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Corporate and Employment
Our corporate team consists of highly skilled and experienced corporate and commercial lawyers. We advise established enterprises as well as start-up companies in a wide range of industries. We are involved in various stages as our clients’ businesses grow, whether it is initial set-up, day-to-day operation and management, merger and acquisition, listing, or in unfortunate difficulties like liquidation or restructuring. Our team always provides designated legal solutions that fit for our clients’ purposes and strategies in a practical and solid way. Our specialists focus on not only the commercial elements of our clients’ business, but also the other relevant and key factors, such as employment, taxation, etc. Our employment lawyers are often invited to draft office manuals, employment contracts, consultant agreements, as well as to act in employment disputes. Many of our employment specialists act as part-time arbitrators at Qingdao Labor Dispute Arbitration Commission.
Scope of practice:
Corporate establishment and alteration, and planning of governance structure
Assets reorganisation
Business management and administration
Restructuring and reorganisation of enterprises
Mergers and acquisitions
Liquidation, dissolution and bankruptcy
Designs of stock option incentive plan and management buy-out program
Issuance of company shares, company listing and debenture issue
Listing of debenture
Advising employment disputes/arbitration
Drafting office manuals and employment contracts
Dispute Resolution
Our litigation and dispute resolution lawyers have strong trial background with a proven track record of successful leading cases at various trial and appellate courts. Our team represents a wide range of overseas and domestic clients in litigation, arbitration, mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution. We work closely with our clients to understand the nature of disputes and foresee the best practical solutions based on their perspective at the outset of each case. We always offer our clients’ with alternatives and discuss the pros and cons, so that our clients are kept clear with our strategies and are always put in a dominant position on their opponents throughout the cases.
Scope of practice:
Administrative and public law
Commercial and corporate disputes
Contract law
Intellectual property rights infringement
Securities and banking issues
Real estate litigation
Construction disputes
Employment disputes
Product liability
Family and divorce
Torts (including personal injury)
Negligence
Fraud and financial crime
General criminal defense
Intellectual Property
We are the first law firm in Shandong Province to have won the state approved patent agent qualification. Our team specialises in patents, trademarks, copyrights, unfair competition, trade secrets, domain name disputes, franchise, and cyber intellectual property rights, etc. We also advise on technology transfer, licensing, assessment, technology investment, technology import and export, etc. Our services cover a wide range of industries including telecommunications, electronics, software, semiconductors, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, media, medical devices and healthcare, chemistry, machinery, agriculture and other traditional industries.
Scope of practice:
Patent application for invention, utility model and layout design
General patent application, inspection, review procedure and nullification announcement procedure
PCT application to enter into national phase in China and abroad
Transactions of patent reexamination and request of invalidation declaration
Patent bibliographic amendments, patent registration, patent retrieval report and patent evaluation report
Application for patent right recovery
Patent annual fee management and monitoring of patent legal status
Patent technology assignment, financing, stock-purchase, exploitation license and evaluation legal service
Patent technology information retrieval and legal consultancy
Filing registered intellectual property rights at the General Administration of Customs
Retrieval, registration, reexamination, dissent, revocation, monitoring of trademark, and assertion of famous trademark
Administrative investigation and litigation relating to right affiliation, right maintenance and right infringement of intellectual property
Application for certificate of high technology enterprises, government project and supporting funds
International registration of trademark and patent together with consultation of international protection scheme
International Investment & Trade
International investment is one of core practices of our firm. We act for foreign enterprises intending to invest in China, as well as domestic enterprises with a view to investing in the world market. Our clients involve joint ventures, wholly foreign-owned enterprises, and other forms of entities. The works we advise cover various industries, including telecommunications, IT, energy resources, petroleum and chemical, chemistry, infrastructures, automobiles, steel, machinery, building materials, and so on. We also advise our clients on international trade, in the capacity of contract disputes, debt recovery, arbitration, enforcement, etc. We have assisted a number of multi-national enterprises to settle their international trade disputes amicably and effectively and have won an outstanding reputation in the field.
Scope of practice:
Cross-border transactions
Mergers and acquisitions
Corporate finance
Foreign direct investment
Investment structure planning and due diligence
Offshore company incorporation, offshore structure planning and ongoing legal compliance
Tax planning, corporate governance structure planning and customs procedures
Foreign asset control and legal risk control
Assisting in obtaining approvals from state authorities for targeted projects
Drafting letters of credit, negotiation and documentation
Import/export contract disputes, arbitration and legal proceedings
Customs intellectual property protection
International debt recovery and remedies
Real Estate & Construction
As one of the first law firms involved in the fields of real estate and construction, we are broadly recognised to have taken leading position in the market. Our team consists of a group of legal experts and elite lawyers with extensive experience in large-scale real estate development and constructional engineering. Based on the specific working knowledge built up through long term practice, we are able to provide high quality and comprehensive legal services to a variety of clients, including real estate developers, constructors, property owners, designers, etc. Our advice leads through each stage of the projects, from land acquisition, financing and refinancing, development and construction, to sales and lease, transfer and management of the properties. We also advise on real estate and construction related disputes. Taking advantage of our familiarity with the subject market, our real estate and construction team works closely with litigation team to help our clients settle the disputes effectively to meet and exceed their perspectives.
Scope of practice:
Land acquisition, pledge, grant, transfer and lease, and cooperative investment
Consolidation and development, financing and operation of construction projects
Establishment, assignment, merger and acquisition of property project companies
Planning, promotion, financing, risk assessment and investigation, investment arrangement and contract management of property projects
Sales, assignment, lease and security guarantee of properties
Legal advice for bidding and tendering, surveying, designing, construction and supervision of constructional engineering
Drafting, examination, negotiation and signing of contracts, subcontracts, building materials supply agreement and engineering insurance of construction projects
Pledge, transfer and financing cooperation of construction projects in progress
Legal services for municipal infrastructure constructions with government funds or private funds, and for bidding and tendering of engineering projects
Legal services for BT and BOT projects
Legal services for establishment and operation of property management companies
Securities & Capital Markets
Qing Tai Law Firm has been providing legal services in the securities and capital markets for many years. Our services have extended to the whole market of securities, banking and finance. We advise a variety of corporate entities on the issues including issuance and listing of stocks and bonds, corporate finance, private equity funds, management and operation of multinational financial institutions, and financial transactions such as deposits, loans, project finance, bills, debentures, trusts, guarantee, leases and insurance, etc. We also help banks, building societies and other forms of financial institutions draft sample business contracts involving debit and credit accounts, guarantee and mortgages. In the event of financial disputes, we represent our clients in the matters of deposit receipts, loans, mortgages, credit cards, guarantee, and insurance, etc. Over the past few years, we have retrieved or avoided hundreds of millions of financial losses for our clients.
Scope of practice:
Domestic and overseas IPOs
Corporate bonds
Corporate financing (risk investment, PE investment, and strategic investment)
Tender offers and hostile takeovers
Private equity and venture capital
Legal advice for listed companies (corporate governance, information disclosure, etc)
Bills and letters of credit
Import/export credit facilities
Finance leases for aircrafts, vessels and large-scale equipments
Project finance for energy and infrastructure
Real estate finance
Trade finance
Insurance and reinsurance
Trust
Financial asset management and debt/equity restructuring
Transactions of financial derivatives