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Foreign direct investment (FDI) has been a key practice area since the firm was established in 1992. We’ve assisted clients in FDI projects arranging from infrastructure and manufacturing industries to high-tech, franchising, education, media and mass communications, and entertainment industries. Having a number of attorneys also holding foreign law degrees, admitted in foreign jurisdictions, and with work experiences in foreign countries, we provide legal services in FDI area from an international prospect. We have closely followed the development of Chinese law applicable to FDI and the development in international commercial practice, which has allowed us to offer to clients the best legal solutions. Our services in this area include：
- Investment project structuring
- Legal due diligence investigation
- Assisting the related parties in handling corporate and project information confidentiality arrangement, intellectual property protection, project cost and expense allocation and sharing arrangement, project feasibility study, and other procedural matters encountered during the course of project approval and preliminary negotiations
- Assisting in preparing project application and feasibility study documents
- Preparing project documents, such as project applications, feasibility study reports, joint venture contracts, articles of association, asset transfer agreements, land use right agreements, site lease agreements, factory building construction contracting documents, labor-related contracts and agreements, materials supply agreements, domestic or export sales agreements, technology license agreements, trademark license agreements, and foreign-invested enterprise (FIE) equity transfer agreements
- Participating in project negotiations
- Providing legal opinions on the issues involved in the FDI projects, such as the issues on preferential tax treatments, land use, environmental protection, industries regulation, and foreign exchange
- Advising on and assistance in FDI-related governmental approval and registration procedures
- Assisting clients in law compliance issues in their routine operations after the invested entity is established
- Other legal matters relating to FIE corporate reorganization, dissolution and liquidation
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