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 42 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 more than 4,000 lawyers and staff members, including more than 3,000 lawyers.

Zhong Yin lawyers actively explore overseas markets to build a global legal service system and strive to take the leading position 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 advising 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 globally. Excellent services make Zhong Yin lawyers the most recognized and trusted partners of clients.

Zhong Yin lawyers always uphold the service philosophy of "client first, specialized & cooperative, diligent and responsible, quality and high efficiency". With the client needs as its core, the law firm may synthesize the resources of all lawyers and departments of all branches leveraging the strength of Zhong Yin's global legal service system to provide superior legal services while inform the clients with commercial information to facilitate the business cooperation among themselves. Numerous outstanding Zhong Yin lawyers actively participate in construction of a rule of law based society and closely cooperate with certainindustrial leaders, and market pioneers by taking important positions concurrently in international organizations, national or local bars, industrial associations, chamber of commerce, and arbitration institutions for driving high quality development by joint forces.

Practice Areas

1. Securities& Capital Markets

2. Banking& Finance

3. Investment & M&A

4. Corporate and Commercial

5. Bankruptcy & Restructuring

6. Litigation& Arbitration

7. Criminal Defense

8. International Trade and Maritime

9. Intellectual Property

10. Real estate, Construction& Infrastructure

11. Competition & Supervision

12. Compliance & Legal Risk Management

International Business

Zhong Yin is one of the first law firms in China to advising on international cases. The lawyers have profound academic background, rich practical experience and excellent foreign language ability in the fields of international trade, trade remedy, WTO and maritime & admiralty affairs. They can review and produce documents in multiple languages and provide clients with consulting, advice, participation in negotiations and other legal services.

The International Trade Remedy Department is composed of several senior lawyers and accountants with years of experience in WTO and trade remedy practice. It is one of the best trade remedy teams in the fields of anti-dumping and countervailing in China. Since 2004, the team has acted on behalf of more than 300 Chinese exporters in nearly 200 foreign anti-dumping and countervailing investigations against China, and obtained positive results of zero rate or national minimum rate, favorable outcomes for the clients. Zhong Yin practice in this area covers countries and regions including the United States, the European Union, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the Eurasian Economic Union, India, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, South Africa, Egypt, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Chile, Uruguay, etc. and involve sectors including steel, chemicals, light industrial products, mechanical and electrical products, textiles, medical products, etc.

Over the years, by giving full play to its expertise and empirical advantages in foreign-related legal services, Zhong Yin has achieved remarkable achievements in advising governments and enterprises on foreign-related matters with high-quality legal expertise, and has been listed in the rankings for “International Trade/WTO” by international legal service rating agencies such as Chambers, The Legal 500 and LEGALBAND for many consecutive years.

Core Business Scope：

◆ International trade

◆ Trade remedy and WTO

◆ Maritime & admiralty affairs

◆ Commodities

◆Other legal service related to international trade law

Offices

Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Chongqing, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Nanning, Fuzhou, Changsha, Yinchuan, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Shenyang, Xi'an, Hefei, Nanchang, Wuhan, Kunming, Zhengzhou,Guangzhou, Lanzhou, Shijiazhuang, Changchun, Taiyuan, Urumqi, Xiamen, Jixi, Taizhou, Suzhou, Qingdao, Quanzhou, Ganzhou, Zhuhai, Jining, Kunshan, Dongguan, Luoyang, Xiong'an, Wenzhou, Linyi, Luzhou, Ningbo, Baotou, Hengqin