Corporate and Commercial has long been a core practice area deeply cultivated by Everbright. Our team provides general corporate counsel and specialized legal services to state-owned enterprises (SOEs), listed companies, privately-owned enterprises, multinational corporations, and foreign-invested enterprises. Our services cover critical stages of the corporate lifecycle, including enterprise establishment, day-to-day operations, commercial cooperation, investment and mergers & acquisitions (M&A), business restructuring, and exit strategies.

Possessing dual expertise in both transactions and dispute resolution, our team is fundamentally guided by our clients' commercial objectives. We comprehensively manage legal risks across transaction structures, decision-making procedures, regulatory requirements, contract performance, and exit arrangements. For complex projects, we synergize our professional capabilities across finance, tax, labor and employment, intellectual property, competition/antitrust, real estate and construction, and liquidation and restructuring to drive transactions to successful closing and support the robust operation of your business.

Main service contents：

● General Corporate Counsel and Operational Support
Legal analysis of major business decisions and new ventures; review of business models and contract systems; day-to-day legal consultations, legal opinions, risk alerts, and dispute prevention.

● Corporate Establishment, Modification, and Exit
Establishment of companies and partnerships; design of organizational forms and shareholding structures; drafting of articles of association and shareholder agreements; capital increases and reductions, mergers and demergers, dissolutions, and non-bankruptcy liquidations.

● Commercial Contracts and Business Cooperation
Drafting, review, and negotiation of contracts for procurement, sales, services, distribution, agency, franchising, licensing, leasing, outsourcing, and strategic cooperation, as well as the management of contract performance, modification, and termination.

● Investment, M&A, and Business Restructuring
Acquisition or sale of equity and assets, capital increases, joint ventures, and business restructuring; transaction structure design, legal due diligence, drafting and negotiation of transaction documents, regulatory approvals and filings, transaction closing, and post-merger integration.

● Equity Financing and Long-Term Incentives
Equity financing for unlisted companies, private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) investments, and investment exits; design and implementation of equity incentives, employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), and other long-term incentive arrangements.

● Foreign Investment
Foreign direct investment (FDI), as well as the establishment, M&A, operation, restructuring, and exit of foreign-invested enterprises in China.