Recently, the “Lawyer Going Global and Career Advancement in a Globalized Context” seminar, jointly organized by ChaoLvZhi and QingShi YunAn Law Firm, was successfully held on the 5th floor of PAC JiBao JingAn Center in Jing’an District, Shanghai. This event brought together senior legal experts and industry elites from home and abroad. Deep discussions were held on core topics such as lawyers’ global expansion strategies, cross-border legal services, and the career development of foreign-related legal professionals. It provided cutting-edge insights and practical guidance for Chinese lawyers to seize global opportunities and achieve career advancement. Among them, Lawyer Ou Yingshi from Beijing LongAn (Guangzhou) Law Firm gave a presentation titled “Breaking Through and Progressing: How Foreign-related Lawyers Can Embrace New Legal Fields”.
With the acceleration of Chinese enterprises’ “going global” process, the demand for cross-border investment, international trade, and international dispute resolution is increasing continuously. Chinese lawyers are facing an unprecedented opportunity for global development. At the same time, the foreign-related legal services market has higher demands for professionalism and internationalization. How to precisely plan global expansion activities and build core competitiveness has become a major issue that legal professionals are focusing on.
During the seminar, Lawyer Ou Yingshi, a partner at LongAn Guangzhou and the director of the Sanctions and Anti-Dumping Committee, shared her views on “How Foreign-related Lawyers Can Embrace New Fields”. Lawyer Ou said that under the background of globalization, the demand for foreign expansion in emerging fields such as integrated circuits, aerospace, intelligent robots, new energy storage, low-altitude economy, and biomedicine is growing rapidly. Foreign-related lawyers can follow customer needs and choose certain fields for in-depth study to explore new opportunities in foreign-related law. Based on her own experience, Lawyer Ou shared how she has gradually expanded the foreign-related legal market in the low-altitude economy and AI fields by serving low-altitude enterprises and AI enterprises in global expansion. Recently, the book “The Way to Break Through in the Low-altitude Economy – Legal Compliance and Commercial Paths” written by Lawyer Ou was officially published, and it ranked first on both the JD Law Book Weekly and Monthly Rankings.
Lawyer Nan Yixu, a partner at UAE Vinson Law Firm and the director of Beijing Vinson Law Firm, shared his insights on the strategic location value and legal environment in the Middle East, based on his experience in providing legal services for Chinese enterprises in the UAE. Lawyer Nan pointed out that if Chinese enterprises fail to conduct proper due diligence and have a lack of compliance management systems during their operations in those regions, they may face major operational risks, such as inability to operate due to non-compliant registration procedures or缺席 judgments and huge compensation responsibilities.
Next, Monica Sánchez, a lawyer and business manager at Act Legal in Spain, gave a presentation on “Spanish Investment Opportunities and Legal Advantages”. She said that Spain has strategic advantages in connecting international markets due to its favorable geographical location, and it is an important gateway for Chinese enterprises to enter the EU, North Africa, Middle East, and Latin American markets.
Lawyer Zhu Zhiwei, the director of QingShi YunAn (Shanghai) Law Firm, shared his views on “Regional Cooperation Mechanisms from a Dispute Resolution Perspective”. Starting from his experience in handling many cross-border dispute resolution cases, he explained in detail how foreign lawyers can cooperate effectively with each other to provide high-quality services to clients during cross-border litigation.
Mr. Xu Jingfu, the first Asian chairman of the Eurasian branch of the Madrid Lawyers Association, shared his views on “Cooperation Mechanisms and Business Growth Points between Chinese and European Lawyers”. He pointed out that the role of “leading lawyers” is important in cross-border business operations. Chinese lawyers can actively assume the role of leading lawyers, comprehensively manage foreign-related projects, ensure service quality, and ensure efficient and smooth cooperation.
Mr. Zhang Chao, the founder of ChaoLvZhi, discussed in depth the development opportunities and transformation challenges in foreign-related legal services. Mr. Zhang pointed out that at present, there is a shortage of foreign-related legal talents in China, and leading talents are particularly scarce in high-tech fields such as international finance, cross-border intellectual property litigation, and maritime law. Mr. Zhang encouraged lawyers to accurately understand the development trends of foreign-related services, have confidence in transformation, and prepare in advance. Foreign-related legal services are not only a promising market for the legal profession but also carry the important mission of serving national strategies and enhancing China’s legal soft power. There is broad room for development and great potential.
Lawyer Zhu Linxiao, the executive director of QingShi YunAn (Shanghai) Law Firm, provided detailed and practical advice on “How to Find Cross-border Lawyers and Build a Professional Network”. Lawyer Zhu pointed out that lawyers can find suitable cross-border partners through 7 methods: recommendations from existing partners, peer recommendations, rating agency recommendations, recommendations from law firms in neighboring countries, arbitration commission lists, global law firm networks, and Chinese internet platforms. Together with foreign lawyers, they can provide high-quality foreign-related legal services to clients.
The successful holding of this seminar on “Lawyer Going Global and Career Advancement in a Globalized Context” not only created an efficient communication platform for legal professionals from China and abroad but also brought together industry consensus. It provided new impetus for Chinese lawyers to go global and achieve career advancement. Lawyers from LongAn Guangzhou were invited to participate and actively shared their insights, demonstrating their solid professional skills and industry responsibilities. In the future, LongAn Guangzhou will continue to leverage its platform advantages, further expand the growth paths for young lawyers, and improve the quality of legal services to provide more professional and efficient legal services to clients.
Lawyer Profile
Lawyer Ou Yingshi
Lawyer Ou Yingshi is a partner at Beijing LongAn (Guangzhou) Law Firm and the director of the Sanctions and Anti-Dumping Committee. She has a strong legal foundation in foreign-related fields. Lawyer Ou has provided legal services for many large enterprises, especially automotive companies, in areas such as cross-border investment, export controls and sanctions, anti-dumping, countervailing measures, international arbitration, foreign-related litigation, and long-term foreign-related legal advice. She has received consistent praise from clients.
She has participated in the overseas investment projects of several well-known manufacturing enterprises, including Thailand, Mexico, Russia, and Singapore. Lawyer Ou has also served as the lead lawyer for legal services related to the export of automotive products of a well-known automotive company in ASEAN countries such as Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Cambodia. In addition, Lawyer Ou is skilled in foreign-related litigation and international arbitration. As the lead lawyer, she has represented parties in many foreign-related litigation and international arbitrations, effectively protecting the legal rights of the parties, and achieved satisfactory results. So far, Lawyer Ou has established close cooperation relationships with many well-known law firms and overseas institutions in 30+ countries or regions, including Hong Kong, Macao, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Central Asia, Europe, South Asia, Australia, Africa, Latin America, and North America. The industries of clients include but are not limited to intelligent networking, new energy, AI, drones, traditional manufacturing, and biomedicine.