Founded in January 1993, Zhong Yin is one of the earliest law firms in the form of partnership approved by the Ministry of Justice in China. It is headquartered in Beijing and currently has branch offices in 40 Mainland cities including Shanghai, Tianjin, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Xi'an and other cites (including the branches established and such in preparation), and established its association law firm with Hong Kong and Macao law firms, ZLF Law Office, which is China’s first, as well as its Qianhai branch. It has more than 3,600 lawyers and staff members, including more than 2,600 lawyers.
Zhong Yin lawyers actively explore overseas markets to build a global legal service system and strive to take the leading position in all practice areas. Zhong Yin lawyers have established strategic partnerships with legal service agencies in more than a dozen countries including the United States, Germany, France, and Canada. A large number of Zhong Yin international lawyers are capable of advising clients in English, French, Japanese, Korean, German and other languages, which ensures that Zhong Yin’s clients can quickly obtain comprehensive and efficient legal services globally. Excellent services make Zhong Yin lawyers the most recognized and trusted partners of clients.
Zhong Yin lawyers always uphold the service philosophy of "client first, specialized & cooperative, diligent and responsible, quality and high efficiency". With the client needs as its core, the law firm may synthesize the resources of all lawyers and departments of all branches leveraging the strength of Zhong Yin's global legal service system to provide superior legal services while inform the clients with commercial information to facilitate the business cooperation among themselves. Numerous outstanding Zhong Yin lawyers actively participate in construction of a rule of law based society and closely cooperate with certain industrial leaders, and market pioneers by taking important positions concurrently in international organizations, national or local bars, industrial associations, chamber of commerce, and arbitration institutions for driving high quality development by joint forces.
Zhong Yin lawyers adhere to the path of professional development. At present, they have the capacity to advise on securities and capital market, banking and finance, investment and M&A, corporate, insolvency and restructuring, arbitration and litigation, criminal, international business, intellectual property, real estate, construction and infrastructure, competition and regulation, and compliance and legal risk management in comprehensive and professional manners. So far, Zhong Yin Law Firm has provided various high-quality legal services to tens of thousands of domestic and foreign enterprises and government agencies, and has been ranked top by international authoritative rating agencies such as Chambers, The Legal 500, ALB, LEGALBAND, etc and received favorable comments and praise.
Securities and Capital Markets
Banking and Finance
Investment and M&A
Corporate and Commercial
Bankruptcy and Restructuring
Litigation and Arbitration
Criminal Defense
International Trade and Maritime
Intellectual Property
Real estate, Construction and Infrastructure
Competition and Supervision
Compliance and Risk Management
On November 20, 2024, the well-known legal media "The Legal 500" released the list of the 2024 Asia Pacific: China. Zhong Yin Law Firm, with its strong comprehensive strength and outstanding performance in the professional area, was selected for the "WTO/International Trade" list; Zhong Yin Law Firm, Nanjing Office was selected as one of Firms to watch in the "Jiangsu Province: Nanjing" due to its outstanding performance in the fields of finance, securities, and corporate risk management.
Zhong Yin Lists in the GCP PRC Law Firm Rankings 2024: Insolvency & Restructuring
Zhong Yin Law Firm Nominated for The Legal 500 -China Awards 2024
On September 12, 2024, the international authoritative law media Asialaw Profiles released the list for Chinese law market for the year of 2023/24. Zhong Yin Law Firm was on the list of recommendations in the area of real estate for its expertise and excellent performance.
On August 7, 2024, the International Financial Law Review (IFLR1000) formally released its rankings for Asia-Pacific 2024/25. Based on its strong professional strength, rich practice experience and excellent reputation among the clients, Zhong Yin Law Firm was on the list for its “banking and finance” and “project development”. In the future, Zhong Yin lawyers will continue holding fast to the excellent professional spirit and constantly improve its service level to pay back its clients and the society with better legal services.
A signing ceremony was held successfully between Zhong Yin Law Firm and INGVARR Law Firm from Russia
2024-08-07On August 6, 2024, a signing ceremony was held between Zhong Yin Law Firm and INGVARR Law Firm from Russia for the execution of the Strategic Cooperation Agreement, which has deepened the cooperation relationship between the law firms and injected new vigor into the further development of Sino-Russian bilateral legal business and the improvement of the quality of cross-border legal services.
The offering of “CITIC Securities-Jiaxing Phase I Green Corporate Asset-backed Special Plan (ABS) Backed by the Natural Gas Charging Right” was successfully completed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange on November 6, 2024, with total value of RMB594 million.
On May 15, 2024, ZHONGHE (ZHONGHE 3, stock Code: 400072.NQ) announced that through the execution of the court ruling, Fujian Guocheng Green Energy Investment Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Guocheng Green Energy") has become its largest shareholder and controlling shareholder, completing the restructuring and acquisition of ZHONGHE. Zhong Yin Law Firm has served as the special counselor of the acquirer Guocheng Green Energy and provided relevant legal services to assist the acquirer in successfully completing this acquisition.
As the 24th World Intellectual Property Day is coming soon, on the morning of April 22, the Supreme People's Court held a press conference to release the Status of Judicial Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in Chinese Courts (2023), the Top 10 Intellectual Property Cases and 50 Typical Cases of Intellectual Property Right in Chinese Courts in 2023, and introduce the general situation of judicial protection of intellectual property in people's courts in 2023. Among them, the unfair competition disputes between Guangzhou XX Information Technology Co., Ltd. and Beijing XX Network Technology Co., Ltd. represented by lawyer Gao Jinghe of Zhong Yin Law Firm in the second instance was selected as one of the "Top 10 Intellectual Property Cases in Chinese Courts in 2023".
Zhong Yin Law Firm assisted Jiangxi Ganyue Expressway Co., Ltd. ("Ganyue Expressway") in obtaining the Notice of Acceptance of Registration (Zhong Shi Xie Zhu (2024) No. MTN317) issued by the National Association of Financial Market Institutional Investors on April 3, 2024, and successfully registered the medium-term notes with an amount of RMB4 billion, and on April 24, 2024, the Company successfully completed the issuance of the first phase of medium-term notes in 2024. The issuance scale of medium-term notes of this phase is RMB900 million, with the issuance term of 3 years and a coupon rate of 2.17%. The medium-term notes of this phase have the lowest interest rate in the history of credit bonds with the same term in Jiangxi Province.
On February 16, 2024, the International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa (ITAC) announced the final judgment on the anti-dumping investigation against China’s galvanized sheets. Mr. Jia Zheng, senior partner and director in the International Trade and Maritime practice group of Zhong Yin Law Firm, represented Shandong Guanxian Rongda Composite Material Co., Ltd. to respond to the investigation, and assisted the client in obtaining a low tariff rate at 6.02% in the final decision, which is one of the best results obtained for Chinese export entities in South Africa's anti-dumping investigation against China in the past five years. In this case, the tax rates applied for most of other Chinese export entities is 53.84%. On October 14, 2022, ITAC made an announcement to initiate an anti-dumping investigation against galvanized sheets originating in China.
Zhong Yin Represented Client in an Anti-Dumping Investigation Launched by India into Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Originating in or Exported from China and Obtained Positive Result of Zero-rate
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