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Overview of Zhiming
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Zhiming Law Firm is a rapidly developing, distinctive large-scale comprehensive law firm.
Zhiming adheres to the principle that development is the absolute truth, continuously advancing through hard work.
After years of development, Zhiming has established a comprehensive, high-quality, and efficient legal service system covering a full range of practice areas. The firm now has more than 50 partners and full-time lawyers, with office space of nearly 600 square meters. Its superior office environment, well-equipped facilities, and overall strength rank among the top in Shenzhen.
Zhiming upholds the principle of client priority, committed to safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of parties in the most efficient manner.
Through continuous exploration, Zhiming has developed an effective client service guarantee system, focusing on institutional construction, strengthening business management, honing professional expertise, improving the service environment, and maintaining long-term close working relationships with judicial authorities, the business community, the press, academia, and government departments.
As you sow, so shall you reap. Zhiming Law Firm's high-quality and efficient legal services, along with its integrity and dedication, have won widespread acclaim from clients and drawn significant media attention. Today, the professional image of Zhiming lawyers frequently appears on legal television programs, and their professional papers and handled cases are often featured in academic journals and newspapers.
To meet the needs of business development, Zhiming has now established a branch office in Shanghai.
Zhiming will continue to uphold the legitimate rights and interests of its clients with utmost efficiency while pursuing its own growth.
Zhiming lawyers
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In addition to possessing a group of outstanding legal professionals from prestigious domestic and international institutions, Zhiming also focuses on recruiting and cultivating versatile legal talents with diverse educational backgrounds and qualifications in other industries, such as logistics manager certification, certified public accountant, electrical engineer, geological engineer, price appraiser, water transport economist, physician, trademark agent qualification, securities business qualification, as well as practical experience in public security, judicial departments, large real estate companies, arbitration institutions, and major foreign enterprises. This has formed a legal team capable of meeting various needs in legal practice.
Zhì Míng actively encourages its lawyers to continuously summarize practical experience, enhance their theoretical accomplishments, and pursue the path of becoming expert lawyers. Over the years, Zhì Míng has led and participated in the compilation of numerous legal works, with representative ones including “Practical Guide to Technology Transactions” (used at the First Hi-Tech Fair)…… It has successively published dozens of papers in core legal journals both domestically and internationally, mainly including “Reflections on Establishing China’s Foreign Trade Anti-Dumping Response Mechanism” (“International Trade Issues” 1996.3), “China’s WTO Accession: Anti-Dumping and Safeguard Measures” (“Dynamics and Research of the World Trade Organization” 2001.7)……. Zhì Míng advocates team spirit and encourages mutual collaboration to meet the comprehensive legal service needs of its clients at a deeper level.
Zhiming clients
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The firm's clients are widely distributed across various sectors of society, including government agencies, social organizations, securities companies, investment companies, guarantee companies, banks, and various large and medium-sized domestic and international companies and enterprises. The industries involved include domestic and international trade, anti-dumping, finance, real estate, securities, construction, transportation, machinery, and the internet.
The firm’s clients include but are not limited to China Economic Development Trust and Investment Corporation, CEPREI Certification Center of the Ministry of Information Industry, China Overseas Holdings Limited, Shenzhen Future Era Industrial Development Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Anhui Industrial General Corporation, Shenzhen Road Engineering Company, Shenzhen Road and Bridge Maintenance Center, Guangdong Fourth Construction Shenzhen Branch, Shenzhen Huajiang Industrial General Corporation of the Ministry of Finance, listed company Shenzhen Petrochemical Group Co., Ltd. (A shares), Shenzhen Dayang Ocean Shipping Co., Ltd. (B shares), Taiwan Dazhong Computer (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., China Great Wall Computer (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Consumers Association, Shenzhen Taiwan Business Association, Neptunus Pharmaceutical, Guangdong Development Bank, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, CITIC Industrial Bank, China Merchants Bank, Commercial Bank, Shenzhen Rural Credit Cooperative, Qixin Credit Guarantee Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Shisutong Logistics Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Jinhai Port Real Estate Co., Ltd., Eachnet Network Services (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Longgang Town Investment Management Co., Ltd., Yuedong Jinhai Golf Club Co., Ltd., Hong Kong Mansheng Group Co., Ltd., and the Yantian Entry-Exit Border Inspection Station of the People’s Republic of China.
Zhiming's high-quality and efficient legal services, along with its integrity and dedication, have earned widespread praise from its clients.
Zhiming services
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Zhīmíng is committed to a legal service model that places equal emphasis on both "litigation" and "non-litigation," providing clients with legal services across various professional fields. To this end, while strengthening the development of Zhīmíng's legal team, we have also highlighted the establishment, soundness, and improvement of our client service assurance and supervision system. A dedicated Business Guidance Committee has been established to organize collective discussions and comprehensive planning by corresponding specialized lawyers in accordance with the case collective discussion system. This committee is responsible for providing business guidance on complex, difficult, or cross-field and cross-disciplinary cases, ensuring the maximum realization of our clients' objectives.
Zhì Míng lawyers can serve as permanent legal counsel for companies and enterprises, as well as act as agents in litigation and arbitration, meeting clients' needs for comprehensive and multi-tiered legal services. Zhì Míng lawyers can provide services in English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, and Teochew for clients' convenience.
The scope of Zhiming's services mainly covers the following areas:
Financial Securities Legal Business Department
Borrower and guarantor credit investigations; loan litigation, loan guarantee litigation, financial leasing, certificate of deposit litigation, negotiable instrument and settlement litigation, interbank lending litigation; collateral review; issuance of and witnessing of loan, guarantee, and mortgage contracts; mortgage registration; project financing; loan recovery and enforcement; serving as legal counsel for state-owned commercial banks, joint-stock commercial banks, city commercial banks, and investment banks; bank restructuring; drafting, reviewing, and revising banking business contracts; reviewing bank loan guarantees and bank international loans and guarantees; negotiation and witnessing of non-litigious financial projects; representing clients in litigation and arbitration involving letters of credit, certificates of deposit, entrusted loans, interbank lending, and bank negotiable instruments disputes.
Construction and Real Estate Legal Business Department
Real estate legal, regulatory, and policy consultation; drafting and reviewing agreements and articles of association for real estate development enterprises; handling enterprise establishment registration, participating in feasibility studies for development projects, drafting and reviewing application documents at each stage of development, and applying for approval documents and permits on behalf of clients; consultation on the establishment of real estate companies, reviewing and assessing the creditworthiness and contractual performance capabilities of cooperative units such as construction and supervision contractors; specialized legal counsel for real estate construction project bidding and tendering, commercial housing sales, housing demolition and compensation, real estate investment and development, and transfer and grant of land use rights, as well as perennial legal counsel for real estate companies; formation of real estate operating companies, financing guarantees and credit investigations related to real estate development, and transfer of real estate project equity interests; providing legal consultation for companies and individuals in the purchase, transfer, lease, and inheritance of real property, and providing full-process legal services for companies purchasing commercial housing from contract signing to certificate processing; real estate leasing, mortgage, and gift, real estate title registration, real estate pre-sale and sales; review of mortgage-secured loans and mortgage registration; providing legal services for real estate developers in building leasing, property management legal services, real estate delivery and move-in legal services, and formation of owners' committees; representing clients in mediation, arbitration, and litigation of real estate disputes.
Corporate Legal Services Department
Company formation, merger and division; enterprise restructuring, definition of property rights; investment consulting; drafting company labor contracts, articles of association and other documents; participating in project negotiations; acting as the company's agent in litigation and arbitration activities together with lawyers from the litigation department; definition and separation of property rights of state-owned enterprises; structural and asset restructuring of state-owned enterprises; shareholding system reform and employee internal shareholding projects of state-owned import and export enterprises; restructuring of state-controlled enterprises; debt-to-equity swaps of state-owned enterprises; serving as perennial legal counsel.
Intellectual Property Legal Services Department
Representation in patent and trademark registration applications; representation in the protection, licensing, and assignment of trademarks, patents, copyrights, proprietary technology, and trade secrets, as well as customs recordation of trademarks; domestic and international trademark registration, renewal, and opposition, and protection of key trademarks listed abroad; protection and assignment of proprietary technology, copyright legal protection, technology import and export, computer software protection, and infringement investigations; legal affairs concerning anti-unfair competition, intellectual property matters involved in franchising, rights assignment, investment, and bankruptcy liquidation, and perennial legal counsel services; intellectual property litigation.
International Trade Anti-Dumping Department
International commercial and maritime affairs, establishment and restructuring of foreign-invested enterprises, foreign equity participation in domestic enterprises, establishment of overseas branches by domestic enterprises, establishment of representative offices and branches by foreign companies in China, and provision of legal services for foreign-related business including foreign investment (including from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan), international trade, foreign-related contracts, foreign-related financing, foreign-related intellectual property, and foreign-related civil legal affairs; restructuring, dissolution, and liquidation of foreign-invested enterprises, anti-dumping, legal analysis of project feasibility; participation in project negotiations, drafting of legal documents, issuance of legal opinions, factual investigations, foreign-related litigation and arbitration; acceptance of commissions from domestic and international clients to draft and review contracts for carriage of goods by sea, carriage of passengers, ship chartering, and marine insurance on their behalf, to assert maritime claims, handle marine insurance claims and general average adjustment, and represent clients in maritime arbitration or litigation; serving as permanent legal counsel.
Litigation and Arbitration Legal Affairs Department
Criminal Litigation Legal Affairs:
Investigation stage: meeting with criminal suspects, providing legal consultation for criminal suspects, representing appeals and accusations, and applying for release on bail pending trial;
Review and prosecution stage: review litigation documents and technical appraisal materials, conduct investigation and evidence collection, and submit defense opinions;
Trial stage: review case files, conduct investigation and evidence collection, participate in court hearings, and present defense opinions regarding the defendant's innocence or lesser culpability;
Accepting entrustment from private prosecutors or their legal representatives, victims of public prosecution cases or their legal representatives or close relatives, and parties to incidental civil actions or their legal representatives to participate in criminal proceedings.
Civil litigation legal affairs:
Accepting entrustment from parties in various civil cases to act as agents, participate in litigation or handle related civil legal matters, including real estate dispute cases, maritime and admiralty dispute cases, economic dispute cases, intellectual property cases, inheritance cases, marriage and family relations cases, bankruptcy cases, labor relations cases, voter qualification cases, public summons and exhortation procedure cases, and supervision procedure cases.
Administrative litigation legal affairs:
Cases involving dissatisfaction with administrative penalties imposed by administrative organs, cases where administrative organs are deemed to have infringed upon the lawful right to independent management, cases where applicants meet statutory conditions for applying for permits or licenses but the administrative organs refuse to issue or fail to respond, cases where administrative organs are requested to perform their statutory duties to protect personal or property rights but refuse or fail to respond, cases where administrative organs unlawfully require the performance of obligations, and cases where administrative organs infringe upon other personal or property rights.
Enforcement legal affairs:
Civil enforcement cases, administrative enforcement cases, arbitration enforcement cases.
Arbitration legal affairs:
Contract arbitration legal affairs, labor contract arbitration legal affairs, foreign-related arbitration legal affairs, other arbitration legal affairs.
Zhiming Culture
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Persist.
Seeking truth, upholding law, integrity, dedication.
Keep one's promise
Efficiently safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of clients
Advocate
Team collaboration for shared development
Advocate
Mutual respect and mutual understanding
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Management Committee
Administrative Department
Market Development Department
Financial Securities Legal Business Department
Business Advisory Committee
Construction and Real Estate Legal Business Department
Corporate Legal Services Department
Intellectual Property Legal Services Department
International Trade Anti-Dumping Department
Litigation and Arbitration Legal Affairs Department
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