HHP Attorneys-At-Law

Managing Partner: Yao Rao
Senior Partners: Jingdong Xu
Number of partners: 3
Number of lawyers: 18
Languages: English, Mandarin
Tel: +86 21 5047 3330

Firm Overview:
HHP Attorneys-at-Law (HHP) was established in 2003. Since then, teamwork and quality service have been the corner stones of its development. HHP has a corporate culture with fully integrated team approach, under which specialist services are provided under a partner-hands-on working style. HHP has been well recognised by prestigious legal institutions as a leading Chinese law firm, including Chambers and Partners, The Legal 500, Asialaw Profiles, IFLR 1000 and Benchmark Litigation. HHP is the first member firm of Meritas in the mainland of China, a global alliance of 184 commercial law firms in over 90 countries with rigorous scrutiny of quality assurance.

Practice Areas
-M&A & Restructuring
-Financial Services
-Dispute Resolution
-Corporate
-Compliance
-Foreign Direct Investment
-Labour & Employment
-Intellectual Property Rights
-Construction
-Cross-Border Legal Service

Main Areas of Practice: 

M&A & Restructuring:  

3 partners, 6 fee earners

■ Provided full legal services for domestic and overseas M&A and restructuring from structuring, due diligence, negotiation, drafting and governmental matters till completion of closing
■ Sectors including finance, real estate, machinery manufacturing, consumer goods and services, automobiles, environmental protection, chemistry, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, medical device, pharmaceutical packaging, market research, logistics and advertisement
■ Active in outbound investment under the Belt and Road Initiative, advising Chinese investors on their global outbound investments

Contact: Mr Yao Rao
Email: [email protected]

Financial Services: 

2 partners, 5 fee earners

■ Represented financial institutions for trust and asset management business, both contentious and non-contentious
■ Represented clients for issuing PPN and other derivative instruments in the inter-bank market
■ Bank commercial loan, syndicated loan and acquisition loan, cross-border security, innovative financing

Contact: Mr Jingdong Xu
Email: [email protected]

Dispute Resolution:  

2 partners, 5 fee earners

■ Represented many financial institutions for a large number of novel cases with high value and complexity, such as disputes over effectiveness of umbrella trust, stock market OTC funds, classification of funds, and distribution of trust status
■ Abundant experience in complicated commercial dispute resolution
■ Two cases selected as Model Cases by the Supreme Court

Contact: Mr Jingdong Xu
Email: [email protected]

Corporate: 

3 partners, 6 fee earners

■ Long term cooperation with a great number of multinational companies in China
■ Rich experience on consultancy in highly regulated industries, such as healthcare, life science and pharmaceutical, mining and direct selling

Key Clients: 3M, Aiswei, Arburg, arvato, Avon, Bekaert, BioMerieux, Blanco, Blum, Brenntag, BTMU, Centrotec, Ch2m Hill, Cimetrix, Defendi, Delta Health, Diageo, EastDay, Heatcraft, Hoppecke, Hueppe, Huntsman, Johnson Control, Kenya Airways, Lautan Luas, Mary Kay, Merck, Molex, Morgan Advanced Materials, Puma, SCHOTT, SKF, SMA, Spinner, Spectris, TE, Tyco, Valeo, Valeo Siemens, Value Retail, Vitronic

Contact: Mr Yao Rao
Email: [email protected]

Compliance: 

1 partners, 3 fee earners

■ Expertise in cyber-security and data compliance
■ Provided reliable services covering every aspect of a company’s regulatory needs to identify non-compliance issues, assess compliance risks, streamline internal reporting system and set up effective compliance policies
■ Represented many multinationals in dealing with commercial compliance investigation cases

Contact: Mr Yao Rao
Email: [email protected]

Foreign Direct Investment: 

2 partners, 6 fee earners

■ Represented a large number of foreign investors to establish various kinds of business presence
■ One-stop solution for foreign direct investment more than a decade

Contact: Mr Yao Rao
Email: [email protected]

Labour & Employment: 

2 partners, 5 fee earners

■ Represented multinational corporate clients for full-scale labour law services to efficiently manage the daily HR matters and handle a large number of arbitration and litigation cases
■ Provided specific legal services on complex labour matters such as labour due diligence in M&A, massive termination management

Contact: Mr Yao Rao
Email: [email protected]

Intellectual Property Rights:  

2 partner, 3 fee earners

■ Extensive experience in various areas of IPR practice, including consultation, application, licensing, administrative enforcement with respect to the intellectual property right
■ Represented clients in litigation and administrative enforcement proceedings for IPR, brand protection

Contact: Mr Jun He
Email: [email protected]

Construction: 

2 partners, 3 fee earners

■ Full-scope services for many construction projects of industrial buildings by multinational companies
■ Rich experience in overseas construction projects, especially in the coverage area of the Belt and Road initiative, capable of offering innovative cross-border construction legal service solutions

Contact: Mr Yao Rao
Email: [email protected]