On November 17, 2019, the “2019 Second Joint Meeting of Head and Branch Offices and Global Management Partner Meeting of ZhongYin Law Firm” was held in the beautiful mountain city Chongqing. At this meeting, in-depth discussions were conducted on issues such as specialization construction, market planning, coordination of interest conflict, and internal audit management of ZhongYin Law Firm. More than 80 colleagues including Director Yan Penghe and Supervisory Committee Chairman Zheng Wei of the firm, management committee members and supervisory committee members of the head office, and heads of the branch offices attended the meeting. Li Zheng, secretary of party general branch and chairman of the management committee of the firm, chaired the meeting.

Establishment of Professional Committees

Lawyers lead the market with professional capabilities. In order to improve the influence of the lawyers of ZhongYin in the legal service market, upon long-term preparations, this meeting raised the issues concerning the establishment of ZhongYin Professional Committee of National Securities and Capital Market, ZhongYin Professional Committee of National Banking and Finance, ZhongYin Professional Committee of National Litigation and Arbitration, and so forth. Liu Zhenyu, a management committee member and senior partner of the firm, reported the applications for the membership of the professional committees to the attendees. The attendees unanimously agreed to take the professional committees as a platform to expand the practice area of the lawyers of ZhongYin, improve the legal service system of ZhongYin, and cultivate legal service personnel of ZhongYin.

Liu Zhenyu introduces the preparation for the establishment of the professional committees

Wang Bin, Director of ZhongYin (Zhuhai), advises on the establishment of the professional committees

Ge Desheng, Director of ZhongYin (Hefei), comments on the establishment of the professional committees

Establishment of Marketing Committee

As needed by the professional environment and the development of the firm, in order to achieve the specialized and integrated management of brand building and marketing service of the firm and enhance the brand reputation and influence of the firm, by combining the professional environment and the current status of the firm, Yan Penghe analyzed the necessity of establishing the National Marketing Committee of ZhongYin, and the attendees actively discussed and put forward a number of constructive views to promote the effective implementation of the work related to the National Marketing Committee.

Yan Penghe introduces the reason for and necessity of the establishment of the marketing committee

Chen Changyin, Management Committee Director of ZhongYin (Chongqing), shares his views on the establishment of the market committee

Wu Xiaohan, Director of ZhongYin (Taiwan), comments on the establishment of the marketing committee

Briefing regarding Rules on Conflicts of Interest and Practice Disputes

As the practice volume of the lawyers of ZhongYin continues to increase, the problem of interest conflicts has become increasingly prominent. Li Zheng briefed the attendees on the Working Rules for Interest Conflicts and Practice Disputes of ZhongYin (Beijing) Law Firm, which is aiming at governing the conflicts of interest and conflicts in practice cooperation between the lawyers of the head and branch offices, further standardize the case filing procedures of the firm, protect the lawyers' practice interests, and maintain the stability and long-term development of the firm.

Li Zheng briefs on the Working Rules for Conflicts of Interest and Practice Disputes

Report on Internal Audit

In recent years, the securities, IPO, and NEEQ related practices have gradually increased. The firm has invested extensive energy and manpower to improve the internal audit work in order to achieve the purpose of management standardization and risk prevention. Liu Xiaoyu, a management committee member and senior partner of the firm, elaborated the internal audit policies and work, and reviewed the internal audit processes and the problems in actual work; Tan Jun, the director of the internal audit work committee and the director of the securities and capital market department, expounded the specific requirements for the internal audit work, and pointed out that the next step would be to strengthen the standardization of working papers, and starting with the details, improve the practice level of the head and branch offices.

Liu Xiaoyu introduces the internal audit workflow

Tan Jun expounds the specific requirements for internal audit work

At this meeting, upon full exchange of views, broad consensus was reached on many issues all over the firm, injecting strong impetus for the development of ZhongYin Law Firm. The rapid social and economic development in China has provided a rare and golden opportunity for the lawyer profession. How to make the firm bigger and stronger is a question to be explored by ZhongYin colleagues. In future work, ZhongYin may highlight three keywords “specialty, market, and resource integration”, namely form a differentiated advantage in terms of specialty, develop the market with the team power, and integrate advantageous resources to strengthen cooperation. With collective wisdom, ZhongYin people work together to seek common ground while reserving differences, and will surely create a better tomorrow for ZhongYin Law Firm!