Hye has been assisting numerous international companies with their China-related investment projects and business transactions. We also maintain long-term business relationships with our clients. Many foreign clients, after engaging us to incorporate their foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs), continue to retain us as their legal counsels with a view to ensuring on-going legal coverage for their daily business. We have also been engaged by domestic companies to liaise with lawyers in other jurisdictions in order to structure their offshore investment.
Our team is sophisticated and experienced in foreign investment, overseas financing and international trade, and in preparing documents in various languages. A number of lawyers in this practice received legal education in prestigious law schools of the United States, UK or other common-law countries or regions, and previously practiced in international companies or law firms. Moreover, our leading lawyers are regularly invited to give lectures and provide comments on high-profile investment and trade issues to various governmental authorities and international organizations, and major legal journals.
In addition, we maintains business contacts with or work closely with leading law firms in the United States, Canada, Britain, Germany, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, enabling us to provide better legal services for our clients in cross-boarder transactions or investments.
Our major practices in this field are highlighted as follows:
Advising on establishment of representative offices, wholly foreign-owned enterprises, and Sino-foreign joint ventures; drafting and reviewing related documents, such as the feasibility study report, and processing incorporation thereof;
Advising on daily operation of FIEs, including the matters relating to foreign exchanges, taxation, employment, sale and purchase, import and export, and intellectual property rights;
Advising on merges, acquisitions or restructurings of FIEs and, conducting due diligence investigations of the past and potential liabilities of these enterprises in China;
Advising on and processing the change of shareholders, directors, registered address, registered capital of FIEs, and foreign-related bankruptcy and liquidation;
Advising on international consortium’s loan, project financing, financing lease, and issuance of securities in overseas markets;
Advising on international sale, carriage of goods by sea, letters of credit, import and export procedures, customs and tariff compliance, outsource and distribution in China, and settling international trade disputes;
Advising on anti-dumping cases, or international trade dispute settlement; representing on related arbitration or trial.