Expertise & Experience
法律经验
Dispute Resolution
1. Civil & Criminal Litigation
2. Contract, Tort
3. Employment
4. ADR
5. Administrative Law
Investment & Finance
1. VC & PE
2. Mutual Funds
3. Financial Services
4. Overseas Investment
5. Education
Risk Management
1. Risk Prevention
2. Competition
3. Deal Management
4. Regulatory Compliance
5. Forex Regulation
Legal Planning
1. Corporate Legal Counsel
2. Ad Hoc Legal Advice
3. Planning & Consolidation
4. Taxation
5. Private Client
Scope of Services
Dispute Resolution
Orient Cambridge lawyers specializing in handling civil, commercial and criminal litigations and arbitrations. Meanwhile, we proactively assist clients in resolving disputes through alternative dispute resolution (ADR) channels including mediation or settlement to reach economical and swift solutions for clients whilst maintaining good business relationship among all parties.
Main Mandates:
- Provide legal advice on disputes
- Develop dispute resolution strategies and provide solutions
- Participate in negotiations, mediation and reconciliation
- Represent in litigations, appeal, and enforcement
- Represent in arbitration, administrative and criminal protection of intellectual property rights
- Specialize in second instance and retrial commercial cases and financial and economic crime cases
Scope of Services
Investment & Finance
With the accelerating pace of globalization, overseas companies and multinational conglomerates continue to seek opportunities in the Chinese market, while domestic companies are increasingly participating in the business growth of "Going Out". Orient Cambridge lawyers apply their overseas knowledge and local legal expertise to provide clients with creative and strategic investment and financing legal services.
1. VC & PE
Advise investors, venture capital funds, private equity funds and strategic investors on investment projects; advise entrepreneurs on their ventures from the initial start-up stage to subsequent rounds of financing.
Mainly include: designing investment and financing transaction structure, drafting investment and financing legal documents, participating in negotiations, conducting due diligence, formulating equity incentive plans, and assisting in various government registrations and approvals.
2. Mutual Funds
Set up corporate or partnership RMB funds and offshore funds on behalf of clients.
Mainly include: fund structure design and optimization, governance structure construction, partnership system construction, fund operation compliance review, fund taxation policy, drafting of relevant legal documents for fund establishment, processing relevant approval and registration procedures, and offering practical advice on specific issues.
3. Financial Services
Provide legal services for securities companies, banks, insurance companies, fund management companies, guarantee companies, pawn companies, financial leasing companies, small loan companies, trust companies and other institutions.
Mainly include: financial enterprise establishment, change, market exit and liquidation; financial enterprise capital, debt, business and organizational reorganization; foreign equity participation in M&A of financial institutions; designing governance structures, drafting various business rules and internal control systems, etc.; general banking business, M&A loans, syndicated loan business, foreign-related guarantee business; providing legal services to overseas banks, derivative transactions, forex issues, financial compliance in China; legal services for non-performing asset auctions, including designing transaction structures, conducting due diligence on assets, drafting transaction documentation, and providing legal advice on asset disposal plans, etc.
Scope of Services
Risk Management
Focusing on the overall goals of corporate clients, and taking the characteristics of the clients and external factors into account, our lawyers will adopt a comprehensive and systematic approach to protect our clients’ interests and avoid or reduce the adverse consequences of corporate legal risks.
1. Design a legal risk prevention system
Carry out a systematic assessment of the legal risks in the production and operation of customers and issue rectification opinions to reduce risks. Mainly include: legal risk assessment and management, intangible asset risk assessment and management, legal risk crisis response, legal risk management training.
2. Design a protection system for commercial entities
Engaged by clients to witness various commercial activities.
3. Design a deal security management and control system
Avoiding major economic losses due to criminal risks such as fraud and fraudulent transactions; investigating the performance and credit status of related parties; improving the company’s labour contract management, corporate governance, financial investment, intellectual property management, lending and other risk management and control capability.
Scope of Services
Legal Planning
The Chinese government and its regulatory authorities have continuously improved a sound market order, requiring companies to improve the legal compliance of their business operations, maintain an orderly domestic competitive environment, and strengthen their international competitiveness. At Orient Cambridge Law Firm, we understand those issues critical to SOEs and enterprises of private sectors to make sure that this is where we focus our investment and expertise.
1. Corporate Legal Counsel
- Provide legal advice, review business operations and offer recommendations;
- Modify or draft various types of contracts, and strive to obtain the best outcome for the client within the scope permitted by law;
- Conduct a comprehensive review of the authenticity, legality and validity of the contract signed by the client, and provide legal opinions;
- Lawyer witness, prepare legal opinions, lawyers’ letters and other non-litigation legal affairs;
- Participate in the mediation, arbitration or litigation of economic contract disputes and labour disputes, seek the fair handling of disputes, and protect the legal rights of the employer;
- Assist the employer to carry out related legal publicity campaigns, educate employees to abide by the law, and apply legal methods to strengthen corporate management;
- Provide training to middle-level managers of clients in relation to the latest development of laws and regulations;
- Provide corporate executives with regular legal advice related to their business activities, provide them with relevant legal information and materials, explain laws and regulations, and provide legal opinions for decision-making senior management.
- Promptly Identify the contract amount to be recovered, list the method and timetable for recovery, ensure the deadline for litigation not missed to protect the interests of the client.
2. Ad Hoc Legal Advice
Carry out legal planning on specific matters based the client's requests.
3. Planning & Consolidation
Specializing in maximizing value for customers in the process of project operation, providing customers with growth and profitable project opportunities, business negotiation, and legal planning.
Mainly include: commercial contracts, equity transfer, company bankruptcy and liquidation, investment and financing projects, M&A, intellectual property protection.