount of on-the-ground experience in handling antitrust matters.

- Taxation

Taxation is one of Dacheng’s traditional fields of expertise and one that Dacheng is particularly adept at handling in today’s ever-changing and complex commercial environment. Dacheng boasts a professional team of lawyers with dual qualifications in accounting, auditing and assets appraisal, leaving it capable of providing professional legal advice on Chinese taxation matters for Chinese and foreign clients alike.

- International Trade

Dacheng has been providing professional legal services to all interested parties in the field of international trade for a long time, having obtained a particularly strong reputation in the provision of legal services to large-scale import/export and trade companies. Through its integrated global legal services network, Dacheng is able to conduct litigation proceedings in both regular and specialist courts (maritime courts, railway courts, etc.) in China, as well as arbitral proceedings in both domestic and international arbitral institutions, representing a range of parties, including consigners, consignees, holders of bills of lading and holders of waybills.

- International Trade Remedies & WTO

Dacheng has amassed considerable experience in international trade matters, having established long-term cooperative relationships with specialist international trade firms in more than ten jurisdictions, including the United States, the European Union, Australia, India, Korea, Brazil and Argentina. Dacheng cooperates with lawyers from around the globe to provide superior legal services for its clients, having achieved strong results in a large number of international trade cases.

- Admiralty & Maritime Law

Admiralty and maritime law is one of the most ancient of all bodies of law, with legal practice in this area deeply intertwined with marine transportation, international trade, international clearing, insurance and other related fields. Dacheng’s Admiralty & Maritime Law practice is one of its largest practice areas by head count, comprised of a team of professional maritime law experts with distinguished academic backgrounds and rich professional experience. Dacheng’s Admiralty & Maritime Law team has advised both foreign and domestic clients on a wide range of issues arising in relation to maritime law, including matters in respect of international trade, marine transportation, international clearing and marine insurance.

- Intellectual Property

IP is one of Dacheng’s premier practice areas and the firm is qualified in the provision of patent and trade mark agency services. Dacheng’s specialist IP lawyers have both solid training in IP law and cross-disciplinary work experience, with a large number of Dacheng’s lawyers holding dual qualifications as both lawyers and patent agents/trade mark agents. Through a combination of deep practical experience and professional and technical expertise, Dacheng’s lawyers are able to provide their clients with optimized solutions for protecting their IP rights, enhancing their clients’ core competitiveness. Dacheng has provided broad-ranging and sophisticated legal services to a large number of Chinese and international clients, with its IP practice covering both traditional and emerging fields, including patents, trademarks, copyright, unfair competition, domain names, e-commerce, network transmission, franchising, audio-visual, media and cultural products.

- Real Estate & Construction

Dacheng is a full-service, integrated firm with a team of outstanding experts in the field of real estate. Dacheng not only has considerable experience in the provision of the full range of legal services to all key stakeholders in major real estate projects (including government agencies, developers, construction companies, lenders, investment banks, real estate trust funds, property owners in owner-occupied construction projects and foreign/domestic investors) and an experienced team of professional real estate lawyers – more importantly, Dacheng has the ability to quickly put together a cross-disciplinary team of lawyers for the provision of timely, accurate, comprehensive legal services.

- Mining, Energy & Resources

Mining, Energy & Resources is one of the key practice areas in which Dacheng occupies a market-leading position. Dacheng has nurtured a highly efficient team of lawyers with backgrounds in the state-owned resources sector, who are capable of providing superior legal services for the full range of energy and mining projects, including in the oil and gas, coal-seam gas, new energy resources and ferrous and non-ferrous metal industries. Dacheng has experience representing clients in projects covering all major minerals and mining regions, establishing a first-class reputation and mining and energy projects and winning broad recognition from its clients.

- Dispute Resolution and Compulsory Enforcement

Dacheng is one of China’s premier law firms in the field of dispute resolution and compulsory enforcement. A significant number of Dacheng’s partners are registered arbitrators at international, regional and domestic institutions such as the Hong Kong International Arbitration Commission, the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission and the Beijing Arbitration Commission. Dacheng’s team of Dispute Resolution and Compulsory Enforcement lawyers have significant experience representing clients in litigation, arbitration and compulsory enforcement proceedings, as well as in handling emergency situations on behalf of their clients, and have acted for both foreign and domestic clients in a number of the most significant, challenging and influential cases in China, across a full range of matters including civil, commercial and administrative disputes in all major industries.

Dacheng’s team of lawyers is equally adept at winning disputes on behalf of its clients as it is at using its practical wisdom to help clients to achieve settlement of their disputes, thus reducing the costs of dispute resolution for its clients to the greatest extent possible. Dacheng’s lawyers strive to provide their clients with clear and direct advice, combining their international perspective and deep local experience to provide the most practical advice for clients, presenting the client’s case in the most efficient and effective manner and thereby maximizing the client’s interests. The linguistic capabilities, strength in communication, professionalism, dedication and highly efficient internal cooperation of the Dacheng team has won praise and commendation from foreign and domestic clients alike.

- Criminal Defence

Criminal defence has traditionally been an area of strength for Dacheng. As part of Dacheng’s strategic goal of enhancing the scale, professionalism and brand-name recognition of its practice, Dacheng will be operating its criminal defence practice as a standalone practice area independent of its other litigation and dispute resolution work, with a specialist team of criminal defence lawyers dedicated to defence of corporate and white-collar crimes. All members of Dacheng’s Criminal Defence team are experienced lawyers with a deep knowledge of both corporate and criminal law, all having graduated from elite Chinese universities and the majority holding post-graduate degrees in criminal law or criminal procedural law. In addition to their solid intellectual and theoretical foundation, a number of Dacheng’s Criminal Defence lawyers have considerable experience working in criminal prosecution and court proceedings for the state (whether in the public security bureau, the people’s procuratorate or the people’s courts). Dacheng’s lawyers are experts at dealing with the most significant, challenging and complex corporate criminal cases.

- Labor Law

Dacheng has a profound appreciation of the importance of labor law issues to its clients and attaches high importance to the quality of its services in this area. Dacheng’s lawyers have considerable experience assisting their clients in establishing appropriate employment and human resources management structures and in handling day-to-day labor issues such as labor contracts. Dacheng also has significant experience handling a wide range of labor disputes in the context of the current Labor Law.

Lawyers

Ms. Bo Sun Senior Lawyer Advertising, Antitrust and Trade Regulation, Arbitration, Business and Industry, Business Litigation

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