Real Estate and Construction

Everbright is one of the earliest domestic law firms involved in the legal service field of urban real estate development, with an excellent team of real estate lawyers. Over the past 20 years and more, Everbright has accumulated profound experience in the fields of commercial real estate, industrial parks, high-end residential buildings and serviced apartments, etc., ranking among the top in the industry in terms of business volume and service quality of real estate lawyers for many years, and has formed a well-known brand in the professional field.

Restructuring and Insolvency

Overview
Our Liquidation and Restructuring practice is a multidisciplinary team of experienced lawyers, restructuring specialists and financial professionals from top-tier investment banks and “Big Four” accounting firms. We provide comprehensive, one-stop solutions covering both legal and corporate advisory.

Core Strengths
A Cohesive & International Team: Our core management team has worked together for over a decade. With over two-thirds of our members holding degrees from overseas universities, we bring a distinct international perspective to every engagement.
Top-Tier Official Recognition: We are admitted by the Shanghai High People’s Court as Tier-1 Bankruptcy Administrators.
Cross-Border Dispute Resolution: We possess deep experience in handling complex litigation and arbitration across both Mainland China and Hong Kong.

Dispute Resolution

As a law firm with 20 years of practice experience, we have rich experience in dealing with disputes and helping customers in closing cases. Based on our comprehensive experience on law, business practices, and negotiation, we provide customers with professional, effective, and cost-effective solutions. We undertake a large number of complex and difficult commercial dispute cases every year, and have outstanding, leading successful experience in the legal service area to handle complex and difficult commercial disputes. This legal service covers almost all fields such as banking, securities, real estate and companies. With more than 20 years of practical experience, we have developed our unique dispute settlement procedures.

Corporate and Commercial

Company business is one of the main operations of Everbright Law Firm. During the years of serving as the permanent legal adviser to dozens of domestic large and medium-sized enterprises, listed companies and foreign-invested enterprises, the firm has formed a group of lawyers with considerable experience and forward-looking services in the field of company law.

Corporate Governance and Compliance

Fraudulent practices generally refers to the act of a single or more people in management department, governance department, employees or a third party deliberately obtaining unfair or illegal interests, and damaging the interests of the company through cheating, secret stealing and other ways. From the perspective of law, Everbright lawyer helps enterprises to prevent, investigate, deal with, report and remedy employee fraudulence practices, with the purpose to help enterprises to strengthen governance and internal control, reduce risks, and regulate the duty behaviors of the management and ordinary employees. Everbright's anti-fraud investigation and corporate compliance team has established long-term external cooperation mechanism with a number of internal control and anti-fraud institutions and forums, to provide customers with the most professional and forefront anti-fraud legal information and service, involving sectors of finance, shipping, automobile manufacturing, and Internet, covering a number of criminal offences such as duty encroachment, commercial bribery, infringement of copyright, and stealing trade secrets, including quite a few cases having a considerable influence in the industry.

Criminal Defense and Anti-Fraud Investigations

Everbright focuses on criminal legal risk prevention and resolving of business, private equity fund risk control, and internal compliance investigation of multinational companies, in the field of anti fraud investigation, it has established long-term external cooperation mechanism with a number of internal control and anti-fraud institutions, to provide customers the most professional, the forefront of anti-fraud legal information and service, involving a number of sectors such as finance, shipping, automobile manufacturing, medicine, chemical and Internet, covering duty encroachment, commercial bribery, copyright infringement and theft of trade secrets and other criminal offenses. Everbright has also successfully defended the parties involved in some major economic criminal cases in the first major economic criminal case involving letter of credit fraud of more than 100 million yuan in Beijing and Shanghai, financial bill fraud, illegal lending by securities institutions, illegally absorbing depositors' funds, suspected fund manager misappropriation of funds, and suspected illegal operation by legal representative of a medical apparatus company.

Family Law and Private Wealth

The Everbright Matrimonial, Family & Wealth Succession practice provides end-to-end legal services for individuals, families, entrepreneurs, and family enterprises, encompassing matrimonial arrangements, succession planning, estate administration, wealth transfer, and dispute resolution. Prioritizing client confidentiality, family dynamics, and the long-term viability of our strategies, we tailor prudent and practical solutions based on a thorough understanding of family structures, asset profiles, and client objectives.

We offer comprehensive, closed-loop support in this field—ranging from consultation, planning, negotiation, and mediation to litigation, enforcement, and notarization assistance. For complex matters involving family business control, cross-border assets, or multifaceted legal relationships, our team collaborates seamlessly with the firm’s Corporate & Commercial, Real Estate, Dispute Resolution, Liquidation & Restructuring, and Cross-Border practices to deliver integrated, cross-disciplinary legal services.

Labor and Employment

Everbright has rich experience in the field of labor law, and has provided employment and dismissal, salary, labor relations, labor law related investigation, arbitration, litigation and other legal services for many large state-owned enterprises and multinational companies. Main services:

Intellectual Property

Everbright intellectual property lawyer team is a leading professional team in the sector, providing one-stop services for all types of intellectual properties. The scope of business ranges from trademark, patent, copyright to domain name, appearance design, trade secrets. We provide professional services at all stages of the intellectual property life cycle. We take the intellectual property strategy as the core of service, as an important part of corporate strategy, it can help customers to create and manage intellectual property rights, protect and encourage innovation, dissolve disputes, build the core competitiveness, and gain maximum value from intellectual property portfolio; what is the most important is that, we are full of passion for intellectual property rights, and enjoy cooperation with customers also full of passion. Regardless of the industries our clients come from or their intellectual property needs -- from multinational companies that rely on our scale, quality and professional services to start-up companies that value our professionalism -- we always provide the best quality service to our clients with the highest professional quality and enthusiasm.

Technology, Media and Telecommunications

Leveraging extensive practical experience, the Technology, Media, and Telecommunications (TMT) practice at Everbright Law Firm provides a comprehensive legal service framework spanning traditional content industries, internet platforms, and frontier technologies.

As a Council Member of the Shanghai Broadcasting and Film & Television Producers Association, Everbright possesses an extensive track record and deep-rooted competitive advantages in the film, television, and cultural sectors. In alignment with industry evolution, our practice has strategically expanded its reach into artificial intelligence, e-commerce, and tech innovation investment.

Our representative clients range from established industry giants to emerging tech innovators. In the culture and media sector, we have a long-standing history of advising leading publicly listed film and television groups and other industry benchmarks. Within the technology and internet ecosystem, our service network encompasses premier comprehensive e-commerce platforms and other top-tier internet enterprises, alongside numerous high-growth AI startups and tech-focused investment institutions.

Shipping & Logistics

The maritime business and affair department of Everbright has gathered a group of compound lawyers with good practical experience and excellent professional quality. Maritime business affairs has always been one of the main services of Everbright Law Firm. By integrating the resources and advantages on all aspects, and after years of accumulation, Everbright has formed a professional and scaled lawyer service team in the field of maritime business affairs, and has provided customers such as domestic and foreign ship owners, ship owners mutual insurance association, shipping companies, owners of goods, freight forwarding companies, insurance companies, insurance brokers, and port operator with high-quality, professional and efficient legal service, including all kinds of maritime business litigation, maritime arbitration and maritime affairs non-litigation legal services, winning good reputation in the industry, the courts and arbitration institutions.

Capital Markets, Banking and Finance

verbright boasts good reputation and excellent performance in legal services for companies and securities, with a stable and experienced that has the courage to take heavy tasks and make innovations, and it has scored outstanding achievements in legal service areas of initial public offerings and refinancing of stock, enterprise and company bonds issuance, M&A of listed companies, private financing of companies and other related securities trading, having won extensive, lasting and stable customer bases. Over the years, Everbright has maintained extensive contacts with the China Securities Regulatory Commission, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the Singapore Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange, as well as a number of internationally renowned investment banks and funds. Everbright is a member of the National Association of Financial Market Institutional Investors.

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Tax

Everbright Law Firm has rich practical experience in the tax field, and is committed to helping all types of enterprises, other organizations, natural person shareholders and senior executives to make tax planning, reduce tax costs, control fiscal and tax risks, and increase the comprehensive competitiveness of enterprises.

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)