WENFEI Law: Practice Areas

One team of Swiss and Chinese lawyers
Local - in China and Europe

Wenfei Law offers its clients comprehensive legal advice and representation, with particular strengths in the following fields:

Litigation & Arbitration: Representation of clients before courts and arbitral tribunals, mediation, enforcement of judgments and arbitral awards; support of overseas litigation with regards to service of process, managing the collection of evidence, monitoring of local developments, and the development of strategies. Acting as arbitrators.
Transactions: negotiation for and review contracts of international trade, tender and bid, international M&A, Due Diligence.
Investment: establishment of legal entities or representative offices, counseling in mergers & acquisitions and strategic investments in listed companies, investment structure planning, research and due-diligence upon acquisition targets and potential business partners.
Corporate & Commercial: handling company formation, advice on resolution adoption, representing parties in bankruptcy and liquidation, M&A of local entities and FIEs.
Financial Services: CSRC related matters, insurance and banking law.
Natural Resource & Real Estate: advice on acquisition of mining rights, exploration rights, land use rights (LURs), advice on tenancy.

Employment: advice and drafting of employment contracts, as well as advice on compliance with social security and pension rules, collective and individual labour relations, start-up hirings and close-down layoffs, expatriate employment arrangement and coordination.
IP & IT: handling and coordination of registration of models, designs, trade marks, domain names, as well as registration and protection of copyrighted works including software; technology transfer and licensing; anti-counterfeiting and coordination of infringement investigation and evidence collection.
Competition/Antitrust: handling of merger-control analysis and filings under local laws, handling and coordination of local fair-trade litigation matters as well as cooperation with overseas antitrust and fair-trade litigation.
Tax: various tax advices related to investment, international trade and employment, such as preferential treatment, customs duty, VAT, BT, EIT, IIT, LUR VAT, consumption tax and other standard business tax issues.
Outsourcing: compliance advice, risk management, review of contracts and other legal documents, negotiations.
Private clients: Legal services to private clients, e.g. in marriage, marital property, inheritance and adoption matters.

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Frequently Asked Questions: Our lawyers have carefully prepared a list of questions & answers intended to give foreign business people a short overview of important areas of Chinese business law. These Q&A will provide you with brief but valuable indications on foreign investment requirements, legal forms of companies, arbitration in China, labor and property law, etc.; You may view these Q&A under the following link:
Frequently Asked Questions.