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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 growth, Zhiming has established a comprehensive, high-quality, efficient, and professional legal service system. It now has over 50 partners and full-time lawyers, with an office area of nearly 600 square meters, a superior working environment, and complete office facilities. Its overall conditions and comprehensive 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.
Zhiming actively encourages lawyers to continuously summarize practical experience, improve theoretical competence, and pursue the path of expert lawyers. Over the years, Zhiming has led and participated in the compilation of numerous legal works, representative of which include "Technical Transaction Practice" (for the first High-Tech Fair)... It has published dozens of papers in core legal journals at home and abroad, 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" (World Trade Organization Dynamics and Research, 2001.7)... Zhiming advocates team spirit and encourages mutual collaboration to deeply meet the comprehensive legal service needs of its clients.
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 Company, CEPREI Certification Center of the Ministry of Information Industry, China Overseas Group Limited, Shenzhen Future Era Industrial Development Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Anhui Industry General Company, Shenzhen Road Engineering Company, Shenzhen Road and Bridge Maintenance Center, Guangdong Fourth Construction Shenzhen Branch, Shenzhen Huajiang Industrial General Company of the Ministry of Finance, listed company Shenzhen Petrochemical Group Company (A-shares), Shenzhen Dayang Shipping Co., Ltd. (B-shares), Taiwan First International Computer (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., China Great Wall Computer (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Consumer 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 Jinganghai Real Estate Co., Ltd., eBay Network Services (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Longgang Town Investment Management Co., Ltd., East Guangdong Jinhai Golf Club Co., Ltd., Hong Kong Wansheng Group Co., Ltd., Yantian Entry-Exit Frontier Inspection Station of the People's Republic of China, etc.
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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Zhiming is committed to a legal service model that equally emphasizes "litigation" and "non-litigation," providing clients with professional legal services across various fields. To this end, while strengthening the construction of the Zhiming lawyer team, it highlights the client service guarantee and supervision system, as well as its improvement and perfection. A specialized Business Guidance Committee has been established, which, based on the collective discussion system for cases, organizes relevant professional lawyers for collective discussion and comprehensive planning, responsible for providing business guidance on complex, difficult, or cross-disciplinary and cross-professional cases, ensuring the maximum realization of client goals.
Zhiming lawyers can serve as perennial legal advisors for companies and enterprises, as well as represent clients in litigation and arbitration, meeting clients' comprehensive and multi-level legal service needs. Zhiming lawyers can provide services in Chinese and English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghai dialect, and Chaoshan dialect for client convenience.
The scope of Zhiming's services mainly covers the following areas:
Financial Securities Legal Business Department
Credit investigation of borrowers and guarantors; loan litigation, loan guarantee litigation, financial leasing, certificate of deposit litigation, bill and settlement litigation, interbank lending litigation; collateral review; drafting and signing 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 modifying banking business contracts; reviewing bank loan guarantees, reviewing international bank loans and guarantees; non-litigation financial project negotiation and witnessing; representing in litigation and arbitration for letters of credit, certificates of deposit, entrusted loans, interbank lending, and bank bill disputes.
Construction and Real Estate Legal Business Department
Consultation on real estate laws, regulations, and policies; drafting and reviewing real estate development enterprise agreements and articles of association; handling enterprise establishment registration; participating in feasibility studies for development projects; drafting and reviewing documents submitted at various stages of development; applying for approval documents and permits on behalf of clients; consulting on real estate company establishment; reviewing and evaluating the creditworthiness and performance capability of cooperative units such as construction and supervision companies; legal services for real estate construction project bidding, commercial housing sales, house demolition and compensation, real estate investment and development, transfer and assignment of land use rights; serving as permanent legal counsel for real estate companies; formation of real estate management companies; financing guarantees and credit investigations related to real estate development; transfer of real estate project rights; providing legal consultation for companies and individuals on property purchase, transfer, lease, and inheritance; offering full-process legal services from contract signing to document processing for corporate property purchases; legal services for real estate leasing, mortgage, gifting, property rights registration, pre-sale and sale; review of mortgage guarantee loans and mortgage registration; providing building leasing legal services for real estate developers; property management legal services; real estate delivery and occupancy legal services; formation of owners' committees; representation in mediation, arbitration, and litigation of real estate disputes.
Corporate Legal Services Department
Company establishment, merger, and division; enterprise restructuring; property rights definition; investment consulting; drafting company labor contracts, articles of association, and other documents; participating in project negotiations; acting as the company's representative in litigation and arbitration activities alongside the litigation department; definition and separation of property rights in state-owned enterprises; restructuring and asset reorganization of state-owned enterprises; joint-stock reform of state-owned import and export enterprises and employee internal shareholding projects; restructuring of state-controlled enterprises; debt-to-equity swaps in state-owned enterprises; serving as permanent legal counsel.
Intellectual Property Legal Services Department
Representation in patent and trademark registration applications; representation in protection, licensing, and transfer of trademarks, patents, copyrights, proprietary technology, and trade secrets; trademark customs recordation; domestic and international trademark registration, renewal, and opposition; protection of key international trademark lists; protection and transfer of proprietary technology; copyright legal protection; technology import and export; computer software protection; infringement investigation; legal affairs related to anti-unfair competition; intellectual property legal matters in franchising, rights transfer, investment, and bankruptcy liquidation; permanent legal counsel; intellectual property litigation.
International Trade Anti-Dumping Department
International commercial and maritime matters, establishment and restructuring of foreign-invested enterprises, foreign capital 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 (including Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan) investment, international trade, foreign-related contracts, foreign-related financing, foreign-related intellectual property, foreign-related civil legal affairs, and other foreign-related businesses; restructuring, dissolution, and liquidation of foreign-invested enterprises, anti-dumping, project feasibility legal analysis; participation in project negotiations, drafting legal documents, issuing legal opinions, factual investigations, foreign-related litigation and arbitration; accepting mandates from domestic and international clients to draft and review contracts for maritime cargo transport, passenger transport, ship chartering, and marine insurance, acting on behalf of maritime compensation claims, conducting marine insurance claims and general average adjustments, representing 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 to criminal suspects, representing in appeals and complaints, applying for bail pending trial;
Review and prosecution stage: reviewing litigation documents and technical appraisal materials, investigating and gathering evidence, presenting defense opinions;
Trial stage: reviewing case files, investigating and gathering evidence, participating in court hearings, presenting 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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坚持
Seeking truth, upholding law, integrity, dedication.
信守
Efficiently safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of clients
主张
Team collaboration for shared development
倡导
Mutual respect and mutual understanding
Partners' Meeting
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