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As a key area of development, Tongfang’s foreign-related business leverages the international educational backgrounds and extensive practical experience of its team of specialized lawyers. Focusing on the legal needs arising from cross-border commercial activities, we provide comprehensive, high-quality legal services to both Chinese and foreign enterprises. With years of deep immersion in foreign-related legal practice, our team has a thorough understanding of both Chinese and foreign legal systems and business cultures, and has accumulated a wealth of successful cases in areas such as cross-border transactions, international investment and financing, and resolution of foreign-related disputes.

We are committed to helping businesses prevent cross-border legal risks, optimize transaction structures, and safeguard their legitimate rights and interests, thereby supporting their steady development in the global market. Meanwhile, Tongfang’s international team has established long-term cooperative relationships with numerous specialized law firms in countries including Japan, Europe and the U.S., South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, and India.

Business Type/Service Content/Scope

Foreign Investment and Financing Legal Services

We provide end-to-end services for foreign investors’ investments in China and Chinese enterprises’ overseas investments, including project due diligence, transaction structure design, drafting of legal documents, and approval and filing procedures. Our services cover various forms of investment, such as joint ventures, wholly-owned enterprises, mergers and acquisitions, and newly established enterprises.

Cross-border Contract and Compliance Services

Review and draft various foreign-related contracts covering international trade, financial cooperation, technology transfer, and other areas; provide enterprises with specialized services such as establishing foreign compliance systems, tax planning, and antitrust reviews, ensuring that business operations comply with relevant domestic and foreign laws and regulations.

Resolution of Foreign-Related Disputes

3. We handle cross-border litigation and arbitration cases involving contract disputes, trademark infringement, financial disputes, and other foreign-related matters. Leveraging our multilingual expertise and extensive experience in cross-border legal practice, we efficiently safeguard our clients’ rights and interests.

Corporate Liquidation and Restructuring

We provide legal services—including bankruptcy liquidation, mergers and divisions, and equity acquisitions—to wholly foreign-owned and joint-venture enterprises, assisting them in properly handling matters such as asset disposal and debt repayment.

Long-term foreign-related legal counsel

5. Provide regular legal services—including daily legal advice, contract management, labor and personnel compliance, and legal risk assessment—to wholly foreign-owned enterprises, joint ventures, and cross-border businesses, helping them operate in a compliant manner.

Cross-border intellectual property protection

6. Handle applications and rights protection matters related to foreign-related trademarks, patents, and other intellectual property rights; participate in the mediation, litigation, and arbitration of cross-border intellectual property infringement disputes.

Foreign-related financial legal services

7. Provide legal support for cross-border financial transactions, financial leasing, factoring, securities investment, and other related businesses, covering areas such as transaction compliance reviews, contract drafting, and risk prevention and control.

Foreign-related labor and personnel legal services

8. Provide services to foreign-related enterprises, including labor contract management, cross-border employment compliance, and handling of labor disputes, and facilitate coordination between Chinese and foreign labor relations.

Representative performance

Provided end-to-end legal services for a century-old Japanese enterprise establishing a subsidiary in Dalian, covering the entire process—including establishment approval, articles of association drafting, and compliance review.

Litigation concerning the invalidity of cross-border financial transaction contracts involving ACY Securities Pty Ltd., an Australian agent.

Participated in a cross-border trademark infringement lawsuit involving a foreign company, safeguarding the client’s intellectual property rights.

Provided legal support for a merger project involving a joint venture in Dalian, optimized the transaction structure, and ensured that the merger process was lawful and compliant.

Provided specialized legal services for the liquidation of a wholly foreign-owned Korean enterprise in Shenyang, properly handling asset disposal and debt repayment.

Representing cross-border financial litigation cases involving Trading Point Financial Group, Alpha Jet Financial Group Limited, and others.

We provide end-to-end legal services for investment projects of various foreign-invested enterprises, covering multiple industries including manufacturing, finance, and services.