On June 23rd, 2017, at Beijing Friendship Hotel, Xu, Jiali met with Ms. Maria, the president of the Polish Lawyers Association. On the occasion of Ms. Maria’s participation in “the Belt and Road” legal service symposium organized by the Ministry of Justice and the China Lawyers Association, Xu, Jiali met with Ms. Maria under the arrangement of the China Lawyers Association. According to Maria, the Polish Lawyers Association has more than 50,000 members and 29 Branches. After the great changes in Eastern Europe, the lawyers’ career has been greatly developed. The Polish Lawyers Association welcomes Chinese counterparts to communicate with Polish lawyers. Xu, Jiali introduced the situation of Long An Law Firm to Maria and expressed his willingness to develop and maintain a good development r...

In recent years, under the background of China’s macroeconomics entering the “New Normal”, the total assets and the number of high-net-worth individuals in China’s private wealth market continue to grow rapidly. With the increase in the total amount of private wealth, the importance of planning and managing private wealth has also become increasingly prominent. In developed countries of Europe and America, the planning and management of private wealth is relatively mature. For example, many high-asset families hand over private wealth to professional trust institutions or qualified bank trust departments in the form of family trusts to achieve reasonable protection and inheritance of wealth. In many developed countries, it is common to hire private lawyers to advise and assist themselves. ...

On June 24th, 2017, under the unified arrangement of the All China Lawyers Association, Long An Law Firm Beijing Offices and Israel SHIBOLET&CO. signed a memorandum on arrangements for strengthening the legal service cooperation of “the Belt and Road” Initiative. Founded in 1973, SHIBOLET&CO. is one of Israel’s largest law firms, offering a full range of multi-disciplinary services focused on corporate transactions and commercial litigation. SHIBOLET&CO. is the first law firm in Israel to set up a branch office in the United States. So far, the US Offices has been running for 30 years. SHIBOLET&CO. China Business Unit has been in commercial operation in China for 10 years. The firm has more than 130 professionals in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, high technology, life sciences, sec...

On June 24th, 2017, the All China Lawyers Association held a press conference in Beijing, officially released the “National Legal Environment Country Report along ‘the Belt and Road’ Countries” and announced the establishment of “the Belt and Road” cross-border lawyers talent panel. 143 Chinese and foreign law firms (72 Chinese law firms and 71 foreign law firms) and 205 Chinese and foreign lawyers (84 Chinese lawyers and 121 foreign lawyers) participated in the writing of National Legal Environment Country Report along ‘the Belt and Road’ Countries became the first batch of talent panel members. It is reported that the purpose of the All China Lawyers Association to establish “the Belt and Road” cross-border lawyers talent panel is to serve “the Belt and Road” project, to reserve and cult...

On June 12th, 2017, Stanley Kuo, the lawyer from Steptoe & Johnson LLP visited Long An Law Firm Shanghai Offices. The senior partners of Shanghai Offices, Lu Gaojie, Ren, Liming and Qiu, Shaoming and the member of the Foreign Professional Committee, Ke, Yijia, warmly received the visitor. At the meeting, Stanley Kuo introduced the outstanding rankings and related success major cases of Steptoe & Johnson LLP in the fields of US International Trade Commission (ITC) Section 337 litigation, trade secret litigation, antitrust litigation, white collar criminal litigation, anti-corruption investigation and US export control law compliance. Subsequently, Lu, Gaojie provided a wealth of case sharing on his expertise in food and drug regulatory laws and government relations. Qiu, Shaoming shared his...

On May 21st, 2017, Shenzhen Lawyers Association launched the election of the 10th special, professional committees and district lawyers working committees. Long An Law Firm Shenzhen Offices actively attended. After nearly one month of preparations and elections, on June 17th, 2017, Shenzhen Lawyers Association officially passed the council and announced the list of directors, deputy directors and members of 26 special committees, 28 professional committees and 6 district working committees. 14 lawyers and 1 executive director of Long An Law Firm Shenzhen Offices were elected as members of the committees, the details of the lists are as follows: Name Committee Position Lai, Xiangdong Corporate and Public Lawyers Working Committee Director Zhang, Shurui Factoring Legal Professional Committee...

On June 19th, 2017, the Long An Scholarship Award Ceremony of 2017 was held at the Law School of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. Senior Partner Chen, Shifu was invited to present awards and addressed on behalf of Long An Law Firm. Leaders and tutor representatives and students of Law School of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics attended the award ceremony. At the award ceremony, Song, Xiaoyan, the deputy president of the Law School and Chen, Hongmei, the director of the Department of Cooperation and Development introduced the basic information of the scholarships, and read out the list of outstanding students who won this year’s scholarship. A total of 23 students won the Long An Scholarship this year. Chen, Shifu presented certificates to the students and congratul...

On June 5th, 2017, the Governor of Shanxi presented the letter of appointment of legal adviser to Xu, Jiali, who will provide legal services to the People’s Government of Shanxi in the next five years. Shanxi People’s Government is a national administrative organization of provincial level, and a direct government organization under the Central Government. It is located at 101 Fudong Street, Taiyuan, Shanxi. When the People’s Government of Shanxi held the legal adviser appointment ceremony, Governor Lou, Yangsheng issued the appointment letter for 15 legal advisers, and put forward the requirements to them. He stressed that we should study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi, Jinping’s series of important speeches in depth, conscientiously implement the basic strategy of rulin...

From June 3rd to 4th, 2017, Forum of Powerful Country Intellectual Property was held at the National Convention Center. During the forum, Xu, Jiali was rated as the Best Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year through online and expert selection, and delivered the acceptance speech on behalf of other award-winning lawyers. The annual selection of Forum of Powerful Country Intellectual Property of 2017 advocatedthe development concept of “innovation, coordination, openness and sharing”, and explored the high-quality innovative enterprises and excellent services of China in-depth, as well as publicize many of representative and influential heroic teams and lawyers vigorously. So that carry forward the advanced ideolog of heroes and stimulate the entrepreneurship and service spirit of entrep...

On the afternoon of June 10th, the first lecture of Shenzhen Research Association of Corporate Governance was held as scheduled. This activity was organized and planned by the Legal Professional Committee of Shenzhen Research Association of Corporate Governance. Zhang, Jun, Yao, Weiguo, Zhang, Li, Lai, Guanneng and Yu, Peiyao, as the main members of this committee, with other committees and counselors of association and Managing Partner Zhang, Chi of Shenzhen Offices, discussed the importance of corporate governance in enterprise management through the anti-takeover clauses in the articles of association. This activity also invited Dr. Deng, Bin, the researcher of Corporate Governance Research Center of Shenzhen Stock Exchange Co., Ltd., and he gave a keynote speech on the Theory and Pract...