Zhong Yin Law Firm

Founded in January 1993, Zhong Yin is one of the earliest law firms in the form of partnership approved by the Ministry of Justice in China. It is headquartered in Beijing and currently has branch offices in more than 40 Mainland cities including Shanghai, Tianjin, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Xi'an and other cites (including the branches established and such in preparation), and established its association law firm with Hong Kong and Macao law firms, ZLF Law Office, which is China’s first, as well as its Qianhai branch. It has nearly 4,000 lawyers and staff members, including nearly 3,000 lawyers.

Zhong Yin lawyers actively explore overseas markets, build a global legal service system and strive to lead the way in all practice areas. Zhong Yin lawyers have established strategic partnerships with legal service agencies in more than a dozen countries including the United States, Germany, France, and Canada. A large number of Zhong Yin international lawyers are capable of providing legal services to clients in English, French, Japanese, Korean, German and other languages, which ensures that Zhong Yin’s clients can quickly obtain comprehensive and efficient legal services on a global scale. Excellent services make Zhong Yin lawyers the most recognized and trusted partners of clients. In recent years, the number of clients, the proportion of market share and the total revenue of Zhong Yin have increased significantly.

Zhong Yin lawyers always adhere to the service concept of “customer orientation, professional cooperation, diligence and conscientiousness, excellence and high efficiency”, focus on client needs, give full play to the strength of Zhong Yin’s global legal service system, and integrate the resources of all lawyers and departments of all branches. While providing clients with high-quality and efficient legal services, they can also provide business information to clients and promote business cooperation among clients. Zhong Yin lawyers closely follow national policies and regulations, maintain good working relations with government departments including the People’s Bank of China, China Securities Regulatory Commission, China Banking Regulatory Commission, China Insurance Regulatory Commission, State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, China Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. They also have excellent business relations and communication channels with judicial departments at all levels and arbitration institutions at home and abroad. Zhong Yin is a leading standardized, professional, large-scale, internationalized and comprehensive law firm in China.

Practice areas
Securities and capital markets

• Equity capital market
• Private equity and investment funds
• Related business investment and financing
• Bond capital market

Banking and finance

• Legal services for banking
• Legal services for insurance
• Legal services for trust
• Disposal of non-performing assets
• Financial leasing
• Syndicated loans and commercial loans
• Legal services for international finance
• Legal services for financial derivatives
• Legal services for project financing
• Other legal services for asset management

Investment and M&A

• Foreign direct investment
• Acquisition and merger
• Overseas investment
• The Belt and Road Initiative and cross-border legal services
• Related business investment and financing

Corporate and commercial

• Perennial legal adviser
• Labor and employment
• Anti-corruption and anti-commercial bribery affairs
• Other commercial affairs of companies

Restructuring and insolvency

• Self-liquidation
• Compulsory liquidation
• Bankruptcy liquidation
• Bankruptcy reorganization
• Bankruptcy conciliation
• Risk prevention

Arbitration and litigation

• Legal services for civil cases
• Legal services for administrative cases
• ADR (Alternative dispute resolution)

Crime

• Duty-related crimes
• Financial securities crimes
• Intellectual property crimes
• Internet crimes
• Criminal-civil cross cases
• Major crimes
• Foreign-related crimes

International business

• International trade
• Trade remedy and WTO
• Maritime affairs
• Bulk commodities
• Other affairs related to international trade laws

Intellectual property

• Traditional legal services of intellectual property
• Derivative legal services of intellectual property
• Administrative agency services of intellectual property
• Dispute resolution services of intellectual property

Real estate, construction and infrastructure

• Real estate
• Construction
• Infrastructure
• PPP
• REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts)

Competition and supervision

• Competition law compliance
• Anti-monopoly affairs
• Control of concentration of undertakings
• Market power abuse
• Litigation involving competition law and anti-monopoly law
• Consumer protection
• Other affairs related to competition and regulation

Legal risk management    

• (Analyze) Analysis of legal risks
• (Control) Control of legal risks
• (Evaluate) Evaluation of control and implementation of legal risks