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The Dacheng Cross-Border Investment & Trade Practice Group provides multilingual and cross-cultural legal services for cross-border investment and trade activities across multiple jurisdictions. Leveraging our extensive global service network, our specialized lawyers offer one-stop legal solutions to support clients' investment and trade endeavors worldwide, ensuring seamless coordination across diverse business operations and geographical regions.
Over the years, our practice group has garnered significant industry recognition. We have been consistently ranked in prestigious publications such as the Chambers Greater China Region Guide, Chambers Global Guide, and Legal 500 for our expertise in international arbitration, maritime and admiralty law, and international trade/WTO. Several of our lawyers have also been featured in Legal 500 Private Practice Powerlist: Arbitration China 2023. Additionally, we have been repeatedly recognized as the China Firm of the year in the international trade practice area by respected legal media and rating agencies such as asialaw Profiles, China Law & Practice, and China Business Law Journal. From 2019 to 2023, we were consistently ranked among the world's elite international arbitration practices in Global Arbitration Review's GAR 30 list.
Our team of specialized lawyers in the cross-border investment and trade practice area is highly proficient and offers a comprehensive range of services. We support foreign investments, assist Chinese enterprises in going global, and resolve cross-border disputes. Our lawyers are fluent in multiple languages, including English, French, German, Japanese, and Korean, and some hold practice qualifications in overseas jurisdictions such as the United Kingdom, the United States, and Hong Kong. Our team is at the forefront of research on laws, policies, and theories, and has participated in drafting significant documents such as the Export Control Law and the White Paper on Compliance for Chinese Enterprises Operating Abroad.
Foreign Investments: Consultation on foreign investment access policies, investment structure design, legal due diligence, document drafting, negotiation, antitrust review, establishment of foreign investment entities, M&A of domestic enterprises or assets by foreign investors, reinvestment, restructuring, and integration by foreign-invested enterprises in China, daily operations and localization, restructuring, dissolution, and liquidation of foreign-invested enterprises.
Cross-Border Trade: Export controls, economic sanctions, trade compliance, international trade remedies, WTO regulations, Section 337 investigations by the United States, maritime and admiralty law, international treaty consultation, and dispute resolution.
Overseas Investments: Research and analysis of host country foreign investment access policies, assistance in establishing overseas enterprises, overseas joint ventures, strategic cooperation, acquisition of overseas equity or assets, overseas infrastructure and PPP projects, restructuring and integration of overseas investments, disposal and divestiture of overseas equity or assets.
Cross-Border Dispute Resolution: International construction disputes, cross-border investment, M&A, and financial disputes, governance disputes of multinational corporations, disputes over the international sales of goods, international commercial, maritime, and sports arbitration, public international law and investment arbitration, recognition, enforcement, and annulment of arbitral awards, domestic and international litigation, cross-border enforcement of court judgments, global asset investigation and recovery.
Cross-Border Business Compliance: Anti-bribery measures, cybersecurity and data protection, anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing, antitrust and ESG cross-border compliance, cross-border tax compliance.
Customs Services: Compliance and AEO certification services for import and export enterprises, drafting and amending international trade contracts, early detection and identification of potential risks, guidance on tariff code classification, legal and tax consultation for cross-border e-commerce, framework design, implementation, and dispute resolution of bulk commodity trade, legal consultation for operations in bonded areas, protection of rights for individuals entering and exiting a country, trade financing and foreign exchange management, customs clearance of imports and exports, IP protection at customs, protection of rights in the investigative and pre-trial phases of customs-related criminal cases, inspections, investigations, trials, reconsiderations, and enforcement of customs administrative cases.
Dacheng Law Offices' esteemed WTO/international trade team offers advice on a broad range of trade mandates. The team demonstrates a flair for advising on compliance issues in relation to export control and economic sanctions. It is experienced in representing domestic companies in anti-dumping and countervailing investigations. Dacheng has notable expertise acting on cases involving the USA, the EU, Egypt and India.
Dacheng Law Offices has a solid offering with expertise across wet and dry shipping matters, frequently acting for a range of clients such as transportation companies, P&I clubs and banks. Its areas of expertise include collision, cargo claims and insurance issues. The team offers additional capabilities in ship financing matters, involving mortgages and ship sale and purchase.
——Chambers Greater China Region Guide 2024
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