DEHONG offers perennial legal adviser's service to its clients and commits itself to maximizing their legitimate rights and interests while minimizing their risks, losses, or costs of risk control. Our perennial legal counsel's service covers: giving advice and recommendations on routine legal issues; reviewing, refining and drafting contracts and other legal documents and deeds; reviewing, refining and drafting corporate rules and bylaws; participating in compliance efforts and strengthening compliance management; taking part in making of major decisions and giving advice on legal issues concerned therein; participating in negotiations and proposing negotiation strategies and plans; keeping a watch on issues and amendments of laws and regulations in certain domains as requested by clients; providing clients with training in knowledge of law or skills for dealing with legal affairs, etc. We offer perennial legal counsel's service to many government agencies, public institutions, social groups, corporations/enterprises, and individuals. Our major clients include the Ministry of Transport of China, the People's Government of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China Daily, Save the Children, Lenovo, Potevio, Zhejiang Juli Culture Development Co., Ltd., Beijing Shunxin Agriculture Development Co., Ltd., China New Era Group Corporation, among others.

Our dispute resolution service has been growing together and in coordination with our perennial legal counsel's service and other non-litigation legal services to form the core business segment of DEHONG. Through ploughing deeply in domains including domestic and foreign civil and commercial legal actions, criminal proceedings, civil actions, commercial arbitration and labor disputes since its founding, DEHONG has built a dispute resolution team made up of members with solid fund of professional knowledge, abundant hands-on experience, and great strength as a whole.

The team is particularly adept at dealing with major, cutting-edge, difficult, and complex disputes and emergencies. To date, it has represented clients in successfully handling hundreds of lawsuits and arbitration cases, and has maintained outstanding records of court performance and winning outcomes in cases before people's courts and arbitration institutions at various levels. A fine and well-developed mechanism for case handling is in place inside DEHONG. Once accepting an appointment, our lawyers will, with the most advanced and efficient approach depending on the circumstances of the case, complete all preliminary steps ranging from data searching to due diligence investigation, internal and external expert verifications, and mock court organizing so as to accurately assess the litigation risks, predict developments of the case, and develop litigation strategies, and reach a final solution for dispute resolution after full communication with the client. In addition to the ability to provide our clients with individualized, considerate, and creative solutions for dispute settlement in consideration of the circumstances of each individual case and the requirements and claims of the clients, our lawyers also flexibly make use of non-litigation means such as consultation, negotiation, and reconciliation to strive for maximal benefits for and minimize the dispute resolution costs of our clients.

DEHONG has had remarkable track records in handling corporate and enterprises' legal affairs. By virtue of our professionalism and rich hands-on experience, and specific to the characteristics of different industries and the different requirements of clients, we have participated in dozens of large-scale share reform projects, share conversion projects, bankruptcy liquidation projects, investment and financing projects, and State-owned enterprises' restructuring projects. By successfully providing individualized all-round ad-hod legal support and value-added services to many large companies and businesses, either incorporated or unincorporated, during their inhouse governance and business activities, we have been widely acclaimed by our clients.

Legal matters covered by us include: setting, internal governance, risk control, litigation and arbitration of corporations and unincorporated organizations; reform, merger, acquisition and restructuring of enterprises; venture investment and stock incentives; related party transactions; bankruptcy, dissolution, liquidation, and cancellation of companies, etc.

As one of the firm's backbone teams, DEHONG's lawyer team for financial and capital markets is headed by senior partner lawyers with nearly twenty years of in-depth experience in the domain of legal services for the markets. Some members of the team, holding master's or doctor's degrees in law and finance, are accomplished in both theory and hands-on experience and capable of delivering professional, all-round, and feasible service solutions for domestic and cross-border financial and capital market operations. We serve clients including, without limitation to, financial institutions (banks, and insurance, fund, trust, securities, and asset management companies), quasi-financial institutions under the supervision of local financial regulators (financing leasing, financing guaranty, petty loan and commercial factoring companies, regional stock equity markets, pawnshops, local asset management companies), and companies listed on securities or bond markets, unlisted joint-stock companies, small and medium-sized enterprises and other businesses with financing or investment needs. DEHONG's lawyer team for financial and capital markets boasts competitiveness particularly in domains including banking, insurance, trust, investment fund, international finance and overseas investment, capital market innovation, and major financial lawsuits/arbitration.

DEHONG owns a professional team of lawyers for intellectual property rights-related services, who are well-experienced in the domain and have served dozens of clients at home and abroad with whole-process legal services covering authorization and confirmation, trading, guarding and protection of intellectual property rights. Specifically, the services include application for and registration of intellectual property rights of various types, such as patents, trademarks, copyrights, domain names, integrated circuit layout-designs, as well as raising request for opposition, reexamination and invalidation during the aforesaid procedures; change and renewal of rights; intellectual property rights-related administrative actions; giving lawyer's opinions on licensing, transfer, pricing (for capital contribution purpose) or pledge of intellectual property rights and taking part in relevant project negotiation, drafting legal documents and handling applicable legal procedures on behalf of clients; litigation involving infringement of intellectual property rights; unfair competition and business secrets-related lawsuits and ad-hoc advice; filing of intellectual property rights with customs and dealing of customs' investigations thereon; administrative complaints and reporting of crimes relating to intellectual property rights; and resolution of disputes over intellectual property rights, including proceeding with consultation and negotiation and taking part in arbitration. Our major clients include: Perfect (China) Co., Ltd., Borland Inc. (U.S.), MACROMEDIA (U.S.), Potevio, STRAUB (Switzerland), and Bystronic (Switzerland), etc.

Legal services for real estate and construction projects account for a core part of our business. Backed by our senior lawyers specializing in real estate and construction projects, we enjoy leading professionalism and strength in offering legal services to the real estate industry, and have been offering all-encompassing legal services to well-known real estate companies. Our legal services for real estate and construction projects mainly cover: primary land development, demolishment and resettlement planning and whole-process management, market entry of land and its trading through bidding, auction or listing, project or land use right transfer; providing assistance to enterprises in secondary development of real estate, project tendering or bidding, designing, construction and supervision, sale of commercial housing, property management, financing for real estate projects, handling of real estate-related disputes, securitization of real estate, quasi-REITS, and so on.

Our major clients include: VANKE, Huarong Infrastructure, Beijing Jinsheng Jiayi Real Estate Development Co., Ltd., Jianyi Group, Jiayu Real Estate Development Co., Ltd., Beijing Chenjing Real Estate Development Co., Ltd., Beijing Yinke Real Estate Development Co., Ltd., Beijing Baijin Real Estate Development Co., Ltd., etc.

Since its founding, DEHONG has been closely keeping pace with the rapid growth of cultural and creative industries through exploring and refining legal services for the industries. We dedicate ourselves to providing protection for and ensure appreciation of intellectual property of various sorts, and seeking the most leading-edge legal solutions of the best quality for our clients. Up to date, we have served numerous clients in the industries with our professional lawyer's opinions, and successfully dealt with a few influential cultural lawsuits, accumulating rich hands-on experience during the process. Across various segments of cultural and creative industries ranging from cultural/Internet-based finance, cloud computing, AI, data security, computer software development, games and animation, music, films and TV, press and publishing, artwork composing, etc., we are capable of offering all-round legal services including: perennial/ad-hoc legal services; intellectual property rights protection; running, management and maintenance of brand cultures and famous works of renowned artists; designing and demonstration of investment or financing plans for cultural projects; compliance and risk control of cultural projects; etc.

Our clients include: top-class Internet/si-tech/cultural and media companies, cultural relic authentication centers, publishing houses, cultural foundations, famous artists, and performers, etc.

Along with the ongoing growth of the market economy, people are entering the stage of private wealth inheritance. Closely keeping in pace with the tide of reform in the trial system for family matters, our lawyers have accumulated abundant hands-on experience in performance of legal services for marital and family matters as well as wealth inheritance, and have provided high-quality legal services to numerous HNW (high-net-worth) clients.

Our legal services in these domains mainly cover: private legal counsel's service; private wealth management services such as designing of wealth inheritance systems, equity structures and trust schemes; insurance setting, immigration scheme devising; setting of voluntary guardianship; devising of prenuptial/community property agreement; will/bequeath establishing, and resolution of disputes regarding marital or family matters and wealth inheritance.

DEHONG is strong in offering all-round legal services for labor and social security-related matters. The services mainly cover: ad-hoc legal counseling, labor and HR management planning and designing; drafting of corporate rules and bylaws; labor cost control and leave management planning; handling of legal issues involving social security and labor protection; job position-specific management planning; development of labor management plans for special groups of employees; development of business secrets protection and non-competition plans; management of employment relations and arbitration of labor disputes with resigned employees.

Our major clients include: China Railway 15th Bureau Group Corporation Limited, Beijing BES Software Technology and Service Co., Ltd., Beijing Zhonglianxinhua Hotel Co., Ltd., Beijing Huaan Chuangda Technology Co., Ltd., and Beijing Tongweimingzhao Pharmacy LLC, etc.

DEHONG has a team of senior lawyers and abundant practical experience in administrative laws-related services. Our lawyers have served as perennial or ad-hoc legal counsels of dozens of administrative bodies, participated in administrative legislation research and analysis organized by the WHO, the former legal affairs office under the State Council, the Ministry of Public Security, local governments and their administrations, and higher-education institutions including Tsinghua University among others. When providing assistance to opposite parties in administrative actions and defendants, victims in criminal cases, they have organized and held verification meetings of in administrative law experts to examine major difficult problems involved in administrative cases, civil-administrative cases, and administrative-criminal cases.

Administrative laws-related legal services from our lawyers mainly cover: being appointed by administrative bodies and opposite parties of administrative actions to serve as their perennial legal counsels; providing administrative bodies or opposite parties of administrative actions with perennial and ad-hoc legal services concerning administrative acts or administrative laws-related matters involved in legislation, law enforcement, oversight, and remedies; representing clients in administrative cases, state compensation/reimbursement cases, civil-administrative cases, and personnel disputes of employees of state agencies/state functionaries, etc.

DEHONG has a team of lawyers well-experienced in dealing with criminal matters, who, backed by solid fund of professional knowledge and rich hands-on experience, are capable of providing our clients with high-quality legal services in the domain, The services mainly include: serving enterprises as their advisors for criminal risk control, reminding and analyzing criminal risks that may be involved in the clients' course of business, and proposing plans for preventing the risks; serving as a criminal suspect's defender during case investigation, review and prosecution, and court trial, meeting with the suspect, applying for the suspect's bail pending trial, collecting evidence or requesting retrieval of evidence, giving defending opinion for misdemeanor, non-prosecution or innocence; serving as the victim's agent ad litem, instituting civil suits collateral to criminal proceedings; and initiating crime reporting and accusation for and on behalf of enterprises or individuals with legitimate rights and interests infringed in criminal acts.

Our lawyers have served as criminal risk control advisors for China Galaxy Investment Management Co., Ltd., Beijing Compass Technology Development Co., Ltd., Beijing Fuwai Hospital Management Co., Ltd., etc. The many serious criminal cases handled by our lawyer cover: job-related crimes, financial crimes, fraudulent funds-raising crimes, and mafia crimes; and they have defended some employees of financial institutions and securities companies during nationwide campaigns against interbank bond market-related crimes.

Comprising professional lawyers with knowledge of finance, accounting, taxation and law, DEHONG's team for tax-related legal services is able to deliver individualized tax-related legal services depending on distinctive requirements of different clients, either enterprises or individuals, and help them understand the taxes concerned in their transactions so as to facilitate their arrangement of transactions and planning of tax matters.

The services include handling enterprise and personal tax matters as well as representing clients in dealing with tax disputes, with focus on: routine and ad-hoc consultancy on tax matters; drafting and review of tax-related clauses in contracts of various types; examination of tax compliance, estimation of tax burden of, and tax optimization for enterprises and individuals; tax analysis and planning, due diligence investigation, compliance examination of and response to risks during reformation, investing and financing activities, merger, acquisition or restructuring, listing, launch of stock incentives, liquidation and cancellation of enterprises; tax planning for gains from, investments out of, and disposals, inheritance of assets of high-net-worth people and their families; representing clients in tax dispute cases.

Our foreign affairs-related legal services cover domains including international economic cooperation, international trade, maritime activities, civil and commercial litigation and arbitration, intellectual property rights, etc. Specifically, the service include: compliance-related legal services during corporate structure designing, setting and day-to-day running foreign-invested enterprises; consultancy on setting and day-to-day operation of offshore companies; settlement of disputes between Chinese and foreign enterprises during international trade and cooperation, including consultation and negotiation, cooperation with overseas lawyers in jointly representing the clients in lawsuits and arbitration, etc. Major cases with our representation include: offering legal services to an American company throughout its setting of a wholly-owned foreign venture in China and the day-to-day running of the venture (including devising the structures of the offshore company and the wholly-owned venture in China, selecting location of and analyzing financial and tax policies for the venture, handling its recruiting and social security participation, negotiation, signing and performance of the venture's contracts with its Chinese partners); and to a Singaporean company for its acquisition of a food processing company in Shanghai.

Over the years our lawyers have provided consultancy services to domestic public welfare organizations and Chinese representative offices of foreign NGOs. They have kept themselves informed of all new enactments of public welfare-related laws, regulations, and policies, and boast rich experience in the founding, organizing, and running of domestic public welfare organization, the implementation of their public welfare projects, and compliance of NGOs' activities in China, including filing of occasional activities and setting, running of representative offices, providing our clients with high-quality legal services.

Our major clients include: Han Meilin Art Foundation, Youcheng Entrepreneur Foundation for Poverty Alleviation, Save the Children Foundation, Beijing Entrepreneur Environmental Protection Foundation (Alax SEE), etc.