East & Concord Partners

Managing Partner: Dajin Li

Number of partners: 180+

Number of lawyers: (partners, associates and trainee lawyers) Over 500

Languages: Chinese, English, Japanese  

Firm Overview: 

East & Concord Partners is headquartered in Beijing and has offices in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Wuhan, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Nanjing and Xi'an. The firm has over 500 legal professionals. The firm’s working languages include Chinese, English and Japanese. East & Concord is committed to providing professional legal assistance to clients and with nearly 30 years of experience has gained a leading position and earned clients’ trust and recognition and has been frequently recommended and reported by well-known international legal media such as Chambers, The Legal 500 and IFLR1000 in the following practice areas:

-Corporate & M&A 

-Securities & Capital Markets 

-Dispute Resolution 

-Criminal Defense & Corporate Investigations 

-Banking and Finance 

-Financial Lease & Commercial Factoring 

-Anti-dumping and Countervailing 

-Antitrust and Competition 

-Intellectual Property 

-Private Equity and Industrial Funds 

-Entertainment and Sports 

-Infrastructure and Project Financing 

-Real Estate and Construction 

-Energy and Natural Resources 

-Network Security and Data Protection 

-Labour Law, Healthcare 

-Bankruptcy and Restructuring 

-Government Law & Policy 

-Corporate Compliance 

-Family and Wealth Management 

-Maritime Affairs 

-Japan Practice 

Mergers & Acquisitions: 

Based on the client’s needs, the firm provides professional services including, but not limited to the following:

■ Direct investment or merger in a large variety of businesses

■ Enterprise or company restructuring

■ Equity acquisitions, transfer, corporate additional investments

■ Asset and business acquisition and transfer

■ Corporate division/merger

■ Equity and debt financing

Securities & Capital Markets:  

Professional services that the firm provides mainly include:

■ Initial offering and listing of securities

■ Establishment and sale of funds

■ Issuance of corporate bonds and financial bonds and notes

■ Listed Companies’ reorganisation of major assets

■ Listed Companies’ re-financing

Banking & Finance:  

Professional services that the firm provides in this field mainly involve:

■ Advising banks and other financial institutions on all types of domestic and international financing transactions

■ Establishment and reorganisation of insurance companies, public or private funds, asset management companies, financial leasing companies/commercial factoring companies

■ Advising on and assisting in designing structures of products or transactions for trust companies, public or private funds, asset management companies and financial leasing/commercial factoring companies

■ Due diligence on target projects, preparation of transaction documents, compliance and risk management for trust companies, insurance companies and public or private funds

■ Various financial derivative products, margin trading, channel services for asset management and credit assets securitisation business

■ Internet finance, P2P, crowd-funding, and petty loan businesses

■ Advising on financial leasing/commercial factoring transaction contracts and relevant legal documents

■ Providing legal opinions in respect of financial leasing/commercial factoring projects

■Dispute resolutions for banks, trust companies, public or private funds, asset management companies, financial leasing companies/commercial factoring companies

Dispute Resolution: 

In the field of commercial arbitration, the firm handles domestic and foreign cases related to:

■ Disputes regarding sales contracts

■ Contract disputes regarding foreign investments

■ Disputes regarding real estate development contracts

■ Disputes regarding engineering contracts Contract disputes regarding finance and insurance

Intellectual Property: 

Areas of expertise include:

■ Investment in patent and know-how

■ Transfer and trading of patent licensing right and know-how

■ Investigation and administrative actions against infringements

■ Patent review and dispute resolution regarding invalid patent claims

■ Patent litigation

■ Application for trademarks

■ Contribution in trademarks, license and transfer

■ Commercial license and trademark interest arrangement in franchise

■ Administrative objection of trademark dispute

■ Civil and administrative litigation of trademark dispute

■ Trademark inquiries and trademark surveillance

■ Customs Administrative Protection of Trademark Right