BEIJING  FORESIGHT  LAW  FIRM

Add：Room1003，ZhongAnShengYe Building，No.168 Beiyuan Road，Chaoyang District，Beijing

PC：100101

Tel：86(10)58246526/  58246532

Fax：86(10)58246532

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Beijing Foresight Law Firm, incorporated as partnership entity under the law of PRC and approved by Beijing Bureau of Justice, is located at Beiyuan Rd. Asia Village Beijing, and founded by a pool of  foreign-oriented lawyers back from Europe and domestic senior attorneys, Beijing Foresight Law Firm has developed into one of the top comprehensive legal service provider within its field of focus.

The majority of Foresight lawyers hold certificates in bachelor’s degrees, master’s and doctoral degrees, even LLM from foreign universities; some have even previously served as judges, prosecutors and professors. Foresight has established a cost-effective social network and an external panel of experts and scholars of various sector to serve as consultants. In addition, Foresight has established well-standing relationship with foreign counterparts and domestic law firms.

Foresight consists of six legal departments, covering domestic business, foreign trade and FDI, real estate, high-tech, bank and financing,IPR. Major clients include banks, loan and trust companies, MNC, WOFE&JV, SOEs, private high-tech companies, real estate developers, etc.

All clients of Foresight are serviced with customized legal solutions and expertise in terms of diversified legal issues like financing, labor disputes, investment, taxation, IPR, arbitration and litigation, etc.

Credibility, Commitment, Quality and Cost-effectiveness are the principals of Foresight.These qualities enables Foresight to achieve further successes in the coming times. 

Scenario of Legal Services

Along with China’s economic development, legal awareness has become an important factor in pursuing success. More and more enterprises gradually gain the necessity for legal awareness. To enhance legal awareness, Foresight has specially setup an annual legal support network for various enterprises, and formed professional legal taskforces to offer multi-tier clients with diversified and on-spot legal solutions. In addition, Foresighthas built partnerships with many oversea law firms to address the clients’ growing needs in foreign law area.      

I.Annual Legal Consultant

Legal Services Provided:

1. Routine legal consulting service.

2. Drafting and revising contracts and agreements.

3. Drafting and revising HR disciplinary documents.

4. Drafting and revising financial management disciplinary documents.

5. Drafting and revising disciplinary documents in terms of manufacture, marketing, QC, logistic and inventory, etc.

6. Drafting and revising Admin. disciplinary documents for lawful operation.

7. Legal training for team leaders and managers.

8. Legal training for employees.

9. Application for entity incorporation, applying documents like AOA draft and completion.

10.IPR issues legal opinion, documents draft and application.

11.Legal assistances in terms of Government relationship, (i.e.the Industrial and Commerce Bureau, Taxation Bureau, Customs, Forex-management Bureau, etc.)

12.Legal analysis and support for various projects.

13.Upon invitation, attending the meeting of board of directors and answering relevant questions.

14.Reform legal solutions, (i.e. the composition of board of directors, Assembly of Shareholders, Supervisor’s council, etc)

15.Other various legal issues entrusted by the clients.

II. Project Legal Consultant

Legal Services Provided:

1. M&A Project: providing legal opinion and solution, legal documents draft and revision, participating negotiation and execution

2. Tendering and Bidding Project: consulting and drafting bidding documents.

3. Entity Reform Project:  legal opinion and documents drafting.

4. Debt and Liability Clear up Project: cost-effective legal solution.

5. Investment Project: Risk hedging legal solution, LDD.

6. Financing, Property Leasing and Disposing Project: Risk hedging legal solution, Opportunity screening.

III. Hourly-Basis Legal Consultant

Legal Services Provided:

1. LDD.

2. Newly Promulgated Law Tracing and Studying.

3. Contingency Consulting.

IPR Sector

Foresight law firm provides clients IPR-related legal expertise as follows:

1. Copyright Legal Issues:

Providing solution for copyright disputes and infringement, providing cost-effective protected solution.

Foresight law firm has experienced dozens of copyright tort cases and won all them in the end; HenanTV, NanyangTV, Baidu.com, Thunder.com, Sohu.com, Sina.com, Qihoo.com are just some of the litigant parties of these cases represented by Foresight lawyers. In addition, Foresight law firm also provide tailor-made legal services to media market players in this area.

2. Other IPR Issues:

a. Trademark application

b. Proceeding cases in terms of trade mark dissent, review or dispute

c. Proceeding cases in terms of patent application and dispute

d. Providing solution for domain name disputes

e. As proceeding agent of identification of well-known trademark

f. As proceeding agent of identification of Exemption Products and Famous brand Products

g. Proceeding official entity incorporation

h. Proceeding CCC identification

Foreign-related Business Sector

Along with WTO entry, enterprises in the Chinese market embrace more business opportunities and simultaneously encounter much more legal annoyance in terms of FDI, Anti-dumping, IPR and financing issues.Foresight law firm has a foreign-related legal taskforce specially created to assist clients in the relevant diversified business.

Foresight law firm provide the clients foreign-related legal expertise as follows:

1. Non-project Consulting Service

1.1 Drafting and revising legal documents, proceeding litigation and arbitration.

1.2 Providing FDI legal solutions.

1.3 Anti-dumping cases investigation and representation.

1.4 LDD in terms of business partners, infringement and unfair-competition, etc.

2. Project Consulting Service

2.1 FDI Legal Issues:

a. Liaison service

b. M&A,IPO legal service

c. FDI legal package service

d. Financing legal service

2.2 Foreign Trade Legal Issues:

a. Disputes resolution, proceeding litigation and arbitration

b. Payment risk hedging in terms of L/C, DP,DA,COD and T/T

c. Insurance and delivery terms risk hedging

d. Franchising, consignment sales, auction and biding

2.3 Anti-dumping Cases

Inbound Cases:

a. Providing legal opinion and consultation

b. Acting on behalf of the applier for application, investigation, writing statement and raising petition 

c. Guiding completion of the investigation questionnaire

d. Presenting the hearings and negotiation

e. Presenting the review procedure

f. Proceeding the administrative reconsideration and/or litigation 

Outbound Cases:

a. Providing legal opinion and consultation

b. Acting on behalf of the respondents for responding

c. Guiding completion of the investigation questionnaire

d. Preparing the work in terms of on-the-spot investigation

e. Presenting the review procedure

Bank and Financing Sector    

Foresight law firm Banking & Financing legal taskforce provides pinpoint legal services to financial institutes in terms of bad loan collection, assets trade-in, debt-equity conversion, PE, DI, M&A, reorganization and restructure, IPO, etc.

1. Litigation and Arbitration: act on behalf of the clients to solve disputes arising from loan, bill, credit card, L/C, warrantee, insurance, futures and securities.

2. Non-lawsuit Legal Matters: provide legal solutions and/or opinion in terms of investment, economic cooperation, etc.

3. Comprehensive Cases Enforcement.

Securities Sector

1.  Restructure of State-owned Enterprises (SOE).

Modern company system is the restructured mode for most SOEs presently , Foresight lawyers possess reliable expertise to assist them in the following areas:

1.1 Scheme out Restructure Solution. Foresight lawyers map out detailed restructure solutions for SOES in terms of assets ownership demarcation, assets evaluation, employee arrangement, share structure installation, MBO, ESOP and stock option, etc. 

1.2 Prepare and Fulfill Application Dossier. All application documents shall be officially approved by Govt. authorities; Foresight lawyer will be in charge of the customized dossier.

1.3 Liquidate Assets and Settle Bad-assets. Foresight lawyers will guide SOEs lawfully

undergo the works in terms of assets liquidation and bad-assets disposal, etc.

1.4 Daft Relevant Documents. Foresight lawyers will draft all restructure documents such as Promoter Agreement, AOA, Share Transfer Agreement, Real-estate Transfer Contract, Employee Resettlement Plan, etc.

1.5 Design the Structure of the Company. Foresight lawyers will assist SOEs form rational and effective company structure in accordance with actual conditions.

1.6 Settle Credits and Debts. All the existing credits and debts will be properly settled by Foresight lawyer prior to the success of restructure of SOEs.

2. Reorganization.  

Assets reorganization and debts reorganization are included hereof Foresight lawyers can undertake relevant legal works, including, but not limited to the following:

2.1 Work out Pinpoint and Practicable Reorganization Solution and provide legal Opinion.

2.2 Draft all Relevant Agreements.

2.3 Provide Legal Opinion in terms of Qualification of Parties Involved, Legitimacy of Assets Ownership, etc.

2.4 Remove Legal Obstacles Caused by Creditors.

3. Merger and Acquisition (M&A)

M&A could fall into diversified types,for instance, Debt-heritage, Assets-buy out, Share-buy out, Share-holding, etc. Foresight lawyer can undertake the relevant legal works,which include, but are not limited to the following:

3.1 Work out Pinpoint and Practicable M&A Solution, and provide legal Opinion.

3.2 Provide Legal Opinion in terms of Qualification of Parties Involved, Legitimacy of Assets Ownership, etc.

3.3 Draft and Review all Relevant Documents, Remove Potential Risks.

3.4 Censor the Legitimacy of Info.-disclosure, Affiliated-transaction for Listed Companies.

3.5 Draft Share-transfer Agreement and Proceed the Official Procedure.

3.6 Work out Solutions for Capital-raise and Stock Enlargement, Provide Legal Opinion.

4. Bankruptcy and Liquidation

Foresight  undertakes relevant legal works, including, but not limited to the following:

4.1 Sensor Legitimacy of Bankruptcy, Provide Legal Opinion.

4.2 Work as Member of Liquidation Group Upon Invitation, Sensor Legitimacy of Relevant Procedures like Claims of Creditors, Pending Contract Performing, Right of Setoff, Right of Retrieve, Priority and Privilege, etc. 

4.3 Assist Working out Employee Settlement Plan, Draft Relevant Agreement.

4.4 Sensor Legitimacy of Assets Selling, Auction and Division, etc.

4.5 Assist Working out Bankruptcy Property Distribution Plan.

5. IPO in Domestic and/or Overseas

IPO is an effective option for capital-raising. The state watchdog promulgated strict and complex listing conditions and procedures thereof. Foresight lawyer could undertake relevant legal works, which include, but are not limited to the following:

5.1 Assist Clients Confirm IPO roadmap; Provide Legal Feasibility Report and Opinion.

5.2 Assist Working out IPO Related Solutions and Documents.

5.3 Assist Evaluating State-owned Assets and Censor the Legitimacy.

5.4 Assist Preparing Application Documents and Undertake Applying Procedures.

5.5 Draft IPO Relevant Dossiers Including Sponsor Agreement, AOA, Founding Meeting Documents, Rules of Work Procedure, etc.

5.6 Assist Working Out Detailed Offer Plan and Provide Legal Opinion.

5.7 Assist Working Out Management Plan in Terms of State-holding Shares and Provide Relevant Legal Opinion.

5.8 Provide Legal Opinions in terms of Qualification of High Management.

5.9 Present at the Founding Meeting, the First Shareholders Meeting and Provide Notary Work and Legal Opinion.

5.10 Issue Official Legal Opinion Required by the Watchdog.

5.11 Assist Undertaking ICB Registration and Official Record.

Debts Collection Sector

Most companies encountered troublesome debts problems, and sometimes companies may be dragged down by these debts, hence, debt collection work should be put on top of working agendas of entrepreneurs.

As to debt collection, Foresight cooperates with Govt. departments including the  ICB, Taxation Bureau, judicial department, and commercial banks, accounting companies etc. providing clients with cost-effective debt-collection service. Foresight has formed a special taskforce to investigate the debtors, uncover hidden bank accounts and properties. In addition, Foresight possess strong expertise in legal enforcement to execute the awards and/or rules umpired by the arbitration commission and/or of the court.    

High-tech Sector

High-tech enterprises usually possess cutting-edge technologies and more patents or know-how. They have competing strength and advantages, but are also easy targets for infringement cases.

Therefore, Foresight has set up specialized teams to assist high-tech companies troubleshoot encounters with these problems, covering FDI, financing, Tech-transfer, IPR protection, tendering and bidding, IPO, etc.

Foresight, as member of Beijing Zhongguancun High-tech Fair Trading Center, (platform of high-tech investment), provides package legal services to the center who possessother members including  China Venture Investment Co., Ltd., Beijing Tech-investment Co., Ltd., Beijing High-tech Investment Co., Ltd., Samsung Investment Co., Ltd. etc.

Presently, Foresight has successfully consulted members of the center as Huake High-tech Co., Ltd., Beijing Renchuang Corp. in terms of restructuring, reorganizing , IPR protection, direct investment, IPO, etc.

Real Estate Sectors

China’s real estate market has seen tremendous growth for years. This is accompanied with more disputes and troubles for both the developer and buyer of properties, resulting in piles of legal issues and formalities. Foresight has a specially formed taskforce to offer the clients the A-to-Z legal services related to real estate issues.

1. Provide the developer of real estate with package of legal solution in terms of application dossier, sales contracts, troubleshooting, official procedure, etc.

2. Assist the developer financing and cooperating with banks and capital investors.

3. Assist the developer obtaining land-use license and relevant Gov. approvals, drafting application documents.

4. Assist the developer and the bank entering into Mortgage Cooperation Agreement and Mortgage Agreement; Assist the developer obtaining Sales License, Pre-selling License; Draft and sign on behalf of the developer Sales Agency Agreement.

5. Assist the buyer of property checking the licenses and Gov. approvals of the developers, consult service to the buyers, identify the property rights, undertake purchasing formalities on behalf of the buyer.

6. Censor the creditability of the buyer on behalf of the banks, provide legal opinion.

7. Proceeding Arbitration and litigation.

Clients of Foresight Law Firm

● Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

● Transport Planning and Research Institute,Ministry of Transport

● Chinese Information Industry Association

● Chinese Basketball Association

● Beijing Shio Forestpark Development  Co.,Ltd.

● Civil Aviation Airport Construction Co.,Ltd.  

● Beijing Chaoyang Government 

● Beijing Blog Network Culture Development Co.,Ltd.

● Beijing Shunyuankun Culture Development Co.,Ltd.

● Guangdong Mengtong Culture Development Co.,Ltd. 

● Beijing Yihongmen Media Co.,Ltd.

● China Everbright Bank

● Bank of Beijing 

● Beijing Rural Commercial Bank

● NewChina Group Finance Company

● Financial Settlement Center of China Academy Space Technology

● Founder Group

● China Certification& Inspection Group

● Space Trust Investment Co.,Ltd. 

● Beijing Material&Equipment Inp.&Exp Co.,Ltd.

● Huasheng High-tech Stock Co.,Ltd.

● Pan-Pacific Exhibition Contractors Co.,Ltd.  

● AKZONOBEL Casco Adhesives (Beijing) Co.,Ltd.  

● AKZONOBEL（Tianjin）Co.,Ltd.

● DHV Environment Engineering Co.,Ltd. 

● JDS Uniphase Corporation

● JUSTGOLD Co.,Ltd.

● Reserch Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences,Chinese Academy of Sciences

● BeijingHongkongTouring Real Estate Development Co.,Ltd.

● Beijing New Century Real Estate Development Co.,Ltd.

● Beijing Ximeng Holding Co.,Ltd. 

● Beijing Zhenghua Real Estate Development Co.,Ltd. 

● Beijing Baicheng Development Group