- Shanghai Lixiaohua Law Firm Introduction -

Shanghai Lixiaohua Law Firm is specialized in economic, financial, job-related legal risk prevention and criminal defense, and provides legal services including foreign investment, equity mergers and acquisitions, corporate compliance, intellectual property protection, commercial dispute resolution, and perennial legal counsel for companies. The law firm is the trademark agency registered by the Trademark Office of the State Administrationfor Industry and Commerce. It is recognized as “Shanghai SME Public Service Agency” and is recommended by the US Consulate for providing legal services.

With the orientation of “internationalization, professionalization and high quality”, the law firm has a team of highly educated senior lawyerswith strong education background overseas. The core members include visitingscholar in Max Planck Institute for International Criminal Law and Foreign Criminal Law (MPICC) in German, director of the Criminal Law Office of the Institute of Law of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, the JD of the China University of Political Science and Law, the LL.M. of the University of California, Davis, and the candidate for the high-end legal service talent pool of the Huangpu District who has completed foreign-related legal training courses in Washington.There are also members of well-known law professors, JD and LL.M. from the University of Leeds, the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, the East China University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, and the Southwest University of Political Science and Law.

The law firm has established friendly cooperation with law firms in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Hungary. It has held international and national criminal and financial forums for many years, such as the "China-EU Criminal Law International Forum", “The Belt and Road” Forum for Private Enterprises Foreign-related Management and Rule of Law Construction, the Symposium on the Comparison of China-US Court Proceeding etc. It continuously expands international legal service resources, and improves the ability of foreign legal services.

The law firm handles many litigation and non-litigation cases that have significant influence in Shanghai and even the whole country. The clients include Fortune 500 companies, world intangible cultural heritage units, large-scale well-known real estate companies, large group companies. It is the perennial legal counsel for Shanghai Federation of Social Science Association, Huangpu District Federation of Industry and Commerce (General Chamber of Commerce). The law firm hired experts from Peking University, Tsinghua University, China University of Political Science and Law and Renmin University to discuss major and complicated cases and issue professional position paper.

The law firm has been awarded “Shanghai Civilized Unit” for 6 consecutive years and won many honorary titles such as “Advanced Party Organization of National Lawyers Profession”, “Shanghai May Day Labor Award”, “Shanghai Advanced Grassroots Party Organization”, and “Advanced Collective of the Shanghai Judicial Administrative System”