01 Introduction to the Law Firm
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Longan (Guangzhou) Law Firm in Beijing was established in 2009. It has over 40 partners and nearly 200 lawyers. Most of the practicing lawyers at Longan Guangzhou have graduated from well-known law schools at home and abroad, possessing a solid professional foundation and rich practical experience.
“Make excellence a habit, and service a belief” is the core value that Longan Guangzhou has always adhered to. The internal culture of the firm, which emphasizes “cultivating oneself for the well-being of others, achieving self-improvement and helping others, mutual growth, and warm interaction,” has created a harmonious and cooperative working environment.
On this basis, Longan Guangzhou always adheres to the philosophy of “service first, operation as the core.” It features significant “integration” characteristics and advantages in back-office operations and front-office development. It has formed a core competitiveness in professionalism, specialization, and integration, gradually overcoming the long-standing problem of traditional law firms operating in isolation. Over the past decade or so, Longan Guangzhou has specialized in areas such as dispute resolution, intellectual property, criminal affairs, capital/markets, real estate and construction projects, maritime affairs, family and private wealth planning, corporate compliance, corporate legal affairs, e-commerce, legal services for military personnel and veterans, private equity and investment/merger and acquisition. It has achieved remarkable results and a good reputation, becoming a representative “new force in law firm transformation” in the legal service market of the Greater Bay Area.
02 Introduction to the Head Office
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Longan Law Firm was established in 1992 and is one of the earliest partnership-based law firms in China. In 2017, it was successfully transformed into a special general partnership law firm. Currently, Longan has over 400 partners and nearly 2,200 practicing lawyers, with a total of over 2,500 employees.
Longan has 35 office locations in 34 cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Tianjin, Suzhou, Nantong, Zhuzhou, Dalian, Hong Kong, Taiyuan, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Guiyang, Chengdu, Huzhou, Kunming, Yangzhou, Zhengzhou, Chongqing, Foshan, Wuhu, Xi’an, Qingdao, Haikou, Hohhot, Shijiazhuang, Hefei, Xiamen, Datong, Tongzhou District (Beijing), Ningbo, and Changchun. In addition, Longan has established extensive cross-border cooperation relationships with many foreign law firms to meet the needs of economic globalization.
Most of the lawyers at Longan have graduated from famous law schools at home and abroad. They are experienced and proactive. Some are lawyers with multiple professional qualifications in both China and abroad, having practiced for many years in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, and other countries. Others are professors or doctors who have made outstanding achievements in academic fields. Longan has hired many international and Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan professionals as professional advisors. These outstanding lawyers, together with foreign legal advisor lawyers from various developed economies, form a perfect team to provide clients with international-standard legal services.
Over the past three decades or so, Longan has provided legal services in areas such as mergers and acquisitions, finance, foreign direct investment, intellectual property, and large-scale projects for many large and medium-sized enterprises, including those on the World Top 500 list. Longan has been rated as one of the best law firms in China by national law firm management institutions on many occasions. With its overall strength in recent years, Longan has successfully made it onto the list of several annual legal awards by Asian Law Journal, selected as one of China’s top ten growing law firms, and once appeared on the list of the top 50 law firms in Asia and the top 30 Chinese law firms. Longan also ranks among the top 100 law firms in the Asia-Pacific region and the top 30 elite law firms in China by the British magazine Lawyer.
03 Honors of Longan
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Since its establishment, Longan has been rated as one of the best law firms in China by national law firm management institutions on many occasions. It has received multiple honors from ALB, Chambers, American Lawyer Magazine, Legal500, and Commercial Law magazine. In 2023, Longan Guangzhou branch also received the first batch of “Model Law Firm Management Units in Guangzhou” from the Guangzhou Lawyers Association.
04 Business Areas
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Since its establishment, Longan Guangzhou has continuously specialized in various professional areas such as dispute resolution and intellectual property, actively providing professional, high-quality, and efficient legal services to clients at home and abroad, and has received widespread praise and recognition from clients.
01/ Dispute Resolution
The legal services provided by Longan in this area mainly include:
· Developing plans to avoid disputes and conflicts
· Providing legal advice on dispute matters
· Offering strategies and solutions for dispute resolution
· Representing clients in litigation and arbitration cases throughout the process
· Assisting in investigations, evidence collection, and representing clients in applying for evidence or property preservation measures
· Writing relevant legal documents and reviewing related legal documents
· Representing in negotiations for dispute settlements and mediation
· Representing in applying for enforcement of court judgments
· Representing in applying for the recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitration awards in China, and the enforcement of Chinese arbitration awards overseas
02/ Intellectual Property
The legal services provided by Longan in this area mainly include:
· Domestic patent applications, PCT international applications, and overseas applications; patent reexamination, invalidity requests, patent litigation; patent licensing, pledges, transfers, and registrations
· Trademark applications, rejection reviews, renewals, withdrawal, changes, objections, invalidity, trademark inquiries, investigations; administrative trademark review; recognition of well-known trademarks; handling of trademark infringement; trademark litigation
· Protection of intellectual property rights in customs
· Design, formulation, risk assessment, and research of corporate patent and trademark strategies
· Litigation related to copyright ownership and licensing disputes; representation in legal matters related to copyright or neighboring rights and copyright trade
· Registration applications for integrated circuit layout designs; protection and infringement litigation
· Anti-unfair competition and trade secrets
03/ Criminal Affairs
The legal services provided by Longan in this area mainly include:
· Construction of criminal risk prevention and anti-corruption systems
· Criminal rights protection
· Criminal defense
· Cross-border criminal and civil affairs
· Focusing on handling criminal cases related to duty-related crimes, economic crimes, finance, intellectual property, and the internet
· Other specialized criminal legal services
04/ Corporate Compliance
The legal services provided by Longan in this area mainly include:
· Criminal compliance strategies
· Labor and personnel compliance
· Game data compliance
· Compliance of game enterprises in going global
· Corporate governance compliance
· App data compliance
05/ Capital Market and Securities
The legal services provided by Longan in this area mainly include:
· Pre-listing company restructuring and reorganization
· Initial public offerings at home and abroad
· Refinancing of listed companies (including rights issues, additional offerings, issuance of convertible bonds, etc.)
· Buying back shares for listing at home and abroad
· Acquisitions, mergers, splits, major asset restructuring, delisting, and re-listing of listed companies
· Share split and repurchase of listed companies
· Issuance of bonds and other securities
· Compliance governance and continuous information disclosure after listing
· Design of management incentive plans and employee stock ownership plans for companies
· Establishment and asset management of securities investment funds
06/ Real Estate and Construction Projects
The legal services provided by Longan in this area mainly include:
· First-level land development
· Bidding, auction, and listing of state-owned land use rights
· Legal structure design for real estate projects and project companies
· Construction project contracting and bidding
· Legal risk management throughout the real estate project development process
· Legal advice, document review and drafting, and representation in legal services for real estate financing, real estate construction, real estate transfer or leasing, completion inspection, property management and operation at various stages
· Legal due diligence, transaction structure design, and legal document drafting for real estate mergers and acquisitions
· Pre-sale and sales of real estate
· Legal advice, document review and drafting, and representation in legal services for infrastructure projects under BT, BOT, PPP models at various stages
07/ Maritime and Shipping
The legal services provided by Longan in this area mainly include:
· Contract disputes over sea freight transportation
· Damages disputes due to ship collisions
· Contract disputes over ship leases
· Contract disputes over ship agency and freight agency
· Contract disputes over marine insurance
· Common maritime losses disputes
· Port operations disputes
· Preservation of maritime claim rights
· Application and enforcement of maritime injunction orders
· Application for the urgent procedure for ship priority
· Cases and handling related to the establishment of a maritime liability limit fund
· Legal and non-litigation services related to ship buying and selling and ship mortgages
· Legal services related to coastal transportation
08/ Family and Private Wealth Planning and Inheritance
The legal services provided by Longan in this area mainly include:
· Handling of marriage and family disputes, including pre-marital property planning, property notarization, determination of joint property after marriage, negotiation of divorce agreements, and representation in divorce litigation
· Inheritance disputes, including drafting of wills, witnessing, management, and representation in inheritance disputes
· Planning assets and investments to achieve optimal tax benefits
· Using wills, trusts, insurance, and other tools to manage and transfer property
· Designing comprehensive wealth management plans and wealth transfer plans
09/ Corporate Legal Affairs
The legal services provided by Longan in the field of corporate legal affairs mainly include:
· Long-term legal advisory services for companies
· Company establishment, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, disposal, capital changes, splits
· Setting of company equity structure
· Corporate governance and compliance consulting
· Company dissolution, bankruptcy, reorganization, liquidation
· Legal support for company business negotiations
· Comprehensive legal risk management during company operations
· Providing legal advice to clients on labor law, taxation, distribution, agency, intellectual property, pensions, environmental protection, customs law, technology transfer and use license, foreign exchange, account management, franchising, and other business matters
10/ E-commerce
The legal services provided by Longan in this area mainly include:
· Developing customized compliance plans for e-commerce enterprises, conducting cybersecurity compliance training, and fostering a corporate compliance culture
· Drafting, reviewing website user agreements, various management systems for websites, complaint handling rules and details, open platform agreements, and other documents on behalf of e-commerce enterprises
· Providing regulatory and policy analysis for e-commerce enterprise operations, providing reference for enterprise decisions
· Conducting compliance due diligence for enterprises, providing consulting opinions on the level of corporate compliance
· Designing cross-border e-commerce clearance plans and business models
· Consulting and tax guidance on import and export taxes and export tax credits
· Consulting and guidance on customs inspection, self-inspection and response
· Consulting and guidance on export tax credits
· Assessing legal risks for enterprises, identifying existing or potential legal risks
· Conducting legal analysis and assessment of criminal, civil, and administrative legal risks related to e-commerce marketing and promotion
· Serving as long-term or specialized legal advisors for e-commerce enterprises
· Handling internet infringement issues for e-commerce enterprises
· Handling litigation and non-litigation legal services for clients related to domestic or cross-border e-commerce, online payments, online travel, bank e-commerce, media live broadcasts, and business disputes
· Other legal services for e-commerce business
11/ Legal Services for Military Personnel and Veterans
The legal services provided by Longan Guangzhou in this area mainly include:
· Providing legal advisory services at regional veteran affairs offices at the district level
· Conducting public welfare lectures at veteran service stations in streets and towns
· Providing exclusive public welfare services to specific individuals at village and community veteran service stations
· Providing employment and entrepreneurship consultation for veterans, and representing in related contract disputes
· Representing veterans in litigation and dispute cases
12/ Private Equity and Investment Funds
The legal services provided by Longan in the field of private equity and investment funds mainly include:
· Establishment and fund raising of various private equity funds
· Registration of private equity investment fund managers and filing of private equity funds
· Investment of various private equity funds in different stages of investment projects
· Investment of fundraising enterprises in various private equity funds at different stages of development
· Exit of investment projects of various private equity funds
· Liquidation of various private equity funds
13/ M&A
The legal services provided by Longan in the field of M&A mainly include:
· Conducting legal due diligence
· Designing and optimizing transaction structures
· Drafting equity transfer (merger) agreements, asset transfer (merger) agreements, merger agreements, split (establishment) agreements, and other transaction documents
· Providing legal opinions on matters such as government approval, filing, and registration, and assisting in relevant procedures
· Assisting in matters such as closing
· Providing suggestions for anti-monopoly reporting in M&A
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05 Longan Bay Area Law Research Institute
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The large-scale layout of Longan branches across the country has laid a good foundation for regional integration development. The five branches—Longan Guangzhou, Longan Shenzhen, Longan Foshan, Longan Hong Kong, and Longan Xiamen—have unique advantages in professional fields, talent scale, and geographical distribution. They have the natural conditions for establishing specialized research centers. Against this backdrop, the Longan Bay Area Law Research Institute was established. The Longan Bay Area Law Research Institute is responsible for exploring regional integration development through professional integration construction. By integrating the professional resources of all offices in the Longan Bay Area, it enhances legal professional capabilities internally and boosts brand influence externally. It aims to become a benchmark in the legal industry of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
At present, the Longan Bay Area Law Research Institute has established six specialized research centers, including commercial arbitration, artificial intelligence, intellectual property, integrated law, commerce and finance, and ASEAN law, as well as criminal compliance. This will further deepen the integration development of the Longan Bay Area and is of great significance for promoting regional cooperation and specialization among the five offices (Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan, Hong Kong, Xiamen).
06 First-class Facilities, Creative Office Space
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Longan Guangzhou is located in the super-grade office building of CBD, Tiyu Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou. The office space has a fashionable and elegant design, with a floor area of approximately 3,000+ square meters. The office layout is spacious and comfortable. It is equipped with a variety of facilities and intelligent devices, such as multi-functional meeting rooms, meeting rooms in different styles, Party building activity rooms, coffee and leisure areas, reading areas, bathrooms, and face recognition access control systems. For detailed office environment, please click on the video number below.
07 Professional Development
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Longan Guangzhou actively creates an open, shared, and cooperative exchange platform. It fully utilizes the brand advantages, talent advantages, and professional advantages of the law firm’s service team. It fully empowers individual lawyers or lawyer teams to plan and organize a series of salon events, and provides online live streaming support. At the same time, Longan Guangzhou also integrates the resources of the law firm to hold many comprehensive quality training courses to improve the professional capabilities of lawyers at every step of their practice. So far, a systematic, professional, and diversified salon event activities have been carried out.
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08 Cultural Construction
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Longan Guangzhou has formed a “warm, inclusive, equal, and harmonious” family culture atmosphere with the cultural core of “cultivating oneself for the well-being of others, achieving self-improvement and helping others, mutual growth, and warm interaction”. The law firm provides financial support for various cultural and sports activities. At present, the firm has more than ten club organizations, such as a football team, a basketball team, a badminton team, a running club, a choir, an e-sports club, a cycling club, and a debate team. Various cultural and sports activities are carried out regularly