International Commerce and Maritime & Admiralty Affairs are twins in nature, therefore have become an integral whole in practice. Considering this feature, we devote ourselves to the comprehensiveness and integrality of legal service in this field. Our practice areas cover maritime and admiralty, international commerce, supply-chain financing, logistic, insurance, Free Trade Zone and other foreign-related affairs.
 
This department possesses many professional lawyers with rich experience in industrial practice as well as legal-service practice in this field, who engaged in industries of international commerce, marine transportation, logistics, insurance before their practice of law. We have lots of successful litigation experience not only in traditional areas, such as admiralty and maritime, international commerce, water-related construction projects, ship-related disputes, letter of credit disputes, insurance disputes, but also in emerging areas, such as supply-chain financing, trade financing, financial lease, factoring, etc. Meanwhile, we provide full-scale non-litigation services for clients in industries of marine transportation, foreign trade, logistics and insurance, each of our practice area is highly regarded.

This Department provides legal services covering：
 
1. Maritime & Admiralty, Foreign Related Commercial Disputes, Commercial Financing Litigations and Arbitrations

2. Long-term General Legal Counsel
We advise or provide guidance to our clients on legal issues they encounter on an on-demand basis. In addition to general legal issues related to contracts, labor and business, based on practical experience and numerous litigation and non-litigation legal services experience in professional areas, we also provide more targeted Long-term General Legal Counsel for enterprises engaged in these professional areas(shipping enterprises, foreign trade enterprises, logistics enterprises, insurance enterprises, financing institutes, enterprises engaged in supply-chain operation/financing) and relevant authorities (Harbor Bureau, Maritime Bureau, FTZ Management Committee and etc.). :

3. Customized Legal Services for Particular Project

Apart from our litigation service, our department emphasize the use of our trial experience into non-litigation legal service, we help our clients reduce unnecessary disputes and/or stand on a good position in litigation via assisting our client in handling important affairs and/or providing full-scale service including the designing of legal framework for client's major project. The non-litigation legal services we provide in recent years include:

Customized Legal Services for Marine Accidents
Marine accidents include ship collision, collision between ships and other facilities, stranding, sinking, leaking, other accidents on board.
We provide full-scale legal services in accident handling for shipowners, ship operators, P&I club, insurer, salvor, the injured party and marine administrative department.

Customized Legal Services for Vessel (including yacht, other offshore mobile units and platform) Construction, Transaction
We provide full-scale legal services in a Vessel (including yacht, other offshore mobile units and platform) Construction, Transaction for individuals and enterprises, including due diligence, the negotiation and signing of contracts, tracking and guiding the performance of contract, as to assist our client to stem commercial risks.

Customized Legal Services for Foreign-related Investments
We provide full-scale legal services in Foreign-related Investments for individuals and enterprises, including legal research and legal advices for transaction framework/mode and risk management, the negotiation and signing of contracts, tracking and guiding the performance of the investment project. Our department provide legal services in both Chinese and English.

Long-term General Counsel or Customized Legal Counsel Services for Crew Labor Management and/or Vessel Management
Crew Labor Management involves requirements of mandatory provisions in laws and administrative regulations, requirements of administrative management and public policies, meanwhile the handling of crew management, wages disputes and marine personal injuries, which are sensitive. Ship Management shall meet requirements domestic legislations, as well as requirements set out in the ISM Code, ISPS Rules, and provisions of classification societies and flag state.

Customized Legal Counsel Services for Financial Leasing
Provide full-scale legal services for enterprises in ship financial leasing (including research ship/yacht), container financial leasing, heavy equipment (including medical equipment, school facilities) financial leasing, and aircraft financial leasing.

Customized Legal Counsel Services for Foreign Trade Business/Cross Border eCommerce
Provide full-scale legal services for enterprises in foreign trade business, including the design and review of trade pattern, the drafting of international sales contract, international transportation, letter of credit related issues, risk prevention in tax refund for exported good and other legal services in respect of storage, logistic, intellectual property, etc.

Customized Legal Counsel Services for Supply Chain Financing/Commodity Trade Financing/Factoring.
Provide full-scale legal services for banks and/or related enterprises in risk management of financing project, including legal risk evaluation in the designing stage, due diligence and planning; the negotiation and signing of contracts in implementation stage and subsequent project tracking and management.

Customized Legal Counsel Services related to Pilot Free Trade Zone/ Bonded Zones/ Bonded Export-processing Zone
Provide full-scale legal services for enterprises located in Pilot Free Trade Zone, Bonded Zones and Export-processing Zone, including legal issues related to the company registration, company operation, preferential policies and preferential tax revenue.